Casualness Quotes

#1. A story so cherished it has to be dressed in casualness to disguise its significance in case the listener turned out to be unsympathetic.

Diane Setterfield

#2. My iPhone has changed my life - I spend hours taking photos of the sidewalk as I walk down the street. I like the casualness, that it's low-resolution.

Kiki Smith

#3. After all, in the very casualness of Gatsby's party there were romantic possibilities totally absent from her world.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#4. Employ in everything a certain casualness which conceals art and creates the impression that what is done and said is accomplished without effort and without its being thought about. It is from this, in my opinion, that grace largely derives.

Baldassare Castiglione

#5. Secretly, of course, the pauses in our correspondence were as calculated as our casualness.

Marina Keegan

#6. He wanted to appear suddenly to her in novel and heroic colors. He wanted to stir her from that casualness she showed toward everything except herself.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#7. For me, comedy is constantly presented as this fake casualness, like a guy just walked on stage going, 'This crazy thing happened to me the other day.' And he's in front of 3000 people, and he's acting like an everyman, and he's getting paid so much money.

Bo Burnham

#8. It was terrifying, almost unbelievable, the casualness of the cruelty.

Lois Lowry

#9. Nat was so easy about these things. Alex guessed that's what happened when you slept with another girl every week on an overcrowded island with too small a surface. She had no choice but to practice casualness.

Harper Bliss

#10. All of life is a risk; in fact we're not going to get out alive. Casualness leads to casualties. Communication is the ability to affect other people with words.

Jim Rohn

#11. We treat our encounters with them with carefree casualness. We are certain that our relationships will naturally take care of themselves.

Leo Buscaglia

#12. After spending the last few years working on a serious novel set in Chechnya, I was drawn to both the brevity and casualness of Twitter, and wrote a series of tweets titled 'The Erotic Inner Life of Mr. Bates from Downton Abbey.'

Anthony Marra

#13. Don't take the casual approach to life. Casualness leads to casualties.

Jim Rohn

#14. It was borrowed time anyway - the whole upper tenth of a nation living with the insouciance of a grand duc and the casualness of chorus girls.

Howard Zinn

#15. He'd listened to enough half-truths and outright lies from the outlaws he'd collected bounties on not to notice the slight hesitations in her speech or the exaggerated casualness of her posture. The woman was up to something. Heeding

Karen Witemeyer

#16. He was happy for other people's success.

Anne Perry

#17. I became aware of my destiny: to belong to the critical minority as opposed to the unquestioning majority.

Sigmund Freud

#18. I shall desire and I shall find
The best of my desires;
The autumn road, the mellow wind
That soothes the darkening shires.
And laughter, and inn-fires.

Rupert Brooke

#19. The values of WikiLeaks have been completely overshadowed by Julian Assange.

Heather Brooke

#20. I'm a great admirer of secularism. At its best, I think it's one of the best things that we have. I don't believe in insinuating religion into conversation. I don't believe in excluding it from conversation. I enjoy the fact that people's innermost thoughts are their own.

Marilynne Robinson

#21. I think your heart needs to be broken, and broken open, at least once to have a heart at all or to have a heart for others.

Richard Rohr