Lightness Of Touch Quotes

#1. Self-pity is essentially humorless, devoid of that lightness of touch which gives understanding of life.

Anthony Powell

#2. Such people are not known for their sense of humour and lightness of touch; they rarely break a smile. To them, change is always suspect and usually damnable, and they hardly ever contribute to human development.

Paul Kriwaczek

#3. To grasp the truth is a delicate gesture, like taking a hand in greeting, a lightness of touch is needed if one is to feel the presence of another being.

Susan Griffin

#4. who have a lightness of touch, an informality based on amusement at their own ineptitude, bring the simplest of gifts to others - the releasing power of laughter."31

Robert C. Dykstra

#5. The most perfect melodic shapes are found in Mozart; he has the lightness of touch which is the true objective ... Listen to the remarkable expansion of a Mozart melody, to Cherubino's 'Voi che sapete', for instance. You think it is coming to an end, but it goes farther, even farther.

Richard Strauss

#6. There is a lightness about the feminine mind
a touch and go
music, the fine arts, that kind of thing
they should study those up to a certain point, women should; but in a light way, you know.

George Eliot

#7. Experience trumps Assumption!

Pippa Sloane

#8. Everything is possible in love. In the heart of each of us there can be many rooms, and sometimes there are.

Alexander McCall Smith

#9. Try to make all the mistakes with your own money and on a small level so that when you are responsible for a partner's money or assets you've learned and you don't make bigger mistakes. Try to go as far as you can without anybody else's help first.

Daymond John

#10. 'You're Ugly Too' isn't a comedy, but it has a lightness of touch with a hard edge. But it's essentially a warm story tinged with a bit of melancholy in the great Irish tradition. I'm very proud of that film.

Aidan Gillen

#11. I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is going to be revealed to us. Romans 8:18

Beth Moore

#12. Flying saucers are nothing more than miracles, and they occur essentially to bedevil science.

Terence McKenna

#13. False happiness is like false money; it passes for a time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions; but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss.

Alexander Pope

#14. Curiosity is what keeps you working steadily, while hotter emotions may come and go.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#15. In the New Yorker library, I have long been shelved between Nadine Gordimer and Brendan Gill; an eerie little space nestled between high seriousness of purpose and legendary lightness of touch.

Adam Gopnik

#16. Even though I have fond feelings for comedy clubs, I enjoy the focus you get in a theater. Comedy clubs are a different animal. People are being served nachos and there's a blender going off in the background.

Brian Regan

#17. I have to confess that I had gambled on my soul and lost it with heroic insouciance and lightness of touch. The soul is so impalpable, so often useless, and sometimes such a nuisance, that I felt no more emotion on losing it than if, on a stroll, I had mislaid my visiting card.

Charles Baudelaire

#18. The older I get, the more I think lightness of touch is an incredibly difficult thing to do.

Peter Capaldi

#19. Sometimes you can't agree with people because you would both be wrong.

Shannon L. Alder