Top 100 Loosely Quotes
#1. I could go away five or six weeks in a row and never touch a club. I would just look at them and say, 'I just don't want to; it's not that important.' And it wasn't that important. Golf - I don't want to answer loosely - I pay a lot of attention to it, but I don't ever really think about it.
Fred Couples
#2. I have a loose blueprint of where I want the show to go. I stress, quite frankly to remind myself, that I hold onto that vision very loosely, so that I can be moving towards something, but I don't ever want to feel like I'm in a box that'll stop me from exploring a potential new direction.
Kurt Sutter
#3. I promptly said that life was a random series of beautifully composed vignettes, loosely tied together by a string of characters and time.
Mahbod Seraji
#4. If the virus had arrived in a different sort of big city - more loosely governed, full of poor people, lacking first-rate medical institutions - it might have escaped containment and burned through a
David Quammen
#5. In a liquid modern life there are no permanent bonds, and any that we take up for a time must be tied loosely so that they can be untied again, as quickly and as effortlessly as possible, when circumstances change - as they surely will in our liquid modern society, over and over again.
Zygmunt Bauman
#6. Hindi cinema, now often referred to loosely by the term 'Bollywood', is one of the best-known and most widely appreciated features of contemporary Indian culture. It makes its presence felt beyond the screen throughout wider media, whether the Internet,
Rachel Dwyer
#7. I've accrued a kind of patience, I believe, loosely like change.
Lorrie Moore
#8. Punk was never about one particular clean-cut imagery ... it's about many, many individuals coming very loosely together.
John Lydon
#9. I don't know if I'd want to do that anymore, because you always get bigger laughs on college campuses. So, when the film plays in front of a city audience, you've probably cut too loosely.
David Zucker
#10. It's extremely difficult to say what one actually means by 'sculpture' other than, in a provisional sense, it's something that goes on the floor or a pedestal, and loosely applies to a certain history of the use of that term.
Walead Beshty
#11. We loosely talk of Self-realization, for lack of a better term. But how can one realize that which alone is real? All we need to do is to give up our habit of regarding as real that which is unreal. All religious practices are meant solely to help us do this.
Ramana Maharshi
#12. Once you have a computer that can do a few things - strictly speaking, one that has a certain 'sufficient set' of basic procedures - it can do basically anything any other computer can do. This, loosely, is the basis of the great principle of 'Universality'.
Richard P. Feynman
#13. Leftie loosely is the way
to relax a set old screw
as rightie tightly thinks
new bullshit to pursue
Cornelia "Connie" DeDona
#14. I trust you: That's huge. That's truth. That's real love. Everyone uses 'I love you' so loosely.
Justin Chatwin
#15. I think people loosely use the term 'free speech.' If the market wants to be such that people don't want to watch someone, so be it.
Greta Van Susteren
#16. I had this theory. It was based loosely on the unremarkable observation that the old are always looking back with longing while the young, with the same longing, look ahead. One man remembers what the other imagines.
Thomas Lynch
#17. Virgil put it with Roman bluntness and economy. Dolus an virtus, quis in hoste requirat? cried Aeneas's comrade as they fought their way out of burning Troy disguised in Greek armor; which may be loosely translated: It won't matter to the enemy whether you beat him by guile or by valor.
Thaddeus Holt
#18. Do not hold an idea tightly! There is always a possibility that what you believe might be wrong! Hold your ideas loosely so that you can easily get rid of them once you have realised that they are wrong!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#19. Not much goes on in the mind of a squirrel.
Huge portions of what is loosely termed "the squirrel brain" are given over to one thought: food.
The average squirrel cogitation goes something like this: I wonder what there is to eat.
Kate DiCamillo
#20. Works for me. For the ones we love, today we're allies. Tomorrow we resume our natural order of mortal enemies. Gentlemen, and I use that term loosely for all of us, have we an accord? (Acheron)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#21. Loosely translated Der schlechte Affe hasst seinen eigenen Geruch means that people are most deeply offended by moral failings that mirror their own.
Matt Ruff
#22. When I say 'friends,' I use that term loosely, as I don't actually have any.
Stephan Pastis
#23. Typically, the young male spreads his legs to show his erection - a sexual invitation - making sure that his back is turned to the other males or that, with his underarm leaning on his knee, one of his hands loosely dangles right next to his penis so that only the wooed female can see
Frans De Waal
#24. Steady faith is stronger than destiny. Destiny is the result of causes, mostly accidental, and is therefore loosely woven. Confidence and good hope will overcome it easily.
Nisargadatta Maharaj
#26. I've come to believe a person's love for you can't grow unless you hold that person loosely.
Donald Miller
#27. Breasts were one thing: they were in front, where you could have some control over them. Then there were bums, which were behind, and out of sight, and thus more lawless. Apart from loosely gathered skirts, nothing much could be done about them.
Margaret Atwood
#28. I have learned to hold all things loosely, so God will not have to pry them out of my hands.
Corrie Ten Boom
#29. I'm not a chef. I think in this country, we use the term very loosely. I'm a cook and a teacher.
Julia Child
#30. Lounging indolently in a black silk robe which was loosely tied at the front and which appeared to conceal nothing more than bare skin ... she made a conscious effort not to stare at the bare legs with their sprinkling of dark hair ... was he even wearing underwear? she thought
Cathy Williams
#31. Although there are countless tangents that a career in the building arts can take, it is nonetheless most unusual for a major architectural practice to emerge once a firm's principals are well into what is loosely called middle age.
Martin Filler
#32. It is our hope, that men in proportion as they grow more enlightened, will learn to hold their theories and their creeds more loosely, and will none the less, nay, rather all the more be devoted to the supreme end of practical righteousness to which all theories and creeds must be kept subservient.
Felix Adler
#33. The good characters in my book are loosely based on folks I know. All the bad stuff is made up.
Mike Bove
#34. There is a high bar for something to be considered a human right. Loosely put, it must be among the things we as humans need in order to lead healthy, meaningful lives, like freedom from torture or freedom of conscience.
Vint Cerf
#35. There is no concept of justice in Cree culture. The nearest word is kintohpatatin, which loosely translates to "you've been listened to." But kintohpatatin is richer than justice - really it means you've been listened to by someone compassionate and fair, and your needs will be taken seriously.
Edmund Metatawabin
#36. If a person uses the word 'sorry' loosely then of course it loses its value.
Ciara
#37. Your body said one thing. Your words said another." It moved a sensory arm to the back of his neck, looping one coil loosely around his neck. "This is the position," it said. "I'll stop now if you like.
Octavia E. Butler
#38. Writers are a loosely knit community - community is an overstated word. Writers don't see each other very much.
Alan Lightman
#39. Hold your possessions so loosely that when they are lost in the sacrifices of love, your confidence in a supreme Treasure in heaven will fill you with joy.
John Piper
#40. I conceived 'All Is Song' as a modernised, loosely interpreted version of Socrates's life.
Samantha Harvey
#41. Faith enables you to hold on loosely without letting go.
John Kasich
#42. When you use words loosely, without care and consideration, you erode trust in yourself and in what you're saying. When you squander words, you diminish your power.
Margaret Heffernan
#43. Strong line quality, composition and form are more crucial although even this is loosely done.
Frank Bruno
#44. The bottom-up, loosely-coupled, bilateral and multi-stakeholder practices that have created the network of networks we call the Internet allow for a broad range of business models.
Vint Cerf
#45. Qui jacet in terra non habet unde cadat. In me consumpsit vires fortuna nocendo, Nil superest ut iam possit obesse magis." (loosely translated: "He who lies on the ground can fall no farther. In me, Fortune has exhausted her power of hurting; nothing remains that can harm me anymore.")
Thomas Kyd
#46. It is frequently stated that loosely worded frameworks such as Real ITSM or ITIL are too vague and too open to interpretation to serve as the basis for compliance certification.
Rob England
#47. A science only advances with certainty, when the plan of inquiry and the object of our researches have been clearly defined; otherwise a small number of truths are loosely laid hold of, without their connexion being perceived, and numerous errors, without being enabled to detect their fallacy.
Jean-Baptiste Say
#48. He that uses his words loosely and unsteadily will either not be minded or not understood.
John Locke
#49. A lot of the evidence and some of the events you see in LA Justice are loosely based on real-life cases.
Christopher Darden
#50. His landlady came to the door, loosely wrapped in dressing gown and shawl; her husband followed ejaculating.
Mary Shelley
#51. I'm not club-able, you see. I don't like literary parties and literary gatherings and literary identities. I'd hate to join anything, however loosely.
Jeanette Winterson
#52. I believe managing is like holding a dove in your hand. If you hold it too tightly you kill it, but if you hold it too loosely, you lose it.
Tommy Lasorda
#53. The way to whistle for a horse is to purse your lips together loosely, blow moderately hard and sing "Whee-oo! Whee-oo! Whee-oo!" in a high-pitched voice. Try it. You can do it.
Mildred Armstrong Kalish
#54. After all, the word "travel" comes from the Latin "trepalium." Which, loosely translated, means "instrument of torture.
Alice Steinbach
#55. Spirituality is like a bird: If you hold it too closely, it chokes, And if you hold it too loosely, it escapes.
Yisroel Salanter
#56. Microsoft is still living down its disastrous introduction of Clippy, a ghastly piece of artificial intelligence - I'm using that term very loosely - that would observe people's behavior as they worked on a document and try to bust in, offering 'advice' that tended to be spectacularly useless
Clive Thompson
#57. Learn to hold loosely all that is not eternal.
Maude Royden
#58. Actually, that's one of the things I was thinking about writing a story about me, loosely based or autobiographical. I just don't want to be like some people that are in their twenties and writing autobiographies.
Matthew McGrory
#59. My mom was a psychic. And there's a movie called The Gift that I'd written years ago with Cate Blanchett which is loosely based on my mom.
Billy Bob Thornton
#60. There is something inhuman and vaguely pornographic about statistics ... Pornography, on the other hand, with its loosely bound sequences of storyless sexual couplings often has the feel of a statistical survey.
John Allen Paulos
#61. The habit of expressing loosely organized opinions is one of the most destructive of habits.
Napoleon Hill
#62. In mythic terms, the earth is a place of mystery and wonder where life always hangs by a thread and
all the events of history are loosely stitched upon the endless loom of eternity. Secretly, we are each tied to the divine.
Michael Meade
#63. When I was in college, I became interested in various aspects of foreign policy and international relations. Even as a kid, I was interested in what I call, loosely speaking, forbidden knowledge.
Barry Eisler
#64. In L.A., being an actor is like a pastime, everybody there is like, "I was on this reality show; I'm an actor." It becomes a word that is loosely thrown around.
Condola Rashad
#65. Swimming in bewilderment, Fiona somehow managed to remain relatively calm while the man who'd starred in her dreams for months sat beside her on the sofa. Relatively calm - in her dictionary - loosely translated to not drooling or humiliating herself.
Candis Terry
#66. Children in the kingdom of God hold onto possessions loosely. They know that the King is powerful and generous, and they know that what they have is on loan anyway. They are quick to help those in need. The rich, on the other hand, are sorely tempted to trust in their riches.
New Growth Press
#67. Three Pink Pig and Five White Fang were, loosely speaking, privates, and not just because they were pale, vulnerable, and inclined to curl up and hide when danger threatened.
Terry Pratchett
#68. The best thing to do is create a lagom number of processes. Erlang comes from Sweden, and the word lagom loosely translated means "not too few, not too many, just about right." Some say that this summarizes the Swedish character.
Joe Armstrong
#69. The hardest thing usually to leave behind, as was the case now, can loosely be called the conscience.
Norman Maclean
#70. Feel," said Driscoll, his hands and arms out loosely. "Remember how you used to run when you were a kid, and how the wind felt. Like feathers on your arms. You ran and thought any minute you'd fly, but you never quite did.
Ray Bradbury
#71. We're loosely calling it The River Project, but hopefully the pieces that we put together will be educational pieces that will throw some light on the situation as to what kind of jeopardy may be surrounding our great rivers.
Richard Dean Anderson
#72. Criminal investigation has been loosely compared to many things, including the putting together of a jigsaw puzzle. It is seldom that simple. The pieces of such a puzzle are of a fixed shape, immutable. Men and women change shape when touched.
Frances Lockridge
#73. What she was doing was, she was letting it be his idea. She was walking him along, holding his hand tightly enough to lead him, loosely enough for him to be unaware of it. She was an absolute natural. Or maybe all women could do that to all men, if they wanted to.
Ben H. Winters
#75. Anarchism is that political philosophy which advocates the maximization of individual responsibility and the reduction of concentrated power regal, dictatorial, parliamentary: the institutions which go loosely by the name of "government" to a vanishing minimum.
Alex Comfort
#76. Never underestimate the power of a loosely knit group working for a good cause. All of us who work for peace together, all of us who pray for peace together, are a small minority, but a powerful spiritual fellowship. Our power is beyond our numbers.
Peace Pilgrim
#77. I'm a talentless but popular young singer and I have the feeling someone is watching me. I use the term loosely because I have few feelings, and even they're too simple, like primary colors.
Dennis Cooper
#78. Mg. Thane held his fork loosely in his hand. "I'll not starve you, if that's your worry.
Charlie N. Holmberg
#79. Coup d'Oeil Concept A French expression which loosely translated means the "strike of the eye" or the "vision behind the eye." The closest English concept would be that of intuition. Intuition is defined as "perceptive insight" or "the power to discern the true nature of a situation.
Charles "Sid" Heal
#80. On a digital continuum, you'd have well-defined processes on one end and loosely defined practices on the other end.
Pearl Zhu
#81. The United Auto Workers is AARP in an Edsel: It has three times as many retirees and widows as 'workers' (I use the term loosely). GM has 96,000 employees but provides health benefits to a million people.
Mark Steyn
#82. Hold loosely to the things of this life, so that if God requires them of you, it will be easy to let them go.
Corrie Ten Boom
#83. It is ludicrous to read the microwave direction on the boxes of food you buy, as each one will have a disclaimer: THIS WILL VARY WITH YOUR MICROWAVE. Loosely translated, this means, You're on your own, Bernice.
Erma Bombeck
#84. My favorite of my books is DAVE AT NIGHT, because it's loosely based on my father's childhood in an orphanage.
Gail Carson Levine
#85. I use the word "man" loosely. A better description would be "the most beautiful specimen of Homo sapiens sapiens with a set of XY chromosomes to grace the planet Earth at this moment, or any other era, epoch, or age in history.
Elle Lothlorien
#86. Aey mauj-e-bala unko bhi zara do char thapede halke se Kuchh log abhi tak sahil se toofan ka nazara karte hain (Loosely translated, the couplet means: O wave of calamity, strike those lightly who even now merely watch the storm from the safety of the shore.)
I.K. Gujral
#87. I am deeply moved when I write. I get turned on by it. I've never used any drugs for stimulation. I don't use words loosely. When I'm working and the right word comes, there is an answering resonance within me. There is also a hardness of intention that goes with it. There is no idleness in it.
Saul Bellow
#88. I was born free, yet today I am in chains. Invisible, they were loosely draped and passed unnoticed until the age of understanding reduced my life to a narrow segment of fear. - Sultana
Jean Sasson
#89. Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace Robes loosely flowing, hair as free Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
Ben Jonson
#90. I am a writer and a feminist, and the two seem to be constantly in conflict ... ever since I became loosely involved with it, it has seemed to me one of the recurring ironies of this movement that there is no way to tell the truth about it without, in some small way, seeming to hurt it.
Nora Ephron
#91. Sometimes when you hold on too loosely, it's as if you aren't holding on at all.
Layla M. Wier
#92. Wisdom is not about what you know, but how you know it. If knowledge is a measure of the grasp an individual has of a given subject, wisdom is a measure of his grip. Does he hold his ideas lightly or loosely? Will he let go when they show signs of wear or inappropriateness?
Andrew Hargadon
#94. Talk of unusual swell of waist In maid of honor loosely laced.
Matthew Green
#95. I have a problem with people who take the Constitution loosely and the Bible literally.
Bill Maher
#96. That the whole nation, tired of war, actually only longed for order, quiet, and a little security and bourgeois life. And, secretly it hated the republic, not because it suppressed this wild freedom, but on the contrary, because it held the reins too loosely.
Stefan Zweig
#97. BLOODCLAN Clan character: Not so much a Clan as a loosely organized group
Erin Hunter
#98. I guess we speak pretty loosely, don't we, about looking forward to the Ashes and all that - and we are, but it's not with both eyes. We've got one eye on that and one eye on what we need to get in place to make sure we're the best team we can be for November.
Ricky Ponting
#99. Strong ideas, loosely held. That's the path to success.
John Gruber
#100. But what of the seemingly more fanciful idea that the internet might one day "wake up"? Could the internet become something more than just the backbone of a loosely integrated collective superintelligence - something more like a virtual skull housing an emerging unified super-intellect? (This
Nick Bostrom
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