Offhandedly Quotes

#1. In recent weeks, I have heard former Associated Press reporter Ron Fournier on Fox News twice asserting, quite offhandedly, that President George W. Bush 'lied us into war in Iraq.'

Laurence Silberman

#2. I learned embroidery," Kaede said, "But you can't kill anyone with a needle."
"You can," Shizuka said offhandedly. "I'll show you one day.

Lian Hearn

#3. Tragic and painful state of being separated from his true self, to which doctors refer offhandedly as depression.

Alice Miller

#4. I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked him if he'd been drunk the night before, he would always answer offhandedly, 'Oh, I imagine.' I've always liked that answer. It acknowledges life as a dream.

Kurt Vonnegut

#5. If it won't respond to humans, then it will have to be killed," Dorian said offhandedly, and a spark went through Celaena. "Kill it? Kill it? For what reason? What did it do to you?

Sarah J. Maas

#6. Yesterday, when you said you told everyone, what did you mean?"
"Everyone important, I guess. I mean, I didn't rush out to inform my mailman or anything."
"Oh, he knows," Nate said offhandedly.
"Oh. Okay," I said, thrown. "Well, I guess I can cross him off the list.

Cary Attwell

#7. I swore never to use the emoticon ever ... until one day, offhandedly and without much thought, I used my first and, shortly thereafter, in spite of my initial resistance, became a regular staple of my daily correspondence

Joshua Ferris

#8. I esteem his understanding and subtlety highly, but I consider that they have been put to ill use in the greater part of his work, where the author studies things of little use...

{Writing about Isaac Newton}

Christiaan Huygens

#9. Most board meetings amount to little more than intellectual masturbation. They are ideas that cause thrills, chills, and satisfaction, but there is no impregnation. Nothing is ever born of them. It's intellectual masturbation.

Steve Maraboli

#10. Write for who you are, that which dwells deep inside you, not for what others would have you be...

J. Michael Storm

#11. The city was under the rule of sourcery ... martial lore.

Terry Pratchett

#12. Oprah is very, very, very special to me. She's an amazing woman.

Tyler Perry

#13. Let this great maxim be my virtue's guide,- In part she is to blame that has been tried: He comes too near that comes to be denied.

Mary Wortley Montagu

#14. As long as we are enjoying ourselves, that's the most important thing

Tony Fernandes

#15. To be of the eternal, you must be of the earth.

I.L. Peretz

#16. Printed books usually outlive bookstores and the publishers who bought them out. They sit around, demanding nothing, for decades. That's one of their nicest qualities
their brute persistence.

Nicholson Baker

#17. [The Freedom of Information Act is] the Taj Mahal of the Doctrine of Unanticipated Consequences, the Sistine Chapel of Cost-Benefit Analysis Ignored.

Antonin Scalia

#18. Wisdom with an inheritance is good, but wisdom without an inheritance is better than an inheritance without wisdom.

Anne Bradstreet

#19. Piracy is our only option.

Emma Thompson

#20. Success is nothing more than living your life according to your own truth and your own terms.

Robin S. Sharma

#21. If women become too much like men, men lose purpose, meaning, and inspiration in life.

John Gray