Casual Quotes by John R. Rice, Nobu Matsuhisa, Charles Dickens, Yotam Ottolenghi, Albert C. Barnes, F. Scott Fitzgerald and many others.
Appreciation of works of art requires organized effort and systematic study. Art appreciation can no more be absorbed by aimless wandering in galleries than can surgery be learned by casual visits to a hospital.
The persistent advocates of contraceptive-style sex education have become more and more resourceful in using taxpayer funds to impose their casual-sex attitudes and explicit-sex instruction on other people’s children.
Given the large size of the illegal harvest, … I find it difficult to understand how this could have been a casual oversight.
I think talking is as casual as blogging, and sometimes writing can be as casual as talking. My informal writing style is a political choice, because I want feminism to be more accessible.
Even when the characters are supposed to be accustomed to the wonder, I try to weave an air of awe and impressiveness corresponding to what the reader should feel. A casual style ruins any serious fantasy.
Following Christ is not a casual or occasional practice but a continuous commitment and way of life that applies at all times and in all places.
Nando’s is a casual restaurant rather than a fast-food one – another aspirational touch. The food is energetically spiced, where so many of its competitors are bland and grilled to order, where the competition fries food and then lets it sit around.
So, when you divide the world into music lovers, music fans and then those people who are just very casual about their music, it’s wallpaper to them, it’s elevator music, it’s just the thing that’s playing in the background that helps them through their day.
By our pontifical assertions, our superior impatience, and our casual brushing aside of their curiosity, we do not encourage their inquiry, for we are rather apprehensive of what may be asked of us; we do not foster their discontent, for we ourselves have ceased to question.
I’ve been doing comedy longer than I haven‘t been doing comedy, as I was performing for three years before I even got on ‘The Tonight Show.’ There’s truly nothing like it; it’s intense and exhilarating, even though it looks so casual.
When I did Casual, I just let myself put on weight because he’s a schoolteacher. He’s not meant to be muscle-y.
I’m really casual.
I’m a very casual person.
There’s a part of me that wishes I could go out in T-shirt and jeans, ’cause I really love Patti Smith, Cat Power, girls who look so casual; that appeals to me ’cause I guess it’s the opposite from what I do. But I can never let myself just do that – I always have to try and dress up and create something.
A black or royal blue velvet blazer will look great with a pair of jeans and a black or navy turtleneck sweater – though it’s a more casual look.
Performance art is going to be the future. Plays on Broadway are so restricted. But performance art is like haikus, just one line thing. And it’s more casual but more interesting.
Life is a right, not collateral or casual.
The American girl is casual during the day and sophisticated at night. The French girl dresses for both, day and night.
There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment.
If you’re not working, over time you’re much more likely to develop attitudes and orientations and behavior patterns that are associated with casual or infrequent work. And then when you open up opportunities for people, you notice that these attitudes, orientations, habits and styles also change.
[Smoking] was a comfort, an occupation, a drug, a casual habit, a distraction, a way to not eat, a way to not pay attention, a way to not feel.
I used to love going and playing jam sessions, doing things spontaneously. I can’t do that anymore. Everything you do is documented, nothing is casual anymore.
We need to commit to serve the Lord and our communities with the same diligence and faith that the pioneers had. We must ever be on our guard that we do not become casual in keeping God’s commandments, in abiding by His laws, and in being honest and trustworthy in all that we do.
I cannot be casual about my work.
The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class.
Surrounded by high-paid publicity people and professional ego massagers, movie stars, like politicians, almost invariably come to believe that they are nicer, more charming, and more beloved than they appear to be to a casual observer, and that their stories about their careers are universally fascinating.
I seem to have very few casual readers, only passionate and appreciative ones.
There are caste systems in American cities: Many are marginalized to the edges of urban centers due to real estate costs; price tags seem to lurk around human encounters; there’s a cult of overwork in the middle class; workers at your local manicurist, your local fast casual restaurant, are exploited.
I was involved with MySpace and Facebook and everything at a very young age because it’s so casual now, and I’m into texting, obviously. But I’ve never been involved in any type of chat room. My parents are pretty cautious about it and know all my passwords and know who my friends are and who I’m talking to.
You cant be a casual observer of something humorous – you have to engage, you have to find it funny for the relationship between actor and audience to work.
I had a very short time on that film [The Possibilities Are Endless] and it was quite strange because the process was kind of like a documentary, which was different for me. The way everything was filmed was very casual.
I’m a casual watcher. I like to stream everything.
Enter each day with the expectation that the happenings of the day may contain a clandestine message addressed to you personally. Expect omens, epiphanies, casual blessings and teachers who unknowingly speak to your condition.
Men We Reaped is a fiercely felt meditation on the value of life that at once reminds us of its infinite worth and indicts us – as a society – for our selective, casual complicity in devaluing it. Ward’s account of these losses is founded in a compelling emotional honesty, and graced with moments of stark poetry.
I would say I’m a casual gamer. I’m not hardcore.
The great effort of civilization has been, and still is, the attempt to introduce a principle of control into that casual swarm of impressions which makes up men’s thought and of which, especially with swayed by emotion, spontaneous action is the law.
I don’t believe in casual dating; I would rather be in a proper relationship.
I was horribly self-conscious; I wanted everybody to look at me and think me the most fascinating creature in the world, and yet I died a small hideous death if I saw even one person throw a casual glance at me.
I feel like my style is very much androgynous. It’s rock, chic, like casual wear, but then on the flip side to that, being that it’s so androgynous, it’ll either be skinny jeans and a leather jacket, or if I’m doing a red carpet or event, I’ll completely flip that and be wearing a suit or a dress.
I’ve had more paternity suits than casual suits.
Wearing a suit can seem like a somewhat archaic gesture, a concession to formality in a determinedly casual age.
The work of art is born of the artist in a mysterious and secret way. From him it gains life and being. Nor is its existence casual and inconsequent, but it has a definite and purposeful strength, alike in its material and spiritual life.
Sloppy casual has always been my default look. My preppier classmates in high school would sometimes sport two, three, even four shirts at a time – Lauren, Izod, Brooks Brothers, all collars-up – while I wore secondhand faded olive German-army fatigues and this cool T-shirt with a troll on it.
I’m pretty casual. I love Free People and small vintage boutiques.
I really like those days when I can just wear sweatpants, to be honest. And when I’m actually going to go somewhere, I like to be comfortable and casual. If I’m doing something a little more fashion, going a little bit further. It’s about expressing yourself and being comfortable and wearing what you like.
I don’t believe in casual dating. I think that’s nonsense.
Whenever I go out, I have to have a jacket on. I prefer casual ones for a party and semi-formal ones for events.
He dispensed starlight to casual moths.
My style is neither casual nor academic, it’s somewhere in between. For me, that’s the best way to be succinct and informative but still (I hope) at least a bit entertaining.
I would hope there would be a greater appreciation by casual sports fans of the incredible skill and passion of our players.
I am actually extremely casual in certain environments. But one of the reasons I like living in London, I like the formality of it, as compared to the formality of America – or informality. I like putting on a suit. I like putting on a tie.
Casual reliance on unnamed sources…corrodes our credibility and, in cases that are rare but not rare enough, may abet journalistic malpractice.
No, I am very old school. Everybody has a different definition of old school today. But yes, I do feel that I would like to meet, know a person before taking it forward. I am not the casual hook-up types.
I used to do a lot of casual photography – back in the olden times when one used film – but it had fallen by the wayside over the years.
If you really believe something, you will act in accordance with that belief – always. If you believe in gravity, you will never attempt to defy it. If you claim to hold a belief but act incongruently, then you don’t actually believe it. You’re only kidding yourself. Casual faith isn’t.
Beguiled by George S. Bush‘s easy smile and casual indifference to the details, we are on the brink of electing him to office. This isn’t choosing a president, it’s casting the lead in a sitcom about the presidency.
Are you looking for something real in this world of illusions? Call me. Casual Flings need not apply. I am looking for Love.
Don’t take the casual approach to life. Casualness leads to casualties.
I think I try to do a lot of things to weed out casual fans.
It’s true, I don’t like the whole cutoff-shorts-and-T-shirt look, but I think you can look fantastic in casual clothes.
Again and again I’ve taken quick glances and then for some reason I’ve got to sit before a picture waiting and it’s opened up like one of those Japanese flowers that you put into water and something I thought wasn’t worth more than a casual, respectful glance begins to open up depth after depth of meaning.
It is not the most distinguished achievements that men’s virtues or vices may be best discovered; but very often an action of small note. An casual remark or joke shall distinguish a person’s real character more than the greatest sieges, or the most important battles.
I found it quite easy to carry on a casual conversation it was as if my real feelings were down fathoms deep in my mind and what we said was just a feathery surface spray.
Is the casual objectification of women so commonplace that we should all just suck it up, roll over, and accept defeat? I hope not.
The bird Gamayun was related to Alkonost and Sirin in some vague fashion-even the most casual observer would’ve noticed that all three of them were not entirely birds; they had the faces and breasts of women, severe but beautiful. And when their lips opened, they sand in women’s voices, deep and rich and bittersweet.
In New York, it’s a little bit more formal, a little bit more decorated, and there’s a real appreciation for traditional style. Out here, it’s casual, fresh, new, and almost humble.
People are like almanacs, Bonnie – you never can find the information you’re looking for, but the casual reading is well worth the trouble.
Donald Trump is a person who has been very cavalier, even casual about the use of nuclear weapons.
I like to perform live like we’re all just hanging out in my living room. I’m totally casual and informal on stage.
The only casual item I own is a Levi’s jacket.
Ive never really been the type to dress up like the other girls do. Im more of a casual, relaxed kind of girl. More athletic.
I would describe my style as comfortable and casual.
There is nothing more classic in the realm of casual than jeans and a white tee – a look that is inherently Americana and reminiscent of the American Dream – an optimistic dream of opportunity, individuality, freedom, and the embodiment of one living their truth.
Other people singing my songs is something that I’ve never been casual about. I’ve always been very touched by it and I always go into immediate critical suspension.
My style is casual-chic? Casual-messy?
Just because the office is casual doesn’t mean you shouldn’t make an effort.
Every part of the photographic image carries some information that contributes to its total statement; the viewer‘s responsibility is to see, in the most literal way, everything that is there and respond to it.
As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection.
Criticism should be a casual conversation.
I have a casual interest in the NBA.
Don’t take the casual approach to life. Casualness leads to casualties. Seek out the mentors that you need that will lead you to greatness in your field. If you’re not willing to learn from others, who are you willing to learn from?
America gives every appearance of being a nation besotted with trashiness – divorce, illegitimacy, casual Fridays.
Handwriting is civilization’s casual encephalogram.
Every decent man of our age must be a coward and a slave. That is his normal condition. Of that I am firmly persuaded. He is made and constructed to that very end. And not only at the present time owing to some casual circumstance, but always, at all times, a decent man is bound to be a coward and a slave.
The difference with Cleveland is that the racial tension was not a casual taste of it. It was outlandish.
For [D.H.] Lawrence, existence was one continuous convalescence; it was as though he were newly reborn from a mortal illness every day of his life. What these convalescent eyes saw, his most casual speech would reveal.
I like to be dressy casual. I wear jeans and nice sneakers. I wear nice clothes, but not super dressed up. I don’t wear too much jewelry. I keep it simple and maybe wear just a little chain.
My personal style falls between casual cool and meticulous slob. I’m most comfortable in jeans, but I love fashion.
As far as dating is concerned, I’m not a casual dating person.
Fred Astaire never let you see him sweat, but he sweetened his deceptively casual virtuosity with just enough charm to make it irresistible.
I try to create a very casual working place, where everybody – down to production assistants – can throw out ideas and not feel intimidated. When it becomes a collaborative environment, it becomes a small family, and everybody becomes invested.
We are not some casual and meaningless product of evolution. Each of us is the result of a thought of God.
I have a particular pair of boyfriend jeans that I wear with Converse sneakers and, really, any kind of top, from a crop top to a hoodie. I usually go for a loose top or jacket to keep things casual with sort of a streetwear vibe.
Identification of rhythm as the casual counterpart of life; wherever there is some life, only perceptible to us when the analogies are sufficiently close.
Do you realize the weight of the one who has invited us to follow him? He is worthy of more than church attendance and casual association; he is worthy of total abandonment and supreme adoration.
It is misery, you know, unspeakable misery for the man who lives alone and who detests sordid, casual affairs; not old enough to do without women, but not young enough to be able to go and look for one without shame!
Dates are always hard. You don’t want to be too dressed up or too casual.
I try to dress a little casual before my photo-shoots. I can be comfortable before I go into my… transition.
I look like a casual, laid-back guy, but it’s like a circus in my head.
My first calendar was a combination of photos taken from different shoots including golf and casual.
That’s all my brother and I do, talk basketball, and I’d like to think I bring some of that casual quality with me on the air.
As and when I get into a relationship, I’ll flaunt her to the world. I’m looking for a soul mate, and in any case, I’m not very much for casual dating. I’m such a simple guy away from this dating-shating business.
My dining and entertainment philosophy – I can boil it down to ‘the three C’s – I like my food like my fashion: casual, classic, and with a touch of couture.
If you go through life being casual, you will end up a casualty
I’m a casual sneaker person, I like to be calm drippy.
You have to realize that the customer really is king. People who go into more established businesses probably have to be careful not to be casual about that. When you have a brand-new business, and nobody knows who you are, you know you have to work really hard for your customers.
In the desert the detachment of life from all normal intercourse imparts a sense of gravity to every rencontre, and each touch with human beings is fraught with a significance lacking in the too hurried intercourse of ordinary everyday life. On the desert track, there is no such thing as a casual meeting.
Even the most casual events are connected to God’s purpose for His people from all eternity.
I’ve always liked the competitive games. It’s hard for me to play games that are just kind of casual. It gives me another outlet for competition, and that’s what ‘Fortnite‘ does.
I’m used to doing independent film where the style is a lot more casual. With improvising, you obviously find so much out on the day – and in a way, I feel more comfortable doing that.
Most of the time I’m in khakis and a white T-shirt. I’m a total Gap girl. Super casual, hair in a pony tail and no makeup.
I used to work for a management consulting company, so I dressed differently – business casual, probably a lot of things from Banana Republic. My wardrobe now is definitely more expensive, but I always dress for the occasion.
Spend everyday casual, but industrious Every moment alert, but relaxed.
It’s not really possible to open ‘The Casual Vacancy’ without a lot of expectations both high and low crashing around in your brain and distorting your vision. There’s no point pretending they’re not there.
I usually wear casual clothes to the office. I wear a suit maybe two or three times a month, and usually only when I need to meet with the head office.
I like either skinny jeans or the ripped, casual, super-sloppy boyfriend jeans. A lot of ripped jeans. They are so early 2000, but they are so cute, I love them. I love surfer jeans, too!
I hate casual shooting. Every shot is preceded by working to get open and catch and shoot under game like conditions
His blue-black hair fell over his face when he moved, like tiny arrows pointing to pronounced cheeckbones. “Starting to think you were going to bail on me.” “Didn’t know you were expecting me,” she said in what she hoped was a casual voice. He gets sexier every day. “Not Expecting, but hoping. Always hoping
The universe has its secrets. Extra dimensions of space might be one of them. If so, the universe has been hiding those dimensions, protecting them, keeping them coyly under wraps. From a casual glance, you would never suspect a thing.
I’m a sweats and UGGs girl. Very casual.
The Bruce I knew back then was an easygoing, down-to-earth, casual, romantic, good and loving man. I was extremely happy to have found such a remarkable partner with whom to share my life.
Television in the ’80s was very limited. There was no Food Network. When I opened Spago, I had the kitchen in the dining hall. It was probably the first restaurant to do so. The dining scene became more casual. All these cooking shows have transformed our profession one-hundred percent.
In my childhood, we didn’t dress up a whole lot. It was very casual.
I should have lived through the ’80s, not been born in it. My style is a mix of hip-hop and ’80s casual.
Don’t try to impress God with your works” or “Don’t attempt to please God with your merits” or “Don’t try to keep the rules and regulations in order to earn your salvation.” He looked around at nearly slumbering collections of utterly casual Christians and wondered, “Who’s trying?
When I have no appointments, I spend the day in pajamas and go to the dog park in pajamas. I’m very casual.
I’m originally from New York, and my style follows suit. Since I’ve lived in L.A., though, I feel like I’ve become a lot more casual.
I had a lot of fun creating some restaurants with a casual note to it, such as DBGB, for example, where it was about bangers and beers, being a very casual brasserie with very affordable food but very interesting homemade program.
When I go to Ohio to visit relatives on holidays, I am often astonished by the level of casual dismissal offered up by way of discussion.
There is nothing as dead and as damned as an important thing. The things that really matter are casual, insignificant little things.
I was never satisfied with casual encounters, I can’t hide my need for two hearts that bleed with burning love.
I love working with Erica [Durance]. She’s so much fun. And I love how flippant, comfortable, and casual the relationship is. There is so much humor there, and they make each other laugh. It is obvious how much they adore each other. I really like that.
“I want to be always happy,” Maxine Hong Kingston announces . But, as this interview makes clear, for me, it was the desire to write poetry that kept me discontented, if not depressed and unhappy, through what many casual biographers have characterized as successful and productive decades.
Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
In perpetrating a revolution, there are two requirements: someone or something to revolt against and someone to actually show up and do the revolting. Dress is usually casual and both parties may be flexible about time and place, but if either faction fails to attend, the whole enterprise is likely to come off badly.
As I’ve moved through life, I’ve found that I like things to be as casual and as spontaneous as possible when writing.
From a spiritual perspective every relationship we develop, from the most casual to the most intimate, serves the purpose of helping us to become more conscious.
I’ve done a lot of casual work, and acting is a lot easier than laying carpets.
Vocally and stylistically, we’d have different kinds of songs come on the radio, and people didn’t realize it was the same band. A lot of the time, a casual fan would come see us and go, ‘I didn’t know that you guys did that song. I didn’t know that was you!’ That was us!
I was inspired by many teachers when I started my channel, Bob Ross being one of them. His voice was so soothing, almost like hypnosis. He was that great of a teacher, even the casual viewer could learn how to paint from watching his show. Growing up, I just remember him being so mesmerizing on screen.
Both casual, unthinking discrimination and deliberate, malicious homophobia erode self-confidence and undermine mental health. Both are far too common, not just in our schoolyards or online but in sporting clubs, in the outer and even in our national parliament.
I don’t think fine dining is dying, but I think those rare occasions when you really want the fanciness are diminishing… I think a lot of people are going to find simpler, more casual ways to enjoy an experience.
I’m really not into casual clothes for a cocktail party. I like to see fun people, having fun, in fun clothes.
Casual games are a great way to spend time when you get bored. It’s hard to keep people off all their little games.
This is what I believe: That we are not pushed from behind by the casual unfolding of historical necessity, but that we are in the grip of an attractor of some sort, which lies ahead of us in time.
…there is no evidence that casual exposure to secondhand smoke has any impact on your life expectancy.
To occupy an inch of dusty shelf-to have the title of their works read now and then in a future age by some drowsy churchman or casual straggler, and in another age to be lost, even to remembrance. Such is the amount of boasted immortality.
I love Christopher Bailey and Burberry, Mulberry for bags, and Hudson for jeans. I like a little bit of designer with a bit of vintage and High Street mixed in. I love it when you find those one-off key pieces, which end up becoming investment pieces. I always go for comfort, and like feeling confident and casual.
My colleagues and I have done a survey of 13,000 students on more than 17 campuses, and we found that while sex in college has always been a bit more casual, “hooking up” has pretty much replaced other traditional forms of dating.
Though I love sarees and feel a woman looks most beautiful in a saree, my personal style statement is casual because I am more tomboyish.
We have learned that beneath the surface of an ordinary everyday normal casual conscious existence there lies a vast dynamic world of impulse and dream, a hinterland of energy which has an independent existence of its own and laws of its own: laws which motivate all our thoughts and our actions.
Reared in rural southern Alabama, we enjoyed an idyllic Huck Finn boyhood. But education there was casual at best. Our mother and father were high school teachers and challenged the pervasive easy-going ignorance.
Rap and spoken word have reawakened the country to poetry in itself. Texting and Twitter encourage creative uses of casual language, in ways I have celebrated widely. But we’ve fallen behind on savoring the formal layer of our language.
I hope the poem, as it goes on, gets more complicated, a little more demanding, a little more ambiguous or speculative, so that we’re drifting away from the casual beginning of the poem into something a little more serious.
I would consider myself a casual fan growing up because obviously wrestling was such a huge part of pop culture, and still is. I was a fan as much as it was a part of pop culture.
It used to be presumed that if you weren’t at your desk working, you weren’t working. But we said, why can’t we make a workplace where casual meetings are as important as working at your desk? Sometimes that’s where your better creative work happens.
So I guess that the next time I make a date with a concussed guy, I should pin a note to his collar so he doesn’t forget.” “Good plan.” His hand was next to hers on the table. He let his thumb glide over her fingers, a small, almost casual touch that sent a shudder through her. “I’m sorry I forgot our date.
Actually I walk around with the Emmy wherever I go, but I’m very casual about it.
We believe elegance can be casual. We believe gracefulness can be compatible with fits of laughter. We believe in living a colorful life
I guess my style’s a little edgy but comfortable. I like being comfortable, for sure, and kind of casual.
I am quite ‘natural’ in the sense that I do not worry too much about the way I look, and I like a casual look. I do not wear make-up if I do not need to.
I’m glad to see the casual game play coming back now on the Internet, games that aren’t violent, that aren’t complex that you can sit down and you can have some fun.
When you’re just using words, you’re limiting yourself to everyday casual speak. As soon as you start to sing, you can unlock the stuff that’s underneath.
Since our awareness of others is considered our duty, the price we pay when things go wrong is guilt and self-hatred. And things always go wrong. We respond with apologies; we continue to apologize long after the event is forgotten – and even if it had no causal relation to anything we did to begin with.
When it kind of went to ‘Street Fighter‘, where you had to push 13 buttons with all 13 of your fingers and ripped the spine out of somebody, you know, violent games lost the women. Complexity lost the casual gamer.
One of the first studies in the field of gender and language, by Don H. Zimmerman and Candace West in 1975, found that in casual conversations between women and men, women were interrupted far more often.
But worse things were about to be found in the bedroom: on the jeweller’s wife’s ottoman, in a casual pose, sprawled a third party- namely, a black cat of uncanny size, with a glass of vodka in one paw and a fork, on which he had managed to spear a pickled mushroom, in the other. , The Master and Magarita
