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  • All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

    Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.2231, Simon and Schuster
  • When comedy is good, it's jazz. The beats of it, the looseness, the improvisational part, the music-the way you hit the inflection, the high notes of a joke. It's all melody to me.

    Art   Way   Comedy  
  • No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which keepeth us back from entering in, save only our own unbelief.

    Godly   Men   Entering  
    John Calvin (1975). “John Calvin: Selections from His Writings”, p.558, Oxford University Press
  • Yeah, Vegas is the number one place to go. Vegas is Sin City. It really gives you a feeling of looseness and anything can go.

    Vegas   Sin City   Cities  
  • Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion.

    The Sacred Wood "Tradition and the Individual Talent" (1920)
  • The novella is at once the most elegant and demanding form: a writer must balance the looseness of a novel with the concision of a short story, a feat that only the bravest and most talented of us can manage. In Brazil, Jesse Lee Kercheval proves, yet again, that she is exactly the right writer for the job. A wild American picaresque, Brazil snaps along briskly, yet feels full-fleshed, and brims with a sly wit and grace.

    Jobs   Grace   Balance  
  • The birth of a new fact is always a wonderful thing to experience. It's dualistically called a "discovery" because of the presumption that it has an existence independent of anyone's awareness of it. When it comes along, it always has, at first, a low value. Then, depending on the value-looseness of the observer and the potential quality of the fact, its value increases, either slowly or rapidly, or the value wanes and the fact disappears.

  • By its very looseness, by its way of evoking rather than defining, suggesting rather than saying, English is a magnificent vehicle for emotional poetry.

    Writing   Emotional   Way  
    Max Beerbohm (2006). “And Even Now”, p.170, 1st World Publishing
  • I am a trembling mess from hip to knee. There is a terrible heat, a looseness in my innards that makes me want to dig my fists between my thighs. It is a confusing feeling - somewhere between diarrhoea and sex - this grief that is almost genital.

    Sex   Grief   Feelings  
    Anne Enright (2010). “The Gathering”, p.7, Random House
  • I question if Epicurus and Hume have done mankind a greater service by the looseness of their doctrines than by the purity of their lives. Of such men we may more justly exclaim, than of Caesar, "Confound their virtues, they've undone the world!

    Men   Example   Doctrine  
  • Sanity lies somewhere between the inhibitions of conventional morality and the looseness of extreme impulse, but the area in-between is very fuzzy.

    Lying   Morality   Sanity  
    "The Myth of Freedom and the Way of Meditation".
  • I used to think then that I was Bohemian, but I know now that I am not. I prefer order and precision to untidiness and looseness.

  • Nature encourages no looseness; pardons no errors.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Lectures and biographical sketches”
  • I was a pioneer in MTV and I was there from the very beginning. So I saw how that developed and how loose it was and how much fun it was in its looseness. And I was influenced a lot by that.

    Fun   Mtv   Pioneers  
  • Whenever we can make 25 words do the work of 50, we halve the area in which looseness and disorganization can flourish.

  • [The notion of equilibrium] is a notion which can be employed usefully in varying degrees of looseness. It is an absolutely indispensable part of the toolbag of the economist and one which he can often contribute usefully to other sciences which are occasionally apt to get lost in the trackless exfoliations of purely dynamic systems.

    "The Skills of the Economist". Book by Kenneth Ewart Boulding, p. 14, 1958.
  • However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.

  • Brian Posehn went up at 4:45 in the morning. And he gets lost at a certain point. I don't know if we kept him getting lost on the CD. That joke isn't as technically well delivered as I'm sure it is in his Comedy Central special. But the whole disk has this looseness and flavor to it where anything can happen that a lot of people will prefer.

    Morning   Cds   People  
    Source: www.dead-frog.com
  • My style is a little masculine, and what I loved about Pyer Moss was how well he can make a blazer, the looseness of those pants, or color palette that he chooses from season to season.

    Color   Style   Moss  
    "Erykah Badu On Pyer Moss's Honest Activism". Interview with Katherine Cusumano, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 10, 2016.
  • "Best in the world," "lowest price in existence, " etc are at best claiming the expected. But superlative of that sort are usually damaging. They suggestion looseness of expression, a tendency to exaggerate, a careless truth. They lead readers to discount all the statements that you make

  • I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.

    John Calvin (2002). “The Bondage and Liberation of the Will (Texts and Studies in Reformation and Post-Reformation Thought): A Defence of the Orthodox Doctrine of Human Choice against Pighius”, p.61, Baker Books
  • All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our trust on this condition, that they should be dispensed for the benefit of our neighbors.

    John Calvin (2009). “Institutes of the Christian Religion Vol. 1: Translated from the Original Latin, and Collated With the Author's Last Edition in French”, p.623, Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

  • It's fun to be loose. Just like on stage, all of your great ideas come from looseness.

    Fun   Ideas   Stage  
    Source: www.hitfix.com
  • I believe in looseness.

  • Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.

    Art   Mean   Expression  
    The Sacred Wood "Tradition and the Individual Talent" (1920)
  • Drill in exact translation is an excellent way of disposing the mind against that looseness and exaggeration with which the sensationalists have corrupted our world. If schools of journalism knew their business, they would graduate no one who could not render the Greek poets.

    Richard M. Weaver (2013). “Ideas Have Consequences”, p.167, University of Chicago Press
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