Quotes About Casualness

If I had a dollar for every single time [Stephen Malkmus] said, 'it doesn't matter', I wouldn't have to work.

Baseball's a dull game, really; that's the reason that it is so good. We do not love the game so much as we love the sprawl and drowse and shirt-sleeved apathy of it.)

I realized that I had died and been reborn numberless times but just didn't remember especially because the transitions from life to death and back to life are so ghostly easy, a magical action for naught, like falling asleep and waking up again a million times, the utter casualness and deep ignorance of it.

After spending the last few years working on a serious novel set in Chechnya, I was drawn to both the brevity and casualness of Twitter, and wrote a series of tweets titled 'The Erotic Inner Life of Mr. Bates from Downton Abbey.'

For me, generally speaking, I don't like to make a big deal out of stuff.

We treat our encounters with them with carefree casualness. We are certain that our relationships will naturally take care of themselves.

I really don't like having to get dressed up.

I'm not dressed up all the time.

Loosen up, and everybody around you will loosen up.

A story so cherished it has to be dressed in casualness to disguise its significance in case the listener turned out to be unsympathetic.

A story so cherished it had to be dressed in casualness to disguise its significance in case the listener turned out to be unsympathetic.

She's a woman who enjoys the liberal use of first names.

Sometimes I'll spend an hour writing a tiny email. I work on it until I've created the illusion that I've dashed it off in three minutes. If I make a typo, I let it stand. Sometimes in fact I correct the typo without thinking, and then I back up and retype the typo so that it'll look more casual. I don't know why.