However, there probably is a slight connection between the high-wire, super sensitivity, open to everything and too much, and slightly fragile soul of the artist and the need to self-medicate, which can lead to bad trouble either in drugs, or alcohol. So it's not that there's no connection, it's just that we can't make too much of it because it isn't the addiction that's the issue, it's the fragility of some people who do artistic work, who end up in rehab somewhere or other.
It is only a slight exaggeration to say that happiness is the experience of spending time with people you love and who love you.
The sunshine filtered in through the billowing white curtains. Tatiana knew there would be only an instant, a brief flicker of time that bathed her with the possibilities of the day. In a moment it would all be gone. And in a moment it was. Still. . . that sun streaking through the room, the distant rumble of buses through the open window, the slight wind. This was the part of Sunday that Tatiana loved most: the beginning.
See, Cameron. The only things I care about in this life are me, you, Mum, Dad, Steve and Sarah. And maybe Miffy. The rest of the world means nothing to me. The rest of the world can rot. ' Am I like that too?' You? No way. ' There's a slight gap in his words. 'And that's your problem. You care about everything. ' He's right. I do.
To say that Romans 7 describes the Christian is to slight the grace of God and to foster wanton behaviour.
Although I'm not Christian, I was raised Christian. I'm an atheist, with a slight Buddhist leaning. I've got a very strong sense of morality.
We say of the oak, How grand of girth! Of the willow we say, How slender! And yet to the soft grass clothing the earth How slight is the praise we render.
Slight small injuries, and they will become none at all.
It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead.
Mr. Agnew, I believe you have a slight swing in your flaw.
A slight sound at evening lifts me up by the ears, and makes life seem inexpressibly serene and grand. It may be Uranus, or it may be in the shutter.
The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imaginations.
The comfort derived from the misery of others is slight.
The perils of overwork are slight compared with the dangers of inactivity.
A phrase is born into the world both good and bad at the same time. The secret lies in a slight, an almost invisible twist. The lever should rest in your hand, getting warm, and you can only turn it once, not twice.
The New York Times is the worst in that hardly anybody can write English over there. Most of it reads like slight translations from the German.
I like the night. I like a slight terror to remind me how precious life is. Like I was sleeping with my smallest child and there were crazy coyotes howling outside. I knew how lucky I was to have her near me.
You slight yourself when you're easily slighted.
I'm never afraid during a game, and I have no negative thoughts. I think about what I have to do. Which players can be substituted? And where I can manage to squeeze in a slight advantage? I remain very calm, which is why I never engage in any sideline antics.
The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.