Top 612 Gently Quotes & Sayings

The thing about Dirk [Gently] is that he's very lonely.

Emerge gently from matter into Spirit.

Allow your attention to gently alight on your belly, as if you were coming upon a shy animal sunning itself on a tree stump in a clearing in the forest. Feel your belly rise or expand gently on the inbreath, and fall or recede on the outbreath.

Tread gently on anyone who looks at you sideways.

Gently touching with the charm of poetry.

Last night I begged the Wise One to tell me the secret of the world. Gently, gently, he whispered, "Be quiet, the secret cannot be spoken, It is wrapped in silence."

Obedience is yielded more readily to one who commands gently.

Touch us gently, Time! Let us glide adown thy stream Gently,-as we sometimes glide Through a quiet dream!

Cast me gently into the morning for the night has been unkind.

Keep the juices flowing by jangling around gently as you move.

I know people who will gently persuade you to be forthcoming.

Touch us gently, Time! Let us glide adown thy stream, Gently, - as we sometimes glide Through a quiet dream!

Treat the other man's faith gently: it is all he has to believe with.

On him who wields power gently, the god looks favorably from afar.

Somehow I seem to have been gently bypassed as a serious actor.

Already all confusion. Things and imaginings. As of always. Confusion amounting to nothing. Despite precautions. If only she could be pure figment. Unalloyed. This old so dying woman. So dead. In the madhouse of the skull and nowhere else. Where no more precautions to be taken. No precautions possible. Cooped up there with the rest. Hovel and stones. The lot. And the eye. How simple all then. If only all could be pure figment. Neither be nor been nor by any shift to be. Gently gently. On. Careful.

[Dirk Gently] just doesn't understand social cues.

Just handle the books gently and you’ll get along fine.

All politicians have vanity. Some wear it more gently than others.

I'm usually woken by a vibration on my up-band. It's the gradual vibration for about ten seconds, and then the chimes of my blue light. It's just a way to wake gently. It all gently puts me into awake-mode. I play music off of my Sonos playlist. 'The Rachmaninoff Concerto 3 in D-minor', 1st movement.

Great ideas come into the world as gently as doves.

Old Time, who changes all below, To wean men gently for the grave.

Flow gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes, Flow gently, I'll sing thee a song in thy praise.

Every heart has a door; knock it gently! If the door is not opened, leave gently!

Gently - so have good men taught - Gently, and without grief, the old shall glide Into the new; the eternal flow of things, Like a bright river of the fields of heaven, Shall journey onward in perpetual peace.

Dirk Gently has been a long passion (my career started with Douglas Adams and my stage adaptation of Dirk Gently) .

Meditation is a skilful letting go: gently but with resolution.

Because I'm playing Dirk Gently [ in Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency], I'm so fond of Dirk. I really see Dirk's vulnerability, and you get that, more and more. You'll start to see a little bit more of Dirk's backstory, why he behaves the way he does, and why he's doing what he's doing. I see a lot of his vulnerability, his sensitivity and his insecurity.

I exist. It's sweet, so sweet, so slow. And light: you'd think it floated all by itself. It stirs. It brushes by me, melts and vanishes. Gently, gently. There is bubbling water in my mouth. I swallow. It slides down my throat, it caresses me — and now it comes up again into my mouth. For ever I shall have a little pool of whitish water in my mouth - lying low - grazing my tongue. And this pool is still me. And the tongue. And the throat is me.

Basically we are all looking for someone who knows who we are and will break it to us gently.

I live very gently.

I have described myself as being 'gently eccentric.'

Develop the strength of a man, but live as gently as a woman

I will be correspondent to command, And do my spiriting gently.

Gently to hear, kindly to judge.

Souls do not wish to be bullied, but gently brought back; such is the nature of man.

Let yourself be gently pulled by the deeper desire of what you want.

All words and sayings gently turn, returning to the self.

There it is: I am gently slipping into the water's depths, towards fear.

When you admonish a wrongdoer, do so gently, that it may not lead to hostility.

In the menu, there should be a climax and a culmination. Come to it gently. One will suffice.

Coffee must be treated gently and smoothed out. I hadn't realised it was so temperamental.

Lighten up on yourself. No one is perfect. Gently accept your humanness.

Bad news has never been broken gently in my family. Because, breaking it gently takes a few extra seconds. And who's got that kinda time? Hey, we maybe failures, but we are very busy.

With the most infinite tenderness I have ever known in my life, he put his arms around me, gently, gently, and I embraced him around the neck, and we touched.

The eyes of the dead are closed gently; we also have to open gently the eyes of the living.

Polo drifts gently in and out of fashion.

You have to lead people gently toward what they already know is right.

God works powerfully, but for the most part gently and gradually.

I had the great idea of using markers to gently color the ants so I could tell them apart, but I learned that this is exactly like somebody trying to gently color on you with a thirty-story building. Without dwelling on the tragedy, I'd just like to say that I'm deeply sorry to Mr. Purple and the surviving Purple family.

He fell as gently as a tree falls. There was not even any sound.

Compassion is the thing that leads you gently back to yourself.

Smile often. Speak gently. Be kind.

Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows.

There is nothing like an insane asylum for gently incubating death.

Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.

Dirk Gently [from Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency], needs a sidekick, as all good detectives do, and he gets this message from the universe that this guy, Todd Brotzman, played by Elijah Wood, is the guy to help him through this mystery. But of course, that doesn't really explain the breadth of it.

So may he rest, his faults lie gently on him!

Use your power gently.

Old age treats freelance writers pretty gently.