Top 156 Loosely Quotes & Sayings

Hold loosely to the things of this life, so that if God requires them of you, it will be easy to let them go.

My favorite of my books is DAVE AT NIGHT, because it's loosely based on my father's childhood in an orphanage.

A critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.

You have to understand when you're organizing with women of color, you can't use words like 'marginalized' and 'second-class citizen' loosely.

I have learned to hold all things loosely, so God will not have to pry them out of my hands.

Sit loosely in the saddle.

I promptly said that life was a random series of beautifully composed vignettes, loosely tied together by a string of characters and time.

Christianity, Judaism and Islam all share a gospel, loosely, and it's important that we all realize that.

The way the moon dashes through clouds that blow Loosely as cannon-smoke... Is a reminder of the strength and pain Of being young; that it can't come again, But is for others undiminished somewhere.

Works for me. For the ones we love, today we’re allies. Tomorrow we resume our natural order of mortal enemies. Gentlemen, and I use that term loosely for all of us, have we an accord? (Acheron)

The happiest people I know are the ones who have learned how to hold everything loosely and have given the worrisome, stress-filled, fearful details of their lives into God's keeping.

[Donald] Trump is a fascist and that`s not a term I use loosely or often but he has earned it.

My mom was a psychic. And there's a movie called The Gift that I'd written years ago with Cate Blanchett which is loosely based on my mom.

A picture of my existence... would show a useless wooden stake covered in snow... stuck loosely at a slant in the ground in a ploughed field on the edge of a vast open plain on a dark winter night.

I am now writing a book called 'Far Enough,' very loosely based on my childhood. This is difficult because it forces me to remember people I loved who are gone.

If a person uses the word 'sorry' loosely then of course it loses its value.

I always like when things are loosely based on real events. That always makes it more interesting because there's a lot of research you can do.

There is something inhuman and vaguely pornographic about statistics... Pornography, on the other hand, with its loosely bound sequences of storyless sexual couplings often has the feel of a statistical survey.

Writers are a loosely knit community - community is an overstated word. Writers don't see each other very much.

I conceived 'All Is Song' as a modernised, loosely interpreted version of Socrates's life.

Whatever you are holding onto in this life, hold it loosely so it won’t hurt when the Lord has to pry your fingers open to take it away.

I believe managing is like holding a dove in your hand. If you hold it too tightly you kill it, but if you hold it too loosely, you lose it.

I have a problem with people who take the Constitution loosely and the Bible literally.

I've accrued a kind of patience, I believe, loosely like change.

When I say 'friends,' I use that term loosely, as I don't actually have any.

People are certainly impressed by the aura of creative power which a writer may wear, but can easily demolish it with a few well-chosen questions. Bob Shaw has observed that the deadliest questions usually come as a pair: "Have you published anything?" - loosely translated as: I've never heard of you - and "What name do you write under?" - loosely translatable as: I've definitely never heard of you.

A real friendship is a light thing. A real friend holds you loosely.

The term "genius" gets used far too loosely in rock & roll.

He that uses his words loosely and unsteadily will either not be minded or not understood.

In L.A., being an actor is like a pastime, everybody there is like, "I was on this reality show; I'm an actor." It becomes a word that is loosely thrown around.

The hardest thing usually to leave behind, as was the case now, can loosely be called the conscience.

Strong line quality, composition and form are more crucial although even this is loosely done.

I always like when things [movies] are loosely based on real events. That always makes it more interesting because there's a lot of research you can do.

The relationship between talent — a term loosely applied to those who work on-air — and management is uneasy, at best.

loosely bound By countless silken ties of love and thought To everything on earth the compass round

Part of any acquisition process is what's loosely called 'due diligence.' Taking both technical and legal forms, it's the snooping around an acquiring company does to make sure it's actually getting what it thinks it is.

Films that rely on their cast to be funny are often episodic and feel like a series of loosely connected sketches rather than a satisfyingly structured script.

I think people loosely use the term 'free speech.' If the market wants to be such that people don't want to watch someone, so be it.

When I was in college, I became interested in various aspects of foreign policy and international relations. Even as a kid, I was interested in what I call, loosely speaking, forbidden knowledge.

The bottom-up, loosely-coupled, bilateral and multi-stakeholder practices that have created the network of networks we call the Internet allow for a broad range of business models.

When men were all asleep the snow came flying, In large white flakes falling on the city brown, Stealthily and perpetually settling and loosely lying, Hushing the latest traffic of the drowsy town.

The bow kept taut will quickly break, kept loosely strung, it will serve you when you need it.

Steady faith is stronger than destiny. Destiny is the result of causes, mostly accidental, and is therefore loosely woven. Confidence and good hope will overcome it easily.

Learn to hold loosely all that is not eternal.

Strong ideas, loosely held. That's the path to success.

We play our Irish songs a bit more loosely.

A lot of the evidence and some of the events you see in LA Justice are loosely based on real-life cases.

When you use words loosely, without care and consideration, you erode trust in yourself and in what you're saying. When you squander words, you diminish your power.

[The US] budget is dominated by the retirement programs, Social Security and Medicare - loosely speaking, the post-cold-war federal government is a big pension fund that also happens to have an army.

Talk of unusual swell of waist In maid of honor loosely laced.

When I was a graduate student in computer science in the early 2000s, computers were barely able to detect sharp edges in photographs, let alone recognize something as loosely defined as a human face.

I don't know if I'd want to do that anymore, because you always get bigger laughs on college campuses. So, when the film plays in front of a city audience, you've probably cut too loosely.

I used to do a show in New York that was loosely based around celebrity impersonations. I know what it takes to embody someone.

I was loosely aware that most of my characters were fundamentally selfish people, but I didn't intentionally make that a theme.

I’m not club-able, you see. I don’t like literary parties and literary gatherings and literary identities. I’d hate to join anything, however loosely.

I live for the Red Sox. I thoroughly enjoy them. For whatever reason, baseball has been a lot more fun for me in recent years. I loosely follow the Patriots and I root for them. I loosely follow the Celtics and then it gets to playoff time and I don't miss a game. Same with the Bruins. I'm not the diehard fan anymore.

The habit of expressing loosely organized opinions is one of the most destructive of habits.

Although there are countless tangents that a career in the building arts can take, it is nonetheless most unusual for a major architectural practice to emerge once a firm's principals are well into what is loosely called middle age.

Though it is a team game by definition, it is actually a series of loosely connected individual efforts.

It's extremely difficult to say what one actually means by 'sculpture' other than, in a provisional sense, it's something that goes on the floor or a pedestal, and loosely applies to a certain history of the use of that term.