Somewhat Quotes

Painting is the intermediate somewhat between a thought and a thing. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Isn't it true that the fault of birth rests somewhat on the child? I believe it's we who led our parents on to bear us, and it's our unborn children who make our flesh itch. View quote
T. E. Lawrence
I think theatre should always be somewhat suspect. View quote
Václav Havel
They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse. View quote
Emily Dickinson
Mars is essentially in the same orbit. Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If there is oxygen, then w. View quote
Dan Quayle
... it is true that a mathematician who is not somewhat of a poet, will never be a perfect mathematician. View quote
Karl Weierstrass
The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing. View quote
Thomas Aquinas
Philosophers are never quite sure what they are talking about - about what the issues really are - and so often it takes them rather a long time to recognize that someone with a somewhat different approach (or destination, or starting point) is making a contribution. View quote
Daniel Dennett
His courtesy was somewhat extravagant. He would write and thank people who wrote to thank him for wedding presents and when he encountered anyone as punctilious as himself the correspondence ended only with death. View quote
Evelyn Waugh
One is led to conclude that economics as a scientific discipline is still somewhat hanging in the air. (Tjalling Koopmans)
One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors for to dwell long upon them is to add to the offense, and repentance and sorrow can only be displaced by somewhat better, and which is as free and original as if they had not been. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
As a novelist, I have a somewhat higher soapbox to stand on than most people do when it comes to talking back to the merchants of fear. View quote
L. Neil Smith
Repeated reflection and inquiry have led me to the somewhat novel opinion, that value depends entirely upon utility. View quote
William Stanley Jevons
What is called music today is all too often only a disguise for the monologue of power. However, and this is the supreme irony of it all, never before have musicians tried so hard to communicate with their audience, and never before has that communication been so deceiving. Music now seems hardly more than a somewhat clumsy excuse for the self-glorification of musicians and the growth of a new industrial sector. View quote
Jacques Attali
In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewhat indefinite, conventional standard of wealth. View quote
Thorstein Veblen
I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion. View quote
Albert Einstein
If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world. View quote
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Anything you're trying to will is focused on the future; it's always associated with some sort of anxiety that makes the present moment somewhat uncomfortable. View quote
Martha Beck
A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius. View quote
Charles Cooley
I regarded drugs as somewhat like rattlesnakes - it's possible to pick one up without getting bit, but why bother? (Elizabeth Moon)
I was somewhat out of place among my classmates; I could not be as bohemian as they were. View quote
Erno Rubik
You write it down because finally, when it's written down you do get it out of your system somewhat. View quote
Leo Ornstein
Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence. When they feel threatened, they want a lot of it, and when they don't, they regard the whole thing as somewhat immoral. View quote
Vernon A. Walters
I moved to New England partly because it has a real literary past. The ghosts of Hawthorne and Melville still sit on those green hills. The worship of Mammon is also somewhat lessened there by the spirit of irony. I don't get hay fever in New England either. View quote
John Updike