Slides famous quotes
04-15-2025
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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
-- Abraham Verghese -
Still follow sense, of ev'ry art the soul, Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole.
-- Alexander Pope -
One of the things I find very difficult about theatre is the repetition - that something can slide away from your original intentions.
-- Ben Whishaw -
There are really only three things to learn in skiing: how to put on your skis, how to slide downhill, and how to walk along the hospital corridor.
-- Benjamin Mancroft, 3rd Baron Mancroft -
I could feel myself begin to recede, to tip and lose balance, slide toward the deeper darkness that had crept from outside
-- Bryan Mealer -
No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
Slide slide slippity-slide When you're living in a city it's do or die
-- Coolio -
Stories are propaganda, virii that slide past your critical immune system and insert themselves directly into your emotions.
-- Cory Doctorow -
I seem to be able to just sort of sink and slide under the radar, which is nice.
-- Daniel Cudmore -
God cannot be found on a microscopic slide, but in the hearts of men.
-- Edgar Magnin -
There are many true statements about complex topics that are too long to fit on a PowerPoint slide.
-- Edward Tufte -
He...boasted an unassuming mustache, which was perched atop his upper lip cautiously, as though it were slightly embarrassed to be there and would like to slide away and become a sideburn or something more fashionable.
-- Gail Carriger -
Yeah, I'm going to need a leather jacket for when I'm on my hog and need to go into a controlled slide.
-- George Michael -
Don't show up late. Don't try to slide out early. Don't cheat your rep counts. And definitely, don't hold back. Leave it all in the gym!
-- Gunnar Peterson -
Professor Brown: 'Since this slide was made,' he opined, 'My students have re-examined the errant points and I am happy to report that all fall close to the [straight] line.' Questioner: 'Professor Brown, I am delighted that the points which fell off the line proved, on reinvestigation, to be in compliance. I wonder, however, if you have had your students reinvestigate all these points that previously fell on the line to find out how many no longer do so?'
-- Herbert C. Brown -
The greatest sin a coach can commit is to allow kids to slide by. This goes for the classroom as well as the court
-- Hubie Brown -
You said he was a soldier. You don't suppose...?" "Oh, Gods." Ignata blinked. "You think something could be wrong down there?" All of them looked at William, who chose this precise moment to slide the wet shirt back on his back, which required him to flex, raising his arms. "That would be a shame," Cerise murmured.
-- Ilona Andrews -
Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, and it's hard to find out when one slides into another.
-- Iris Chang -
No matter what heights you achieve, even if you're Brad Pitt, the slide is coming, sure as death and taxes.
-- James Caan -
The afternoon and the early evening slide by in a lidded daze where the ability to think in any identifiable way disappears and where every moment seems to be an eternity.
-- James Frey -
For one thing, she pronounced flowers 'flars' and I couldn't let it slide.
-- James Thurber -
The last time I saw a brow that low I was watching slides in anthropology class
-- Jennifer Crusie -
He slides into second with a stand-up double.
-- Jerry Coleman -
I never just slide through anything. I explore everything to the fullest, whether good or bad.
-- Jessica Lange -
Your readers should be so compelled to read your copy that they cannot stop reading until they read all of it as if sliding down a slippery slide.
-- Joseph Sugarman -
The beautiful thing about when you go through a slide is that you learn from it. Not just saying that you learn from it, but applying the things that you have learned.
-- Kevin Garnett -
War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.
-- Lois McMaster Bujold -
Looking at him like that, I felt like I needed something from him, or somebody, and that probably meant that he also needed something from me, or somebody, but the revelation was like looking at spots on a slide. Knowing that it meant something to somebody wasn't the same as it meaning something to you.
-- Maggie Stiefvater -
How easy it is, treachery. You just slide into it.
-- Margaret Atwood -
Those who live alone slide into the habit of vertical eating: why bother with the niceties when there's no one to share or censure? But laxity in one area may lead to derangement in all.
-- Margaret Atwood -
An expert is just somebody from out of town with slides.
-- Naomi Judd -
Nobody's perfect. Everyone slides here and there, and they have their ups and downs. When they are down, that is not the time to step all over them.
-- Neal Schon -
Ever since I turned 22, I've grown weaker. I think I'm going to die after riding a slide once.
-- Onew -
When I present or speak, I write the slides myself. And regarding time, I would like to be able to publish more than I do.
-- Padmasree Warrior -
When you're a kid, all you really care about are Slurpees and Slip N Slide and riding your bike, and that's what I did.
-- Pauly Shore -
... everyone young going down the long slide To happiness, endlessly.
-- Philip Larkin -
Shallow brooks murmur most, deep and silent slide away.
-- Philip Sidney -
It's really easy to slide into a depression fueled by the pointlessness of existence.
-- Robert Smith -
A grieving person's like a person treading in deep water--if they've nothing to hold on to, they lose hope. They slide right under.
-- Susanna Kearsley -
I curl up, make myself smaller, try to disappear entirely. Wrapped in silence, I slide my bracelet that reads 'mentally disoriented' around and around my wrist.
-- Suzanne Collins -
How seldom we recognize the sound when the bolt of our fate slides home.
-- Thomas Harris -
Eighteen thousand miles from the moon is some slide, but I'll get up there again some way!
-- Winsor McCay -
Sitting out of politics isn't really an option if you don't want things to slide.
-- Alison Pill -
I know that I reached a point where I wasn't going to let the nonsense happening before me slide anymore.
-- Ariana Madix -
In the '70s, anybody who was a connoisseur of collecting vinyl had the velvet brush. Remember the velvet brush? It would clean the record, and you would only grab the record from the sides and you would carefully slide it into the jacket. I never had a velvet brush.
-- Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five -
I will never slide, never fall, never fail.
-- Aaron Dontez Yates -
Beware the lessons of a fighter pilot who would rather fly a slide rule than kick your ass!
-- Ron McKeown -
The swift years slip and slide adown the steep; The slow years pass; neither will come again.
-- William Sharp -
Customers and contracts are like water and a sieve. The customer will find the largest hole and slide through it.
-- Larry McVoy -
My activism has to do with my conscience; I cannot let certain things slide without doing something. My public speaking is part of an art form that is cultural.
-- Lee Maracle
