Slap Quotes - Page 6

• Thumbs grow into my throat.
  I wear slaps like a spot of rouge.

  Anne Sexton

  Thumbs, Assault, Spots

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.264, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Better to have an enemy who slaps you in the face than a friend who stabs you in the back.

  Unknown

  Enemy, Behind Your Back

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• The film The Last Temptation of Christ, no matter what its defenders say, was a slap in the face to Christians everywhere.

  Mickey Rooney

  Christian, Religious, Temptation

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• Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

  Thomas Watson

  Inspirational, Mistake, Educational

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• Swing your partner, dosey-do, now clap your hands... uh-oh, that's all the square dance moves I know... I'll bluff the rest. Slap your partner in the face, Write bad checks all over the place, Flirt with strangers, annoy your spouse, Get a divorce and lose your house, ...uh... dosey-do.

  Scott Adams

  Moving, Divorce, Writing

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• Champagne's funny stuff. I'm used to whiskey. Whiskey is a slap on the back, and champagne's a heavy mist before my eyes.

  James Stewart

  Eye, Scotch, Stuff

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• Some of the people who are now manipulating photos, such as Andreas Gursky, make the argument - rightly - that the 'straight' photographs of the 1940s and 50s were no such thing. Ansell Adams would slap a red filter on his lens, then spend three days burning and dodging in the dark room, making his prints. That's a manipulation. Even the photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson, with all due respect to him, are notoriously burned and dodged.

  Joel Sternfeld

  Dark, People, Filters

  "False witness" by Charlotte Higgins, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2004.

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• I am the wound and the knife!
  I am the slap and the cheek!
  I am the limbs and the rack,
  And the victim and the executioner!
  I am the vampire of my own heart.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Heart, Knives, Self

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• If you want to build a car, you don't slap a bunch of iron ore, some sand, a rubber tree, and a couple of cows together and call it good

  Patricia C. Wrede

  Couple, Iron, Car

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• I adapt to things quickly, including good things, which I wish I could shut off sometimes. My friends have to keep reminding me how crazy my life has become, and then it hits me fresh and I just slap my forehead and think, "Wait, what... ?"

  Isaac Marion

  Crazy, Thinking, Waiting

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I've had my run in with trouble. Fortunately, you know, one slap on the hand is usually the last time for me... I learned my lesson.

  Aaron Carter

  Running, Hands, Lessons

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• Sometimes I have wished my insults were slaps or lashes; I've wanted to hit people in the face and make them see, if only for a day, what I see each day I help people.

  Evita Peron

  People, Each Day, Faces

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• The worst possible thing ... was to lie dead in the water with any problem. Solve it, solve it quickly ... If you solved it wrong, it would come back and slap you in the face, and then you could solve it right.

  Thomas Watson, Jr.

  Lying, Water, Faces

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• I always try to remember that praise and a slap on your back is only 6 inches away from a kick up the arse!

  Anthony Foley

  Trying, Arses, Remember

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• I would decriminalize marijuana, but you step out of your house high and you bother somebody else in any way, shape or form, I'm going to slap a fine on you that's going to curl your hair!

  Bill O'Reilly

  Marijuana, Hair, House

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• What I wanted to do was slap him down a bit with wit and words. Grammar and vocabulary as a weapon. But what kind of world would it be if we all took every opportunity presented to us to assault the weak?

  Charles Frazier

  Life, Opportunity, Vocabulary

  Charles Frazier (2006). “Thirteen Moons: A Novel”, p.236, Random House

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• You could slap his wrist for saying it, but then he said it with his face, and you could spank him for making faces, but then he said it with his eyes, and there were limits to correction-no way, in the end, to penetrate behind the blue irises and eradicate a boy's disgust.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Eye, Boys, Blue

  Jonathan Franzen (2001). “The Corrections: A Novel”, p.263, Macmillan

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• Just slap something on it when you see a blank canvas staring at you with a sort of imbecility.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Canvas, Blank, Staring

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• I've got such a disgusting, wide, smug grin on my face all the time that my friends just want to slap me. I've never been so happy.

  Holly Valance

  Want, Faces, Disgusting

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• I shampoo only once a week or so, with tree tea oil shampoo. And when I slap moisturizer on my face - just some stuff I bought in the grocery store - I pile it through my hair.

  Billy Campbell

  Hair, Oil, Tree

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Kissing's a very organic and mechanical process. It's like a slap. You slap your co-star once and it's done.

  Alia Bhatt

  Stars, Kissing, Done

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• Never fear Death for you will feel aroused by his sleep. Never cheat death or he will slap you with a sentence of misery for the defeat.

  Suzy Kassem

  Sleep, Misery, Defeat

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• With charm you’ve got to get up close to see it; style slaps you in the face.

  John Cooper Clarke

  Style, Faces, Get Up

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• You know with a bully you cannot let them slap you around, because they slap you around today, they slap you five or six times tomorrow. We are not going to be bullied.

  Harry Reid

  Bully, Today, Six

  "House, Senate Stay Faithful To Their Measures". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, David Greene, www.npr.org. October 1, 2013.

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• When you see a handwritten envelope addressed to you in your packet of mail when you get your mail out of the mailbox - when you see a personal letter waiting for you - it's exciting. It touches you. You say "Oh, somebody really thought of me and didn't just slap a mailing label across an envelope. Somebody wrote something to me."

  Martha Williamson

  Waiting, Labels, Letters

  "'Touched by an Angel' producer Martha Williamson has “Delivered” a new hit to Hallmark Channel". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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