Slappers Quotes

• I don't usually get to play sophisticated women. I usually do the old scrubs, chavs or slappers.

  Sheridan Smith

  Play, Sophisticated

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• Even if you are not ready for day
  it cannot always be night.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Night, Ready, Ifs

  Gwendolyn Brooks, “Speech To The Young: Speech To The Progress-Toward”

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• Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Song, Battle, Ends

  Gwendolyn Brooks, “Speech To The Young: Speech To The Progress-Toward”

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• I'm supposed to be this complete slapper, that's my reputation.

  Sienna Miller

  Reputation, Supposed To Be

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• Become a worry-slapper. Treat frets like mosquitoes. Do you procrastinate when a bloodsucking bug lights on your skin? 'I'll take care of it in a moment.' Of course you don't! You give the critter the slap it deserves. Be equally decisive with anxiety.

  Max Lucado

  Light, Giving, Worry

  Max Lucado (2012). “Fearless: Imagine Your Life Without Fear”, p.49, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Say to them, say to the down-keepers, the sun-slappers, the self-soilers, the harmony-hushers, "Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night." You will be right. For that is the hard home-run. Live not for battles won. Live not for the-end-of-the-song. Live in the along.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Running, Song, Home

  Gwendolyn Brooks, “Speech To The Young: Speech To The Progress-Toward”

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• People have been able to see that as cheeky and as flirty as I am, I am not the dreadful slapper that the press used to portray me as. But it will probably all turn around and people will hate me again in a couple of years.

  Amanda Holden

  Couple, Flirty, Hate

  "Amanda Holden: 'I'm not the slapper the press portrayed me as'". Interview With Lisa O'Kelly, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2011.

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• Some logics get nervous breakdowns. Overloaded phone system behaves like frightened child. Mike did not have upsets, acquired sense of humor instead. Low one. If he were a man, you wouldn't dare stoop over. His idea of thigh-slapper would be to dump you out of bed — or put itch powder in pressure suit.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Children, Men, Phones

  Robert A Heinlein (1966). “Moon Is Harsh Mistres”, Berkley

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• Even healthy families need outside sources of moral guidance to keep those tensions from imploding--and this means, among other things, a public philosophy of gender equality and concern for child welfare. When instead the larger culture aggrandizes wife beaters, degrades women or nods approvingly at child slappers, the family gets a little more dangerous for everyone, and so, inevitably, does the larger world.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Children, Philosophy, Mean

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