Slick Quotes

• I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Life, Hate, Water

  Tallulah Bankhead (1952). “Tallulah: My Autobiography”, p.2, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I've gone for each type: the rough guy; the nerdy, sweet, lovable guy; and the slick guy. I don't really have a type. Men in general are a good thing.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Sweet, Men, Guy

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• Somebody just gave me a shower radio. Thanks a lot. Do you really want music in the shower? I guess there's no better place to dance than a slick surface next to a glass door.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Funny, Music, Humorous

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• We were told our campaign wasn't sufficiently slick. We regard that as a compliment.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Campaigns, Compliment, Regard

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.

  Bette Davis

  Hero, People, Giving

  Bette Davis (1962). “The lonely life: an autobiography”, Putnam's

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• Cats are the lap-dancers of the animal world. Soon as you stop shelling out, they move on, find another lap. They're furry little sociopaths. Pretty and slick -- in love with themselves. When's the last time you saw a seeing-eye cat?

  Andrew Vachss

  Moving, Cat, Eye

  Andrew Vachss (2001). “Safe House”, p.244, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• The most obvious and easiest answer if you've got a head injury is a better helmet. The problem is there's no evidence that it is the answer. I've watched a couple equipment manufacturers make presentations. They're very slick. They're very well done. And they usually start with the same disclaimer: there is no evidence that helmets reduce the frequency of concussions. You come away going "isn't this amazing?" It's so amazing you forget the opening line, that it doesn't do anything. It has no impact on concussions.

  Ken Dryden

  Couple, Done, Forget

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• We live in a day of slick, quiet and clever sins.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Clever, Quiet, Sin

  Ezra Taft Benson (1964). “Title of liberty”

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• It can pay off, being a hack. Given the depraved state of American culture, a slick dude can make millions being a hack. But even if you succeed, you lose, because you’ve sold out your Muse, and your Muse is you, the best part of yourself, where your finest and only true work comes from.

  Steven Pressfield

  Succeed, Culture, Pay

  "The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles". Book by Steven Pressfield, 2002.

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• Usually I think if there is something imperfect in a photograph it makes the picture more real. Photographs that are slick, smooth, and imperfect seem less honest to me.

  John Loengard

  Real, Thinking, Honest

  John Loengard (1987). “Pictures under discussion”, Amphoto Books

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• I'm not slick. I'm not polished. I think my strength is in reacting.

  Billy Bush

  Thinking, Reacting, Polished

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I am always making sketches of how information should look or mapping out a marketing campaign. When I present my notes, people start responding to them. Desktop publishing makes everything look slick. When you present sketches, it helps start the dialogue and collaboration.

  John Katzman

  People, Marketing, Collaboration

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• I regret that I didn’t realize that actually they’ve got no power over you at school — it’s all just a trick to indoctrinate you into being a conditioned, tame, placid citizen. Rebel, children, I urge you, fight the turgid slick of conformity with which they seek to smother your glory.

  Russell Brand

  Children, Regret, School

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• There you go...let it all slide out. Unhappiness can't stick in a person's soul when it's slick with tears.

  Shannon Hale

  Sad, Soul, Tears

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• I didn't want to look like anyone else - like Janis Joplin or Grace Slick. That's why I never went to any of the big designers.

  Stevie Nicks

  Grace, Looks, Want

  "Stevie Nicks: Wild at Heart" by Christine Lennon, www.harpersbazaar.com. April 19, 2011.

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• I have friends and illustrators who can't stand drawing on the Cintiq. [A graphic pad tablet used by digital animators] There's a certain tension and friction when you draw on paper that they miss. The tablet is very slick. It's like drawing on glass. But that didn't bother me at all.

  Don Hertzfeldt

  Glasses, Drawing, Missing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Just concentrate on the performers. Make sure you get the performers, and that's it. That's all we need to do." And I was thinking, "Well what if you do both? Of course the performance is important, the writing is really important. But what if you could have the perfect marriage of making it look really slick as well?" I think that's kind of what I tried to develop as a style, and Spaced was the first TV show I did where all the elements came together.

  Edgar Wright

  Writing, Thinking, Tv Shows

  "Nick Frost, Simon Pegg, and Edgar Wright of Hot Fuzz". Interview with Keith Phipps, film.avclub.com. April 18, 2007.

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• Nature is often overlooked as a healing balm for the emotional hardships in a child's life. You'll likely never see a slick commercial for nature therapy, as you do for the latest antidepressant pharmaceuticals. But parents, educators, and health workers need to know what a useful antidote to emotional and physical stress nature can be. Especially now.

  Richard Louv

  Children, Stress, Healing

  Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.45, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Some labeled Jerry Falwell an American version of the Ayatollah Khomeni. People for the American Way, a group organized to counter the Moral Majority, launched a slick media campaign attaching the Nazi slur to the religious right.

  Charles Colson

  Christian, Religious, Media

  Charles Colson (1992). “Inspirational Writings of Charles Colson”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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• A lot of writers tired of doing kind of hip, slick, funny, dark, exploding hypocrisy, underlining once again the point that life is a farce and we're all in it for ourselves and that the point of life is to amass as much money/fame/sexual gratification, you know, whatever your personal thing is, and that everything else is just glitter or PR image - that we're tired of sort of doing that stuff over and over again.

  David Foster Wallace

  Tired, Dark, Hypocrisy

  Source: news.stlpublicradio.org

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• I just like music that sounds like music. Not like machines and computers and things that you design to make things sound slick and perfect.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Perfect, Design, Sound

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• You take 5 white guys and you take 5 black guys and put em together for a week and what you won't have is 5 blacks guys talking like, 'Golly gee, we really won that big basketball game' but you will have 5 white guys talking like 'Yo slick, whuzzup...we be shootin hoops and mad playin, slammed those mofos

  George Carlin

  Basketball, Talking, Games

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• I sat on the bed. Neither of us said anything. I wasn't slick and sophisticated enough for this. What do you say to boyfriend A when he finds you naked in the bed of boyfriend B? Especially if boyfriend A turned into a monster the night before and ate someone. I bet Miss Manners didn't cover this at all.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Sex, Night, Missing

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• I drive him to school, then I break back into Barron's house. I'm the best kind of thief, the kind that leaves behind items equal in value to those he's stolen. Then I go home and shave until my skin is as slick as any slickster's.

  Holly Black

  School, Home, House

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• Oh well, maybe the only beauty left in cities is in the oil slicks on the road and maybe there isn't any beauty left in the people who live in these places.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Cities, Oil, People

  Rita Mae Brown (2014). “Rubyfruit Jungle”, p.200, Bantam

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