Slides Quotes

• Sliding headfirst is the safest way to get to the next base, I think, and the fastest. You don't lose your momentum, and there's one more important reason I slide headfirst, it gets my picture in the paper.

  Pete Rose

  Motivational, Sports, Thinking

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• A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Uplifting, Stars, Self Esteem

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• 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

  Perfect, Here And There, Steps

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• This time, there have been a lot of interesting discussions about the subject matter, and I've had a good time talking about it. And in some of the cases, I'm not just signing books - I'm showing slides and talking about the work

  Leonard Nimoy

  Book, Inspiration, Talking

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• My fear is that I go up to the girl of my dreams and say 'I'm sorry, but I've got to say hello to you,' and she slides the stool back and gets up and walks away, saying, 'Not for me, Bub. I don't want anything to do with you.'

  John Mayer

  Girl, Dream, Sorry

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• Looking back across the years, so many pictures flash on the screen of my memory that just as I begin to see one clearly, another slides in, blotting out the first, itself to be pushed aside by the next and the next and the next.

  Conrad Veidt

  Memories, Years, Next

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• Most regular superhero books are designed to go on forever; of course, very few of them do, but the point is they are trying to throw mud against the wall and hope it will stick, and most of it slides off.

  Garth Ennis

  Wall, Book, Superhero

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• He slides into second with a stand-up double.

  Jerry Coleman

  Baseball, Double Standard

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• How seldom we recognize the sound when the bolt of our fate slides home.

  Thomas Harris

  Home, Fate, Sound

  Thomas Harris (2009). “Red Dragon”, p.13, Penguin

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• You can never pat yourself on the back during the season. Then you get complacent, stop working and let yourself slide.

  Mark Teixeira

  Complacent, Seasons

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• He had never looked forward to the wisdom and other vaunted benefits of old age. Would he be able to die young—and if possible free of all pain? A graceful death—as a richly patterned kimono, thrown carelessly across a polished table, slides unobtrusively down into the darkness of the floor beneath. A death marked by elegance.

  Yukio Mishima

  Pain, Darkness, Age

  Yukio Mishima (1990). “Spring Snow”, Vintage

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• I get scripts all the time, but I read this [Baggage Claim] thoroughly, and I loved it. It was light hearted, cute, sweet, and funny. I told my agent that I liked the script, but I did let my acceptance of the role slide a little, until I was watching television one day; scrolling through the stations, and there was this play. And I don't like plays made for the screen. But, this one, "Suddenly Single", caught my attention.

  Jill Scott

  Cute, Sweet, Acceptance

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• If I sit and daydream, the images rush by like a succession of colored slides.

  Francis Bacon

  Daydreaming, Succession, Ifs

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• The swift years slip and slide adown the steep; The slow years pass; neither will come again.

  William Sharp

  Carpe Diem, Years, Steep

  William Sharp (2015). “The Washer of the Ford: Legendary Moralities and Barbaric Tales”, p.177, Library of Alexandria

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• There is something about the aroma of fresh books that's totally intoxicating. A new book has a certain clean, crisp smell full of promise that is difficult to define. Sort of like the scent and feeling of just-washed bed linens at the moment you slide your legs between them.

  Debra Ginsberg

  Book, Smell, Feelings

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• When I was a little-leaguer, I was sort of famous for stealing bases - and it started only because my mom wanted to be sure where I was in the afternoons. Mom always used to say, "If you don't come home dirty, you didn't play a baseball game." So I always tried to get in a situation where I had to slide so that I could go home dirty.

  Rickey Henderson

  Mom, Baseball, Dirty

  Source: business.highbeam.com

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• Ice in the West Antarctic and over Greenland, i.e., ice that's over a rock at the moment, that will raise the level of the sea as it slides into the ocean, putting at risk everyone and everything that lives on the coasts, and that includes an enormous percentage of the world's people.

  Bill McKibben

  Ocean, Rocks, Ice

  Source: theotherjournal.com

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• Sitting out of politics isn't really an option if you don't want things to slide.

  Alison Pill

  Sitting, Want, Ifs

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• People know, or dimly feel, that if thinking is not kept pure and keen, and if respect for the world of mind is no longer operative, ships and automobiles will soon cease to run right, the engineer's slide rule and the computations of banks and stock exchanges will forfeit validity and authority, and chaos will ensue.

  Hermann Hesse

  Running, Thinking, People

  Hermann Hesse (2002). “The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel”, p.48, Holt Paperbacks

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• But there's a juicy artery in your groin," he said after a pause to regroup, his voice as slithery as a snake on a slide. "Don't you talk dirty," I told him. "I won't listen to that.

  Charlaine Harris

  Dirty, Snakes, Voice

  Charlaine Harris (2001). “Dead Until Dark: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.14, Penguin

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• I am stressed because once I am flattened out so thin to be able to slide under a doorway, I may never be able to ever be unflattened so I could be regular sized again.

  Bob Saget

  Stressed, May, Doorways

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• 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

  Peace, War, Damnation

  Lois McMaster Bujold (1990). “Vorkosigan's Game”

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• Lovers should guard their strangeness. If they forgive too much, all slides into confusion and meanness.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Confusion, Forgiving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.350, Modern Library

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• I have heard of managers who encourage players not to slide hard for fear they will get hurt and be lost from the lineup for a time. That is why you occasionally see a player go into second base on a double-play ball and not even bother to slide. I wonder, could Ty Cobb
  sit though plays like that and hold his lunch?

  Frank Robinson

  Hurt, Player, Lunch

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

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• ...how little our side of the industry did to move its business to the more ethical firms and to make a fuss about conflicted or unethical behavior. Had a number of us moved our business, we might have slowed or even stopped the 30-year slide in conflicted, unethical behavior that we have experienced. I, for one, regret the modest nature of our moves. We all could have done more. We have tolerated a pretty nasty decline in standards. Shame on us.

  Jeremy Grantham

  Regret, Moving, Numbers

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