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• Jesus is still up in Heaven, thumbing through his Bible, going 'Where did I say build a water slide?'

  Sam Kinison

  Jesus, Water, Heaven

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• I didn't know that you were supposed to tune the guitar to an open chord, and I learned to play slide with a normal tuning. I think it's a little more melodic that way and doesn't sound so bluesy. Of course, if I could play like David Lindley or Ry Cooder, I'd be a happy man!

  Ken Hensley

  Men, Thinking, Guitar

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• What I've discovered is that in art, as in music, there's a lot of truth-and then there's a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It's the moment that the audience falls in love.

  Lady Gaga

  Falling In Love, Art, Lying

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• I have a sliding glass door on my closet, and when I slide it one way I can see all my uniforms, and the other way is all my own clothes.

  Elle Fanning

  Clothes, Glasses, Doors

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• If somebody takes the parking place you were waiting for, I tend to kind of let it roll off my back. Maybe I'm harboring a lot of something and it will all explode somewhere down the road, but I tend to just let it slide off my back.

  Steve Carell

  Waiting, Kind, Parking

  "Steve Carell taps into his inner super-villain in 'Despicable Me'". Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.hollywoodnews.com. June 29, 2010.

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• Oh, how precious is time, and how it pains me to see it slide away, while I do so little to any good purpose.

  David Brainerd

  Time, Pain, Purpose

  Jonathan Edwards, David Brainerd (1807). “The Works of President Edwards;: Narrative of conversions. Life and diary of the Rev. David Brainerd. Mr. Brainerd's journal. Mr. Brainerd's remains”, p.246

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• I thought deeply about this. I ended up concluding that the worst thing that could possibly happen as we get big and as we get a little more influence in the world is if we change our core values and start letting it slide, I can't do that. I'd rather quit.

  Steve Jobs

  World, Littles, Quitting

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• I don't want to read what is going to slide down easily; there has to be some crunch, a certain amount of resilience.

  John Ashbery

  Resilience, Want, Crunch

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• His eyes glow in the shadows as he slides the soft liquid semen dripping down my thigh in a path leading back into my swollen entry, as if he doesn't want to come out of my body. "Sticky?" he asks in a gruff murmur, bending his head and licking my shoulder as he pushes his semen back inside with one finger.

  Katy Evans

  Eye, Shadow, Licking

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• His fingers never ceased to amaze me. They could break a man's neck, bandage a wound, and slide sensually across bare skin.

  Richelle Mead

  Men, Skins, Necks

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.1332, Penguin

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• In general, I would think that at present prose writers are much in advance of the poets. In the old days, I read more poetry than prose, but now it is in prose where you find things being put together well, where there is great ambition, and equal talent. Poets have gotten so careless, it is a disgrace. You can’t pick up a page. All the words slide off.

  William H. Gass

  Ambition, Thinking, Together

  "William Gass, The Art of Fiction No. 65". Interview with Thomas LeClair, www.theparisreview.org. Summer 1977.

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• I was perpetually grief-stricken when I finished a book, and would slide down from my sitting position on the bed, put my cheek on the pillow and sigh for a long time. It seemed there would never be another book. It was all over, the book was dead. It lay in its bent cover by my hand. What was the use? Why bother dragging the weight of my small body down to dinner? Why move? Why breathe? The book had left me, and there was no reason to go on.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Grief, Moving, Book

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• We never do what we wish when we wish it, and when we desire a thing earnestly, and it does arrive, that or we are changed, so that we slide from the summit of our wishes and find ourselves where we were.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Wish, Desire, Doe

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Betty T. Bennett (1980). “The Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: "A part of the elect."”, Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c1980-c1988.

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• And the joys I've felt have not always been joyous. I could have lived differently. When I was your age, my grandfather bought me a ruby bracelet. It as too big for me an would slide up and down my arm. It was almost a necklace. He later told me that he had asked the jeweler make that way. Its size was supposed to be a symbol of his love. More rubies, more love. But I could not wear it comfortably. I could not wear it at all. So here is the point of everything I have been trying to say. IF I were to give a bracelet to you, now, I would measure your wrist twice

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Giving, Joy, Grandfather

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• rain slowly slides down the glass as if the night is crying.

  Patricia Cornwell

  Rain, Science, Night

  Patricia Cornwell (2009). “Four Scarpetta Novels”, p.415, Penguin

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• Every human being on the face of the earth has a steel plate in his head, but if you lie down now and then and get still as you can, it will slide open like elevator doors, letting in all the secret thoughts that have been standing around so patiently, pushing the button for a ride to the top. The real troubles in life happen when those hidden doors stay closed for too long.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Real, Lying, Doors

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• I wouldn't mind if the consumer culture went poof! overnight because then we'd all be in the same boat and life wouldn't be so bad, mucking about with the chickens and feudalism and the like. But you know what would be absolutely horrible. The worst? ... If, as we were all down on earth wearing rags and husbanding pigs inside abandoned Baskin-Robbins franchises, I were to look up in the sky and see a jet -- with just one person inside even -- I'd go berserk. I'd go crazy. Either everyone slides back into the Dark Ages or no one does.

  Douglas Coupland

  Crazy, Dark, Pigs

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• One by one, drops fell from her eyes like they were on an assembly line - gather, fall, slide...gather, fall, slide...each one commemorating something she had lost. Hope. Faith. Confidence. Pride. Security. Trust. Independence. Joy. Beauty. Freedom. Innocence.

  Lisi Harrison

  Fall, Eye, Pride

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• Introduction To Poetry I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide or press an ear against its hive. I say drop a mouse into a poem and watch him probe his way out, or walk inside the poem's room and feel the walls for a light switch. I want them to waterski across the surface of a poem waving at the author's name on the shore. But all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with rope and torture a confession out of it. They begin beating it with a hose to find out what it really means.

  Billy Collins

  Wall, Mean, Names

  Billy Collins (2014). “The Apple That Astonished Paris: Poems”, p.58, University of Arkansas Press

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• One of the things I find very difficult about theatre is the repetition - that something can slide away from your original intentions.

  Ben Whishaw

  Theatre, Intention, Repetition

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

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• Of course that was my idol, Son House. I think he did a lot for the Mississippi slide down there.

  Muddy Waters

  Son, Thinking, Idols

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• Those who walk, run, or slide downhill eagerly would rather not think about the long, hard climb back up the hill again.

  Goswami Kriyananda

  Running, Thinking, Long

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• His fingers slide into my hair, and I hold on to his arms to stay steady as we press together like two blades at a stalemate. He is stronger than anyone I know, and warmer than anyone else realizes; he is a secret that I have kept, and will keep for the rest of my life.

  Veronica Roth

  Hair, Two, Secret

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• I always say, 'If you can't give a reason for the banana peel being in the alley, then don't have the comic slide over it.' Do you understand what I mean? First explain how the banana peel got there quickly. And then there's a reason for all the comedy.

  Elaine Stritch

  Mean, Giving, Firsts

  "Interview: Elaine Stritch from ’30 Rock’". FanBolt Interview, www.fanbolt.com. May 7, 2010.

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• The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Wisdom, Communication

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