Slips Quotes - Page 27

• We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Unity, Together, Backwards

  Address Upon Taking the Oath of the U.S. Presidency, delivered 9 August 1974 East Room of the White House, Washington, D.C.

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• I am not trying to be young again. But I do feel the need to capture that energy in story form before it slips from my mind, to recount those adventures if not relive them.

  Jon Weisman

  Adventure, Mind, Trying

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• For me, the greatest source of frustration was trying to work with a willful child when there was something else I wanted - say, to get the child to go to bed so I could have my own time. Just the promise of the time, and feeling that promise slip away, was enough to introduce a whole other element of stress into the encounter.

  Carolyn Hax

  Children, Stress, Frustration

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• I think if you look after yourself on a regular basis, and do the prep beforehand, you don't need to put lots of effort into looking good. It's about finding the right balance - if you have a good diet, drink lots of water, exercise regularly and sleep, you won't look bad on a regular basis. Then you can afford the occasional naughty slip up once in a while, going out and having a delicious glass of wine with friends, having a great laugh and chat then realizing its 2am isn't so bad - you've put in the hard work!

  Cat Deeley

  Hard Work, Wine, Sleep

  "Cat Deeley: Water babe! The presenter shares her beauty secrets on the set of an amazing underwater photoshoot". Interview with Toni Jones, www.dailymail.co.uk. December 27, 2012.

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• While I'm at second slip I'm not just thinking of what I'm going to have for tea. I'm considering the match as well, wondering how I can help, if there is anything I can offer.

  Andrew Flintoff

  Thinking, Tea, Helping

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• My name is indigenous to my country, it is not easy to pronounce, it takes effort to say correctly and I am absolutely in love with the sound of it and its meaning. Also, it's not the kind of name you baby, slip into sweet talk mid sentence, late night phone conversation, whisper into the receiver kind of name, so, of that I am glad.

  Warsan Shire

  Country, Sweet, Baby

  Source: kalamu.com

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• I must know, he thinks. It must be clear to me. There is a world which is closed to him, a world of shadings, gradations, nuances, and subtleties. He is a genius and yet he is too explicit. June slips between his fingers. You cannot posses without loving.

  Anais Nin

  Thinking, June, Genius

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• Death comes to me again, a girl in a cotton slip, barefoot, giggling. It’s not so terrible she tells me, not like you think, all darkness and silence. There are windchimes and the smell of lemons, some days it rains, but more often the air is dry and sweet. I sit beneath the staircase built from hair and bone and listen to the voices of the living. I like it, she says, shaking the dust from her hair, especially when they fight, and when they sing.

  Dorianne Laux

  Girl, Sweet, Rain

  Dorianne Laux (2000). “Smoke: poems”, BOA Editions Ltd.

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• Reality is, you know, the tip of an iceberg of irrationality that we've managed to drag ourselves up onto for a few panting moments before we slip back into the sea of the unreal.

  Terence McKenna

  Reality, Sea, Moments

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• Just because of that one disastrous blind date she had last year, where the guy turned out to be fifty-nine, not thirty-nine (He claimed it was a typo. Yeah, I’m sure his finger just happened to slip two spaces to the left).

  Sophie Kinsella

  Years, Two, Space

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• She could smell the boy spice beneath the thrift-store aroma of his jacket, and the rubbing and the smell began to work to soften her -- like butter before you add sugar, in the first steps of making something sweet. It was her first experience of how bodies could meld together, how breath could slip naturally into rhythm. It was hypnotic. Heady. And she wanted more.

  Laini Taylor

  Sweet, Boys, Smell

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• Not enough," he said, letting her hair slip through his fingers. "If I kiss you all day, everyday, for the rest of my life, it won't be enough.

  Cassandra Clare

  Kissing, Hair, Everyday

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “City of Lost Souls”, p.530, Simon and Schuster

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• It may seem that every time someone offers you a hand up, they just let go and you slip further down.

  Jay Asher

  Letting Go, Hands, May

  Jay Asher (2011). “Thirteen Reasons Why”, p.145, Penguin

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• Under every burden, .....God will slip His hand. Every gulf of sorrow, .....His great love has spanned, Into every heart-ache, .....God will our His balm: Ease the pain and anguish, .....bring a blessed calm.

  Frances J Roberts

  Pain, Blessed, Heart

  Frances J. Roberts (2009). “Come Away My Beloved Updated”, p.98, Barbour Publishing

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• There's several ways to be a journalist. One way is to be combative and take the person to task and what you have is a portrait of somebody defending themselves, which is interesting. The other thing is to slip into their world and really be a representative for all the people that love the experience of that artist, and have them get so comfortable that you become invisible and they're themselves.

  Cameron Crowe

  Artist, People, Interesting

  Interview with Lorraine Cwelich, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 5, 2011.

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• My favorite actors are actors who are enigmatic and mysterious and never make the obvious choice in terms of the projects they do or who they work with or their craft. But I think that the less I know about an actor, the more chance I have of allowing their own persona to kind of slip away so I can get completely lost in the character they're playing, and the more that people think they know about your personal life, the more difficult it becomes to preserve that.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Character, Thinking, People

  Interview with Arianna Huffington, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 22, 2011.

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• There's many a slip twixt the blueprints and a new house.

  Kin Hubbard

  House, Blueprints

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• I managed to slip two children out in the middle of my career and have been lucky with all the work.

  Samantha Bond

  Children, Careers, Two

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• I love signing autographs. I'll sign anything but veal cutlets. My ballpoint slips on veal cutlets.

  Casey Stengel

  Signing, Signing Autographs, Autographs

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• I was just interested in directing. So I just kept having a go at trying to write little scripts and get things together, and my wife just had a slip of the tongue and said, "Franz Kafka's It's A Wonderful Life" when she meant to say "Frank Capra's." There it is right there. That's a gag that we could make into something.

  Peter Capaldi

  Writing, Wife, Trying

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Human memory awakens and extinguishes at will. It dulls and sharpens actions, enlarges and shrinks those who perform them. It humbles and exalts as it desires. When summoned, it slips away, and when it returns, it will do so at the time and place that suits it. It recognizes no chief, no overseer, no classifier, no ruler. Stories mix and mingle, facts sprout new shoots. The situations and words and scents-oh, the scents!-encrusted there are stored in the most disorganized and wonderful manner, not chronologically, not according to size or importance or even the alphabet.

  Meir Shalev

  Memories, Desire, Stories

  Meir Shalev (2011). “My Russian Grandmother and Her American Vacuum Cleaner: A Family Memoir”, p.140, Schocken

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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, Slides

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

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• I find the past so fascinating. Photographs are strange, almost surreal, almost here yet gone. I slip into thinking what the past must have been like and I enjoy creating that ambience and atmosphere - 1730 to around 1870 is the most interesting period.

  Kate Atkinson

  Past, Thinking, Creating

  "Behind the scenes with Kate Atkinson". www.independent.co.uk. August 06, 2000.

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• A people may let a king fall, yet still remain a people, but if a king let his people slip from him, he is no longer a king.

  Abigail Adams

  Kings, Fall, People

  Abigail Adams, John Adams, L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Mary-Jo Kline (1975). “The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784”, p.127, UPNE

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• In a time when everything can be next day and ordered and put on credit and paid for, music to me is promise, all promise, very little realization. It's the promise of walking into a room with a guitar and not being sure you will leave with an idea that will take, not being sure it won't slip away from you.

  John Mayer

  Next Day, Guitar, Ideas

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