Slips Quotes - Page 30

• 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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• 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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• 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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• Memories are like mercury. Every time you sort of try to get near them, they slip out of your hand like a bar of soap.

  Daphne Guinness

  Memories, Hands, Trying

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• Deconstruction: peering suspiciously at the text, I wait for it to make a slip and betray itself.

  Mason Cooley

  Waiting, Deconstruction, Betray

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• I take this evanescence and lubricity of all objects, which lets them slip through our fingers then when we clutch hardest, to be the most unhandsome part of our condition.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Evanescence, Fingers, Hardest

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.473, Library of America

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• One day you will hear the sound of time rustling as it slips through your fingers like sand. Remember me then. I wish you luck.

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Time, Luck, Wish

  Sergei Lukyanenko (2006). “Night Watch”, Miramax

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• But my body was telling its story. I have read a lot of stuff about cancer. I needed this book. I wish I'd had this book when I had cancer. I wanted someone to be talking to me about "fart floors." I wanted somebody telling me what it was like to have a colostomy bag. I felt so alone. And if you're a person who's been traumatized by past abuse, it's so potentially re-traumatizing. You slip right into "oh my god, this is the only person this has happened to before" mentality: "I'm especially bad and I have especially bad cancer..."

  Eve Ensler

  Cancer, Book, Past

  "The Big Idea: Eve Ensler". Interview with Suzanne Koven, therumpus.net. June 12, 2013.

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• If you have a vision and you are trying to accomplish something, you have to be competitive, or things are going to slip by you.

  Peter M. Brant

  Vision, Trying, Accomplish

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• Prayer is not a check request asking for things from God. It is a deposit slip - a way of depositing God's character into our bankrupt souls.

  Dutch Sheets

  Prayer, Character, Soul

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• Don't pressure yourself to target a market. Hit the mark instead. Pay homage to your own connection. Quantity flocks to quality and quality comes from purity. Purity wails. Integrity taps a nerve. Inspiration slips beneath the skin of yoru skin and turns disinterested strangers into warm-bodied kin.

  Tama J. Kieves

  Integrity, Inspiration, Skins

  Tama J. Kieves (2004). “This Time I Dance!: Trusting the Journey of Creating the Work You Love”, Tarcher

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• My dear friend, Bonnie, is a person who rests and, consequently, earned my ire early in our relationship. Her ability to rest eventually taught me incredibly valuable lessons about the art of taking time-outs. To this day, Bonnie is astutely aware of times when her energy dips too low and resolutely honors her need to rest. To boost her energy, she's been known to sit quietly with a cup of tea, adjourn a workshop we were co-facilitating to take a five-minute breather, or slip out of her own wedding reception to be restored by a few minutes of solitude in the sun.

  Sue Thoele

  Art, Solitude, Tea

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• In a swamp, as in meditation, you begin to glimpse how elusive, how inherently insubstantial, how fleeting our thoughts are, our identities. There is magic in this moist world, in how the mind lets go, slips into sleepy water, circles and nuzzles the banks of palmetto and wild iris, how it seeps across dreams, smears them into the upright world, rots the wood of treasure chests, welcomes the body home.

  Barbara Hurd

  Letting Go, Dream, Home

  Barbara Hurd (2003). “Stirring the Mud: On Swamps, Bogs, and Human Imagination”, p.43, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If you're living two lives and you're lying to everyone, you're bound to slip up, in some way, you're bound to get something wrong, and you're bound to get found out.

  Jamie Bell

  Lying, Two, Way

  "Jamie Bell Talks Turn, Coming to Television, Physical Challenges, Researching the Historical Setting, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 18, 2014.

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• Conductor, when you receive a fare, Punch in the presence of the passenjare. A blue trip slip for an eight-cent fare, A buff trip slip for a six-cent fare, A pink trip slip for a three-cent fare, Punch in the presence of the passenjare! Punch, brothers! punch with care! Punch in the presence of the passenjare!

  Mark Twain

  Brother, Eight, Blue

  Mark Twain, Gary Scharnhorst (2006). “Mark Twain: The Complete Interviews”, p.422, University of Alabama Press

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• So here hath been dawning Another blue day; Think, wilt thou let it Slip useless away? Out of eternity This new day is born, Into eternity At night will return.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Thinking, Night, Blue

  Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Critical & Miscellaneous Essays: Collected & Republished”, p.356

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• Better the feet slip then the tongue.

  George Herbert

  Feet, Tongue

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• These great turning-days of life cast no shadow before, slip by unconsciously. Only a trifle, a little turn of the rudder, and the ship goes to heaven or hell.

  Rebecca Harding Davis

  Fate, Heaven, Shadow

  Rebecca Harding Davis (2016). “Life in the Iron-Mills”, p.11, Lulu.com

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• Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.

  Abraham Cowley

  Past, Opportunity, Fortune

  Abraham Cowley (1967). “The Complete Works in Verse and Prose of Abraham Cowley”

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• The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip.

  Paulo Coelho

  Mistake, Warrior, Opportunity

  "Quotes That Help You Survive". Book by Harpreet Kaur Kapoor, 2006.

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• Fat slips through the intestinal wall and into the bloodstream where it distributes the nutrients throughout the body. Olestra can't get through the wall, and it continues down the intestines and out the body.

  Michael F. Jacobson

  Wall, Body, Fats

  "FDA looks at fat substitute" by Eugenia Halsey, www.cnn.com. November 18, 1995.

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• Art makes you reinvent the wheel with regularity. If you don't, art gets bored and slips away.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Boredom, Wheels

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• As Summer into Autumn slips
  And yet we sooner say
  "The Summer" than "the Autumn," lest
  We turn the sun away,
  
  And almost count it an Affront
  The presence to concede
  Of one however lovely, not
  The one that we have loved -
  
  So we evade the charge of Years
  On one attempting shy
  The Circumvention of the Shaft
  Of Life's Declivity.

  Emily Dickinson

  Summer, Autumn, Years

  Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi (1971). “The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.285, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

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• I'm that same David Crockett, fresh from the backwoods, half-horse, half-alligator, a little touched with the snapping turtle; can wade the Mississippi, leap the Ohio, ride upon a streak of lightning, and slip without a scratch down a honey locust [tree].

  Davy Crockett

  Horse, Turtles, Ohio

  Davy Crockett (1834). “Sketches and eccentricities of Col. David Crockett,: of West Tennessee”, p.164

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• It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments.

  Robert E. Howard

  Art, Writing, Culture

  Robert E. Howard (2007). “The Best of Robert E. Howard Volume 1: Volume 1: The Shadow Kingdom”, p.15, Del Rey

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