Slip Quotes - page 5

It's hard to be ignored When I look at you, you look so bored My baby, my darling, I've been taking a beating... Well alright (well alright) It's okay (it's okay) We all get the slip sometimes every day I'll just keep it to myself in the sun In the sun. (Zooey Deschanel)
The thing about the greased piglet is that he manages to slip through other people's hands where mere mortals fail. View quote
David Cameron
One lucent corner windowing hidden things Forced the world's blind immensity to sight. The darkness failed and slipped like a falling cloak From the reclining body of a god. View quote
Sri Aurobindo
i want to give up my bearings, slip out of who i am, shed everything, the way a snake discards old skin. View quote
Khaled Hosseini
Slip inside the eye of your mind / don't you know you might find / A better place to play So I'll start a revolution from my bed / Because you said the brains I had went to my head. Please don't put you're life in the hands / Of a rock 'n' roll band / Who'll throw it all away. View quote
Noel Gallagher
Listen boy Don't want to see you let a good thing Slip away. You know I don't like watching Anybody make the same mistakes I made. She's a real nice girl And she's always there for you. But a nice girl wouldn't tell you what you should do. View quote
Billy Joel
Only humanity could grasp the stars and then let them slip through its fingers for the pettiness in its heart. View quote
Pierce Brown
Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it. View quote
Georges Duhamel
One of the Georges - I forget which - once said that a certain number of hours' sleep each night - I cannot recall at the moment how many - made a man something which for the time being has slipped my memory. View quote
P. G. Wodehouse
One of the poets, whose name I cannot recall, has a passage, which I am unable at the moment to remember, in one of his works, which for the time being has slipped my mind, which hits off admirably this age-old situation. View quote
P. G. Wodehouse
He's engaged to be married to Stiffy Byng, and his long years of football should prove an excellent preparation for setting up house with her. The way I look at it is that when a fellow has had plug-uglies in cleated boots doing a Shuffle-off-to-Buffalo on his face Saturday after Saturday since he was a slip of a boy, he must get to fear nothing, not even marriage with a girl like Stiffy, who from early childhood has seldom let the sun go down without starting some loony enterprise calculated to bleach the hair of one and all. (P. G. Wodehouse)
Conan did not hesitate, nor did he even glance toward the chest that held the wealth of an epoch. With a quickness that would have shamed the spring of a hungry jaguar, he swooped, grasped the girl's arm just as her fingers slipped from the smooth stone, and snatched her up on the span with one explosive heave. View quote
Robert E. Howard
When you slip on a banana peel, people laugh at you. But when you tell people you slipped on a banana peel, it's your laugh. View quote
Nora Ephron
And enough for me that when my hand touched your shoulder, you leaned on me; and when you felt me slip away, you called my name. View quote
Orson Scott Card
Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul. View quote
Joyce Carol Oates
He was within a few hours of giving his enemies the slip forever. View quote
Laurence Sterne
Perhaps it was one of those mild, sunny winter days when you have a feeling of holiday and eternity- the illusion that passage of time is suspended, and that you need only slip through this breach to escape the trap which is closing around you. View quote
Patrick Modiano
One slip. One slip in thousands. The odds had been entirely in her favor. But it hadn't mattered. View quote
Suzanne Collins
There's nothing so dangerous as sitting still. You've only got one life, one youth, and you can let it slip through your fingers if you want to; nothing easier. Most people do that. View quote
Willa Cather
Emily, I saw you last night by the river I dreamed you were skipping little stones across the surface of the water Frowning at the angle where they were lost, and slipped under forever In a mud cloud, mica-spangled, like the sky'd been breathing on a mirror. View quote
Joanna Newsom
Antonio always prayed in the room before the fight at the last when the well-wishers and the followers were gone. If there was time at the ring nearly everyone slipped into the chapel to pray once before the paseo. Antonio knew I prayed for him and never for myself. I was not fighting and I had quit praying for myself during the Spanish Civil War when I saw the terrible things that happened to other people and I felt that to pray for oneself was selfish and egotistical. (Ernest Hemingway)
Ah God! she settles down we say; It means her powers slip away It means she draws back day by day From good or bad. View quote
Djuna Barnes
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. View quote
Cassandra Clare
But maybe you never really had someone, she thought now. Maybe, no matter how much you loved them, they could slip through your fingers like water, and there was nothing you could do about it. View quote
Cassandra Clare
I was the first actress in the family, and I am still the only actress in the family. I shouldn't be saying it, but it slipped out! View quote
Eva Gabor