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.
Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind as the musician. So a critic will often say a musician is slipping.
Gain fame, and the paparazzi or media waits and watches for them to slip, just to shame their name.
I don't spend my hours worrying how to slip a social message into my act.
These days, everything is magnified very quickly by the media - the slightest slip can turn into a catastrophe.
In a banana republic, one might slip on a banana peel but things do work - now and then for the people, albeit inefficiently and unreliably.
The face that greeted me, however, was far from welcoming, it was a miniature stick insect of a woman with wiry white hair and enormous glasses that emphasized her heavily wrinkled face. She blinked twice and looked me up and down. By the look on her...
God lives in my soul, and I must spend my life scrubbing my soul clean of any trace of sin so that it derserves to host his presence. Repentance is a daily chore; at each morning prayer session we repent in advance for the sins we will commit that da...
The breakdown of mummies and daddies was an important part of lesbian relationships in the Bagatelle...For some of us, however, role-playing reflected all the depreciating attitudes toward women which we loathed in straight society. It was the reject...
Why do we not accept ESP as a psychological fact? Rhine has offered enough evidence to have convinced us on almost any other issue... Personally, I do not accept ESP for a moment, because it does not make sense. My external criteria, both of physics ...
Perhaps life is like an hour glass, with dear ones the sand that slips from the upper glass--the earth--into the second--eternity.
His lips touched mine and I lost my breath. Everything slipped away until there was only him. - Natasha
Man has been slipping backward for ages. The more advanced we became the more primitive we grew.
Sometimes I scare myself at how easily I slip inside my mind and live vicariously through these characters.
Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.
When Nirvana became popular, you could very easily slip and get lost during that storm. I fortunately had really heavy anchors - old friends, family.
When dictators feel their support slipping among adults, it is not unusual for them to alter school textbooks in the hope of enlisting impressionable youths in their cause.
It felt as if things were literally slipping through my fingers. Things were just streaming away from me. I lost my sense of humor. I'm still looking for that.
I mean, you know, God knows everything, but I'm not quite that good. Every once in a while, something will slip by me.
In chess, knowledge is a very transient thing. It changes so fast that even a single mouse-slip sometimes changes the evaluation.
I love reading about the supernatural, and time-slip novels, and the mistress of both is Barbara Erskine.
