Quotes of: Slip Keyword

She had been trying hourly to ensure that this new friendship remained such, to be certain that it would not slip out of the careful grasp of her fingers and into the darker champers of her heart.

Shamim Sarif

What our leaders and pundits never let slip is that the terrorists - whatever else they might be - might also be rational human beings; which is to say that in their own minds they have a rational justification for their actions.

William Blum

Authors by the hundreds can tell you stories by the thousands of those rejection slips before they found a publisher who was willing to 'gamble' on an unknown.

Zig Ziglar

Mr. Strickland: Am I to understand you're still hanging around with Dr. Emmett Brown, McFly? [clicks with his mouth, gives Jennifer a tardy slip] Mr. Strickland: Tardy slip for you, Miss Parker. [gives Marty one, too] Mr. Strickland: And one for you,...

Back to the Future

But in high school the business of irrevocable choices began. Doors slipped shut with a faint locking click that was only heared clearly in the dreams of later years.

Cujo

Rain slips through your fingers as easily as words blow away in the wind, and yet it has the power to destroy your whole world.

Company of Liars

as some strings, untouched, sound when no one is speaking. So it was when love slipped inside us.

Come, Thief: Poems

TIME Time And how it slips through my fingers Without putting its ring on them, And I remain simply its lover

The Condemned Apple: Selected Poetry

Don't let yourself slip and get any perfect characters... keep them people, people, people, and don't let them get to be symbols.

Ernest Hemingway on Writing

I despaired at the thought that my life might slip by without seeing God show himself mightily on our behalf.

Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire

Be hole, be dust, be dream, be wind/Be night, be dark, be wish, be mind,/Now slip, now slide, now move unseen,/Above, beneath, betwixt, between.

The Graveyard Book

Quiet, by its nature, slips away unnoticed. But once it's gone, we notice.

A Hunger for High Country: One Woman's Journey to the Wild in Yellowstone Country

She had awoken this morning and slipped the amethyst ring off her finger. It had felt liked a blessed release, a final shadow lifted from her heart.

Heir of Fire

Everyone just wasting time because they have so much of it to waste, minutes slipping by on who's with who and did you hear.

Before I Fall

The most beautiful moments always seemed to accelerate and slip beyond one’s grasp just when you want to hold onto them for as long as possible.

Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

The City is free of sin The snow has given it absolution A man who slips A horse that falls Oh no, the city is in a nightgown

The Cubist Poets in Paris: An Anthology

Well documented, the relationship of literature to myth in the Western world has undergone much change over the millennia, as first the age of gods fell away before the notion of a single god, and then, for many people, that single god slipped away, ...

Kate Bernheimer

So far as I can tell, most worthwhile pleasures on this earth slip between gratifying another and gratifying oneself. Some would call that an ethics.

The Argonauts

I don't say this to hurt you, love." The endearment slipped out without me even thinking about it. (...) "Say it again," he said. "Call me your love.

The Haunted

I drink coffee the way most men tie their shoes, and I’m liable to slip on a sip if I don’t follow their lead.

I love Blue Ribbon Coffee

...I could feel what was left of my soul just slipping away as I fed on that girl until she was totally and completely drained.

Imprinted Souls