He takes a few dazed steps, the waiters turn out the lights and he slips into unconsciousness: when this man is lonely he sleeps.
Shouting is obvious; not talking to each other slips by.
I no longer believe there's any such thing as losing a woman. A man loses himself as women slip into the future.
As fallible humans, we usually slip too far over one edge or the other - all wrath and judgment or all grace and love.
She stared at her face in the mirror, feeling everything around her slipping away. The face stared back, and she wondered who was looking at her.
Instead of writing backwards over what had happened, giving structure and meaning to his story, he wrote forwards, slipping into troubling futures.
And always, I could see that, despite his weakness for her or because of it, he seemed uncatchable, as if he might slip away at any moment.
As the Mississippi snaked and their old home slipped further away, perhaps Samuel had finally left the curse behind.
Everyone's life is a mess. We all make mistakes . . . and not just little slip-ups. Major mistakes that hurt us and other people.
To see a man slip on a banana skin is to see a rationally structured system suddenly translated into a whirling machine.
She had not character enough to take to drinking, and moaned about, slip-shod and in curl-papers, all day.
The rest of it - and perhaps the best of it - is a permission slip: you can, you should, and if you're brave enough to start, you will.
I held her gaze as I held her in my arms. With all that holding I couldn’t hold on to the moment, and it slipped past me into the lonely past.
Growing up with my family gave me some of my best memories. I'd like to have a family of my own - slip away for a bit and do nothing but spend those early years with my children.
And her love slips quietly around me, holding me, anchoring me, reminding me that the loudest words are the ones we live.
Idol has pretty much taken me out of my recording and out of my choreography. I have managed to slip in some choreography jobs. And I've been writing songs for other artists.
I have written some of the clumsiest, most clogged-yet-vagrant, hobbledehoyish, hitch-slipping sentences ever conceived by the human mind.
Before you take that first curious, coerced, spiteful, or vengeful step forward, remember this: it’s a thousand times easier to slip into a muddy pit than it is to climb out of one.
I think an athlete should be honest. I know it's difficult, but if a guy knocked me on my can, I couldn't very well say, I slipped.
I am gluten free, dairy free and sugar free, although I do slip up on the sugar sometimes because I have a big sweet tooth!
We are all amateur attention economists, hoarding and bartering our moments - or watching them slip away down the cracks of a thousand YouTube clips.
