Rather a slip of the foot than a slip of the pen.
The body pays for a slip of the foot and gold pays for a slip of the tongue.
You cannot penalize a man for one slip. Then she lay wondering about the word slip. When you slip, you fall, but maybe it is not such a sore fall because you have slipped.
Even an elephant can slip.
Marriage is a snake to slip into your handbag.
Marriage is not a tight knot, but a slip knot.
There is many a slip twixt cup and lip.
There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip.
Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.
Don't look where you fell, but where you slipped.
By 17, I was submitting to publications and collecting my first rejection slips.
In a soap maker's house, a person who doesn't fall, slips.
It’s a shame publishers send rejection slips. Writers should get something more substantial than a slip that amounts to a pile of confetti. Publishers should send something heavier. Editors should send out rejection bricks, so at the end of a lot o...
You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.
You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip.
[Annie has just read Paul's latest novel] Annie Wilkes: YOU! YOU DIRTY BIRD, HOW COULD YOU! Paul Sheldon: What? Annie Wilkes: She can't be dead, MISERY CHASTAIN CANNOT BE DEAD! Paul Sheldon: Annie, in 1871, women often died during childbirth. But her...
Curiosity is a youthful beauty. Connected to joy and slipping around old beliefs, it urges us to investigate rather than assume.
It can be said that one slip of point of view by a writer can hurt a story badly, and several slips can be fatal.' Stein on Writing
Cutter: I saw you, drop the knot again...? Julia McCullough: I think I turned my wrist... Cutter: Some nights you just don't get it, do you? I mean, if that knot slips and Julia's on the hoist, she'll break her leg! Alfred Borden: It's a wrong knot. ...
"What's all the fuss?" said the crane after the eel had slipped away. "I never liked fish anyway."
