Because our lives are cowardly and sly, Because we do not dare to take or give, Because we scowl and pass each… — James Stephens Copy Share Image
She [Gypsy Rose Lee] was a sophisticated self-satirist with a contagious delight in the comedy of sex. She was coy; she was… — Karen Abbott Copy Share Image
How few of our young English impressionists knew the difference between a palette and a picture! However, I believe that Walter Sickert… — Aubrey Beardsley Copy Share Image
I'm no wizard, and I don't like being thought of in that light at all. I think of a wizard as being… — John Wooden Copy Share Image
To have you here, you mean-in reach and yet out of reach? To meet you in this way, on the sly? It's… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
I've always loved black culture; I don't know any other way to put it. Since I was a kid I loved music… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Unless you're trying to make a movie on the sly, there's no way to get around this. If you want to use… — Asghar Farhadi Copy Share Image
The chimpanzees in the zoos do it, Some courageous kangaroos do it Let's do it, let's fall in love. I'm sure giraffes… — Cole Porter Copy Share Image
The demagogue is usually sly,a detractor of others, a professor of humility and disinterestedness, a great stickler for equality as respects all… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's nobody for me to attack in this matter even with soft and gentle ridicule-and I shouldn't ever think of using a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think about the sly, flickering line that separates being spared from being rejected. Sometimes I think of the ancient gods… — Tana French Copy Share Image
Sheep are not the docile, pleasant creatures of the pastoral idyll. Any countryman will tell you that. They are sly, occasionally vicious,… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
What helps most is remembering that such a cry or attack or sly blow is a reflection of that other person’s inner… — Stephanie Dowrick Copy Share Image
“The man smiled at him a sly smile. As if they knew a secret between them, these two. Something of age and… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
I hoped that Grace would be a little bit of the best of all of us: Scarlett's spirit, and my mother's strength,… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I didn't even know how to judge 'Die Hard 1.' It's not anything I know how to judge. I'd never seen an… — Bonnie Bedelia Copy Share Image
“Pick a leader who will make their citizens proud. One who will stir the hearts of the people, so that the sons… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
I had hated these ponies for the part they played in my father's death but now I realized the notion was fanciful,… — Charles Portis Copy Share Image
The word itself has another color. It’s not a word with any resonance, although the e was once pronounced. There is only… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The other me, who did not mean to drown herself, went under the sea and remained there for a long time. Eventually… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
“When she walked by the two officers, they didn't recognize her. "Have you seen the luscious bonbon with the golden braids?" She… — Laura L. Sullivan Copy Share Image
Her underwear, her jeans, the comforter, my corduroys and my boxers between us, I thought. Five layers, and yet I felt it,… — John Green Copy Share Image
Sly Stone doesn't make good albums: only good records. His style is so infinite and revolves around so many crucial aspects that… — Jon Landau Copy Share Image
The focus on process rather than purpose creates an insidious opportunity for sly employees to manipulate the system. — Laszlo Bock Copy Share Image
In the middle of life, death comes to take your measurements. The visit is forgotten and life goes on. But the suit… — Tomas Transtromer Copy Share Image
I loved Catwoman's sense of humor. I love how sly she is. I love how she, to use a cat metaphor, walks… — Anne Hathaway Copy Share Image
'Dance to the Music' was just Sly Stone being his natural crazy self right from the beginning. The man was an original… — Jon Landau Copy Share Image
The eye is the casement at which the heart generally looks out. Many a woman who will not show herself at the… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
In 'Plutarch,' her voice begins to come out; there are actual 2,000-year-old quotes from Cleopatra, and they are sly and saucy. — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
In politics, Bugs Bunny always beats Daffy Duck. Daffy's always going berserk, jumping up and down, yelling. Bugs's got that sly smile,… — Jeff Greenfield Copy Share Image
I think the adverb is a much-maligned part of speech. Its always accused of being oppressive, even tyrannical, when in fact its… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
I've had my say out, and I shall be the' easier for't all my life. There's no pleasure i' living, if you're… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
As on many mornings in Marin, there is this sly strip of fog - water in it's most mystical incarnation - slithering… — Jaimal Yogis Copy Share Image
We would lie on coral sand, below sugary stars, watching Cassiopeia mount her throne and the Great Bear wash its paws in… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Fear, if it be not immoderate, puts a guard about us that does watch and defend us; but credulity keeps us naked,… — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
The professional dedicates himself to mastering technique not because he believes technique is a substitute for inspiration but because he wants to… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The typical entrepreneur is no longer the bold and tireless man of Marshall, or the sly and rapacious Moneybags of Marx, but… — Edwin Arlington Robinson Copy Share Image
“Pick a leader who is strong and confident, yet humble. Intelligent, but not sly. A leader who encourages diversity, not racism. One… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Lysley Tenorio is a writer of sly wit and lively invention—these are stories bursting with wonders (from monster movies and leper colonies,… — Peter Ho Davies Copy Share Image
Looking back, I didn't realize until years later what a huge influence Red Skelton was in my stage demeanor with the band.… — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
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