The two biggest influences on me as a bandleader would be my mother, and then Sly. — Larry Graham Copy Share Image
Ryan Alvanos is an offbeat, insanely inventive singer-songwriter who sneaks up on you with a sly wit and subtle power. — Steve Morse Copy Share Image
it was a sly trick of God's to give a man work to do - it kept him from asking questions that… — Martha Ostenso Copy Share Image
A child that has a quick temper, just blaze up and cool down, ain't never likely to be sly or deceitful. — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
For the task assigned them Men aren't smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie. — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
“There was always something sly about any act of education. Eve had learned that in the garden.” — Paul Russell Copy Share Image
“A banty-rooster sort of guy, the kind that likes to pick fights, especially when the odds are all their way.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Strength and strength's will are the supreme ethic. All else are dreams from hospital beds, the sly, crawling goodness of sneaking souls. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
I am always reading immoral books on the sly, and then selfishly trying to prevent other people from having the same wicked… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I really like the idea of being a bit unpredictable. I'm known for being a nice, easy-going person with a straightforward exterior.… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
Opportunity ... It has a sly habit of slipping in by the back door, and often it comes disguised in the form… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
I think I had the good fortune to watch Sly the Artist [Sylvester Stallone]; to watch him in all arenas. As an… — Milo Ventimiglia Copy Share Image
This morning it occurred to me for the first time that my body, my faithful companion and friend, truer and better known… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
But doubt is wily and cunning and never, as it is sometimes said to be, loud or defiant. It is unassuming and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“That’s my one desire, to be caught," answered Vronsky, with his serene, good-humored smile. "If I complain of anything it’s only that… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Prose-it might be speculated-is discourse; poetry ellipsis. Prose is spoken aloud; poetry overheard. The one is presumably articulate and social, a shared… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“Everybody we know surrounds himself with a fine house, fine books, conservatory, gardens, equipage, and all manner of toys, as screens to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Herein find fiction full of whimsy, wit, hurt, and terror. Wicked, as in wickedly funny, is in the mix, too, along with… — Christine Schutt Copy Share Image
I like nudging readers into a slightly different perspective, but in a sly way - I want to be the writer who… — Kathryn Harrison 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
Marya Morevna! Don't you know anything? Girls must be very, very careful to care only for ribbons and magazines and wedding rings.… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
The novella is at once the most elegant and demanding form: a writer must balance the looseness of a novel with the… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
Woman is a misbegotten man and has a faulty and defective nature in comparison to his. Therefore she is unsure in herself.… — Albertus Magnus Copy Share Image
The backlash against women's rights would be just one of several powerful forces creating a harsh and painful climate for women at… — Susan Faludi Copy Share Image
“Pick a leader who will not only bail out banks and airlines, but also families from losing their homes -- or jobs… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Justice is always naive and self-confident; believing that it will immediately win once recognized. That is the reason why the forces of… — Vladimir Bukovsky Copy Share Image
“Pick a leader who will keep jobs in your country by offering companies incentives to hire only within their borders, not one… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Sure am glad I'm not royalty," I muttered. "I wouldn't want to have to bump uglies with someone I can't stand. On… — Kim Harrison 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
Money is sullen And wisdom is sly, But youth is the pollen That blows through the sky And does not ask why. — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
There's nothing wrong with sexual feelings in themselves, so long as they are straightforward and not sneaking or sly. The right sort… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Long before 'American Idol', people used to call me a diva. And I be like, 'Hold on, are you calling me something… — Jennifer Hudson Copy Share Image
I grew up idolizing these men, like Arnold Schwarzenegger. I loved Sly (Stallone). I loved Bruce Willis. These guys embodied everything that… — Katee Sackhoff Copy Share Image
At the core, our motives are always self-serving, Kate. Altruism is a fog created by sly minds seeking to benefit from the… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
How horribly rapid everything has been, from the days when men were not ashamed to talk of souls and of suffering and… — Ayi Kwei Armah Copy Share Image
Poetry should be written the way adultery is committed: on the run, on the sly, during the time not accounted for. And… — Vera Pavlova 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