Sliding Quotes
120 quotes by 111 authors
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Soon we'll be out amid the cold world's strife. Soon we'll be sliding down the razor blade of life. But as we go our sordid…
— Tom Lehrer
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Perhaps if human desire is said out loud, the urban planes, the prisons, the architectural mirrors will take off, as airplanes do. The black planes…
— Kathy Acker
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For the time being Scherzer gives Washington a very nice rotation (on paper) with Stephen Strasburg, Jordan Zimmerman, Gio Gonzalez, and Doug Fister, with Tanner…
— Max Scherzer
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To follow the drops sliding from a lifting oar, Head up, while the rower breathes, and the small boat drifts quietly shoreward...
— Theodore Roethke
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Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or…
— Jean Baudrillard
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It's terrifying to think you can remember things you shouldn't possibly be able to. It's like that childhood fear of having your soul slip from…
— Tim Winton
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I started singing rhythmically, and now I'm learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it
— Janis Joplin
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In tight economic times, with libraries sliding farther and farther down the list of priorities, we risk the loss of their ideals, intelligence, and knowledge,…
— Marilyn Johnson
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Next you'd see a raft sliding by, away off yonder, and maybe a galoot on it chopping. . . you'd see the ax flash and…
— Mark Twain
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The name Alaska is probably an abbreviation of Unalaska, derived from the original Aleut word agunalaksh, which means "the shores where the sea breaks its…
— Corey Ford
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We are sliding into a time of simplification where the practical design of everyday things will be an important demand to consider
— Kay Bojesen
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In many areas of understanding, none so much as in our understanding of God, we bump up against a simplicity so profound that we must…
— Robert Breault
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The most mischievous liars are those who keep sliding on the verge of truth.
— Augustus William Hare
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Deep in the heart of the infinite darkness, a tiny blue marble is spinning through space. Born in the splendor of God's holy vision, and…
— Johnny Cash
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Being positive is like going up a mountain. Being negative is like sliding down a hill. A lot of times, people want to take the…
— Chuck D
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We are sliding back into a dark era, and there seems little we can do about it. I am profoundly depressed at just how difficult…
— Nina Fedoroff
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We work our jobs, collect our pay, believe were gliding down the highway, when in fact we're slip sliding away.
— Paul Simon
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Your readers should be so compelled to read your copy that they cannot stop reading until they read all of it as if sliding down…
— Joseph Sugarman
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As the last drops fell from the glass to my tongue, I wondered - only for an instant - what perhaps I'd never know. What…
— Bill Vaughan
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Far less wealthy industrialized countries have committed to end child poverty, while the United States is sliding backwards. We can do better. We must demand…
— Marian Wright Edelman
Who Wrote These Sliding Quotes
111 authors contributed a total of 120 Sliding Quotes, led by these top contributors: