Slip Quotes

599 Slip quotes by 497 unique authors

Scar tissue has no character. It's not like skin. It doesn't show age or illness or pallor or tan. It has no pores, no hair,… — Susanna Kaysen
The futility of everything that comes to us from the media is the inescapable consequence of the absolute inability of that particular stage to remain… — Jean Baudrillard
Norah looked at her son’s tiny face, surprised, as always, by his name. he had not grown into it yet, he still wore it like… — Kim Edwards
I've lived so little that I tend to imagine I'm not going to die; it seems improbable that human existence can be reduced to so… — Michel Houellebecq
I stare into a thin, web-like crack above the urinal's handle and think to myself that if I were to disappear into that crack, say… — Bret Easton Ellis
The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving. I didn't want to destroy anything or… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Deep in my heart I'm concealing things that I'm longing to say. Scared to confess what I'm feeling - frightened you'll slip away. — Madonna Ciccone
For some time now the impression has been growing upon me that everyone is dead. It happens when I speak to people. In the middle… — Walker Percy
Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren… — D. H. Lawrence
It is an example of what films can do, how they can slip past your defenses and really break your heart. — David Gilmour
I used to think if you fell from grace it was more likely than not the result of one stupendous error, or else an unfortunate… — Jane Hamilton
We said we'd walk together baby come what may.That come the twilight should we lose our way.If as we're walkin a hand should slip free,I'll… — Bruce Springsteen
It is easy to love people when they smell good, but sometimes they slip into the manure of life and smell awful. You must love… — Wayne Dyer
The world going insane and evil letting slip the birds of war is no excuse for sloppy vocabulary. — P. C. Cast
As I see it, life is an effort to grip before they slip through one's fingers and slide into oblivion, the startling, the ghastly or… — Mervyn Peake
Very slowly he turned his head back to look at Shmuel, who wasn't crying anymore, merely staring at the floor and looking as if he… — John Boyne
At a certain point, you must be able to slip loose. At a certain point, you found that you had been set free. You could… — Dan Chaon
This is the truth about things: If you take something that isn't yours, it will never belong to you. You can try to hold on… — Aryn Kyle
In the vast reaches of the dry, cold night, thousands of stars were constantly appearing, and their sparkling icicles, loosened at once, began to slip… — Albert Camus
Some of this book—perhaps too much—has been about how I learned to do it. Much of it has been about how you can do it… — Stephen King
Every man is a moon and has a side which he turns toward nobody: you have to slip around behind it if you want to… — Mark Twain
If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today. — Bruce Lee
Tell me something, Raphael?" He was already turning, heading to the door. "What is it you'd like to know, Guild Hunter?" She hid her smile… — Nalini Singh
We are so used to the notion of our own inevitability as life's dominant species that it is hard to grasp that we are here… — Bill Bryson
You know that thing about Death Be Not Proud? Well, Fear Be Not Proud either. And Fear Be Not Elegant. What Fear be is stumbling,… — Josh Lanyon

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