Slipped Quotes

232 Slipped quotes by 184 unique authors

The truth is not a crystal that can be slipped into one's pocket, but an endless current into which one falls headlong. — Robert Musil
And into the brown paper bag of my heart, Eddy slipped a smile. — David James Duncan
Sometimes I thought of the Peace Corps as a reverse refugee organization, displacing all of us lost Midwesterners, and it was probably the only government… — Peter Hessler
No matter how many times you have slipped or fallen, rise up... You are stronger than you realize. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable. — Boris Pasternak
It was too difficult. People weren't prepared to put in the hours on the donkey work - you know, dates and facts and so on.… — Sebastian Faulks
Ten thousand pounds is the legal value of a negligently taken life, of a child or a parent. A cold and somewhat mean-spirited calculation: you… — Nina Bawden
I shared a bed with my sister, Grace, until I was seventeen years old. She was afraid to sleep alone and would begin asking me… — Lena Dunham
I honor health as the first muse, and sleep as the condition of health. Sleep benefits mainly by the sound health it produces; incidentally also… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We were happy a hundred years ago. We knew that there were exploiters and exploited, wealthy and poor, and we had a perfect idea of… — Leszek Kolakowski
I was the first actress in the family, and I am still the only actress in the family. I shouldn't be saying it, but it… — Eva Gabor
We're well past the end of the century when time, for the first time, curved, bent, slipped, flash forwarded, and flashed back yet still kept… — Ali Smith
This morning I was laughing at my cat who was running up the stairs and slipped, and pretended like it didn't happen. — Jayma Mays
One time I semi-wrecked my uncle's truck. He told me to back it up into a ditch, but my foot slipped and I gunned it… — RJ Mitte
The American woman has not yet slipped into a cocoon, but she has tumbled down a rabbit hole into sudden isolation. — Susan Faludi
Don't look where you fall, but where you slipped. — Henry Ward Beecher
I let her do some of my laundry and she slipped in a few meals in between, and next thing I remember, she was all… — Jackson Browne
I wanted to be a veterinarian, but slipped up when I hit organic chemistry. — Amy Hempel
There are a lot of good shows that don't get picked up. Like that Ben Stiller pilot, Heat Vision And Jack? That would have been… — Bret McKenzie
I wouldn't be surprised if one day Carl's halo slipped and choked him. — Carl Lewis

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