Slipped Quotes
232 Slipped quotes by 184 unique authors
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There is still time for endurance, time for patience, time for healing, time for change. Have you slipped? Rise up. Have you sinned? Cease. Do…
— Saint Basil
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Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that…
— Davy Crockett
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He never fell, never slipped back, never flew.
— John Steinbeck
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He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her up,…
— Victor Hugo
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But in high school the business of irrevocable choices began. Doors slipped shut with a faint locking click that was only heared clearly in the…
— Stephen King
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Her future, she thought, was likely to be worse than her past, for after her years of contented renunciation, she had slipped back into desire…
— George Eliot
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During the terrible years of the Yekhov terror I spent seventeen months in the prison queues in Leningrad. One day someone ‘identified’ me. Then a…
— Anna Akhmatova
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If you were to try and pick him out of a group of boys, you’d be wrong. He’d be the other one. Over at the…
— Neil Gaiman
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When I pointed to him his palms slipped slightly, leaving greasy sweat streaks on the wall, and he hooked his thumbs in his belt. A…
— Harper Lee
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There were no men in this painting, but it was about men, the kind who caused women to fall. I did not ascribe any intentions…
— Margaret Atwood
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She seems so cool, so focused, so quiet, yet her eyes remain fixed upon the horizon. You think you know all there is to know…
— Neil Gaiman
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The morning air of the pasture turned steadily cooler. Day by day, the bright golden leaves of the birches turned more spotted as the first…
— Haruki Murakami
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Half delirious, I slipped my hands around Whit's thick neck. The second Idid he got confident.His mouth moved over mine in a rough, unpracticed, awkward…
— Kate Brian
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What's up, Hachi?" "Someone......Just slipped through my force-field." "!!!" "A soul reaper?" "No. The Hachigyo Sogai (Twin Cliffs) I set is an original technique I…
— Tite Kubo
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We knew exactly what we wanted in each other. And even so, it ended. One day it stopped, as if the film simply slipped off…
— Haruki Murakami
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They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Vittoria slipped off her robe. 'You've never been to bed with a yoga master, have you?
— Dan Brown
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We only came close to dying six or seven times, which I thought was pretty good. Once, I lost my grip and found myself dangling…
— Rick Riordan
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Salomé, Salomé, dance for me. I pray thee dance for me. I am sad to-night. Yes, I am passing sad to-night. When I came hither…
— Oscar Wilde
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Then Carol slipped her arm under her neck, and all the length of their bodies touched fitting as if something had prearranged it. Happiness was…
— Patricia Highsmith
Who Wrote These Slipped Quotes
184 authors contributed a total of 232 Slipped Quotes, led by these top contributors: