Slipping Quotes

179 Slipping quotes by 157 unique authors

Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind… — Nat King Cole
I think it's obvious when you're watching a movie, and there's people fighting or someone's slipping on the side of the building, that it's fake… — Ellen Page
Just sitting around waiting for my life to begin, while it was all just slipping away. — Bruce Springsteen
I hollowed out, stopped listening to music, never picked up a pencil, started slipping into old habits. All of the vibrancy I used to see… — Gerard Way
I think movie making can sometimes make you lazy in your approach. Occasionally you'll be shooting a scene and it's not even your coverage but… — Jamie Bell
Why does pouring Oil on the Sea make it Clear and Calm? Is it that the winds, slipping the smooth oil, have no force, nor… — Plutarch
How, then, find the courage for action? By slipping a little into unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct which holds one to the earth and dictates the relatively… — Henri Frederic Amiel
The traveler from Europe edges into it like a tiny Jonah entering an inconceivably large whale, slipping past the straits of Belle Isle into the… — Northrop Frye
I wish I could convey the perfection of a seal slipping into water or a spider monkey swinging from point to point or a lion… — Yann Martel
It's prudent to gain the whole world and lose your own soul. But don't forget that your soul sticks to you if you stick to… — George Bernard Shaw
No government fights fascism to destroy it. When the bourgeoisie sees that power is slipping out of its hands, it brings up fascism to hold… — Buenaventura Durruti
I feel like everything I do is successful and productive. It's gonna be hard to tell me I'm slipping. — Lil Wayne
My eyesight is not nearly as good. My hearing is probably going away. My memory is slipping too. But I'm still around. — John Wooden
Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will… — A A Milne
Time -- when pursued like a bandit -- will behave like one; always remaining one country or one room ahead of you, changing its name… — Elizabeth Gilbert
I felt a strange tightness coming over me, and I reacted instinctively – for the first time in a long, long while – by slipping… — Hunter S. Thompson
I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away… — Khaled Hosseini
There was something appealing in thinking of a character with a secret life that her author knew nothing about. Slipping off while the author's back… — Karen Joy Fowler
For years now, I've wanted to fall asleep. The sort of slipping off, the giving up, the falling part of sleep. Now sleeping is the… — Chuck Palahniuk
Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one’s life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it crept to one’s… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Our natural, inalienable rights are now considered to be a dispensation from government, and freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping from… — Ronald Reagan
People don't remember me. Really. It's not a paranoid thing; I just have this habit of slipping through memories. It doesn't bother me all that… — William Goldman
Slipping? We're bigger than Jesus. — John Lennon
After all," Anne had said to Marilla once, "I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
She watched the prairies the rivers, the towns slipping past at an untouchable distance below - and she noted that the sense of detachment one… — Ayn Rand

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