Sly Quotes

89 quotes by 79 authors

Routine is worry's sly assassin. — Leif Enger
Although we often hear that data speak for themselves, their voices can be soft and sly — Frederick Mosteller
Ryan Alvanos is an offbeat, insanely inventive singer-songwriter who sneaks up on you with a sly wit and subtle power. — Steve Morse
The other me, who did not mean to drown herself, went under the sea and remained there for a long time. Eventually she surfaced near… — Edna O'Brien
I'm sometimes called a 'documentary photographer' but... a man operating under that definition could take a sly pleasure in the disguise. Very often I'm doing… — Walker Evans
Believe it or not, I got into the charismatic, shady, sly heart of Sedgewick Bell by watching CNN and C-SPAN. — Emile Hirsch
Poetry should be written the way adultery is committed: on the run, on the sly, during the time not accounted for. And then you come… — Vera Pavlova
We are kindred all of us, killer and victim, predator and prey, me and the sly coyote, the soaring buzzard, the elegant gopher snake, and… — Edward Abbey
I met Jay Jonhson. I won him the way poor people occasionally win the lottery: Shameless perseverance and embarrassingly dumb luck, and every time I… — Amy Bloom
As on many mornings in Marin, there is this sly strip of fog - water in it's most mystical incarnation - slithering over, around, and… — Jaimal Yogis
Money is sullen And wisdom is sly, But youth is the pollen That blows through the sky And does not ask why. — Stephen Vincent Benet
How horribly rapid everything has been, from the days when men were not ashamed to talk of souls and of suffering and of hope to… — Ayi Kwei Armah
On the sly, scoping for love. — Aretha Franklin
Strange priests are they who never straightly walk But all aslant through sideways passage stalk Who never seek their goals in forward lines But move… — Willard Fiske
'Dance to the Music' was just Sly Stone being his natural crazy self right from the beginning. The man was an original and his first… — Jon Landau
Sly Stone doesn't make good albums: only good records. His style is so infinite and revolves around so many crucial aspects that it has only… — Jon Landau
These happy endings all express the weak and sly promise that the world is not rotten and out of joint but meaningful and ultimately in… — Douglas Sirk
He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich. — Evelyn Waugh
I'm no wizard, and I don't like being thought of in that light at all. I think of a wizard as being some sort of… — John Wooden
When adults say, "Teenagers think they are invincible" with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are. We need… — John Green

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