Sly Quotes

89 Sly quotes by 79 unique authors

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
The man smiled at him a sly smile. As if they knew a secret between them, these two. Something of age and youth and their… — Cormac McCarthy
The word itself has another color. It’s not a word with any resonance, although the e was once pronounced. There is only the bump now… — William H. Gass
Sheep are not the docile, pleasant creatures of the pastoral idyll. Any countryman will tell you that. They are sly, occasionally vicious, pathologically stupid. The… — Joanne Harris
Tell me about this Wizard Howl of yours." "He's the best wizard in Ingary or anywhere else. If he'd only had time, he would have… — Diana Wynne Jones
We would lie on coral sand, below sugary stars, watching Cassiopeia mount her throne and the Great Bear wash its paws in the South. I… — Diane Ackerman
If you don't want me to see, I guess, don't sleep in the same room as me." He looks at her with a sly smile.… — Lisa McMann
I have known some horses and a good many more pigs who I believe harbored evil intent in their hearts. I will go further and… — Charles Portis
I'm a fool, to confuse this with goodness. I am not good. I know too much to be good. I know myself. I know myself… — Margaret Atwood
This is a, uh, friendship ring right?” “Yeah, don’t worry. If I propose, you’ll know it. For one thing, I’ll be hyperventilating.” A sly smile—surprisingly… — Richelle Mead
RJD was pretty much heavy metal personified, a tiny 5-foot-4-inch sorcerer with a mangy mane, demonic eyes and sly grin, all coupled to a simply… — Mark Morford

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