Slip Quotes

With women, I've got a long bamboo pole with a leather loop on the end. I slip the loop around their necks so they can't get away or come too close. Like catching snakes.

I want to sit down, and I want to laugh. Nothing works better for me than watching somebody slip on a banana peel.

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices.

America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people.

I still get butterflies when I'm doing a runway show. The music starts, you're wearing these gorgeous clothes and your nervous about your high heels, if your shoes are going to break, if your going to slip or do something wrong.

People watch me, waiting for me to slip up, so my privacy has gone - but that's a price you pay.

It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments.

Here is what we know after more than a decade of Republican rule: Texas works. Even 'The New York Times' let it slip into its pages that, 'Texas is the future.'

Passion can quickly slip to jealousy, or even hatred.

I have before me a newspaper slip on which a writer expresses the opinion that no one should be allowed to possess more than one million dollars' worth of property.

You know, all writers are vampires and they'll look around and they watch you when you're not even thinking they're watching you and they'll slip stuff in.

Page one of any economic plan to get America working is to give a pink slip to the current resident in the White House.

I do take class because I still dance, and yes, I do slip into class with the Royal Ballet from time to time.

If it's supposed to be a really passionate snog, you slip the tongue in.

Either you let your life slip away by not doing the things you want to do, or you get up and do them.

The United States is the most innovative country in the world. But our leadership could slip away if we fail to properly fund primary, secondary and higher education.

Well, you know, in any political campaign, you're gonna have people on one side that are gonna slip a reporter something because they think it'll hurt the guy on the other side.

What our leaders and pundits never let slip is that the terrorists - whatever else they might be - might also be rational human beings; which is to say that in their own minds they have a rational justification for their actions.

When Nirvana became popular, you could very easily slip and get lost during that storm. I fortunately had really heavy anchors - old friends, family.

My main point is to be funny; if I can slip a message in there, fine.

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

The funny thing is that people see one film like 'Racing Stripes' or 'Ice Princess' and all of a sudden, slip me into this category of 'that's what she's always involved in.'

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.

All day long the door of the sub-conscious remains just ajar; we slip through to the other side, and return again, as easily and secretly as a cat.

I mean, you know, God knows everything, but I'm not quite that good. Every once in a while, something will slip by me.

I slip from workaholic to bum real easy.

Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.

Even though this is late in an election year, there is no way we can go forward except together and no way anybody can win except by serving the people's urgent needs. We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together.

I'm lucky that my real-life Mom has both a great sense of humor about herself and an amazing ability to slip into complete denial if the subject matter gets a little too close to home.