Slips Quotes

Without hurting anybody, we all tend to laugh at others' discomfort. When someone slips on a banana skin and falls it's funny.

Often while traveling with a camera we arrive just as the sun slips over the horizon of a moment, too late to expose film, only time enough to expose our hearts.

I had immediate success in the sense that I sold something right off the bat. I thought it was going to be a piece of cake and it really wasn't. I have drawers full of - or I did have - drawers full of rejection slips.

No, I don't autograph blank slips, checks, or stickers, and certainly no books without me in them.

Whenever I write a novel, music just sort of naturally slips in (much like cats do, I suppose).

I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long.

Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.

I used to save all my rejection slips because I told myself, one day I'm going to autograph these and auction them. And then I lost the box.

The West has always been the epicentre of possibility. One of the ways we forge against mortality is to head west. It's to do with catching the sun before it slips behind the horizon.

But I don't want massive layoffs of anyone - public or private. We are planning on shrinking government through attrition and reform, not through random pink slips.

These heroes of finance are like beads on a string; when one slips off, all the rest follow.

When under attack, no country is obligated to collect permission slips from allies to strike back.

By 17, I was submitting to publications and collecting my first rejection slips.