Slips Quotes

I wrote for twelve years and collected 250 rejection slips before getting any fiction published, so I guess outside reinforcement isn't all that important to me.

It is a challenge to have your launch date slip continuously.

It is sometimes best to slip over thoughts and not go to the bottom of them.

Have you noticed," she asked him, "how we live much of our lives in the past and most of the rest of it in the future? Have you noticed how often the present moment slips by quiet unnoticed?

Deliberando saepe perit occasio [The opportunity often slips away while we deliberate on it].

Caring is a reflex. Someone slips, your arm goes out. A car is in the ditch, you join others and push... You live, you help.

Time slips through our hands like grains of sand, never to return again.

Walking with Murphy through the bone-freezing chill toward the bus stop, I start shivering. And somehow, when he slips his arm around me to warm me up, it feels right. Righter than anything ever has.

Art makes you reinvent the wheel with regularity. If you don't, art gets bored and slips away.

because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie.

a letter ... changes utterly the moment it slips inside an envelope. It stops being mine. It becomes yours. What I mean is gone. What you understand is all that remains.

Nobody told me how hard it was going to be to get published. I wrote four novels that nobody wanted, sent them out all over, collected hundreds and hundreds of rejection slips.

Thanking people is dangerous business. A name always slips your mind.

Now and then genius carries all before it, but not often. We have to climb slowly, with many slips and falls.

God writes with a pen that never blots, speaks with a tongue that never slips, acts with a hand that never fails

While your client is watching for you at the front door, slip out at the back.

The present is what slips by us while we're pondering the past and worrying about the future.

Nothing in the outer world makes you feel any way. You decide what you want to feel, and then use outer people and events as permission slips to execute your feeling agenda.

Wendy!” Finn shouted pulling me from my moment with Loki. “What are you doing? You’re married. And not to him.” “Nothing slips by you does it.” Loki asked.

Evil is retributive: every trespass slips fetters on the will, holds the soul in durance till contrition and repentance restore it to liberty.

He has, like me, a sense of smell. I let him inhale me, then I slip away.

I think when you're live on TV in an unscripted environment a lot slips through the cracks of your real self. People can read my face, they know what I'm thinking.

A lot of my work comes through accidents or circumstances that just happen to present themselves. I have to realize that something is presenting itself. Otherwise it slips right by.

We spend our lives dreaming of the future, not realizing that a little of it slips away every day.

The problem with improvisation is, of course, that everyone just slips into their comfort zone and does sort of the easy thing to do, the most obvious thing to do with your instrument.

I love signing autographs. I'll sign anything but veal cutlets. My ballpoint slips on veal cutlets.

Everything changes. The more I try to hold on to the moment, the more it slips through my fingers.

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.

Nothing could be closer than the present, yet nothing slips away faster.

Just as soon as the uplifters get a country reformed it slips into a nose dive.

Frankly, our technology is not up to date. We're letting it slip by.

The words in this book are all phooey. When you say them, your lips will make slips and back flips and your tongue may end up in Saint Looey!

if only my whole life could be words and music, if only everything else could slip away.

Hee stands not surely, that never slips.

... my today's self perpetually slips out of any hold of it that I may try to take.

Excuse me while I slip into something more comfortable.

But high up on the mountain When the wind is hitting it If you're watching very closely The rock slips a little bit.

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

The grief in her green eyes slips then hardens and, for an instant, Pendleton sees the woman she has become and has no right being, not at sixteen.

You do it a day at a time. You just put your rejection slips in a shoebox and tell yourself one day you're going to autograph them and sell them at auction.

It's very rare that an older comedian sort of slips into an old-school clunker. You know, you don't hear too much of that anymore.

I married a woman who's not going to take anything. No slips. She's very accountable, and she holds me very accountable.

There are normal hours, and then there are invalid hours, where time stalls and slips, where life---real life---seems to exist at one remove.

I am not trying to be young again. But I do feel the need to capture that energy in story form before it slips from my mind, to recount those adventures if not relive them.

I don't go out of my way to write Weird Fiction, or in any other genre. Some of my stuff easily slips into the Weird slot.

There's something so muffled about the way you experience things. It's as if you were trying to slip through life unchanged.

There's many a slip twixt the blueprints and a new house.

Sometimes while you wait for what you think is better, Philomene said, what is good enough slips away.

Though tightly the net of words forms, how surely truth slips out.

Heaven's net is very vast. It is sparsely meshed, yet nothing slips through.