Slippery Quotes - Page 3

• seven wonders of the world and I have to ask for an eighth fill a bottle with some prayers and spend them on hope create an easy route just so I can complicate send my heart down that slippery slope

  David Levithan

  Prayer, Heart, Bottles

  David Levithan (2008). “The Realm of Possibility”, p.36, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Trepando por el sendero de la Montaña Fría, El sendero de la Montaña Fría sigue y sigue: El largo desfiladero atascado de pedruscos y rocas, El ancho arroyo, la hierba difuminada por la niebla. El musgo está resbaladizo, aunque no ha llovido El pino canta, pero no hay viento. ¿Quién puede saltar las ataduras del mundo y sentarse conmigo entre las nubes blancas?

  Gary Snyder

  Rain, Clouds, Wind

  Gary Snyder (2010). “Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems”, p.46, Counterpoint Press

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• Reading is an escape, an education, a delving into the brain of another human being on such an intimate level that every nuance of thought, every snapping of synapse, every slippery desire of the author is laid open before you like, well, a book.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Book, Reading, Brain

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• There were no men in this painting, but it was about men, the kind who caused women to fall. I did not ascribe any intentions to these men. They were like the weather, they didn't have a mind. They merely drenched you or struck you like lightning and moved on, mindless as blizzards. Or they were like rocks, a line of sharp slippery rocks with jagged edges. You could walk with care along between the rocks, picking your steps, and if you slipped you'd fall and cut yourself, but it was no use blaming the rocks.

  Margaret Atwood

  Fall, Cutting, Men

  Margaret Atwood, Victor-Lévy Beaulieu, Phyllis Aronoff, Howard Scott (1998). “Two Solicitudes: Conversations”, McClelland & Stewart

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• Pero aquel bosque de mimosas, la bruma de estrellas, el cosquilleo, la llama, el rocío de miel y el dolor permanecieron conmigo, y aquella niña con sus miembros costeros y su lengua ardiente me persiguió desde entonces". "esta es mi historia. la he releído. tiene trozos de médula pegados, y sangre, y hermosas moscas de color verde brillante. en este o aquel giro de ella siento que mi escurridizo yo se me escapa, deslizándose en aguas más profundas y oscuras de lo que me gustaría sondear.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Beautiful, Girl, Stars

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• Cada noche, Liesel salía, limpiaba la puerta y observaba el cielo. Normalmente era como un derrame -frío y pesado, resbaladizo y gris-, pero de vez en cuando algunas estrellas se atrevían a elevarse y flotar, aunque sólo fuera durante unos minutos. En esas noches, se quedaba un poco más y esperaba. Hola, estrellas.

  Markus Zusak

  Estrellas, Noche, Puertas

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• No podía imaginarse a nadie enamorándose perdidamente de una persona como Fish. Qué nombre, Fish... Fish: piensa en frío, resbaladizo, distante. Benedict: piensa en un monje erudito de la Edad Media. Denniston: piensa en una escuela preparatoria inglesa, un terco terrateniente. Su nombre no tenía nada de romántico.

  Regina Doman

  Country, Fall, School

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• ...el placer, por supuesto, es una palabra resbaladiza.... Nuestros placeres nos pertenecen en última instancia, no a la fuente del placer.

  Billy Collins

  Pleasure, Source, Courses

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• You can't exceed the system with language.  You can only exceed the system with events; recommended procedures that are better.  You can't exceed the system by telling people to be good, be kind, be considerate...  You have to take away the conditions that makes it necessary for you to be kind.  And to be kind, you design highways that aren't slippery; where no accidents, or less accidents, occur.  In the future, everybody becomes an innovator - a creator.

  Jacque Fresco

  People, Design, Events

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• I like the dry-cleaners. I like the sense of refreshment and renewal. I like the way dirty old torn clothes are dumped, to be returned clean and wholesome in their slippery transparent cases. Better than confesssion any day. Here there is a true sense of rebirth, redemption, salvation.

  Fay Weldon

  Dirty, Clothes, Redemption

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• La razón es una ninfa flexible y escurridiza como un pez por naturaleza. Le daría igual besar un absurdo que una verdad silogística. El absurdo puede resultar más verdadero.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Nature, Kissing, Nymphs

  D. H. Lawrence (1966). “Selected Poems of D.h. Lawrence”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• El cementerio tiene... una inscripción: 'Aunque camine por el Valle de la Sombra de la Muerte, no temeré al mal, porque Tú estás conmigo'. Sí, parece engañosamente más seguro con dos; pero Tú eres un personaje escurridizo. Cada Tú que he conocido ha tenido una forma de desaparecer.

  Margaret Atwood

  Art, Character, Two

  Margaret Atwood (2007). “The Blind Assassin: A Novel”, p.44, Anchor

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• We only came close to dying six or seven times, which I thought was pretty good. Once, I lost my grip and found myself dangling by one hand from a ledge fifty feet above the rocky surf. But I found another handhold and kept climbing. A minute later Annabeth hit a slippery patch of moss and her foot slipped. Fortunately, she found something else to put it against. Unfortunately, that something was my face. "Sorry," she murrmured. "S'okay," I grunted, though I'd never really wanted to know what Annabeth's sneaker tasted like.

  Rick Riordan

  Sorry, Sneakers, Feet

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Sea of Monsters”, Disney-Hyperion

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• Mantenía los dedos de la mano izquierda cruzados todo el tiempo, mientras que con los de la derecha contaba cualquier cosa -pasos hasta la nevera, segundos en el reloj, palabras de una frase- para mantener la cabeza ocupada. Contar me parecía algo a lo que aferrarme, como si encontrar los números correctos pudiera descifrar de algún modo el código de cualquier sistema que dirigiera el escurridizo universo en el que nos movíamos.

  Mary Karr

  Moving, Hands, Numbers

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• Easy climb, Kurokuma. You do it easily.' 'Not on your life,' Horace said... 'That's what we have Rangers for. They climb up sheer rock walls and crawl along narrow, slippery ledges. I'm a trained warrior, and I'm far to valuable to risk such shenanigans.' 'We're not valuable?' Will said, feigning insult. Horace looked at him. 'We've got two of you. We can always afford to lose one,' he said firmly.

  John Flanagan

  Wall, Warrior, Rocks

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• Jump into an open grave? What kind of idiot are you?" Butters replied. "I might as well put on a red shirt and volunteer for the away team. There's snow and ice and slippery mud down there. That's like asking for an ironically broken neck.

  Jim Butcher

  Team, Ice, Snow

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• I peeled the skin off a grape in slippery little triangles, and I understood then that I would be undressing every item of food I could because my clothes would be staying on.

  Aimee Bender

  Clothes, Dating, Skins

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• Once you begin reviewing judgment calls, which in basketball there are many, you put yourself on a very slippery slope in terms of what could be reviewed, and ultimately the number of reviews that could take place that would make it unwieldy.

  Stu Jackson

  Basketball, Numbers, Slippery Slope

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• A Christian home! What a power it is to the child when he is far away in the cold, tempting world, and voices of sin are filling his ears, and his feet stand on slippery places.

  Abbott Eliot Kittredge

  Christian, Children, Home

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 324, 1895.

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• It's in our nature. If you are a plumber, there is an objective way to establish whether you put together a great piping system or not. Art is a bit more slippery than that. So, when you fill a gallery with dirt and someone comes along waving wads of bills, it's difficult not to take them because they become a tangible acknowledgement that what you've been doing actually makes sense.

  Maurizio Cattelan

  Art, Together, Tangible

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• no hay nada tan incierto y resbaladizo como los hechos.

  Sara Coleridge

  Facts, Uncertain

  Sara Coleridge Coleridge (1873). “Memoir and Letters of Sara Coleridge”, p.190

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• In a way, a garden is the most useless of creations, the most slippery of creations: it is not like a painting or a piece of sculpture-it won't accrue value as time goes on. Time is its enemy' time passing is merely the countdown for the parting between garden and gardener.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Garden, Enemy, Sculpture

  Jamaica Kincaid (2001). “My Garden (Book)”, p.96, Macmillan

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• Una vez al mes me despierto por la noche, escurridiza de terror. Tengo miedo, no porque haya alguien en la habitación, en la oscuridad, en la cama, sino porque no lo hay. Tengo miedo del vacío, que yace a mi lado como un cadáver.

  Margaret Atwood

  Lying, Dark, Night

  Margaret Atwood (2011). “Wilderness Tips”, p.189, Anchor

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• I would've written this story [Django] if [Barack] Obama were president or if he never existed. For one, I think it's time to tell a story that deals with this subject America has avoided for so long. Most countries have been forced to deal with the atrocities of their past that still affect them to this day. But America has been pretty slippery in the way that it has avoided looking slavery in the eye. I believe that's a problem.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Country, Believe, Eye

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• If you are ignorant enough, you can walk like a cat on the slippery roof-ridge of danger.

  Austin O'Malley

  Cat, Ignorant, Enough

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