Slips Quotes

Times like this, when she slips her hand into mine and holds on tight, and our husband becomes just a shadow in the doorway.

It had been fourteen years and I hadn't had anything published. I had 250 rejection slips. I got my first novel published and it was called Kinflicks. It turned out to be a best seller.

Every time you slip, you owe me a kiss.

I try to attach myself to things around me so that they don't slip away.

Original sin reassures us that our slip was not the first.

Mine! There isn't any such thing as mine. The world slips slithering through my fingers.

I think my prose - mine and that of others - sometimes slips into a cadence or rhythm that can replicate or come close to the music in a wonderful poem, and then it returns to the sound of prose.

Friendship is but a name, faith is an empty name. Alas, it is not safe to praise to a friend the object of your love; as soon as he believes your praises, he slips into your place.

Pain is what I feed from when nothing else will nourish the noxious fury in my heart. It’s what I cling to when everything else—everyone else—slips right between my grasping fingers.

The tongue never slips – remember this always. What goes on within the mind comes invariably on the tongue.

People are bewitched into believing that time slips away, and this belief is the basis of time actually slipping away.

I can't stand it. I can't stand someone being embarrassed. I don't know why. If someone slips over and the first thing they do is look around, I pretend I haven't seen it.

The only way to permanently install a new habit is to direct so much energy toward it that the old one slips away like an unwelcome house guest.

One day you will hear the sound of time rustling as it slips through your fingers like sand. Remember me then. I wish you luck.

One slip. One slip in thousands. The odds had been entirely in her favor. But it hadn't mattered.

You think, 'Here's something I can hold on to,' but it always slips away.

I never had a rejection slip in my life.

In this world we've created Where this place that we live in a blink of an eye the darkness slips in Love lights the world Unites the love that's for eternity.

Some guys just slip under the radar.

I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush piles. I have had a wonderful time.

Ingrateful man with liquorish draughts, and morsels unctuous, greases his pure mind that from it all consideration slips.

Inside every cowboy there's a lady who'd love to slip out.

Authors by the hundreds can tell you stories by the thousands of those rejection slips before they found a publisher who was willing to 'gamble' on an unknown.

Whatever time is giving us, it will take everything back!