Quotes About Slippery

Memories are like mercury. Every time you sort of try to get near them, they slip out of your hand like a bar of soap.

Moister than an oyster, Monty.

Somebody always leaves a banana-skin on the scene of tragedy.

Oh, that river of wishes, the slippery crocodile dream of it, how it might have carried my body down through all the glittering sand bars to the sea.

Love is a slippery eel that bites like hell

Trust is as slippery as a basket of eels sometimes.

Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.

No critic and advocate of immutability has ever once managed properly or even marginally to outwit the English language's capacity for foxy and relentlessly slippery flexibility. For English is a language that simply cannot be fixed, not can its use ever be absolutely laid down. It changes constantly; it grows with an almost exponential joy. It evolves eternally; its words alter their senses and their meanings subtly, slowly, or speedily according to fashion and need.

Jonathan Swift mounted a lifelong attempt to 'fix our language forever'—no critic and advocate of immutability has ever once managed properly or even marginally to outwit the English language's capacity for foxy and relentlessly slippery flexibility.

pleasure, of course, is a slippery word.... Our pleasures ultimately belong to us, not to the pleasure's source.

In its wild state, the truth is fluid, slippery, vagrant, scrambled, promiscuous, kaleidoscopic, and beautiful.

Truth is like a waterslide-only fun when it's slippery and wet.

The next morning was Chicago cool, a slippery slope in late fall that could quickly deteriorate to cold, freezing cold, arctic cold, and why-the-fuck-would-anyone-live-here cold.

Navani!" Dalinar shouted, pulling his horse to a slippery stop across the tarp from her. "I need a miracle!" "Working on it," she shouted back.

The impulse to eschew the unpleasant leads to avoidance; avoidance leads to aversion; aversion leads to fear; fear leads to hatred; hatred leads to aggression. Unwittingly, the oh-so-natural instinct to avoid the unpleasant becomes the root of hatred. It leads to war: war within, war without. Entertaining aversion is a slippery slope.

You certainly miss a lot of things about Indianapolis. I miss a lot of friends in Indy. St. Elmo's. The Slippery Noodle. Amalfi's.

When you get on to fresh grass courts you always know that they might be a bit slippery but you have to adjust accordingly.

It's become a cliche to say that a piece of drama is about 'the nature of truth.' But 'Rectify' so openly plays with the slippery nature of memory that the label directly applies.

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.

The idea that we can make all things safe for all behaviors is in itself a dangerous and slippery slope.

I have been reporting on celebrity stuff my whole career and am very aware that fame is a slippery slope.

I've done a fair bit of work in the dramatic space researching extremism and how it operates and it gets inside your head and how people get radicalized by it. It's a very slippery slope.

I think if I let the team's performance dictate how I behave or how I perceive my performance, or whether or not there's value, or whether or not anyone even cares, it's a dangerous and slippery slope.

He liked walls the color of some creature's muted underside or the soft inner petal of a plant, slippery leather banquettes and a silky curl of gravlax served on a slick white plate.