#slip

Thoughts are slippery fish in a cold shallow stream. If you are intent on capturing a worthwhile one, you need to stand very still, focus very hard on somewhere outside yourself, and then simply ignore it until it gets so close that it tickles your ankles. Then, pounce. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#slippery #stream #thoughts #inspirational

Well, to be honest I think I'm a better short story writer than a novelist. Novels I find very hard, hours and hours, weeks and weeks, of conscious thought - whereas short stories slip out painlessly in a few days. ↗

— Eric Brown

#conscious #conscious thought #days #few #find

Learning how to love is like learning how to tie your shoes, and that’s precisely why I wear slippers. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#learning #love #shoes #slippers #love

Love is like trying to wrestle an albino. It’s tough because they’re slippery and all lubed up with sunscreen.
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— Jarod Kintz

#albino #love #lube #slip #slippery

...if it weren't for you, mornings wouldn't be so comforting - slippers wouldn't scrape through the rooms of my heart... ↗

— John Geddes

#heart #love #mornings #poetry-quotes #rooms

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip. ↗

— J. M. Barrie

#because #been #golden #hours #letting

Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#anoint #grease #great #king #other

America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people. ↗

— George W. Bush

#defend #never #our #our people #people

When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I'm slipping. ↗

— Maria Callas

#i #know #shall #slipping #stop

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#out #slaves #slip #those #unsaid