Words matter. These are the best Slippery Quotes from famous people such as Rumaan Alam, Dave Itzkoff, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, S.E. Cupp, Michelle Dean, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Children’s literature – the product of adult guesswork – often fails to account for its audience’s slippery grasp on the world.
It’s a slippery slope when you make the argument that hip hop is only a black person’s art. Certainly, its origins are in that community, but if you want it to endure as an art form you have to let other people have their way with it.
When you get on to fresh grass courts you always know that they might be a bit slippery but you have to adjust accordingly.
I am so sick and tired of participating in this predictable cycle of politics, where a mass shooting happens, the left calls for new gun laws – some meaningful, some unproductive – the right yells ‘slippery slope’ and hides behind the Constitution.
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.
This society in which we live is radically changing. What previous generations saw as evil is now embraced as being good. It is a dangerous and slippery slope upon which we stand when we reject what Solomon called the beginning of wisdom – the fear of God.
I mean, happiness is a slippery thing. What makes you happy one day can make you miserable the next.
I think mental illness is a slippery slope to talk about these days because people are overly diagnosed, overly prescribed, overly everything.
In the past, I often found that when I reached out for a fast cure it led me down a slippery slope of more medications, hopeful dependence on the next prescription and ultimately a much longer drawn-out illness.
For me, the comedies that truly work are the ones that are grounded in some way. If it’s all heightened, it’s really hard. It’s a little slippery. It’s hard to get purchase on the side of the wall.
When I think of a song, I think of it as a beast. You chase these beasts around the room and try to grab them and put them in a tape machine. But they’re slippery, and they run away a lot.
When I see a slippery slope, my instinct is to build a terrace.
I love the ’60s and sort of wish all design had stopped in 1967. That would be my dream. They were really just nailing it – everyone looked great – but then it started getting a bit slippery after that.
If you are not willing to be a lone wolf, keep your truth to yourself. If you want acceptance and your truths to be spoken, it is a slippery slope.
Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away.
One cheat meal is fine, but keep it at one, because if you do another, then it’s a slippery slope.
The Volkswagen Group has proved that it can remain firmly on track even when the terrain is slippery.
The argument has been made in Congress that it is slippery slope if you allow therapeutic, what people people are calling therapeutic cloning, then you will get reproductive cloning.
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.
There is no ‘slippery slope’ toward loss of liberties, only a long staircase where each step downward must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders.
Many Europeans are concerned that stronger sanctions are a slippery slope toward war unless the U.S. is at the table.
A little bit of sun does wonders! With good protection, of course. Vitamin D is just so good for your hair and your nails. I also love coconut water and coconut oil from Whole Foods. It’s amazing. You can cook with it, shower with it… you come out of the shower like a slippery seal, but it works.
No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
And I like to keep whatever is mine remaining that way. It’s a funny little game to play and it’s a slippery slope. I always say to myself I’m never going to give anything away because there’s never any point or benefit for me.
More guns equaling more safety is a slippery slope, and what makes it so is human blood.
Torture is such a slippery slope; as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get a situation where people are being tortured for very trivial reasons.
And if you get caught up in combing the Internet for what people think of you or how people perceive you, I think that’s a slippery slope.
There’s a slippery slope in regard to authority. If you say that the history in Genesis is not true, then you can just take man’s ideas as true. When you go outside of Scripture, why shouldn’t you just reinterpret what marriage means? So our emphasis is on the slippery slope regarding authority.
The U.S. Senate does not allow legislative provisions to be included in appropriations bills, for much the same reason that most Americans are concerned about earmarks: it creates a slippery slope by which lobbyists and special interest groups can sneak provisions into large, must-pass legislation.
Never bend the rules. You bend the rules a little bit and then it’s a slippery slope.
Grief and memory go together. After someone dies, that’s what you’re left with. And the memories are so slippery yet so rich.
I walked along that slippery slope where if you fail through lack of faith, you sell your soul to the devil.
Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery.
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.
So much about Trump is… mysterious and slippery. Everything in his business record, you had to ask him for the details. He made himself the only source. He would either not tell you, or he was often an unreliable narrator about his own life.
The idea that we can make all things safe for all behaviors is in itself a dangerous and slippery slope.
As reporters set aside their traditional role as fact seekers and veer into advocacy, they find themselves on a slippery journalistic slope.
I’ve always felt that sexuality is a really slippery thing. In this day and age, it tends to get categorized and labeled, and I think labels are for food. Canned food.
I’m not a big fan of the George Lucas school of meddling and tinkering. That’s a slippery slope.
My favourite pool is located in a remote valley in the eastern Lake District, surrounded by vine-hung cliffs and slippery boulders. It has a torrential sheet waterfall at one end and is almost black in colour, so it appears bottomless, a portal to nowhere.
Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.
The premise of Nossiter in ‘Mondovino’ would have been a lot more accurate when I started writing about wine in 1978 than when the movie was made in 2003. When I started, I was enormously critical of California wines, and I thought the entire wine industry was on a real slippery slope.
The definition of gumbo is almost as slippery as that of Creole. Just as gumbo can contain pretty much any kind of meat or seafood, Creole is a vague and inclusive term for native New Orleanians, who may be black or white, depending on whom you’re asking.
There are two types of claims: those based on hard numbers and those based on slippery numbers.
No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
Well, love is a difficult thing to hold on to. It’s a slippery little beast. It will hold you and then it will elude you at any moment.
It’s a very slippery slope when you have a world champion boxer fighting an MMA guy for the sake of money, and he can’t knock him out in the first round. He has to make sure he carries him a little bit.
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.
There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity.
I think social media is a slippery slope because while you’re projecting something out to people, they also project back onto you what they want to see.
The dirt was OK, but once you hit the grass… Wet grass is slippery.
I wish the press were paying more attention to the erosion of the Constitution and the slippery slope that we’re getting into, by giving up the right of the Congress to talk about when and how and where we go to war.
I think there is something about countries and nations that is hard to define. And, in fact, that’s probably why we create such massive boundaries – because it’s so slippery where they begin and where they end.
Every politician, every president gets votes by getting people that don’t like him to like him. That’s why politicians are slippery: because they talk out of both sides of their mouth.
Above all else stands the burning question of bipartisanship. Whatever else the politicians might say they’re about, our news analysts know that this is the true object of the nation’s desire, the topic to which those slippery presidential spokesmen need always to be dragged back.
