Quotes About A Slag

#1. In the 1950s, when I was hanging around Sullivan's Gym and the Gramercy Gym, there were fixed fights. Mob guys like Frankie Carbo and Blinky Palermo had taken over the sport; one lightweight champion loaned his title to others at least twice; the welterweight division was a slag heap.

Pete Hamill

#2. I'm a bit of a slag ... Some people don't think it's very nice, but I don't care ... I've got hormones, and sex is there, so why not? Sex is good. Everybody does it, and everybody should!

Robbie Williams

#3. Is a park any better than a coal mine? What's a mountain got that a slag pile hasn't? What would you rather have in your garden
an almond tree or an oil well?

Jean Giraudoux

#4. Call me a slag. If it means being a strong woman, I'll gladly be that.

Christina Aguilera

#5. I don't buy into you're on the slag heap when you're 40 or 50 or 60 or 70 or whatever.

Joan Collins

#6. All the money in the world doesn't make you a better person. It simply means that you have more money.

Frank Sonnenberg

#7. Men and women are hard ore, we do not go to slag in a mere few seasons of forge.

Ivan Doig

#8. Sometimes,
you must refrain from doing things you want so bad.

Toba Beta

#9. I am a massive slag!" I think to myself, in a motivational way. "I'm a Lady Sex Adventuress! I'm a Pirate of Privates! I'm a swashfuckler!" ... I think of "Teenage Whore" by Courtney Love as my personal anthem.

Caitlin Moran

#10. For in a way that feels quite unfair, the only way I can gain any qualifications at this thing
sex
that is seen as so societally important and desirable, is by being a massive slag
which is *not* seen as societally important and desirable. This often makes me furious.

Caitlin Moran

#11. Fear was like heat applied to steal: Applied correctly it might forge a blade; overused, it turned metal to slag.

Alexander Freed

#12. He was a squirrel. Could he be a superhero, too?

Kate DiCamillo

#13. We human beings are definitely capable of loving more than one person, but it seems to go more smoothly if we don't love more than one person at a time.

Amy Dickinson

#14. You're drunk."
"That's right I am. I'm fifty-three and I'm as wild as a Welshman with a leek up his arse. Fifty-three. Old slag Gail. What right has she to poke her nose into your shining armour? That's what you're thinking isn't it honey?

Jeanette Winterson

#15. I hate it when people slag us off. We had done three tours during 1970 and we finished off feeling we had just about had enough. We had done so much in that short space of time, we were drained.

John Bonham

#16. City of Wizards is normally quite a GOOD thing, since only Good WIZARDS seem able to live together ... There have been cities of EVIL Wizards in the past. You will occasionally come across the sites of these, reduced to a glassy slag during the ultimate disagreement.

Diana Wynne Jones

#17. Many worry about their outer appearance much more then their inner bearing. It's nice to have great and expensive things such as cars and houses but even better to know the greater principles in life to help maintain and keep them.

Timothy Pina

#18. If you are going to abandon your work because someone speaks ill of it, then it has never been your work, has it? It becomes theirs. You give it up.

Robin Oliveira

#19. The rivers that sprang from Hvergelmir streamed into the void. The yeasty venom in them thickened and congealed like slag, and the rivers turned into ice.

Kevin Crossley-Holland

#20. Leafless trees stand atop slag heaps like skeleton hands shoved up from the underworld.

Anthony Doerr

#21. Los Angeles, this anthill, this slag heap, the city where I suffered and grappled with life and was defeated, and where I finally triumphed.

Donald O'Donovan

#22. England's not a bad country? It's just a mean, cold, ugly, divided, tired, clapped-out, post-imperial, post- industrial slag-heap covered in polystyrene hamburger cartons. 286

Margaret Drabble

#23. In this broad earth of ours, Amid the measureless grossness and the slag, Enclosed and safe within its central heart, Nestles the seed of perfection.

Walt Whitman

#24. My paternal grandfather Rustom Mehta had a huge influence on me because of his ethics and his values.

Zarin Mehta

#25. The cross stands as the final symbol that no evil exists that God cannot turn into a blessing. He is the living Alchemist who can take the dregs from the slag-heaps of life - disappointment, frustration, sorrow, disease, death, economic loss, heartache - and transform the dregs into gold.

Catherine Marshall

#26. That said, I'm embarrassed and furious that so many coal-state Democrats in the U.S. Senate are paralyzing international progress to protect the short term interests of a dying industry that ravages the environment from mine to slag heap.

Denis Hayes

#27. It's always wise to seek the truth in our opponents' error, and the error in our own truth.

Reinhold Niebuhr

#28. In the last moments of his life Ciro realized that a truly good man is a rarity, a speck of gold in a mountain of slag.

Adriana Trigiani

#29. I do not believe that anything really worthwhile will come out of the exploration of the slag heap that constitutes the surface of the moon ... Nobody should imagine that the enormous financial budget of NASA implies that astronomy is now well supported.

Fred Hoyle

#30. When we did 'The Office,' no one knew who we were, so it was easy to champion us; you could own us. Once you become successful, people don't have that any more, so it becomes more polarised. Some people want to champion you, and others want to slag you off. It doesn't concern me.

Stephen Merchant

#31. Supporters have every divine right to slag your players off when they're not winning games.

Dean Windass

#32. You don't have to have an attitude if you're famous.

Adriana Lima

#33. Poetry was the processing of my thoughts until the slag of justification fell away and I was left with the cold steel truths of life.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#34. In God's economy, nothing is slag, nothing is wasted. Every relationship we build is a teacher, every experience we have is a coach. In every scar there is a lesson. In every memory there lives potential to make more.

Toni Sorenson

#35. I watched 'Rocky' and 'Raging Bull' and 'Taxi Driver' over and over again. They spoke to you, man.

Paddy Considine