Quotes About Slice Of Life

#1. I think that's why I love to read. I'll read almost anything - mystery, suspense, slice of life - but what I really love is romance. Contemporary is good, Historical is better, Paranormal is the best.

S.T. Prussing

#2. Every novel presents a slice of life. A noir policier for example presents one slice, one that perhaps addresses social dysfunction or some sort of pathology, while mine present a slice that is more upbeat and affirmative.

Alexander McCall Smith

#3. For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.

Alfred Hitchcock

#4. I never attempt to write any message or moral into a plot because I find it comes out a little contrived. If you tackle any slice of life faithfully then life will speak to people without you having to spell anything out.

Christian Cook

#5. I don't *ever* write about real people. Art is supposed to be better than that. If you want a slice of life, look out the window.

Barbara Kingsolver

#6. Short stories are my favorite art form. A good one is compact and complete, a telling little slice of life, capturing a moment in time that - for the character - defines her, changes her, is the tipping point for all that will follow.

Ellen Klages

#7. I paint a slice of life, whatever it is that day.

Geoffrey Holder

#8. The best approach is to write a narrative, "slice of life" essay where you focus on a smaller incident, event or moment, and then expand the essay to share what you learned from it.

Janine Robinson

#9. Too much of Indian writing in English, it seemed to me, consisted of middle-class people writing about other middle-class people - and a small slice of life being passed off as an authentic portrait of the country.

Aravind Adiga

#10. A lot of the commercials that I was doing were very slice-of-life, emotional, documentary-style, not big and cinematic and ultimately like the kind of movie I wanted to make.

Dan Trachtenberg

#11. It's not just that reporting gives you a bigger slice of life, gives - lends verisimilitude to what you are doing - it's that it feeds the imagination.

Tom Wolfe

#12. I guess, that's why I'm so greedy with you," Ellis said. "You've given me a slice of life. Now I want the whole damn cake.

Adrienne Wilder

#13. If it's strictly comedy, I like to bring some darkness to it. If it's strictly drama, I always like to lighten it up as well. I like to find some kind of dimension and make my characters human, so that it doesn't feel like a sketch and feels more like a slice of life.

Nestor Carbonell

#14. I want to regard my public as infinitely intelligent, as understanding notions of the suspension of disbelief and as realising all the time that this is not a slice of life, this is openly a film.

Peter Greenaway

#15. I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination.

Carlos Fuentes

#16. I play- it's kind of like a slice-of-life, LA women in their forties, playing forty kind of what's their friendship like, and what's their life like and so I just play one of the four friends.

Joan Cusack

#17. Serving jury duty is a fascinating little slice of life, with its motley crew of personalities.

Nina Garcia

#18. You have this mounting aggressive ignorance with the rabbit's foot of their particular religion. You don't really have any kind of spiritual law, just a kind of a rabid mental illness. The songs are a little slice of life.

Joni Mitchell

#19. Whoever came up with the term "Funny Bone" must have been a masochist, because hitting it is not funny at all ...

Gary Hopkins

#20. If you think of life as like a big pie, you can try to hold the whole pie and kill yourself trying to keep it, or you can slice it up and give some to the people around you, and you still have plenty left for yourself.

Jay Leno

#21. The Kessler Theater is one such gem, an Art Deco beauty ... for a slice of real life, there's always the Kessler.

Ben Fountain

#22. Grace is thoughtful. It considers a back-story, an upbringing, the entire person, and not just a tiny single slice of their life.

J.S. Park

#23. Lardo was getting on in years, and his big belly tended to slow him down a bit.

Sarah Weeks

#24. The Unexpected Gift
Torn asunder from her slumber
in the hour of half past three
The child knew the tyrannical regime
and followed instinctively.
-(slice from Enigmatic Evolution)

Muse

#25. Sometimes I wished I could cut away old memories and let the wind take them. If a sharp knife could pare away the weakness of those days, I would slice until nothing but the hard lessons remained.

Mark Lawrence

#26. That was the moment when Alice knew for sure that she and Charlie Erdling would be friends for the rest of their lives.

Sarah Weeks

#27. South Delhi is such a rich area in Delhi, you could call it the heart of Delhi or a slice of heaven for the rarest sight of Delhiites served with cherry.

Parul Wadhwa

#28. I wanted to preserve this moment, this slice of time when the night was cool and bright with reflected moonlight and the possibility of a kiss hung between us, full of unspent promise. Every event in my life after this would be different because I would have been kissed.

Alex Flinn

#29. Life really is amazing, and when you're about to lose it, you finally notice that you never really took it in before. And you realize the sheer magnitude of what it involves, from your first kiss to your hundredth slice of pizza. I guess that's why those tears drifted down my cheeks.

Ryan C. Thomas

#30. Life tastes better after a slice of cheesecake!

Jason Shaw

#31. Sometimes it didn't matter how much gumption you had. What mattered were the cards you'd been dealt.

Jeannette Walls

#32. Staying in the past does not help, my friend. Everything passes you by while you're trying to relive that one little slice of golden apple that you had.

Ken Dereste Dorcely

#33. He toasted his bacon on a fork and caught the drops of fat on his bread; then he put the rasher on his thick slice of bread, and cut off chunks with a clasp-knife, poured his tea into his saucer, and was happy.

D.H. Lawrence

#34. So learn about life. Cut yourself a big slice with the silver server, a big slice of pie. Open your eyes. Let life happen.

Sylvia Plath

#35. As a rule, she didn't like boys very much, but she had to admit, Charlie was actually pretty nice.

Sarah Weeks

#36. She is my reprieve. My air. Spencer Locke is the one slice of happy I have in this shit pie I call life.

L.B. Simmons

#37. A piece of freedom is no longer enough for human beings ... unlike bread, a slice of liberty does not finish hunger. Freedom is like life. It cannot be had in installments. Freedom is indivisible
we have it all, or we are not free.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#38. Well... I say that but what I really wish for, is this peacefully insignificant days, could just continue on forever.

Inio Asano

#39. Work is a slice of your life. It's not the entire pizza.

Jacquelyn Mitchard

#40. Not sweet like fruits, the heart of a maiden is a little sour.

Bunjuro Nakayama

#41. Who knows anybody?

Derek Kirk Kim

#42. By focusing on such a narrow slice of Nepali life, Ms. Spray and Mr. Velez have ceded any totalizing claim on the truth and instead settled for a perfect incompleteness.

Manohla Dargis

#43. Alice wondered if her mother was aware that she wasn't the only one in town who'd come down with a bad case of Blueberry Fever.

Sarah Weeks

#44. A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.

Alfred Hitchcock

#45. No matter how I feel, I get up, dress up, and show up for life. When I do, the day always serves up more than I could have hoped for. Each day truly is a slice of heaven. Some days the slices are just smaller than others.

Regina Brett

#46. For me, the short story is not a character sketch, a mouse trap, an epiphany, a slice of suburban life. It is the flowering of a symbol center. It is a poem grafted onto sturdier stock.

William H Gass

#47. Julie Czerneda's inner editor says, 'One day her expectations will meet reality and actually get along.

Julie E. Czerneda

#48. Each line she etched into the metal was another life cut off, another heart stopped at the slice of this very blade.
A hundred lives to cover up the pain of the very first. A hundred more to shovel away the hurt into a place that was dark and deep.

Sasha Alsberg

#49. Seeing someone happy on set is just a very small slice of the reality of an actor's life.

Katherine Waterston

#50. -I'm a girl, I'm his friend and I'm attractive too, so don't just ignore me like I was a pile of squid guts! She felt like saying back to them.

Andrew James Pritchard

#51. Would any of you like to share your career aspirations within the class? Jim?

I dunno, to be honest, I was just hoping to be able to keep the demons away...

Jillian Tamaki

#52. That's why writers write - to say things loudly with ink. To give feet to thoughts; to make quiet, still feelings loudly heard.

Tarryn Fisher

#53. This is the whistle-stop memoir of how a lower-middle-class girl from the north of England one day changed the way she lived her life and set off on a bumpy path that ultimately led her to her own slice of the happily-ever-after pie.

Tillie Cole

#54. But you go through with it, continue to fight, because you hope one day it won't be like this. Life can be so cruel. It doles out just enough hope to keep you going, like a small cup of water and one slice of bread to someone on the verge of starvation.

Marisha Pessl

#55. After all, what doesn't kill you ... just really pisses you off.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#56. I think what people see in me is one slice of who I am. It does permeate my life in the sense that I don't like to be told what to do, or how to be, or how I can do it. But I'm probably a lot tamer than people would expect.

Joan Jett