Quotes About Slots

#1. As young people, we are surrounded by expectations that may have little to do with who we really are, expectations held by people who are not trying to discern our selfhood but to fit us into slots.

Parker J. Palmer

#2. There may be a perception that, with franchises, they're all the same, so that limits the ability to experiment. But that's not true. We've always kept two slots open on the menu of each Subway franchise - slots that franchisees can use to come up with their own sandwich ideas.

Fred DeLuca

#3. Took a look at the bookstore lot, filled to capacity with the exception of a few slots

Janet Evanovich

#4. Producing an animation series merely to fill time slots in the broadcast schedule is like generating cultural pollution.

Hayao Miyazaki

#5. I kiss her and the whole universe slots into place. Music plays in my head. Music so beautiful, I think I'm listening to the stars singing.

Claire Merle

#6. Love's a funny thing, especially with a man who gets paid to put junk in other people's slots. (The Mail Man)

Andrew Sturm

#7. You know damn well that's not how the wire works, and if you weren't afraid of it, you'd have one yourself. It's the same as the implants, just like the dollie-slots, but it gives me an edge, yeah, because I'm not afraid of it, of what I can do with it.

Melissa Scott

#8. Diesel was smiling at Grandma. "You blew through almost two hundred thousand and you were playing dollar slots? That's impressive." "Especially since some of that time I was winning," Grandma said. "Twelve dollars?" "Yep. I was on a roll.

Janet Evanovich

#9. If I gamble, I go for the lowest-end blackjack or slots. It's because I don't like to lose!

Bill Rancic

#10. I think in any industry, it is competitive. There are a certain number of slots out there and opportunities out there. So you need to make sure that you're always on the top of your toes, trying to get better.

Dominique Dawes

#11. The best meeting I ever went to was a meeting in France where the talk slots were 60 minutes long, but you were told to prepare a five-minute talk. It was absolutely great because the entire talk was a conversation between the speaker and the audience.

Tim Hunt

#12. When you get performance slots for award shows - that's a big deal for me.

Luke Bryan

#13. Today you can start a blog, build an audience, and give the advertising slots to AdBrite or Google AdSense.

Jason Calacanis

#14. My dad was never one of those dads you could ask for a quarter if you saw a gumball machine. Instead he had one of those black American Express cards not available to general public. Gumball machines didn't have slots for those.

S.A. Bodeen

#15. In the end, arguing about affirmative action in selective colleges is like arguing about the size of a spigot while ignoring the pool and the pipeline that feed it. Slots at Duke and Princeton and Cal are finite.

Eric Liu

#16. I think Vegas is the answer for pregnant people because of insomnia. It's open all the time and you go down and play your silly slots.

Selma Blair

#17. Before the words slide into their slots, they are just discrete items, pointing everywhere and nowhere.

Stanley Fish

#18. People gamble to lose money. They come to the casinos for the moment in which they feel alive, to ride the spinning wheel and turn with the cards and lose themselves, with the coins, in the slots. They want to know they matter.

Neil Gaiman

#19. Whatever modern democracies may tell themselves about their commitment to free speech and to diversity of opinion, the values of a given society will uncannily match those of whichever organizations have the scale to pay for runs of thirty-second slots around the nightly news bulletin.

Alain De Botton

#20. There's a little rack along the front of the counter bearing religious tracts, free for the taking, donation requested. Several slots on the rack are occupied by the Reverend Wayne's famous bestseller. How America Was Saved from Communism: ELVIS SHOT JFK.

Neal Stephenson

#21. Innovations, instantly followed by a demented lust for them, now arrive with dizzying speed, not just daily, but in one-hour delivery slots.

Peter Baynham

#22. I hated labels anyway. People didn't fit in slots
prostitute, housewife, saint
like sorting the mail. We were so mutable, fluid with fear and desire, ideals and angles, changeable as water.

Janet Fitch

#23. I don't have a set image. In fact, I would be curious to know how someone slots me.

Randeep Hooda

#24. - But we keep on going, he continued, fostering all kinds of crazy hopes. To redeem the lost, some sliver of personal revelation. It's an addiction, like playing the slots, or a game of golf.

Patti Smith

#25. People don't really want to know anything about you. They just want you to fit into their little predetermined slots.
They decide what you are in the first two seconds, and they only get nervous or upset if you don't live up to their snap judgments.

Lilith Saintcrow

#26. Any slots at the senior level, including CEO or other slots, will be filled internally.

Kenneth Lay

#27. Churches start looking for bodies to fill slots rather than spiritually alive saints to assume responsibility.

Neil T. Anderson

#28. I've come up in the scripted world, and I have wished there were more time slots for us to tell compelling scripted stories and not fill the airwaves with a lot of fluff and tabloid entertainment.

Ralph Macchio

#29. I think that I was lucky to have that period of time [ like coming to New York] because everything was so exciting and new.

Gena Rowlands

#30. The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!

Robert Browning

#31. You can never say everything you want to say. I feel I had a fair opportunity to explain a lot of the questions.

Jeffrey Skilling

#32. You have to trust what you are, and what you want the most, to find who you truly are.

Amelia Hutchins

#33. Art and nature shall always be wrestling until they eventually conquer one another so that the victory is the same stroke and line: that which is conquered, conquers at the same time.

Maria Sibylla Merian

#34. Strive to be beyond what others perceive you to be, by striving beyond the limits of yourself.

Debbie Tosun Kilday

#35. She wasn't huge or anything, but she wasn't one of the super slim women or the curvy ones who looked lush and beautiful. She was just sort of in between and ... blah.
"Give a mint to know what you're thinking right now," Steele muttered.
"I'm blah," she blurted out.

Maya Banks

#36. No matter how we may single out a complex from nature ... its theoretical treatment will never prove to be ultimately conclusive ... I believe that this process of deepening of theory has no limits.

Albert Einstein

#37. Here in the Motor City, we take an almost perverse pride in doing things the hard way, or whatever way that means we can be left alone to do our thing however we want.

Anna Clark

#38. Marriage is like a formality for me.

David Copperfield