Quotes About Slouching

#1. Her last painting was of you, slouching against the front door: only your drowning I-had-a-lousy-Third-World-childhood-and-all-I-got-was-this-attitude eyes recognizable.

Junot Diaz

#2. I have always identified with Joan Didion's depiction of Los Angeles and Southern California, ever since reading 'Play It As It Lays,' 'Slouching Towards Bethlehem' and 'The White Album.'

Henry Rollins

#3. Absolutely no slouching, Ed. You're the frame. You're the stem to my flower. Quit giving me crooked pictures and wilted flowers.

Heidi Cullinan

#4. A slouching posture tends to suggest a certain laziness of character as well as a lack of interest in others. Whereas an upright position can confirm a sense of self-possession and a quality of engagement.

Amor Towles

#5. When I write a word in English, a simple one, such as, say, 'chief,' I have unwittingly ushered a querulous horde into the room. The Roman legionary is there, shaking his cap, or head, and Andy Capp is there, slouching in his signature working man's headgear.

Geraldine Brooks

#6. You have the patience of a saint," I grumbled, slouching into a chair. "And besides, you don't hang out with him 24/7."
"Neither will you. It's only 24/6."
"Same difference. It might as well be 24/10."
She frowned. "That doesn't make any sense.

Richelle Mead

#7. I honestly think I've gotten taller since I started doing Pilates. And my posture is totally different - no more slouching!

Sarah Rafferty

#8. With luck, a writer capable of producing both Slouching Towards Kalamazoo and The Blood of the Lamb will not remain unappreciated for long.

Adam Kirsch

#9. Atheists have just as much of a right to the public discourse as any ... people of any religious faith in this country.

Al Gore

#10. If you ever, ever, ever meet a grizzly bear, / You must never, never, never ask him where / He is going, / Or what he is doing; / For if you ever, ever dare / To stop a grizzly bear, / You will never meet another grizzly bear.

Mary Hunter Austin

#11. Guys would sleep with a bicycle if it had the right color lip gloss on. They have no shame. They're like bull elks in a field.

Tori Amos

#12. An assault on an ideology is not merely different from a threat made to a person; it is the opposite of a threat made to a person. The whole end of liberal civilization is to substitute the criticism of ideas for assaults on people.

Adam Gopnik

#13. What you stand for is more important than what you stand in.

Kenneth Cole

#14. Being in the present moment, one can step outside the mechanical train of life, and this is where the inner revolution begins.

Belsebuub

#15. Once abroad, I eat one meal a day picnic-style: Ive learned that no mature stomach can tolerate an endless routine of rich restaurant meals.

Arthur Frommer

#16. I have to say," he muttered, leaning back, "I am harboring some incredible ill will toward this mother of yours.

Alexandra Bracken

#17. I hold to no God," Roland said. "I hold to the Tower, and won't pray to that.

Stephen King

#18. I don't want people to look at me.

Jessica Chastain

#19. How do you find a way to say what an extraordinary experience it is to be alive in this world? That is the kind of subject matter I try to work with.

Keith Carter