Slag Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

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

Alexander Freed

#8. 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

#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. 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

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

Ivan Doig

#12. 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

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

Anthony Doerr

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

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

Christina Aguilera

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

Dean Windass

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. Rat bites are almost certainly under reported because only the most serious cases attract attention, but even using the most conservative figures, at least fourteen thousand people in the United States are attacked by rats each year.

Bill Bryson

#27. ...there is a particular focus of the problem faced only by men. It arises from our culture providing no room for a man as victim.

Mike Lew

#28. Put in the superlatives yourselves, I'm running out. Money doesn't thrill me or make me play better because there are benefits to being wealthy.

Hristo Stoichkov

#29. Indian sages avoided the written word as they realized ideas were never definitive; they were transformed depending on the intellectual and emotional abilities of the giver as well as the receiver.

Devdutt Pattanaik

#30. We will become mightier and more powerful in our own right in direct proportion to the service and contribution we make to strengthen the Church.

Henry D. Moyle

#31. Many people wait throughout their whole lives for the chance to be good in their own fashion.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#32. I've found that one of the most important things in life is to learn how to forgive yourself.

Sai Marie Johnson

#33. Every cloud has a silver lining; little did you know my colors are starting to change.

Jasmine Sandozz

#34. He wanted to flee in shame, to the kitchenette, to the next room, to the fire escapes and rooftops and the places where the city ended.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#35. I have finished To Kill a Mockingbird. It is now my favorite book of all time, but then again, I always think that until I read another book.

Stephen Chbosky

#36. I was a Political Science major.

Harry Shearer

#37. Never trust a man with new clothes.

Margaret Atwood