Top 100 Slam Quotes
#1. You can't ever stop thinking something quick enough. Something that hurts always gets the knife in too fast for you to slam a lid on it and shove it away.
Lilith Saintcrow
#2. It's become unfashionable to celebrate political achievement, and Labour achievement even less so. And it's positively uncouth to be proud of something that this Labour government is doing. So, slam me for saying so, but I'm really proud of the NHS.
Lucy Powell
#3. Municipal networks expand economic opportunities. We've got to open new doors, not slam them shut.
Frank Lautenberg
#4. We must control the tendencies within our being that are destructive, when we want to slam somebody else, hurt them, injure them, or push them out of the way. A reverence for life needs to be developed, in which all things are sacred.
Frederick Lenz
#5. Maybe he wants you to be his queen," Devyn saids. "Continue the line."
"That's crap," Nick says.
"Yeah." I glare at him. "Why would anyone want me to be their queen?"
"That's not what I meant." The front legs of Nick's chair slam back down.
Carrie Jones
#6. We should think seriously before we slam doors, before we burn bridges, before we saw off the limb on which we find ourselves sitting.
Richard L. Evans
#7. Whether I played marbles, whether I played football or slam anything else, I wanted to excel.
Robert Mondavi
#8. Most true musicians don't do it for the money, they do it because they love it. When I did slam poetry, it was a great way for me to express myself, I loved it.
Jake Holmes
#9. You should have risen above it," I said smugly. "It's not a slam at you when people are rude
it's a slam at the people they've met before.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#10. We have emotions for a reason; for instance, imagine pain. You have pain so that if you touch something that's hot, or if you slam your hand with a hammer, you will pull your hand away and not do that again.
Leonard Mlodinow
#11. When I gave up a grand slam to Pete LaCock, I knew it was time to quit.
Bob Gibson
#12. If I could slam the door, I would. If I could walk to another room, I would. The best I can do is turn and head for the far corner of my cell. In prison, even goodbyes are beyond my control.
T.J. Forrester
#13. On 'Death Valley,' I fought this werewolf, and he was picking me up and slamming me down. They put padding down in the garbage so he could really slam me down. They're flying around and I'm doing these jumping flying triangles pulling the guy down. It's just fun.
Caity Lotz
#15. Japan is dealing us a dead hand. For two years we have watched the Japanese drag their feet and we can't let them continue to slam the door in our faces.
Craig L. Thomas
#16. Olympic gold is obviously right up there with a grand slam. It's a big win. You can say it's more, you can say it's less, you can say it's equal. It's very much up there.
Ivan Lendl
#17. Should she slam his head into the bar or toss her beer on him? Damn shame to waste good beer.
Mina Khan
#18. I slam into him like a really short, skinny juggernaut showing serious commitment to getting into some guy's arse.
Alexis Hall
#19. My brushwork is quite unsystematic. I slam the paint on in all sorts of ways and leave each result to take care of itself.
Vincent Van Gogh
#20. Maybe so, but Luke Stark pushed me against the wall and told me he was gonna fuck me, I'd say, 'When and what you want me to wear?' And I would not care if he did pull a slam-bam-thank-you-ma'am. I'd just take my orgasm and go. You hear what I'm sayin' to you? Shirleen asked.
Kristen Ashley
#21. It took us 200 years to elect the first Democratic woman to the Senate in her own right, and that's Barbara Mikulski. Six years later, we had a grand slam: We elected four new Democratic women to the Senate. Sen. Mikulski now has some company.
Ellen Malcolm
#22. I'm not a big sports fan, but I love it when they 'slam dunk.' That's sexy.
Emma Bunton
#23. I got in an argument with a girlfriend inside of a tent. That's a bad place for an argument, because I tried to walk out, and had to slam the flap.
Mitch Hedberg
#24. I couldn't care less if the guy I'm guarding has HIV. I'm going to slam him anyway.
Dennis Rodman
#25. You are the most stubborn woman I've ever met, Bailey Hart."
"You should probably get out and meet more women then," she muttered, letting the screen door slam shut behind her.
T.J. Kline
#26. I get very cranky when interrupted. I snap at people, sigh dramatically and slam my door shut.
Margaret Maron
#27. When you come slam bang up against trouble, it never looks half as bad if you face up to it.
John Wayne
#28. I obviously want to win a grand slam, but whatever I do, however long I play, I hope I sustain a really long career, a healthy one, just a pretty consistent career. I obviously want to win a grand slam.
Sloane Stephens
#29. I ain't no joke, I used to let the mic smoke,
Now I slam it when I'm done and make sure it's broke.
Rakim
#30. Everyone is fighting like crazy because it's the last Grand Slam. When you play the Grand Slams, you just have to give everything you have.
Simona Halep
#31. This world will slam doors in your face at every opportunity. Be willing to employ a foot when necessary.
Wes Fesler
#32. She got me to crack open the window to my soul, and I really don't want to slam it down on her fingers just yet.
Collette West
#33. I think I can win a slam. That's my main goal, and if I could choose one, then yes, it would have to be Wimbledon. But, honestly, I would take any one of them.
Tomas Berdych
#34. I hope everyone will feel good about supporting a worthy cause that helps educate people and saves lives while wearing a cool looking shirt that aims to SLAM Diabetes!
Dean Haspiel
#35. She didn't know that loss was alive in the world, a thief always about to slam you and steal everything you had.
Lauren Kate
#36. I am miracle ingredient Z-247. I'm immense. I'm a real, slam-bang, honest-to-goodness, three-fisted humdinger. I'm a bona fide supraman.
Joseph Heller
#37. I want to strangle my husband and slam the door as I leave. I want to leave a box of pasta on the counter with a note that says, cook your own dinner and suck your own dick.
Pella Grace
#38. Don't ever slam a door, you might want to go back.
Don Herold
#39. Now that I've won a slam, I know something very few people on earth are permitted to know. A win doesn't feel as good as a loss feels bad, and the good feeling doesn't last long as the bad. Not even close.
Andre Agassi
#40. I hit a grand slam off Ron Herbel and when his manager Herman Franks came out to get him, he was bringing Herbel's suitcase.
Bob Uecker
#41. And a lot of times in slam poetry I feel like people are so worried about the performance that the words might not be as strong.
Amber Tamblyn
#42. Age is nothing, can still win the Grand Slam, pretty happy about my age, more experience.
Li Na
#43. The world will run you down and slam a tire over your exploding skull and not even wonder what it had just hit.
Duane Swierczynski
#44. Grand Slam losses are hard. I treat myself after losses though, I usually go to McDonald's and I have a hamburger and you know, something. Because you know, you just need to be nice to yourself sometimes after the loss.
Venus Williams
#45. As always, my alarm went off too early, yanking me back into a world I wasn't quite prepared to deal with. I looked automatically toward the window as I sat up. Only three bloody crescents marked the spots where bluebirds had managed to slam themselves to death against the glass.
Seanan McGuire
#46. The problem with cell phones is that you can't slam them down into a cradle when you hang up. Your only option is to throw them, and if you do, they just skitter across the floor and crack their case. It's not satisfying at all.
I close my eyes and bend down to pick up the pieces.
Holly Black
#47. And to not blink against the greatest player in the world, I think she's going - she said it really nicely. She [Serena Williams] said now, I can call myself a grand slam champion, and that sounds really, really nice. So I'm very happy for her.
Howard Bryant
#48. Real spirituality is about getting the bullshit out of your life and getting real. Real humility knows how to slam a door closed and say no more. You can't be humble without self-love.
Bryant McGill
#49. I don't think that anybody could have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Center, take another one and slam it into the Pentagon, that they would try to use an airplane as a missile
Condoleezza Rice
#50. A sliver of hope sneaks past my walls and I slam every opening shut. Emotion is evil. People who make me feel are worse. I take comfort in the stone inside me. If I don't feel, I don't hurt.
Katie McGarry
#51. There's no need to glamorize one body type and slam another. We need to stop this absurd hatred towards bodies for being different sizes. It doesn't help anyone and it's getting old.
Jennie Runk
#52. That was, in writing the 'Twilight' script I had about five weeks to write that. I'd taken about a month to write the outline and then it was slam into a script and write it down fast because the writer's strike was looming.
Melissa Rosenberg
#53. You've got to get out of the car, take the keys around, open up the trunk lid, hand the keys to the Lord Jesus, get inside the trunk, slam the lid down, whisper through the keyhole, 'Lord look, fill'r up with anything you want and you drive, it's up to you from now on.'
Paris Reidhead
#55. I feel for you man. Put a ring on it and bam, the legs slam shut.
Sylvia Day
#56. THIS is the story of an orgasm. Or it could be said this is the story of an orgasm that never was, and then was, and once it was, it's the story of all the ripples it set in motion. It's the reiteration of the total fecundity slam dance, Big Bang Explosion that created the world.
Sharon Weil
#57. Never slam a car door. According to the Westchester elite, it's a heinous crime, as heartless as kicking a puppy.
Lisi Harrison
#58. When you've worked hard and done well and walked through that doorway of opportunity, you do not slam it shut behind you.
Guy Kawasaki
#59. Doors will slam in your face. You must pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and knock again; it's the only way to achieve your goals in life.
Michael Uslan
#60. The ABA really loosened up the NBA and introduced innovations like the three-point shot and the Slam Dunk and other competitions at the All Star Game. And we had all the hot young players.
Mel Daniels
#61. The Open is the one that we all want and strive for and to be able to hold this Claret Jug is an incredible feeling. To be three legs towards the career grand slam at the age of 25 is a pretty good achievement. It's not going to sink in for a while.
Rory McIlroy
#62. But the rest of Jace's mind is watching the door slam behind her and seeing the final ruin of all his dreams. It was one thing to push it to this point. It is another to let go forever. Because he knows Clary, and if she goes now, she will not ever come back.
Cassandra Clare
#63. Charles Simic, when asked what he thought of Slam Poetry events: "They are fun, but they have as much to do with poetry as Elvis Presley had to do with Charlie Parker and Thelonious Monk".
Charles Simic
#64. I'm three legs toward completing the career Grand Slam at 25. So, I'm feeling pretty good right now.
Rory McIlroy
#65. He couldn't live in a world with her and not have her in his life. Nope. Not happening.
"You're mine," he growled against her swollen lips. The words came out guttural as he held back the urge to slam into her.
Katie Reus
#66. She clicked her phone shut. This was the downside to cell phones. It was nowhere near as satisfying to press end as it was to slam a phone into its holder. She
Jenn McKinlay
#67. Venus hasn't been to the semis for a couple of years in a Grand Slam - she's been coming back from injury.
Tracy Austin
#68. Funny how possibility can lift you. Funny how reality can slam you down.
Cat Patrick
#69. I was lucky enough to watch my son hit a grand slam at sports camp, and that was great. Yes, I may miss some things, but honestly, I think I get to see more than a dad who works a daily 9 to 5.
CC Sabathia
#70. One does not always need to hear a slam to know that the door has been closed.
Stephen King
#71. Every single floorboard quivers and shudders under my feet, and I start mentally bargaining with the house: If I make it to the front door without waking up Aunt Carol, I swear to God I'll never slam another door. I'll never call you "an old piece of turd" again.
Lauren Oliver
#72. Just like I'm the king on the microphone, so is Dr. J and Moses Malone
I like slam dunks, take me to the hoop my favorite play is the alley-oop
I like the pick-and-roll, I like the give-and-go
Cause it's basketball, uh, Mister Kurtis Blow.
Kurtis Blow
#73. Rafa being 6-1 against Roger is not a source of pride for me. I'm happy that Rafa won the tournament, but I would have liked that Federer could have won the Grand Slam, because I think he's a phenomenal player. For me, he is the player I enjoy watching the most.
Toni Nadal
#74. He's going for the home run, I'm going for the grand slam. If he gets a lot of strikeouts, I'm getting a shutout. I just have that positivity, that mentality that I can conquer whatever he gives out.
Nonito Donaire
#75. You brake and then turn the wheel, step on the clutch, and pull the e-brake. Release the e-brake, go into countersteer mode, then wait. Wait until you know the car is facing the corner exit direction. then you smile and slam on the gas as you exit the corner.
Keiichi Tsuchiya
#76. The second I open my car door I'm ready to kill her. "Fucking shit!" I slam my hand on the roof. There, on the back seat, is a guy, eyes wide open and staring lifelessly at the ceiling. His head is at an odd angle, and his jaw is hanging open. She snapped his neck. What is she? Jackie-Fucking-Chan?
L.P. Lovell
#77. If I'm going to be out there, I want to be in the top 10 and really have a chance of winning a Grand Slam.
Stefan Edberg
#78. This will be my first Grand Slam final without Roger Federer or Novak Djokovic on the other side of the net, but I don't think being the more experienced player will make much difference to my approach.
Andy Murray
#79. The nights did not come gently but seemed to slam down angrily upon the Earth.
Rick Yancey
#80. Eighty percent of all cultures are the same, it is the 20% that make a culture unique and slam dunks the brand promise to the customer.
Curt Coffman
#81. Within two months I made the grand slam: covers of 'American Vogue', 'Italian Vogue', 'British Vogue', and 'French Vogue'.
Linda Evangelista
#82. Ridiculous. You guys are going to have the most boring documentary on earth," I said and stormed inside.
"Could you walk in the building again, but slower and don't slam the door," Hugo called after me.
Heather O'Neill
#83. When you walk through that door of opportunity you don't slam it shut behind you,
Michelle Obama
#84. Wimbledon 2014 will be my last slam. To be honest, I am already starting to miss professional tennis, having played at the highest level for two decades. It is what has given me my identity, and I will miss every bit of the action. The thought that I will not be playing anymore is daunting.
Mahesh Bhupathi
#85. I still think that I'm dreaming. It's a strange feeling. I always try to watch the final of Grand Slams because that's where the best players are playing ... I never expected to play a final. I never expected to win a Grand Slam. And right now I just did it.
Stan Wawrinka
#87. I think because I was the first Chinese player to win a grand slam, people were thinking: 'She's not like normal people.'
Li Na
#88. I don't slam doors in people's faces, and I'm not a bigot.
Sherman Hemsley
#89. Sorry stared at the coin, feeling echoes of power slam into her skull like ocean waves.
Steven Erikson
#90. As I dive between the legs of a big Gunnar, I see Mair wind up and slam her shockstick hard as she can between the V of another guy's thighs. Falling, he makes a noise that I can't say I've heard a human utter before, sort of like I imagine a puppy would sound being put through a juicer.
Ann Aguirre
#91. How foolish to think that one can ever slam the door in the face of age. Much wiser to be polite and gracious and ask him to lunch in advance.
Noel Coward
#92. I prefer people to say to me, 'You're one of my favorite actors,' rather than 'You're one of my favorite character actors.' It sounds like a slam. At least it sounds that way to me.
William Forsythe
#93. My heart had stopped as my world spun around me. I felt all the walls that had begun to crack and crumble slam right back into place as I looked into the eyes of the monster I knew was there all along.
Alicia Deters
#94. The wave hits. It doesn't even slow. Hungries slam full-tilt into the mesh and into the concrete stanchions that support it. It leans inwards, groans and creaks, but seems to be holding. The front ranks of walking corpses are treading water. But
M.R. Carey
#95. Friends tell the truth to one another. Friends don't slam the door to correction or reflection when it is offered with affection.
Amy Dickinson
#96. I'm not the first player to have their home Grand Slam and not perform. There have been a few Australians and French players, you name it. It's a tough thing. But it is one of those things. Would I rather have a Grand Slam in my country than not? I would.
Samantha Stosur
#97. Yeah, they're just matches," I continued, my voice growing thick with tears. "And memories and smells and sounds and butterflies in my stomach every time I heard the car door slam outside, telling me that he was home. A thousand dreams of all the places I'd have adventures someday.
Penelope Douglas
#98. I'm writing a love poem," I answer without thinking. Then I slam my lips together, realizing what I've done.
Dead silence crashes over the kitchen.
Elle Kennedy
#99. Jerry often says that Slam Bradley was really the forerunner of Superman, because we turned it out with no restrictions, complete freedom to do what we wanted; the only problem was that we had a deadline.
Joe Shuster
#100. I'm not going to be a ten or twelve grand-slam winner. It's not going to happen.
Patrick Rafter
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