Slated For Quotes

#1. You can' t help being a musician because you've grown up with music, yet being one means being compared to your dad and being slated for it. But I really don't have the ambitions of most people going into the industry.

Dhani Harrison

#2. Most go to prison not on account of their irreducible uniqueness as people but because they are part of a marginalized sector of the population who never had a chance, who were slated for it early on.

Rachel Kushner

#3. But now with the living conditions deteriorating, and with the sure knowledge that we are slated for destruction, we have been transformed into an implacable army of liberation.

George Jackson

#4. I essentially killed those men. Am I slated for hell?"
He stepped to me. Put his fingers underneath my chin. Raised it until our gazes locked. "You're a god, Dutch. And the reaper. You don't get slated. You are the slate.

Darynda Jones

#5. Was slated for the afternoon shift with Nate, but hell if I was sticking to the schedule. I figured one of two things would happen the more time I spent with her. I'd learn she was annoying, a pain in the ass, or silly, and all of those would be great because I could get her out of my system.

Lauren Blakely

#6. Rookies are also coming in from college programs as big stars, whereas when we came in, we were just happy to be there. We were happy to be playing in a big gym, to be on television, to be playing in America.

Sue Wicks

#7. It's hard to live up to The Beatles. When Wings toured, they got slated. Even Dad found it hard living up to The Beatles. I started out playing under an alias because I wanted to start quietly.

James McCartney

#8. If I didn't believe in myself as a dancer, I wouldn't choreograph.

Twyla Tharp

#9. I don't know if anyone ever 'wins' a war.

Irene Hunt

#10. And then they were at Tristran's old home, where his sister waited for him, and there was a steaming breakfast on the stove and on the table, prepared for him, lovingly, by the woman he had always believed to be his mother.

Neil Gaiman

#11. Memory is a house with ten thousand rooms; it is a village slated to be inundated." from "Village 113

Anthony Doerr

#12. No. I remember. So long as I don't think about it too much, my hands and feet take over; some memory locked into muscle that my brain has nothing to do with.
I know how to drive. And I'm better at it than he is.

Teri Terry

#13. When my children were very young, I was slated to go on a business trip. When it was nearly canceled, I decided I wouldn't tell anyone and go off for a week's vacation anyway. In the end, the trip went off as planned. But I was intrigued by the idea of an illicit holiday.

Sophie Hannah

#14. I pause to catch my breath, looking around at all the toys he's paid for and never once enjoyed with his son.

Nicola Kraus

#15. We need only to close our eyes and we are back on the Third Line, walking up the lane, through the yard and entering the bright, warm kitchen. We are home again.

Arlene Stafford-Wilson

#16. A generation that hates war will not bring peace. A generation that loves peace will bring peace.

Seth

#17. In fact, Saint Maxwell's received, and often accepted, applications from preschoolers slated to die criminal deaths. It was just a question of, well, the quality of the crime. You let in the cocaine overdoses; you kept out the crack overdoses.

Ryan North

#18. What makes me think I could start clean slated?
The hardest to learn was the least complicated

Indigo Girls

#19. He finds a tissue in his pocket and holds it out. I press it against my lip. Pull it away and look at it. Bright red, though not much of it.
I've had worse.
Have I?

Teri Terry

#20. Failure is not an option.

Teri Terry

#21. Don't you ever want to know?"
"What?"
"Why you were Slated."
"No. If the past is unbearable, why choose to bear it?"
I shrug. Because it is mine.

Terri Terry

#22. I irritate; therefore I am.

Chuck Palahniuk

#23. Use law and physic only for necessity; they that use them otherwise abuse themselves unto weak bodies, and light purses; they are good remedies, bad businesses, and worse recreations.

Francis Quarles

#24. We're real people and we're a band that's been playing on the scene for a long time. We've made a lot of friends, and one enemy we've always had was the NME. They've always basically slated us and they've basically never ever written about the music.

Dan Hawkins

#25. It's a lot of money, but in reality what's important is the kids health. I suppose the day could come where we could walk away from it and figure out a new way for (that) funding.

Jeff Carter

#26. It is one thing to ask questions; what do you do with the answers?

Teri Terry

#27. The fault is not in our stars," I whispered to the ceiling. "But in ourselves. This was my choice.

Susan Dennard

#28. He couldn't help but wonder what Hannah might have looked like if ... he'd answered that question April had asked him years ago.

Sandi Layne

#29. Never pity missionaries; envy them. They are where the real action is
where life and death, sin and grace, Heaven and Hell converge.

Robert C. Shannon

#30. Whenever anybody called Nelson Mandela a saint, he would say: "If by saint you mean a sinner who is trying to be better, then I'm a saint."

Kumi Naidoo

#31. We've had a problem finding a vocalist. We have not been lucky yet to find the one. I think the problem is that the three of us have such a pedigree of vocalist, that if we come out with someone that's not good we'll obviously be slated!

Peter Hook