Slickers Quotes

#1. Socratic, they call it in college. All kinds of back and forth, designed to elicit truths implicitly known by all rational beings.

Lee Child

#2. It's the little deceptions that no one catches that are going to dissolve it all someday. We'll look at clocks and we won't believe the hands. They'll forecast sun but we'll pack our slickers anyway.

Walter Kirn

#3. At this point, the analysis of gene expression in the brain isn't prectical because current (and foreseeable)techniques require that we analyze a piece of brain tissue. Most people find that unpleasant.

Matt Ridley

#4. When I come to a design decision, people know that is that.

Carlos Ghosn

#5. The box had done what Sweet Home had not, what working like an ass and living like a dog had not: drove him crazy so he would not lose his mind.

Toni Morrison

#6. Let this be thy whole endeavor, this thy prayer, this thy desire,-that thou mayest be stripped of all selfishness, and with entire simplicity follow Jesus only.

Thomas A Kempis

#7. Teaching is not only a profession, but it a is a purpose of a great life.

Debasish Mridha

#8. Marriage and sex and money the only living devils.

Swami Vivekananda

#9. Courage, energy and patience are the virtues which appeal to my heart.

Fritz Kreisler

#10. I think people are basically unhappy working their jobs, and we all need to have that thing that gets our juices flowing.

Meredith Brooks

#11. I'm no intellect. I'm no preacher. I'm an entertainer. And If I don't get up there and entertain people, I'm not giving them what they paid for.

Barbara Mandrell

#12. Each sudden gust of light explains itself as flames, but neither they, nor even bombs redoubled on the hills tonight can quite include me in their fear.

Andrew Motion

#13. Her insecurity, so great and so ordinary, silenced him.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie