Slipstream Quotes

#1. What need for feathers now? What need to confirm their loss? While the womb-red sky swelled with the promise of tomorrow, and he rode the warm, crimson currents, skimming, wheeling and gliding.

Georgina Anne Taylor

#2. Rocco watched Strike limp into the human slipstream of Eighth Avenue, watched him negotiate his way through lowlifes and taxpayers until he disappeared inside the terminal doors without a backward glance.

Richard Price

#3. If I ventured in the slipstream between the viaducts of your dreams, where immobile steel rims crack and the ditch in the back roads stop. Could you find me?

Van Morrison

#4. After noticing the fuel gauges were reading near empty, I looked out the top window, and I could see the fuel cap was being dragged along in the slipstream by its anchoring chain. Since the top of the wing was a low-pressure area, it had sucked my fuel right out and overboard. So,

Tom Brion

#5. I don't think we've met," he said in all seriousness, and her body's reaction to that voice confirmed his lie. Her body knew that voice like a snake knew its charmer.

Kate Meader

#6. You know who makes a great first impression? Liars.

Daniel Tosh

#7. Bruises fade father, but the pain remains the same. And I still remember how you kept me so afraid.

Christina Aguilera

#8. My strength did not come from lifting weights. My strength came from lifting myself up when i was knocked down.

Anonymous

#9. I wish I'd learned then that when you call someone's bluff you usually win: it's simply not what the other person is expecting. And swimming along in the slipstream of another's current is no way to live.

Harriet Evans

#10. The foolish race of mankind are swarming below in the night; they shriek and rage and quarrel - and all of them are right.

Heinrich Heine

#11. 31And y as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them.

Anonymous

#12. Is Shimmer a floor wax or a dessert topping? Is an electron a wave or a particle? Slipstream tells us that the answer is yes.

John Kessel

#13. One of the things I've had the advantage of, growing up and being close to the top management of this company and other companies for most of my life, is seeing how CEOs start to believe in their own infallibility. And that really scares me.

William Clay Ford Jr.

#14. Slipstream fiction is usually defined as fiction with a contemporary setting in which story elements are mimetic (that is, seem real) - except for one or two eerie strangenesses. Unlike outright fantasy, these are not explained or integrated into an alternate-reality setting.

Nancy Kress

#15. Atomize and refigure the word.

Christopher H. Sartisohn

#16. I began to invent something new: a way to hang together without pretending I was whole

Shelley Jackson

#17. 'I have nothing to offer you but a lifetime's worth of failures and misfortune,' Sergio said with damp eyes,
'but they are yours if you want them.'
And for some reason buried deep in the incomprehensible mystery that is woman, she did want them. Very much.

Josh Wagner

#18. I have lived my life in the slipstream of experience

Elizabeth Jane Howard

#19. DANCER ELIAS GARRICK

"NEVER THE SIDEKICK, ALWAYS THE HERO. I'LL SEE YOU IN THE SLIPSTREAM.

Karen Marie Moning