Top 100 Sloan Quotes
#1. But I think anybody who believes I could force coach Sloan to resign is crazy. He's stronger than that and personally if I said that to him, he'd probably go tell me to go do something.
Karl Malone
#2. That's what I would like to do until the end of time, to go on scribbling my articles on the third floor of the Sloan Building, in between playing tennis and drinking coffee at my other study in the Concord Avenue branch of Burger King.
Paul Samuelson
#3. If there was one thing which Sloan had learned over the years it was that you should never underestimate the element of luck in detective work.
Catherine Aird
#4. Religions exist primarily for people to achieve together what they cannot achieve alone. - David Sloan Wilson, Darwin's Cathedral
Daniel C. Dennett
#5. A single charitable foundation started by one capitalist does more good than a world full of socialists and leftists. Think Carnegie and his libraries, or Sloan and Kettering their hospital, or Gates in Africa.
James Cook
#6. By the time of the '90s boom, CEOs had become superheroes, accorded celebrity treatment and followed with a kind of slavish scrutiny that Alfred P. Sloan could never have imagined.
James Surowiecki
#7. Sloan Gibson is doing a great job. We need to give him more power to terminate employees.
David Jolly
#8. For me to be here tonight, everything had to be perfect. I had to get drafted by Utah, had to play with a point guard like John Stockton, and had to be coached by Jerry Sloan and Frank Layden.
Karl Malone
#9. Generally places that are comfortable with excellence don't call themselves centers of excellence. Has anyone heard of a Princeton University Center of Excellence? Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center of Excellence?
Otis Webb Brawley
#10. You can't drown in Fred water if the cruise ship is full of salmon tacos." Sloan
Colleen Hoover
#11. Cops and schoolteachers," Sloan said with satisfaction. "A cop and schoolteacher bar. The teachers drink like fish. The cops hit on the schoolteachers. One big happy family.
John Sandford
#12. Weaver always says freedom is like Sloan's Liniment, always promising more than it delivers.
Jennifer Donnelly
#13. The late Alfred P. Sloan, Ir., long-time executive of General Motors Corporation, had a fivepoint "secret of success." It was: 1. Get the facts. 2. Recognize the equities of all concerned. 3. Realize the necessity of doing a better job every day. 4. Keep an open mind. 5. Work hard.
Alfred P. Sloan
#14. I wasn't going to let Jerry Sloan embarrass me, because basketball had a proper role in my life. I suspected my basketball philosophy wasn't the bottom line anyway.
John Amaechi
#15. 'Reach for a (cigarette) instead of a sweet' - ... advertising slogan..(of) Albert Lasker, (with) Mary Lasker, health philanthropist, and originator of the Lasker Awards, an American version of the Nobel Prize ... and Memorial Sloan Kettering trustees.
Ralph W. Moss
#16. And then we came here for three weeks of band rehearsal with [music consultant/member of the band "Sloan"] Chris Murphy. And I grew up in Toronto during Sloan's heyday, so like I was like "Oh my god!" And so that was pretty cool.
Alison Pill
#17. There is only one thing left for you to do," John Sloan advised one artist. "Pull off your socks and try with your feet.
Ross Wetzsteon
#18. He cared more about the life of a kid he didn't even know than he did about his own career. And that's not a flaw, Sloan. That's a character trait. Pretty sure they call it compassion,
Colleen Hoover
#19. Diana: "Gilbert told Charlie Sloan that you were the smartest girl in school, right in front of Josie."
Anne: "He did?"
Diana: "He told Charlie being smart was better than being good looking."
Anne: "I should have known he meant to insult me.
L.M. Montgomery
#20. Jane Austen had it wrong, Sloan McKinley thought miserably as the black Lincoln Town Car drove her ever closer to the bright lights of the George Washington Bridge and the Manhattan streets she called home. A man in possession of a good fortune only wanted to get laid.
Addison Fox
#21. As much as Jason hated the man, it was plain to see how Sloan had built the empire he had. Perseverance, dedication and hard work. Along with an appalling lack of ethics and a healthy does of gray magic.
Kristen Painter
#22. We were right about the slush fund. But Sloan did not testify about it to the Grand Jury.
Ben Bradlee
#23. What are you? Insane? I'm not interested in Ms. Preppy Uptight Sloan Ranger. Jeez. I'd get khaki between my teeth. Can you imagine? I've never been in khaki and I never want to see a woman out it. It scares me. (Dev)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#24. I squeeze my eyes shut and whisper in her damp hair. 'You're all I see, Sloan. Beyond the job, beyond right and wrong. You're all I see.
Colleen Hoover
#25. If I can save one person along the way, I'm okay. The trials and tribulations my special needs kids go through daily is far greater than the journey I'm about to go on.
Renee Sloan
#26. Sugar" he starts, before turning his attention back over to Dee, " I have thought about sex, hard fucking sex, about a hundred times since we sat down to eat." Looking back over to me, " Does that clear it up for you?
Harper Sloan
#27. Why do organizations need to mark everything with their insignia? It's like a dog peeing on every tree. Google is the same way. So was NewBagel. Using
Robin Sloan
#28. That had been the trouble with him and Betsy: what with his brooding about the past and worrying about the future, there had never been any present at all.
Sloan Wilson
#29. We need James Bond with a library science degree.
Robin Sloan
#30. You don't get out of a hole by covering the hole, you get out of the hole by climbing your way up.
Michael Sloan
#31. I want you more than
I've wanted anything in my life
and that frustrates the shit out of me
because you either can't or won't see it.
Harper Sloan
#32. I fell for you a long time ago, Cohen Cage. I've loved you my whole life.
Harper Sloan
#33. I have never issued an order since I have been the operating head of the corporation.
Alfred P. Sloan
#34. Color is like music. The palette is an instrument that can be orchestrated to build form.
John French Sloan
#35. They are developing a form of renewable energy that runs on hubris.
Robin Sloan
#36. I might be many things, but I am also smart enough to learn from the past. Smart enough to know that no man who oozes so much alpha male will be happy with a woman who isn't weak. Or, he won't settle until he makes me weak, and I will never be that bitch.
Harper Sloan
#37. The only real reason to write professionally is that you love it enough.
Sloan Wilson
#38. I will admit that I just want an excuse to put all my favorite people in a room together.
Robin Sloan
#39. Justice Harry A. Blackmun, a quirky but pivotal member of the Supreme Court for 24 years, was a hoarder. He seems to have kept everything from his boyhood diaries to college correspondence to every scrap of paper that came his way on the Supreme Court.
Cliff Sloan
#41. Girls aren't supposed to see wieners, Aunt Dee. And Daddy's wiener was mad that Mommy saw. It was so mad, it was pointing at her!
Harper Sloan
#42. He was the only reason I survived at the hands of Brandon. I would just close myself off and think of him and the times we had together. He was my salvation in the darkest of dark.
Harper Sloan
#43. You have to start living your life for the future that you're alive for, not the past the you're willing to die for.
Harper Sloan
#44. We take the subway.Grumble's next message came through after breakfast, and it said:
theres a grumblegear3k waiting for you at 11 jay street in dumbo. ask for the hogwarts special. hold the shrooms.
Robin Sloan
#45. Though a living cannot be made from art, art makes life worth living. It makes starving, living.
John Sloan
#46. This is no library. This is the Batcave.
Robin Sloan
#47. I don't tolerate whining, I look at people & say 'you're a victim, it's not your fault' figure our how to survive!
Allan Sloan
#48. Normally I would hate games, but with her, it feels like foreplay
Harper Sloan
#49. He's like a storybook spirit, a little djinn or something, except instead of air or water his element is imagination.
Robin Sloan
#50. You won't understand me unless you understand that I am an odd ball.
Sloan Wilson
#51. Even through the anger of losing you - I still knew you were my angel. My light.
Harper Sloan
#52. So I guess you could say Neel owes me a few favors, except that so many favors have passed between us now that they are no longer distinguishable as individual acts, just a bright haze of loyalty. Our friendship is a nebula.
Robin Sloan
#53. It would be sad to be hired as a caregiver and then die before the person you were looking after. You wouldn't be able to let people know you did a good job.
Holly Goldberg Sloan
#54. When painting a landscape it is desirable to walk through the clumps and around the bushes, around the trees, the houses and the rocks. Familiarizing yourself in this way with the subject, you will get a better concept of the thing and not a visual and false snapshot.
John French Sloan
#56. That's almost cute: Don't forget your ruler on your first day at cult! But where is 'down below'?
Robin Sloan
#57. Just because I'm not pushing you up against walls and humping you like a fucking animal doesn't mean I can't appreciate the view. You just haven't caught me looking.
Harper Sloan
#58. Oh . . . my . . . God . . ." Dee says softly into the phone. "I think I just came. That was seriously hot, Iz.
Harper Sloan
#59. Jack wasn't built in a way to ever regret the path his life took. He believed that everything happens for a reason. Although, I'm not sure he would feel the same way now seeing as he died jumping on that new path he dug for his life.
Harper Sloan
#60. Selfishness beats altruism within groups. Altruistic groups beat selfish groups. Everything else is commentary.
David Sloan Wilson
#61. Or what if he's weeping to himself in a lonely apartment somewhere, where his family never visits him because Grandpa Penumbra is weird and smells like books?
Robin Sloan
#62. Brother, I don't know how," I whisper. "You don't know how to what?" "I don't know how to move on. I don't know how to escape this ... this darkness.
Harper Sloan
#63. There was room for all of us in that drainpipe even with the snake there. But if you're not wanted, there's no amount of space that will make a difference.
Holly Goldberg Sloan
#64. Let me give you some advice: make friends with a millionaire when he's a friendless sixth-grader.
Robin Sloan
#65. Crazy is such a misunderstood term. I like to think that I march to the beat of my own drummer.
Eva Sloan
#66. I think it's important to get pictures of things on your head. Even if they are wrong. And they pretty much always are.
Holly Goldberg Sloan
#67. My bad brother. I won't apologize that it happened, hell fucking no, best breakfast I've ever had
Harper Sloan
#68. Report, report, report. Dig, dig, dig. Think, think, think. Don't stop being a reporter because you've become a columnist.
Allan Sloan
#69. At Google, they eat lunch on graph paper.
Robin Sloan
#70. We all have a jacked up past, all of us. You aren't special because you've been fucked over. Do you know how much I would love to have someone solid to share my life with?
Harper Sloan
#71. Lapin breaks away from Broadway and picks a path toward Telegraph Hill. Her velocity is steady, even as the landscape rises underneath her; she's the little eccentric that could.
Robin Sloan
#72. Don't commit to being a columnist unless you're willing to do it right. Report your behind off, so you have something original and useful to say. Say it in a way that will interest someone other than you, your family and your sources.
Allan Sloan
#73. Only masochists can get along without editing their own memories.
Sloan Wilson
#74. I always thought the key to immortality would be, like, tiny robots fixing things in your brain," she says. "Not books.
Robin Sloan
#76. Turning the pages of this encoded codex, I realize that the books I love most are like open cities, with all sorts of ways to wander in. This thing is a fortress with no front gate. You're meant to scale the walls, stone by stone.
Robin Sloan
#77. When it comes to sending my children to college, I want the best education. It's the only thing I'm really leaving them - a good education.
Sloan Wilson
#78. It is impossible to get the measure of what an individual can accomplish unless the responsibility is given him.
Alfred P. Sloan
#79. The two people I need to get in touch with, the two people who most need to hear this most horrible news, are not here
Holly Goldberg Sloan
#80. So I switch to my MacBook and make my rounds: news sites, blogs, tweets. I scroll back to find the conversations that happened without me during the day. When every single piece of media you consume is time-shifted, does that mean it's actually you that's time-shifted?
Robin Sloan
#81. The nature of immortality is a mystery,' he says, speaking so softly that we have to lean closer to hear.' But everything I know of writing and reading tells me that this is true. I have felt it in these shelves and in others.
Robin Sloan
#82. You've got nothing to be scared of with me. Not one damn thing. You've had me in knots for months, Dee. Fighting for you, us, and this relationship might drive me mad at times, but it's a fight I want if it ends with you in my arms.
Harper Sloan
#83. I walk alone in the darkness and wonder how a person would begin to determine the circumference of the earth. I have no idea. I'd probably just google it.
Robin Sloan
#84. From my observation, the older you get, the more you like the word cozy.
That's why most of the elderly wear pants with elastic waistbands. If they wear pants at all. This may explain why grandparents are in love with buying grand kids pajamas and bathrobes.
Holly Goldberg Sloan
#85. Dennis faced him. They glared at each other again. Neither said a word until Dennis set the glasses down, leaned back against the counter, and folded his arms over his chest. "You're an idiot." "Seems to be a common conclusion. You're not my favourite person right now either.
Sloan Parker
#86. I want to see this lady out the front gate and into her car and off the street and out of town and then removed from the county and then the whole state and finally relocated to the place they call Tornado Alley in Kansas.
Holly Goldberg Sloan
#87. God does not challenge weak people - he has laid this upon me and I'm not going to question it.
Renee Sloan
#88. I want him to be my white knight. I want him to save me from me.
Harper Sloan
#89. People are treating the Stewart case as seriously as Enron when it's really over trivia.
Allan Sloan
#91. The whole economy suddenly felt like a game of musical chairs, and I was convinced I needed to grab a seat, any seat, as fast as I could.
Robin Sloan
#92. For most cosmologists, a supernatural God is an unnecessary hypothesis. For most Americans, He is an unassailable fact. The American belief machine apparently has a fail-safe component. Nothing shuts it down.
Gary Sloan
#93. There are plenty of people who, you know - people who still like the smell of books.
Robin Sloan
#94. Take my assets - but leave me my organization and in five years I'll have it all back.
Alfred P. Sloan
#95. When the Amherst sphinx styled herself a pagan, she meant she didn't believe in the biblical God. What sort of deity, if any, she did believe in is hard to pinpoint.
Gary Sloan
#96. Kat bought a New York Times but couldn't figure out how to operate it, so now she's fiddling with her phone.
Robin Sloan
#97. You know, I'm really starting to think the whole world is just a patchwork quilt of crazy little cults, all with their own secret spaces, their own records, their own rules.
Robin Sloan
#98. Ometimes discipline is the truest form of kindness.
Robin Sloan
#99. Princess, you need to let go of my head so I can finish eating this sweet pussy.
Harper Sloan
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