Sloan's Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Weaver always says freedom is like Sloan's Liniment, always promising more than it delivers.

Jennifer Donnelly

#3. Why does the typical adventuring group consist of a wizard, a warrior, and a rogue, anyway? It should really be a wizard, a warrior, and a rich guy. Otherwise who's going to pay for all the swords and spells and hotel rooms?

Robin Sloan

#4. I've spent my career trying to help people without connections understand what's going on so that they have a chance of getting a fair shake from the connected and the powerful.

Allan Sloan

#5. At least it's working out because Cheddar is sort of obsessed with me, or at least very interested, which in the world of felines counts as obsessive behavior.

Holly Goldberg Sloan

#6. The Golden Horn of Griffo is finely wrought," Zenodotus said, tracing his finger along the curve of Telemach's treasure. "And the magic is in its making alone. Do you understand? There is no sorcery here - none that I can detect.

Robin Sloan

#7. I remember one of the legendary German broadcasters saying, "Germany's future is America's present," and it really was that with the penetration of television.

Harry E. Sloan

#8. These guys have been criticized the last few years for not getting to where we're going, but I've always said that the most important thing in sports is to keep trying. Let this be an example of what it means to say it's never over.

Jerry Sloan

#9. Every day you learn something amazing," Kat says, "like there's a secret underground library in New York City" - she pauses and gapes for effect, and it makes me laugh - "and you realize there's so much more that's waiting. Eighty years isn't enough. Or a hundred. Whatever. It's just not.

Robin Sloan

#10. The girl next to me starts to cry when she sees the sprinkles.
I'm wondering if she's worried about the long-term side effects of consuming artificial food coloring.
It's a valid concern.

Holly Goldberg Sloan

#11. Penumbra [...] produces another e-reader - it's a Nook. Then another one, a Sony. Another one, marked KOBO. Really? Who has a Kobo?

Robin Sloan

#12. Since we have to speak well of the dead, let's knock them while they're alive.

John French Sloan

#13. Maybe his big build isn't a linebacker's after all; maybe it's a librarian's.

Robin Sloan

#14. I tell him, and I write it down as I go. It makes me feel better, as if the weirdness is flowing out of my blood and onto the page, through the dark point of the pen

Robin Sloan

#15. I'll be ready. I'm not sure for what exactly. But maybe that's what being ready really means.

Holly Goldberg Sloan

#16. At first I thought I had a crush on her, but then I realized she's an android.

Robin Sloan

#17. I will see only what I want to see.
It's possible that's how people get through crisis.
The world where we live is so much in our head.

Holly Goldberg Sloan

#18. Penumbra's cult runs on egregious licensing fees

Robin Sloan

#19. Google," he breathes. There's a long pause. "How curious." He straightens. He has the strangest expression on his face - the emotive equivalent of 404 PAGE NOT FOUND.

Robin Sloan

#20. We got some shit to figure out, Izzy ... but after this, I won't let you go until we figure it out. Not happening. Do you feel it? Every single thing we ever felt for each other, it is still there Izzy and I won't let you push me away. We walked back into each other's lives for a reason.

Harper Sloan

#21. Drawing is the cornerstone of the graphic, plastic arts. Drawing is the coordination of line, tone, and color symbols into formations that express the artist's thought.

John French Sloan

#22. Come out, little Katherine, he'd say. Let's play a game.

Victoria Schwab

#23. When he sees the state that he's brought me to, his lips curl in to a heart-stopping smirk.
You want this, don't you, sweetness ? Because I can tell you right now, after just one taste of you, I want you more than my next breath.

Harper Sloan

#24. She's wearing the same red and yellow BAM! T-shirt from before, which means (a) she slept in, (b) she owns several identical T-shirts, or (c) she's a cartoon character - all of which are appealing alternatives.

Robin Sloan

#25. When it comes to love, it's always worth the sacrifice. Always.

Harper Sloan

#26. I stand by your side because this is where I'm meant to be. I stand by your side because you didn't have the strength to hold yourself up. That's what you do for the person you love.

Harper Sloan

#27. I can't eat pizza. If we actually end up with a pizza, it's going to be your responsibility to consume it. Do not let me have any. Even if I ask for some." He pauses. "I'll probably ask for some.

Robin Sloan

#28. That's what spies do, right? They walk to the bakery and buy a loaf of bread everyday - perfectly normal - until one day they buy a loaf of uranium instead.

Robin Sloan

#29. Did you really have to put ideas in Izzy's head? she now has some ... What did she call it? Oh yeah "Trifecta of Vaginal Bliss". What the hell does that shit mean?

Harper Sloan

#30. Sometimes I think together we are the worst kind of calamity." Thayer grinned back. Severine's lips burned. "Then I've never wanted to be destroyed so bad.

Calia Read

#31. It takes sweat to water the money tree. Don't pick the fruit from your neighbor's tree.

Harmon Sloan

#32. Neel's model might match the store's volume but never its density

Robin Sloan

#33. But I think the writers had their turn," she says, "and now it's programmers who get to upgrade the human operating system.

Robin Sloan

#34. I'm not brave; it's just that all other choices have been thrown out the window.

Holly Goldberg Sloan

#35. The column's worked out great for me. I've gotten a ton of ego satisfaction, had a lot of fun, won a batch of prizes and occasionally done some public good.

Allan Sloan

#36. It's not like we have the same brains as people a thousand years ago."
Wait: "Yes we do."
"We have the same hardware, but not the same software.

Robin Sloan

#37. If the government decides to put your life under a microscope, do you think it won't find something? I suspect there's not an adult in the country who would walk away totally unscathed if every aspect of his or her life were investigated the way Stewart's ImClone trading was.

Allan Sloan

#38. It's possible that all labels are curses. Unless they are on cleaning products.

Holly Goldberg Sloan

#39. The shelves were packed close together, and it felt like I was standing at the border of a forest
not a friendly Californian forest, either, but an old Transylvanian forest, a forest full of wolves and witches and dagger-wielding bandits all waiting just beyond moonlight's reach.

Robin Sloan

#40. Because in my opinion it's not really a great idea to see people as one thing.
Every person has lots of ingredients to make them into what is always a one-of-a-kind creation.
We are all imperfect genetic stews.

Holly Goldberg Sloan

#41. 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

#42. What if, you know - what if hanging out with Griffo Gerritszoon wasn't always that great? What if he was weird and dreamy? What if the best part of him was the shapes he could make with metal? That part of him really is immortal. It's as immortal as anything's going to get.

Robin Sloan

#43. She is like me.
Silent.
I admire that in a person. The ability to keep your mouth shut is usually a sign of intelligence.
Introspection requires you to think and analyze.
It's hard to do that when you are blabbing away.

Holly Goldberg Sloan

#44. The world's treated me awfully well, and I guess it's crept into my work.

Sloan Wilson

#45. You're a good man, Greg Cage. You give me some time, and I might just fall in love with you." "That's the plan, Beauty.

Harper Sloan

#46. Each blossom held it's own unique possibility.

Holly Goldberg Sloan

#47. Maybe I'll just go ahead and buy her the Tufte book. I'll bring it wrapped in brown paper. Wait- is that weird? It's an expensive book. Maybe there's a low-key paperback edition. I could buy it on Amazon. That's stupid, I work at a bookstore. (Could Amazon ship it fast enough?)

Robin Sloan

#48. We all have that thing, you know? That one thing that is calming for us. The one thing that, even when your world feels hollow, can make you feel whole. So, as silly as it is, mine is gold glitter. It's my happy.

Harper Sloan

#49. Always follow your dreams. Never give up. If you have a thought in your mind write it down. If you have a desire in your heart to write, then write. Tell your story. Make a difference. Touch someone's heart.

S. Sloan

#50. The way I see it is life is too short to sit on your ass and not live every minute as if it's your last.

Harper Sloan

#51. Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines
it's hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits.

Robin Sloan

#52. 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

#53. 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

#54. 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

#55. 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

#56. 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

#57. Let me give you some advice: make friends with a millionaire when he's a friendless sixth-grader.

Robin Sloan

#58. 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

#59. 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

#60. That's almost cute: Don't forget your ruler on your first day at cult! But where is 'down below'?

Robin Sloan

#61. 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

#62. He's like a storybook spirit, a little djinn or something, except instead of air or water his element is imagination.

Robin Sloan

#63. 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

#64. 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

#65. 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

#66. They are developing a form of renewable energy that runs on hubris.

Robin Sloan

#67. Color is like music. The palette is an instrument that can be orchestrated to build form.

John French Sloan

#68. I have never issued an order since I have been the operating head of the corporation.

Alfred P. Sloan

#69. I fell for you a long time ago, Cohen Cage. I've loved you my whole life.

Harper Sloan

#70. 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

#71. 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

#72. We need James Bond with a library science degree.

Robin Sloan

#73. 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

#74. 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

#75. 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

#76. 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

#77. I don't have any contempt for the men who have to have jobs and have to commute and have to pay the mortgage and have to get their kids an education. To me, that's the backbone of America, to coin a phrase.

Sloan Wilson

#78. She's scrolling fast through my code, which is a little embarrassing, because my code is full of comments like 'Hell, yeah!' and 'Now, computer, it is time for you to do my bidding.

Robin Sloan

#79. There's not always one right answer. The only thing I can tell you is everything that goes on back there is consensual. ~Dylan

Sloan Johnson

#80. I can only hope that she's become strong enough to realize that she has all the power in the world to become whole again and a man who's willing to fight tooth and nail to help get her there.

Harper Sloan

#81. She said that I was highly gifted.
Are people lowly gifted?
Or medium gifted?
Or just gifted? It's possible that all labels are curses. Unless they're on cleaning products.
In my opinion, it's not really a great idea to see people as just one thing.

Holly Goldberg Sloan

#82. At best, the fellowship is founded on a false hope, and at worst, it's founded on a lie.

Robin Sloan

#83. And then, on a sunny Friday morning, for three seconds, you can't search for anything. You can't check your email. You can't watch any videos. You can't get directions. For just three seconds, nothing works, because every single one of Google's computers around the world is dedicated to this task.

Robin Sloan

#84. It's easy to write a good column if you've got good information. It's hard if you have to depend on style alone. I suppose there are people who can get away with styling on a regular basis. I'm not one of them. You're probably not, either.

Allan Sloan

#85. It's a date." Ches stepped inside, leaving my bewildered face mug-deep in coffee. It was. It was totally a date. How did this even happen?

J.P. Sloan

#86. Kat is talking to someone else now, a slender brown-skinned boy who's joined the line just behind her. He's dressed like a skater, so I assume he has a PhD in artificial intelligence.

Robin Sloan

#87. These days, the phone only carries bad news. It's all "your student loan is past due" and "your uncle Chris is in the hospital." If it's anything fun or exciting, like an invitation to a party or a secret project in the works, it will come through the internet.

Robin Sloan

#88. We lost Coop in this very spot not even a year ago, and here we are now - Coop's son being born right where he was lost to us forever. "Full Circle," I murmur, stroking Zac's cheek.

Harper Sloan

#89. This is Mat's secret weapon, his passport, his get-out-of-jail-free card: Mat makes things that are beautiful.

Robin Sloan

#90. (Fishing) is as boring as boring gets. And then when it's finally not boring and you have a fish on the line it turns into a crime scene with a wooden club and a crazy amount of hitting.

Holly Goldberg Sloan

#91. It's time to take that leap and be what he believes is something achievable. Finally shed the weakness old Willow wore as a cloak of protection and allow my determination to be stronger and to be all the armor I need to protect myself.

Harper Sloan

#92. He was a religious kid, and the goldsmith's trade turned him off. He spent all day melting old baubles down to make new ones - and he knew his own work was going to suffer the same fate. Everything he believed told him: This is not important. There is no gold in the city of God.

Robin Sloan

#93. Its a museum's job to keep things for posterity,"Tabitha sniffs. "We have a temperature-controlled storage unit full of Christmas sweaters.

Robin Sloan

#94. He has Axel's protectiveness without being over the top. If what Melissa tells us is correct, he shares Greg's bedroom skills. He has that huge heart of gold that Beck is famous for. And of course, he shares Maddox's strength and determination.

Harper Sloan

#95. Religions exist primarily for people to achieve together what they cannot achieve alone. - David Sloan Wilson, Darwin's Cathedral

Daniel C. Dennett

#96. I've never listened to an audiobook before, and I have to say it's a totally different experience. When you read a book, the story definitely takes place in your head. When you listen, it seems to happen in a little cloud all around it, like a fuzzy knit cap pulled down over your eyes

Robin Sloan

#97. 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

#98. People are treating the Stewart case as seriously as Enron when it's really over trivia.

Allan Sloan

#99. 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

#100. 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