Sloughing Quotes

#1. Composing on the typewriter, I find that I am sloughing off all my long sentences which I used to dote upon. Short, staccato, like modern French prose. The typewriter makes for lucidity, but I am not sure that it encourages subtlety.

T. S. Eliot

#2. Let me tell you, there's no better medicine than a friendly card game for sloughing off the cares of a workaday world.

Paul Auster

#3. Here's the bottom line; writers write. Sometimes words flow easily. Sometimes it's like sloughing through mud. Either way a professional writer keeps writing.

P.C. Cast

#4. Oft times, anger was all I had, my sole defining characteristic. It clung to me like an insecure girlfriend, and I put as little effort into sloughing it off.

Bobby Adair

#5. People are supposed to accumulate, I thought, as they get older, but I seem to be sloughing off, like a person wrapped in a hundred layers of cellophane, tearing one layer off at a time, trying to get down to me.

Pam Houston

#6. Memory is the only thing that binds you to earlier selves; for the rest, you become an entirely different being every decade or so, sloughing off the old persona, renewing and moving on. You are not who you were, he told her, nor who you will be.

Sebastian Faulks

#7. Before discovering theater, I was sloughing off and didn't have any passion for school. Then I couldn't get enough. All of a sudden, I was getting good parts in all of these plays. I just loved it. I started getting A's in acting, directing and technical theater. I found something that clicked.

Gary Sinise

#8. Sloughing my skin / escaping it's grip / stripped of my wit / it hurts to be me .

Maggie Stiefvater

#9. She took her coat off as if it had only now occurred to her to do so. She emerged from it like an insect sloughing off its skin.

Haruki Murakami

#10. I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!

Valerie Cruz

#11. Far from being offended, Mencheres went over and flawlessly executed a street-style handshake complete with finger slaps, fist bumps, and a high-low finale.

Jeaniene Frost

#12. I wish I could have been there to tell you to never trust a boy with star eyes. They blind you like a deer in headlights." I

Zoraida Cordova

#13. Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.

Luther Burbank

#14. For as you were when first yout eye I eyed,such seems your beauty still

William Shakespeare