Slush Quotes

#1. Looks like macho boy's cool just melted like a Slush Puppie in August.

Darynda Jones

#2. Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.

Doug Larson

#3. We were right about the slush fund. But Sloan did not testify about it to the Grand Jury.

Ben Bradlee

#4. My heart is pure as the driven slush.

Tallulah Bankhead

#5. She dropped her voice to a hoarse whisper that turned his blood to slush. "You will wake up and find me standing over your bed. You will see the flash of a blade before I plunger it into your heart. My face will be the last thing ever see.

B. J. Daniels

#6. I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush piles. I have had a wonderful time.

Vikas Swarup

#7. My heart is as pure as the driven slush.

Tallulah Bankhead

#8. Get an agent. Seriously, submitting stuff unagented means it will end up on the slush pile. An agent is the first quality filter, and a good agent is worth his or her weight in gold, as they'll often know the editors on a personal level and will be able to talk to them directly about the project.

Tim Lebbon

#9. Popular psychology is a mass of cant, of slush and of superstition worthy of the most flourishing days of the medicine man.

John Dewey

#10. Much of the DOE green energy lending program is a scam. It is a slush fund of pork for paying back campaign contributors.

Dick Morris

#11. I'm as pure as the driven slush.

Tallulah Bankhead

#12. Then, who is Matilda?' I asked.
Toby tilted his cup and poked at the slush with his straw. 'I suppose Matilda's the girl who felt like home.

Carol Rifka Brunt

#13. I love to lounge, and I particularly love to eat outdoors. It's a throwback to my childhood in Hawaii. I have memories of coming out of the sea and eating corn chips with a strawberry vanilla slush.

Marie Helvin

#14. Let's promise to each other that if we ever meet again we will never plow and push our new-fallen snow. We will not become slush. We will stay like this field and melt away together only in the sun's good time.

Jerry Spinelli

#15. They stamp the slush off their boots with autopilot eyes and answering-machine voices while they wait for their drug of choice - caffeine or nicotine or sugar - to kick in and render their bodies at least tolerably functional until the first break. Out

Fredrik Backman

#16. God's word is tailor-made for gray-slush days. It sends a beam of light through the fog. It signals safety when we fear we'll never make it through.

Charles R. Swindoll

#17. Since my first novel was rescued from a slush pile, it makes me sad that most publishing houses no longer accept unsolicited manuscripts. Nor are many willing to take chances on novels that are not deemed immediately "marketable."

Katherine Paterson

#18. For the first time in maybe my whole life, I feel dangerous and magical, like a dragon or a mermaid. A fury, standing there with my half-gone grape slush and my jaw clenched, ready for whatever comes next.

Brenna Yovanoff

#19. After the 1970s, when President Nixon's illegal campaign cash was used as a secret slush fund to pay for the Watergate burglary and cover-up, Americans have demanded to know where the money fueling our elections is coming from.

Eric Schneiderman

#20. I feel liquefied, like a cucumber forgotten in the crisper drawer, and I want to hold myself at arm's length and carry me to the trash. Who is this sack of slush masquerading as me? It's intolerable.

Laini Taylor

#21. An experienced slush-pile reader doesn't need more than a few seconds to see if a story has potential. You don't need to eat all of a rotten egg to determine that it's rotten.

Gardner Dozois

#22. You must be a Lotus, unfolding its petals when the Sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it.

Sri Sathya Sai Baba

#23. Honey, I liked the Harry Potter movies, too, but that doesn't mean I ran out and got a Dark Mark tattooed onto my left forearm like you did.

Jim Butcher

#24. Manage affairs before they are in a mess.

Lao-Tzu

#25. God Himself allows certain faults; and often we say, I have deserved to err; I have deserved to be ignorant.

Sophie Swetchine

#26. Miss Lea, it doesn't do to get attached to these secondary characters. It's not their story.

Diane Setterfield

#27. We place artificial demands on ourselves that undermine our happiness. These demands force us to work harder and harder to cross a finish line that keeps moving.

Frank Sonnenberg

#28. Another drunk goes up to a parking meter, puts in a quarter, the dial goes to 60. The drunk says, "Huh. I lost 100 pounds!"

Henny Youngman

#29. Honourable is right.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#30. The act of song writing and recording became one and the same to me; because I essentially recorded everything I did from the day I began trying to write songs. I've always had a lot to say. I'd always written poems.

Adam Goldberg

#31. If there's one thing you should understand better than the humans, it's that females should never be ruled out by virtue of strength. Some of us have ways to equalize the equation.

Dee Tenorio

#32. That's more interesting than a two-headed calf singing "Some Velvet Morning" in tight harmony.

Richard Kadrey

#33. As writers, we don't just need to write about poverty or war or the immigrant experience.

Jennifer Gilmore

#34. There were times I felt so anxious, almost like I was crawling out of my skin - that if I didn't do something physical to match the way I felt inside, I would explode. I cut myself to take my mind off that. I just didn't care what happened. I had no fear.

Demi Lovato