The Slants Quotes

#1. I like to run the slants. The slants are cool. I like routes that you can catch the ball running.

Calvin Johnson

#2. I like the slants of light; I'm a collector.

Annie Dillard

#3. Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.

Paracelsus

#4. Who climbs the mountain does not always climb.The winding road slants downward many a time;Yet each descent is higher than the last.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#5. Writing it all down is like taking a good shit, if done right you probably feel empty afterwards.

Solange Nicole

#6. I believe that reappropriation can be a powerful tool for creating social change. Sometimes, things like irony, satire, or humor are more effective in getting at difficult truths or concepts like white privilege, orientalism, and the exoticization of culture.

Simon S. Tam

#7. I've been portrayed as a caveman by some. That's not true. I'm a conservative progressive, and that means I think all men are equal, be they slants, beaners, or niggers.

Jesse Helms

#8. Fear is strong, but faith is stronger yet.

Norman Vincent Peale

#9. I keep one simple rule that I only move in one direction - I write the book straight through from beginning to end. By following time's arrow, I keep myself sane.

Jonathan Lethem

#10. I don't wait to be struck by lightning and I don't need certain slants of light in order to be able to write.

Toni Morrison

#11. We have, or have had women presidents or prime ministers in Liberia, Chile, Germany, Great Britain ... and yet the US of A still hasn't had a women president. It's just beyond my thinking. Look at Congress ...

Billie Jean King

#12. The truth is friendship is every bit as sacred and eternal as marriage.

Katherine Mansfield

#13. Yes, yes, theater in general is just going to always be my first love, performing for a live audience.

Megan Hilty

#14. The sea/the same then as now: more blear than blue, more/blue than silver

Carl Phillips

#15. Our shadows, now parallel, now close together and joined, traced an exquisite pattern at our feet.

Marcel Proust

#16. I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.

E.B. White

#17. I did this.
The sudden reality of the situation sets in and I know that not only will I kill again, but I have doomed this poor soul to a life in the shadows, stalking his prey by the silver light of the full moon.
The corners of my mouth slants toward the heavens and I am smiling.

Benjamin M. Strozykowski

#18. The eastern light our spires touch at morning, The light that slants upon our western doors at evening, The twilight over stagnant pools at batflight, Moon light and star light, owl and moth light, Glow-worm glowlight on a grassblade. O Light Invisible, we worship Thee!

T. S. Eliot

#19. I never regret anything I do. It's part of who I am now, and I like who I am now.

Alanis Morissette

#20. Elinor ... whose advice was so effectual, possessed a strength of understanding and coolness of judgment ... her disposition was affectionate, and her feelings were strong; but she knew how to govern them.

Jane Austen