Word Slide Quotes

#1. Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling.

Lord Byron

#2. The ideal reader's the same, and I suppose this person has never had a face or a gender or an age. It's just some kind of unknown other who will be sympathetic and read each word carefully and understand what I'm writing about. I suppose every writer feels this.

Paul Auster

#3. The detectives slide back on the digital timeline to the moment when Mendelssohn steps out into the snowstorm: there is something of the Greek epic about it, the old gray man with his walking stick, venturing out, into the snow, out of frame and away, like an ancient word stepping off a page.

Colum McCann

#4. Global political conditions make a direct American intervention difficult, but President Reagan's messianic and visceral attitude toward the Nicaraguan revolution could mean it will happen as an act of desperation.

Tomas Borge

#5. 8Blessed are a the pure in heart, for b they shall see God.

Anonymous

#6. Everybody, even those that don't like Chinese food, knew that you had to eat the cookie for the fortune to come true. And so he did.

Justin Swapp

#7. It should be obvious why it's easier to copy someone else's painting, rather than work on site or even from a photograph. All the selection, rejection and design have already been done for you.

Ron Ranson

#8. There is one thing better than making a new friend,and that is keeping a old one.

Elmer G. Leterman

#9. There is no reasonable doubt that existentialism will soon become the predominant philosophical current among bourgeois intellectuals. (1949)

Gyorgy Lukacs

#10. It generally appears outlandish until its carried out.

Nelson Mandela

#11. I focus on having a feminine body, a dancer's body. I do resistance and dance and cardio. I like hiking, swimming, being active. It clears your mind and it's a good way to decompress.

Ashley Greene