Slip

Famous quotes containing the word slip:

“One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people’s throats—and one always secretes too much jelly.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)

“I take this evanescence and lubricity of all objects, which lets them slip through our fingers then when we clutch hardest, to be the most unhandsome part of our condition.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don’t slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices.”
—Pablo Neruda (1904–1973)