Quotes for All
Small, portable digital cameras that exceed the performance of an off-the-shelf Nikon using 35mm slide film are further away from current reality than the proposed NASA manned Mars mission, although I expect both to happen sometime during my lifetime. Galen Rowell
No one is here, Char said. You need resist temptation no longer. Only if you slide too. I’ll go first so I can catch you at the bottom. He flew down so incautiously that I suspected him of years of practice in his own castle. It was my turn. The ride was a dream, longer … Read more
Do you like to slide? His voice was eager. Stair rails! Did he suspect me? I forced a sigh. No, Majesty. I’m terrified of heights. Oh. His polite tone had returned. I wish I could enjoy it. This fear of heights is an affliction. He nodded, a show of sympathy but not much interest. I … Read more
He…boasted an unassuming mustache, which was perched atop his upper lip cautiously, as though it were slightly embarrassed to be there and would like to slide away and become a sideburn or something more fashionable. Gail Carriger
The photographic enthusiast likes to lure us into a darkened room in order to display his slides on a silver screen. Aided by the adaptability of the eye and by the borrowed light from the intense projector bulb, he can achieve those relationships in brightness that will make us dutifully admire the wonderful autumn tints … Read more
If we slide into one of those rare moments of military honesty, we realize that the technical demands of modern warfare are so complex a considerable percentage of our material is bound to malfunction even before it is deployed against a foe. We no longer waste manpower by carrying the flag into battle. Instead we … Read more
You might slip, you might slide You might stumble and fall by the roadside But don’t you ever let nobody drag your spirit down Remember you’re walking up to heaven, don’t let nobody turn you around Eric Bibb
I love a lot of things, a whole lot of things / Like / My cousin comes to visit and you know he’s from the South /’Cause every word he says just kind of slides out of his mouth / I like the way he whistles and I like the way he walks / But … Read more
I have a sliding glass door on my closet, and when I slide it one way I can see all my uniforms, and the other way is all my own clothes. Elle Fanning
Letting things slide is always the easiest thing to do, in parenting no less than in banking, public education, and environmental protection. A lack of discipline is apparent these days in just about every aspect of American society. Why? This should be is a much larger question, one to ponder as we take out the … Read more