Slabinski Quotes & Sayings

Victoria's head ached under a heavy crown, and her hand throbbed - the ruby coronation ring had been jammed onto the wrong finger; it was later, painfully, removed with ice. Around her stood her older male advisers, in a state of disrepair. Her prime minister was half-stoned with opium and brandy, ostensibly taken to calm his stomach, and he viewed the entire ceremony in a fog. Her archbishop, having failed to rehearse, jumbled his lines. One of her lords tumbled down the steps when he approached to kiss her hand. But Victoria's composure was impeccable. Her voice was cool, silvery, and steady. — Julia Baird

I think of birth as the search for a larger apartment. — Rita Mae Brown

For the average person leading an ordinary life, fame holds an hypnotic attraction. Many would sooner perish than exist in anonymity. But for the unlucky few who've had notoriety forced upon them, infamy can be a sentence more damning than any prison term — Emily Thorne

Follow your dreams. Just make sure to have fun too. — Chris Brown

Just when you're beginning to think pretty well of people, you run across somebody who puts sugar on sliced tomatoes. — Will Cuppy

No one has too much time on their hands, even if they had the ability to live five-hundred years. — K.R. Royal

Knowing you, I understood myself. — Kamand Kojouri

A baby's cry is precisely as serious as it sounds. — Jean Liedloff

For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture. — Roland Barthes

Divinity of art, it's such a mystery. How to convince people that no matter how much money you can spend on education and art education especially, that it implants, it directs a young person for the rest of their lives, and always in the most humane and positive and dignified manner. — Mikhail Baryshnikov