Slicify Quotes & Sayings

The most cowardly thing in the world is blaming mistakes upon the umpires. Too many managers strut around on the field trying to manage the umpires instead of their teams. — Bill Klem

But now here they are, right in front of me. It's like seeing unicorns. I want to hear them purr. — Margaret Atwood

Pension: An allowance made to anyone without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country. — Samuel Johnson

Fairy tales only happen in movies.
-George Melies
from The Invention of Hugo Cabret — Brian Selznick

Acting had always been the social scene I'd fallen into. It was sort of a merry band of band geeks and theater nerds. — Adam Baldwin

land as much as anyone owned it. What did it matter if a few flabby — E. M. Forster

A part of what makes myths live is their multiplicity, the way different voices retell them in every generation. Homer survives because his poetry was outstanding, yes, but also because he's been passed down by so many by luminaries like Vergil and Ovid, Shakespeare, James Joyce and Margaret Atwood, but also by countless others. I wanted to do my part for these tremendous stories. — Madeline Miller

Concision in art is a necessity and an elegance. The verbose painter bores: who will get rid of all these trimmings? — Edouard Manet

The small flower is as total as the sun. — Osho

How many authors are there among writers? Author means originator. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

'The Golden Compass' became a bad experience because the studio didn't have faith in the strength of the ideas of the novel, which is ironic because it's one of the greatest fantasy novels ever written, if not the greatest, and they took the religion out of it and tried to turn it into a popcorn movie. — Chris Weitz

When men have gone so far as to talk as though their idols have come to life, it is time that someone broke them. — R. H. Tawney