Sliepen Quotes & Sayings

Anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you're both engaged in the same business - you know they're doing something that you aren't. — Malcolm X

As Atwood concludes after a random and informal sampling, men and women differ markedly in the 'scope of their threatenability': 'Why do men feel threatened by woman?' I asked a male friend of mine ... '[M]en are bigger, most of the time ... and they have on the average a lot more money and power.' 'They're afraid women will laugh at them,' he said. 'Undercut their world view.' Then I asked some women students in a quickie poetry seminar I was giving, 'Why do women feel threatened by men?' 'They're afraid of being killed,' they said'. — Shuli Barzilai

I'm fucked.
We're fucked. Together. Like Romeo and Juliet, only we get to be in a sequel. — Christopher Moore

The best of Donald Westlake's pseudonymous thrillers about Parker, the toughest burglar who ever lived ... Out of print for years and years, Butcher's Moon is the ultimate Parker novel, best read as an installment in the series as a whole but comprehensible and wholly satisfying on its own. — Terry Teachout

Syllables govern the world. — George Bernard Shaw

That is not a just government, nor is property secure under it, where the property which a man has in his personal safety and personal liberty, is violated by arbitrary seizures of one class of citizens for the service of the rest. — James Madison

In older science fiction stories, they had to rely on storytelling as opposed to spectacle. The old run of the 'Twilight Zone,' the star was the writing and the storytelling, and the characters and the twists and the cleverness in the setup and payoff and execution. — Josh Trank

I always say, 'This will be my last 'Metal Gear.' — Hideo Kojima

The American people never carry an umbrella. They prepare to walk in eternal sunshine. — Al Smith