Slippery Snake Quotes & Sayings

Strive to increase in all you do — Sunday Adelaja

I write the big scenes first, that is, the scenes that carry the meaning of the book, the emotional experience. — Joyce Cary

Except for a handful, chess players don't have such illusions. The game has a severe analytic quality that makes self-deception difficult. Unlike the undiscovered poet who, despite the harsh criticism of his peers, lives on his fantasies for the day that he will be recognized as the next Dylan Thomas, even a young chess player can usually gauge his talent. When Josh was six, he played several games against a pudgy thirteen-year-old who was the top player on his high school team. He beat Josh every time, but a couple of the games were close, and afterwards the boy seemed gloomy about his performance. He explained that if he didn't make significant improvement during the next year, he would wind up as just another wood-pusher. Despite his celebrity in school, he seemed to know that he didn't have it. While — Fred Waitzkin

At the end of the day I'll go to a yoga class. I used to say that my work was my yoga, because it stretches everything, expands and challenges everything you know and understand and are. — Elaine Pagels

You know me. Any excuse to put on a dress. — Ellen DeGeneres

And I wasn't going to give up just because they insisted there was no point in trying. Even if it meant marching straight up to Cronus and giving him everything, I would really do it if it meant Henry might live. — Aimee Carter

The long days are no happier than the short ones. — Philip James Bailey

After winning the Derby aged just 18-Why all the fuss? After all, the Derby is just another race. — Lester Piggott

Praying with eyes wide open is the only way to pray without ceasing. — Ann Voskamp

The secret of pleasing in conversation is not to explain too much everything; to say them half and leave a little for divination is a mark of the good opinion we have of others, and nothing flatters their self-love more. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

When true friends meet in adverse hour; 'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between. — Walter Scott

Quiet as a shadow
Light as a feather
Quick as a snake
Calm as still water
Smooth as summer silk
Swift as a deer
Slippery as an eel
Strong as a bear
Fierce as a wolverine
Still as stone — George R R Martin

It seemed to her as if it had been an unpleasant day. She went over the actual events in her mind, and was astonished to find that, after all, the day had been like many hundreds before it and many, many more that were yet to come. — Arthur Schnitzler

If I wasn't acting, all I'd do is ride my bike. I've always loved doing that. — Mason Cook

Friends are good,
good, if well chosen. — Daniel Defoe