Slithered Away Quotes & Sayings

She'd slept terribly the night before. The room, the bed, were both comfortable enough, but she'd been plagued with strange dreams, the sort that lingered upon waking but slithered away from memory as she tried to grasp them. Only the tendrils of discomfort remained. — Kate Morton

In matters concerning religion, I consider myself not a child but an adult with 35 years of experience. — Mahatma Gandhi

Bad music is often the result of an attempt by the untrained, something that takes for granted that you're very highly trained. — Carlo Grante

ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS, EXCEPT EUROPA.
ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE.
USE THEM TOGETHER. USE THEM IN PEACE. — Arthur C. Clarke

Every word of it was for him. Against his sin, foul and secret, the whole wrath of God was aimed. The preacher's knife had probed deeply into his diseased conscience and he felt now that his soul was festering in sin. — James Joyce

There was a tank of special flounder about fifteen feet away from the octopus tank," he said. The fish were part of a study. But to the researchers' dismay, the flounder started disappearing, one by one. One day they caught the culprit red-handed. The octopus had been slipping out of her tank and eating the flounder! When the octopus was discovered, Scott said, "she gave a guilty, sideways look and slithered away. — Sy Montgomery

I have always heard that Italian women are rather fierce. — Susanna Clarke

A user interface should be so simple that a beginner in an emergency can understand it within ten seconds. — Ted Nelson

If life hands you some crappy chapters. . . then rewrite your story. — Ireland Gill

Mortification from a self-strength, carried on by ways of self-invention, unto the end of a self-righteousness, is the soul and substance of all false religion in the world. — John Owen

The demand of life is change. — Sunday Adelaja

Long before I had money, my passion for cars was there. — Robert Herjavec

The moon climbed out of the ravine, blue, skinny, as if it had been fed on nothing but skimmed milk. It climbed out, and quickly slithered up and up along the finest thread-away from trouble, and on the very top it huddled, crouching on thin legs. ("The Protectress Of Sinners") — Yevgeny Zamyatin

For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged. — Alice Walker

I have something for you," he said. He dug into his pocket and brought out something, which he pressed into her hand. It was a gray stone, slightly uneven, worn to smoothness in spots.
"Huh," said Clary, turning it over in her fingers. "You know, when most girls say they want a big rock, they don't mean, you know, literally a big rock. — Cassandra Clare

Head Start graduates are more likely to graduate from high school and less likely to need special education, repeat a grade, or commit crimes in adolescence. — Joe Baca