Top 481 Slide Quotes & Sayings

For one thing, she pronounced flowers 'flars' and I couldn't let it slide.

My 'Slide Some Oil' ain't gon' be Nipsey Russell's 'Slide Some Oil.' Elijah Kelley's 'You Can't Win' ain't gon' be Michael Jackson's 'You Can't Win.'

As an adult, I'm not supposed to go down slides. So if I'm at the top of a slide, I have to pretend that I got there accidentally. "How the hell did I get up here? I guess I have to slide down. Whee!" That's what you say when you're having fun. You refer to yourself and some other people.

Once you have children, the years slide by so quickly.

I have heard of managers who encourage players not to slide hard for fear they will get hurt and be lost from the lineup for a time. That is why you occasionally see a player go into second base on a double-play ball and not even bother to slide. I wonder, could Ty Cobb sit though plays like that and hold his lunch?

We had a dog who was named Pushinka, who was given to my father by a Soviet official. And we trained that dog to slide down the slide we had in the back of the White House. Sliding the dog down that slide is probably my first memory.

I know if I rest, I'll slide downhill fast.

When I was research head of General Motors and wanted a problem solved, I'd place a table outside the meeting room with a sign: "Leave slide rules here." If I didn't do that, I'd find someone reaching for his slide rule. Then he'd be on his feet saying, "Boss, you can't do it."

I don't want to dive into that mud slide, which is what I consider the literary process.

Shallow brooks murmur most, deep and silent slide away.

I am an analog, slide-rule kind of guy.

I had a scene where the chair was meant to slide off the table, but do you think it would slide off? No. We were running out of time and we had to get these scenes done urgently.

History is not a toboggan slide, but a road to be reconsidered and even retraced

War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation.

The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.

That's how we slide, and while we slide we blame the world's problems on colonialism, imperialism, capitalism, corporatism, stupid white men, and America, but there's no need to make a brand name of blame. Individual self-interest: that's the source of our descent, and it doesn't start in the boardrooms or the war rooms either. It starts in the home.

God cannot be found on a microscopic slide, but in the hearts of men.

No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide.

It is so easy to get sucked into the if-only game, and playing it is a short and slippery slide into despair.

The call that always seemed the toughest to me was the slide and tag play at second. You can see it coming, but you don't know which way the runner is going to slide, where the throw is going to be, and how the fielder is going to take the throw.

With some films you can sort of slide in, get a haircut and you're in.

I'm more of a rhythmic player. My soloing is pretty much limited to playing slide guitar.

Even now, when I do a slide show of the Geek Squad story, the first slide is a photo of ramen noodles. Because for me, ramen noodles are the international symbol for struggle.

I like to slide on a court, but when I slide on grass I never stop.

A life without love, without the presence of the beloved, is nothing but a mere magic-lantern show. We draw out slide after slide, swiftly tiring of each, and pushing it back to make haste for the next.

A lot of the time I use slide tuning for rhythm parts. I play a lot of slide in regular tuning as well as open tunings. I'm still mad about slide, there are so many ways of progressing on it.

You don't know a ladder has splinters until you slide down it.

I am so old, I entered engineering school with a slide rule. And I left engineering school with a calculator. I can still use a slide rule but it's not a skill you especially need anymore.

No child wants to fall off a jungle gym or slide. Accidents are an unfortunate fact of life, but to lower every last slide and jungle gym to a height that would only interest a toddler is doing our children a grave disservice.

But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land.

One by one, drops fell from her eyes like they were on an assembly line - gather, fall, slide...gather, fall, slide...each one commemorating something she had lost. Hope. Faith. Confidence. Pride. Security. Trust. Independence. Joy. Beauty. Freedom. Innocence.

My mom had bought this camera to take classes herself and I remember working with her on it, understanding how the stop-motion [worked], having a high shutter speed and things like that. Long before I picked it up myself, I remember being on a slide at a country club going into the water and wanting my mother to put in on a high shutter speed so she could catch me on the slide without it being blurred. I remember having fun with her: "Let me go on the slide and you'll catch me in motion!" Those are some of the little moments in my artistic making.

Sitting out of politics isn't really an option if you don't want things to slide.

How easy it is, treachery. You just slide into it.

The slide is tennis.

...our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.

The only rule I got is if you slide, get up.

Slide can sound like the most beautiful woman's voice.

The humiliating idea that we just slide from the top E.U. table to third country is unthinkable.

It's really easy to slide into a depression fueled by the pointlessness of existence.

There you go...let it all slide out. Unhappiness can't stick in a person's soul when it's slick with tears.

Ladies and Gentlemen, take my advice, pull down your pants and slide on the ice.

With 'Blue Slide Park' I wanted to have a number one album, and I did do it, so I'm not mad at it, but that was its goal.

My dream was to have a slide bannister so I could slide down and go out the door to work.

I'm a self-loathing slide player. Some people like the way I play slide - I hate it.

People say, 'You slide too much.' I try to change a bit, just to see the difference, and it's very bad. The faster and easier thing is to slide. To me, it's a gift, it's natural. It may be different, but I'm me.

But I let it slide, because, hello, hot guy.

... everyone young going down the long slide To happiness, endlessly.

I don't really play a lot of slide in general, but it was fun getting into that style and exploring it.

I used to go and do some sitting in with Robert Nighthawk when he were playing at the 708 Club in Chicago. He was a tremendous slideman. I never saw him do anything other than play the slide. I never just saw him just use his hand. He always used a slide. He had a little-bitty drummer we called "Shorty". He was about that high [hand gesture]. And he was his drummer. That's all he had was a slide guitar and a drummer.

I seem to be able to just sort of sink and slide under the radar, which is nice.

In my opinion, the P-90 is the best pickup for slide - it has the right overtones.

I've never been on a water slide in my life.

I bet you can't play slide piano.

I don't want this to sound racist, but most Orientals are nonconfrontational. They'll let things slide. I'm not like that.

Slide slide slippity-slide When you're living in a city it's do or die

I also generally play slide guitar in standard tuning, which enables me to switch back and forth between using the slide and fretting notes and chords conventionally without having to relearn the fretboard, as one must do when playing in an open tuning.

I know you want it, boy. I see you tryin. Just keep on pushin, I'm a let you slide in.

When we raised the first Foundry Group fund in 2007, we took over 100 first meetings. We told our story several hundred times. As part of it was a slide called 'Strategy.' I still repeat the elements of that slide regularly, a decade later, as our core strategy has not changed.

I would be more at peace if I could just record music and slide it under the door.