Slap Quotes - Page 9

• I think she's having hysterics. Maybe you should slap her.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Thinking, New Moon, Should

  "New Moon". Book by Stephenie Meyer, September 6, 2006.

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• Because I cursed him to it. (Acheron) Be glad I’m not physically there or I’d slap you upside the head. You know how free will works, so stop the whining and get off the cross. Someone needs the wood. (Savitar)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Needs, Woods, Free Will

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• Somebody at one of these places asked me: "What do you do? How do you write, create?" You don't, I told them. You "don't try". That's very important: not to try, either for Cadillacs, creation or immortality. You wait, and if nothing happens, you wait some more. It's like a bug high on the wall. You wait for it to come to you. When it gets close enough you reach out, slap out and kill it. Or if you like it's looks, you make a pet out of it.

  Charles Bukowski

  Wall, Writing, Waiting

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• The records that I like, they have life and warmth and soul in them. Like the slap back on Scotty Moore's guitar on 'Mystery Train.' You're not gonna get that in a computer. You're gonna want a live room, you're gonna wanna bounce the tape, you're gonna want real musicians, in a room, vibin' off of each other.

  Channing Tatum

  Real, Guitar, Soul

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• There are still some terrible cliches in the presentation of Indian fiction. The lotus flower. The hennaed hands. In mainland Europe, people still slap these images on my books and I go bananas.

  Hari Kunzru

  Flower, Book, Hands

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• The man with a host of friends who slaps on the back everybody he meets is regarded as the friend of nobody.

  Aristotle

  Men, Host, Popularity

  Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

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• Anyone who slaps a 'this page is best viewed with Browser X' label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Reading, Labels, Littles

  "MIT Technology Review" Magazine, July 1996.

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• "You guessed? You must have been pretty sure, considering you could have killed me." "I was ninety percent sure." "I see," Clary said. There must have been something in her voice, because he turned to look at her. Her hand cracked across his face, a slap that rocked him back on his heels. He put his hands on his cheek, more in surprise than pain. "What the hell was that for?" "The other ten percent."

  Cassandra Clare

  Pain, Humor, Hands

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.86, Simon and Schuster

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• Every award for me is important because it means a slap against militarism and fascism in Indonesia.

  Pramoedya Ananta Toer

  Mean, Awards, Important

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• I'm completely in charge of my own life now. Sometimes there's no one there to slap me on the hand and say: 'Stop being so bullish and bossy,' and things like that.

  Kiri Te Kanawa

  Hands, Sometimes, My Own

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• Don't you wanna grow up to be just like me, I slap women and eat mushrooms then OD.

  Eminem

  Growing Up, Mushrooms, Violence

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• Right whales, for all their size, are surprisingly athletic. They roll, they slap their flukes, they lift their heads out of the water in a move known as a spy hop. They find playthings and are particularly fond of swimming repeatedly through clumps of seaweed, which slides over them like a feathered boa.

  Tim Cahill

  Moving, Swimming, Whales

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• He lies right at you, you know you hate this game. He slaps you once in a while and you live and love in pain.

  Alice Cooper

  Pain, Hate, Lying

  Song: Only Women Bleed

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• In the ambiguity and shifting playing field of adult life, I often wish I could just fill in a dot and have someone say “Yes” and hand me a chicken leg, or “No” and slap me with an old fish.

  Rob Delaney

  Hands, Wish, Fields

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• The fine line between roaring with laughter and crying because it's a disaster is a very, very fine line. You see a chap slip on a banana skin in the street and you roar with laughter when he falls slap on his backside. If in doing so you suddenly see he's broken a leg, you very quickly stop laughing and it's not a joke anymore.

  Roald Dahl

  Laughter, Fall, Broken

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• After I came home from the 1936 Olympics with my four medals, it became increasingly apparent that everyone was going to slap me on the back, want to shake my hand or have me up to their suite. But no one was going to offer me a job.

  Jesse Owens

  Sports, Jobs, Home

  Jesse Owens, Paul G. Neimark (1972). “I Have Changed”

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• My last fight was more than 20 years ago. I'm not a fighter, I'm a lover. If somebody's going to speak bad about me, I will walk away. But if a guy like Steven Seagal slaps me once, I will slap him twice as hard. Life is full of violence.

  Jean-Claude Van Damme

  Fighting, Years, Guy

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• I think fans can tell if you just slap a skateboarder on a game - you can't fool kids.

  Shaun White

  Kids, Thinking, Games

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• Abandonment doesn't have the sharp but dissipating sting of a slap. It's like a punch to the gut, bruising your skin and driving the precious air from your body.

  Tayari Jones

  Air, Skins, Body

  Tayari Jones (2012). “Silver Sparrow”, p.53, Algonquin Books

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• What the young writer is looking for is not a critic who will slap him on the back and say, 'Greatest thing since O. Henry,' but rather the one who will toss the manuscript down in disgust, with 'You know better than that! It's rotten! Do it all over again!'

  Henry Sydnor Harrison

  Writing, Rotten, Toss

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• She lights a match in the dark hall and moves it onto the wick of the candle. Light lifts itself onto her shoulders. She is on her knees. She puts her hands on her thighs and breathes in the smell of the sulphur. She imagines she slap breathes in light.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Moving, Dark, Smell

  Michael Ondaatje (2011). “The English Patient”, p.14, Vintage

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• However in the world did her skin come green?" Nanny wondered, stupidly, for Melena blanched and Frex reddened, and the baby held her breath as if trying to turn blue to please them all. Nanny had to slap her to make her breath again.

  Gregory Maguire

  Baby, Blue, Skins

  Gregory Maguire (2013). “The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz”, p.39, Harper Collins

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• I remember nothing of this, no ambulance rides, nothing. Nothing between switching out the bedside lamp and the sudden indignity of rebirth: the slaps, the brightness, the tubing, the speed, the urgent insistence that I be choked back into breathing life. I have felt so sorry for babies ever since.

  Stephen Fry

  Baby, Sorry, Breathing Life

  Stephen Fry (1997). “Moab is My Washpot”, Random House (UK)

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• I want to go up to the closest white person and say: 'You can't understand this, it's a black thing' and then slap him, just for my mental health.

  Charles Barron

  White, Racism, Black

  "Stupid Black Men: How to Play the Race Card: And Lose". Book by Larry Elder, www.amazon.ca. 2008.

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• Creative geniuses are a slap-happy lot. Treat Them with respect.

  James A. Michener

  Creativity, Science, Creative

  James A. Michener (2014). “The Novel”, p.65, Dial Press

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