Source: The Year of the Flood
Source: How To Write A Sentence And How To Read One (2011), Chapter 1, Why Sentences?, p. 2
“How seldom we recognize the sound when the bolt of our fate slides home.”
Source: Darwin, God and the Meaning of Life: How Evolutionary Theory Undermines Everything You Think You Know (2010), p. 247
“I'm gonna slide into those DMs harder than Chase Utley slides into second.”
As quoted on Twitter (10 August 2018) https://twitter.com/Alice_Moran/status/1027933019636736000
“Taedium pellucidorum.
An eye condition that keeps you from looking at people's slides.”
Latin for All Occasions (1990)
Act V, scene 2. Compare William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, introduction, scene 1, line 5. Also Scene 2, line 146. ("Slip" in folio).
Wit Without Money (c. 1614; published 1639)
1900s, Address at the Prize Day Exercises at Groton School (1904)
Context: Now, there are in our civic and social life very much worse creatures than snobs, but none more contemptible. [... ] If you have any stuff in you at all, and try to amount to anything in after life, you will not remain snobs even if you start as such. It will be taken out of you very soon and very roughly if you go into any real work. Go into politics, go to your district convention, and try to carry it on the snob basis and see how far you will get. The thing that will strike you in just about a week is that there are a whole lot of able people sliding around this planet. The fact that the individual opposed to you does not wear a cravat, and does wear a saw-edge collar, does not imply that you are going to carry the convention against him!
“Sliding through the city with no safety on.”
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