“Slipping? We're bigger than Jesus.”

“Just because we fall and slip up at times, doesn't mean it should define who we are. We fail. We're humans. It's how we heal wounds that count.”

“Having climbed to a height, it is easier to slip from it than to stay there after the zest of striving is removed.”

“Slip slidin' away
Slip slidin' away.
You know the nearer your destination
The more you're slip slidin' away.”

“It's all we ever wanted
And all we'll ever need
And now it's slipping through our fingers
Faster than the speed of night.”

“One slip. One slip in thousands. The odds had been entirely in her favor. But it hadn't mattered.”

“And another thing I like about cricket is, because most of the commentators apart from Boycott and Trueman are very old-worldly, they have an innocence and naïveté about them, that makes them sometimes say, in the course of their commentary, inadvertently rude things: 'Now we're at the start of play, and we're coming in to play; and the bowler's Holding, the batman's Willey'; 'Here we are, and we're about to commence play. And there's Simpson, in his usual position, standing with his legs wide open, at first slip, waiting for a tickle.”

“Time passed, slipping through the waist of the universe's great hourglass like the eroded soil of this continent slipping down her rivers to the seas.”

“When you slip on a banana peel, people laugh at you. But when you tell people you slipped on a banana peel, it's your laugh.”

“Not all Freudian slips are created equal.”