Slippery Quotes

It's hard to have anything isn't it? Rare to get it, hard to keep it. This is a damn slippery planet.

Negotiating is like trying to pick up mercury with a fork.

They want to lube their body up really good to make it hard to grab hold; Anderson did a great job defending my takedowns. It's because he was all greased up, so he was able to stop a lot of them.

I have the backbone of an eel.

Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.

A slug can leave but there's always a slimy trail behind him.

The aphorism is a slippery plaything.

For me, the comedies that truly work are the ones that are grounded in some way. If it's all heightened, it's really hard. It's a little slippery. It's hard to get purchase on the side of the wall.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand.

Alas! the slippery nature of tender youth.

I'm very hard to catch," says Rue. "And if they can't catch me, they can't kill me. So don't count me out.

The end is near. I hear a noise at the door, as of some immense slippery body lumbering against it. It shall not find me. God, that hand! The window! The window!

It is just flipping unbelievable. He is a mixture of Harry Houdini and a greased piglet. He is barely human in his elusiveness. Nailing Blair is like trying to pin jelly to a wall.

It's like trying to pin down a kangaroo on a trampoline.

My belief about acting in one foot on a banana peel and the other one in the grave.

Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it!

I'm a fish swimming by...catch me if you want me.

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

A man may say, "From now on I'm going to speak the truth." But the truth hears him and runs away and hides before he's even done speaking.

I can't get it out," she said. "Just pull at it." "It hurts. It's throbbing." "Pull harder." "I can't! It's truly stuck. I need something to make it slippery. Do you have some sort of lubricant nearby?" "No." "Not anything?" "Much as it may surprise you, we've never needed lubricant in the library before now.

I try to pester Christian Dunn from time to time. As soon as my schedule allows, I plan to make a real pest of myself and get some hot, slippery Chaos action.

Trust is as slippery as a basket of eels sometimes.

The Volkswagen Group has proved that it can remain firmly on track even when the terrain is slippery.

I'm a small shifty kind of guy.

Trying to make order out of my life was like trying to pick up a jellyfish.