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«I've always felt that sexuality is a really slippery thing. In this day and age, it tends to get categorized and labeled, and I think labels are for food. Canned food.»
Author: Michael Stipe
(Singer, Song Writer)
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canned, canned food, categorize, categorized, labeled, sexuality, slippery, tends, tends to
«Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away.»
«Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.»
«In ways to greatness think on this, That slippery all ambition is»
Author: Robert Herrick
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slippery
«Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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anoint, functionaries, functionary, slippery
«ANOINT, v.t. To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.As sovereigns are anointed by the priesthood, So pigs to lead the populace are greased good. --Judibras»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
anoint, functionaries, functionary, greased, populace, priesthood, slippery, sovereigns
«Chicago was a town where nobody could forget how the money was made. It was picked up from floors still slippery with blood.»
«Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery.»
«In vain have you tried your father's arts, you slippery one.»
«He that stands upon a slippery place, makes nice of no vile hold to stay him up»
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