Slide Quotations

Men don't know enough about being courteous toward women. You should get into a cab before a woman so she doesn't have to slide across the seat. And you should always go first into a revolving door so she doesn't have to push - unless it's moving, then let her go first.

Typically, students slide into debt through the extension (by credit card companies) of unaffordable credit lines.

I had a scene where the chair was meant to slide off the table, but do you think it would slide off? No. We were running out of time and we had to get these scenes done urgently.

There are a lot of people who can slide on talent their whole lives; they're just naturally gifted. I've never considered myself one of those people. I enjoy outworking the opposition.

The traditional writer is a sensitive only child, asthmatic, who sits on the window seat watching the drops of rain slide down the pane, very introspective. I'm not inward-looking. I would never go to a shrink. I don't want to know what I'm thinking. I don't really like discussions in my family. It may be an avoidance thing.

No child wants to fall off a jungle gym or slide. Accidents are an unfortunate fact of life, but to lower every last slide and jungle gym to a height that would only interest a toddler is doing our children a grave disservice.

You have to see if the batsman is coming out, if he is staying back, what his grip is like, to gauge his intentions. A common trend I have observed is, a lot of batsmen change their grips when they are looking to hit: normally they either go high or slide their hand to the bottom of the handle to get maximum power.

The bottom line is that the position of the Sun relative to the stars slowly changes for any given date, and over the course of 26,000 years, it can easily slide between constellations. So you may think you're a Pisces, but you're actually an Aquarius.

We've all heard those fatal words in a relationship where someone says, 'Just tell me. I promise I won't be mad. I just want the answer,' ... Clive Owen asks his wife that question in 'Closer,' but he really doesn't want the answer because it's just a slide into great pain.

We started this morning at about 7 a.m. and by noon we'll be putting sheeting on the roof, starting to slide in doors and windows.

We are at a major crossroads here. If we are unable to break out of this trading range to the upside soon, then there is a danger that we could quickly slide back down again to the lows.

We've basically been trying to clean up our game in general. Making better passes, playing smarter, hitting the slide on defense, talking, communicating. We've been doing a lot of seven-on-seven to get prepared to play such a talented team.

What's nice about it is that most of the exterior walls slide open providing full access to the outdoors, creating an indoor/outdoor atmosphere. At the same time, the doors can slide closed in inclement-weather situations.

We're back to 5 percent expectations and the dollar is recovering from its sharp slide of last week. The dollar has a little further to go.

We let the momentum slide in the fourth quarter.

We knew they were a dangerous team, we knew they were in the slide they have been in. We were in a similar slide early in the season.

We know what is in the market place, but we don't know what is in the forest. The markets in Asia are supplied with bear parts, especially in Southeast Asia. While bear numbers in Asia slide downward, bears in the Americas are being increasingly targeted by traders.

We know a number of businesses are hurting on both sides of the slide and in 1998 there were a number of businesses involved in this. I think the longer this goes on the more likely businesses will take advantage of something like this.

We have to get the point across that we are still open for business. Devil's Slide affects locals more than visitors. (Highway) 92 is still open, and you can access Half Moon Bay regularly. Unless you're coming to Half Moon Bay during the commute, there should be no problem.

There is a red sandy beach in the Minas Basin in Nova Scotia that is unlike any other shore landscape I have ever seen. The world's highest tides wash its shores, and the soft cliffs of Blomidon Provincial Park are constantly crumbling away; whole trees will occasionally slide down to the sea to decay slowly in the wind and brine.

We have quite a bit of concern with the 101 slide because it is constantly moving. We have been repairing it daily.

The fact that she's a moderate makes it possible for them to slide over.

There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.

We've taken a slide the last couple of games. We're trying to get back to where we were at the beginning of the season. We're trying to get guys having fun, concentrate on doing the right things during the game and playing hard. Even though it's Arizona (and not an ACC team) it's a big game for us confidence-wise and to get back on track.

We want to make sure we don't slide back to where we are too dependant on cattle exports and we don't have enough capacity in Canada . The only way processing exists, is if its able to make a return on investment.

The plane started to slide off and we fell into a small ravine.

Machines this small tend to stick to everything they touch, the way sand sticks to your feet after a day at the beach, ... So we built these microrobots without any wheels or hinged joints, which must slide smoothly on their bearings. Instead, these robots move by bending their bodies like caterpillars. At very small scales, this machine is surprisingly fast.

Second, simply use PowerPoint as a slide projector rather than an information tool.

Since there is no slide in the projector, it's constantly trying to focus on something that isn't there. So, it results in this pulsing light. It's almost like breathing. Almost like it is alive.

Of course, the licensing process is designed to simply slide as many people through with a minimum of experience and quality.

My district office continues to stay in touch with county and city officials so that they know full well my urgency in dealing with the situation. My experience with Devil's Slide goes way back now.

Music and video are great if you want to add a slide show to go with the pictures.

Nynex has had an ongoing volunteer retirement program and some folks may slide over to those positions as people accept the buyouts.

Negative consequences of the hurricane are appearing in economic indicators and getting hard to ignore. The dollar may slide should more figures indicate economic weakness.

Right now, his main strength is he can play all three infield positions and two outfield positions. That's what's going to make him valuable to our team. If somebody needs a day off or goes down, he can slide right in there, pick up some at-bats and not miss a beat.

I guess it's also easier for players to slide on, but that's the only other purpose it really serves.

If we fail in in our levy attempt, we will lose our progress. We will likely slide into a near total collapse of this school system.

If they want to slide out of the house, you know, I'm going to go get my haircut and watch the big game.

If they slide too far, they'll find themselves in the same situation as the Xbox did when they launched the PS2 a year before we entered. That's a hill to climb.

I don't have any doubts at all how he's going to do here. I realize at the end of the year he could walk. We've just got to slide through this first year, and I think we will.

I bet he runs about a 4.5, 4.6 (40-yard dash). And he's not afraid to hit you. He'll go down and make tackles. We're lucky in that regard. Not only that, but we're lucky in our protection. He's got quick feet, so he can slide across the line and pick up overloads. And his hands are so fast. He's just a great athlete.

I bet he runs about a 4.5, 4.6 (40-yard dash), ... And he's not afraid to hit you. He'll go down and make tackles. We're lucky in that regard. Not only that, but we're lucky in our protection. He's got quick feet, so he can slide across the line and pick up overloads. And his hands are so fast. He's just a great athlete.

Celebrating Differences. You slide your finger down to your chest like your birthday ice cream is drooling down your chin.

But there's not much we can say when you score a highlight-reel goal like that. It was nice, and it was a good second effort. Some guys would have just thrown in the towel and let their body slide into the boards, but he stayed with it and got his stick on it.

Barring major surprises on the energy and food price front, we expect headline inflation to slide gradually towards 2% during the spring.

I lost the ball in the sun. Nobody feels worse about it than me. I tried to slide to create an angle, and I still didn't get it out of the sun.

I have mixed feelings about these long European stages. Unlike some of our rivals we had no problems with the windscreen misting over when it rained in October. But I think the problems could arise tomorrow if it rains. If it is really muddy on the second stage it could be dangerous; if you slide or lose traction, that is where the problems begin.

I didn't have anybody to throw to, so I had to take off for second. I was just trying to cut him off and slide in front of the bag,

GM could give more money to Isuzu, but the basic fundamental problem is still demand for trucks in Asia, ... The problem is how quickly they can implement all these measures, otherwise demand might continue to slide in Japan and Asia.

If we start to see a slide in distillates, it wouldn't be a cause for alarm, unless it fell below five-year averages.

He'll slide laterally, then you'll see his burst going up the field. He has his own style and it's a very productive style.

He loves going down the super slide over and over.

What we are suffering from is the slide from the exuberant high we had a year ago at a level that was completely unsustainable, ... I will also tell you retailers are going to be up against far more favorable numbers, easier numbers.

When I played, teams didn't have as many (pitchers) who slide stepped (to home plate) as they do today,

Today has given us a psychological boost ahead of that match. We have taken two points off the champions while Saracens will be coming off the back of a 50-point defeat at Northampton and they are bound to be a pretty unhappy camp. We have arrested our downward slide and I am very pleased with this result.

Going there, obviously for them to probably have a chance to get off the losing slide there in the conference, the home opportunity ? the best opportunity if you're sitting in their seat, their side of the street. We're playing for a lot of things ourselves. I'm hopeful that we are able to be healthy, be ready and be prepared to go after it (tonight).

We looked great early but let things slide as we began to make unforced errors and lost our focus in game 3 while Winfield played well. I liked the fact we were able to come back and get it done despite not playing great volleyball.

We lost Shawn too many times tonight. I know from experience that he's a very slippery player. If you relax, he'll slide behind you.

He was fussy and very childlike. He'd be a handful, ... He'd have you so angry, but then he'd come up and hug you. He was just aggravated and somewhat fearful about the key. But we knew if we made him stretch, he'd have to invent something for the performance, slide off into a little falsetto, and it just worked.

He didn't have a chance to prepare a lot of that. His mind was on trying to beat the Denver Broncos - let's be fair. Not that it was informal, but there weren't slide shows.

He changed the grip on my sinker last spring and got it to sink more consistently. He had me put my middle finger on the seam instead of my first finger, and slide it up on the ball about two inches. Those two inches made a huge difference.

He just got in there. It's a great slide. You tell guys never to slide headfirst into home plate, but it worked.

There are some worries about inflation in the U.S. and the possibility of further rate hikes. Because of those concerns and the slide in U.S. shares, investors in Japan will likely take some profits.

Joe has picked up right where he left off last season. There has been no sophomore slump or slide of any kind. I think part of the reason is that Joe has great internal motivation.

It could get a little rougher after 15-30, also the sun starts to pound down a little bit and makes everything softer, makes the skis not slide as well. I went at about 80%. I wanted to get that race feeling but I didn't think I'd be that fast. I definitely wasn't expecting to be first.

I think the Fed recognized that confidence was really beginning to get away from them. The important message is that these guys are trying to tell the markets that they are going to make absolutely sure that the economy does not slide into recession. In some ways they took the 'R' word right out of the dictionary, but it is equally clear that their work is far from over.

I was encouraged by that, to get there and slide and know my leg was O.K. after that,

I thought we didn't pay enough attention to box-outs, and we let (Lovell) slide in and rebound the ball.

I thought we moved the ball really well. Our kids have done that all year, they're real unselfish. We don't care who scores. Every team's trying all these little slide games and all these gimmick defenses, and they keep ending up having to pay for it because we've got six guys that can play offense.

I think when I got Defensive Player of the Year I was playing great defense. Last year when they implemented those new rules, I was still playing very good defense. I just have to get adjusted to the NBA style of play. It will be fine because I can still slide my feet.

I think after the third quarter, they realized what we were trying to tell them to do. And that's why the tempo picked up on offense. We kept telling them that if they would run the offense wide, it would leave it open for someone to be able to slash to the goal or either slide in.

It isn't as if a writer merely records life as it unfurls. Reality does not automatically transcribe as literature; real people are not shapely, compelling characters to be harvested. Charming facts and sharp observations rarely slide seamlessly into whatever narrative is at hand.

I think that is errant nonsense, as is the claim that 'Oh well, if we let management put in these requirements it is a downward slide and pretty soon labor will have no strength,'

I think sometimes we hit short tracks and everybody feels that they can be really aggressive and slide the car around. Jeff, he's sharp and knows what to do and how to make the car last.

Lap-band does make it easier to cheat. Liquid foods slide right through the band, so it doesn't stop you from eating things like ice cream.

I saw the bat, so I slide with my hand. If the bat is not there, I slide with my feet first.

Penalties and turnovers hurt us and we're at the point where we have to get better or start to slide a bit. Our kids have a positive attitude and will use it to go on into the right direction.

Our view is that home sales will slide through the summer, dragging housing starts down into the fall. But this is still no more than a forecast; mortgage applications are still very strong.

(Robinson) made some people look silly on film, just with his ability to lower the shoulder. He's not looking to take a knee or a slide or anything like that. He likes to get as much as he can out of every opportunity he has.

Our population has been lowered because we have seen such a mild winter. We thought we were just going to slide into summer, but I guess the weather says otherwise.

Our momentum slipped away when we had some defensive mistakes and gave them some easy goals early on. That's been our problem of late. We need to make them earn their goals. We couldn't slide on defense and that's how they scored.

It feels like the slide is tapering off,

It doesn't make very good sense, and it's not like they don't have people who could play second base. With somebody playing out of position, all it takes is one hard slide and he could be done.

I thought I was uncontroversial, and I thought I would just slide through. I naively told people that I was a non-controversial nominee.

I thought I was uncontroversial, and I thought I would just slide through. I naively told people that I was a non-controversial nominee.

I thought I was safe. As I came in, I saw a small piece of the plate and I slid to it. If a catcher has the plate blocked off, I'm either going to slide around him or run him over. But I saw a small piece of the late and slid to it and beat it by two steps.

Maybe some people in here thought we were going to glide into the playoffs, but it ain't going to happen. There are too many good teams in the league. We let an opportunity slide in this homestand.

That was a great slide and we got two runs out of it. That is something we have been lacking all year.

I was on the top of the slide going down.

Mick playing great guitar helped, ... I sleep downstairs and the studio is upstairs. One night I thought I was hearing this old Muddy Waters track I didn't know, but it turned out to be Mick working on a slide part for Back of my Hand . He's always been a good, smooth acoustic player, but the electric seemed like an untamed beast for him until this year. When I heard him this time I thought, 'My God! The boy's finally got it'.

We haven't seen a slide since the first class and I don't intend to again.

Whittaker drives so well to the bucket, and then he can pull up and hit that jump shot. He finds a way to slash and slide in there and takes it up strong.

Well in this kind of market, in contrast to a couple of years ago, you have to look at valuation and you look at companies that have perhaps had some problems that have temporarily oversold the stock position, ... And Cablevision's been a long slide but we think at this point the problems with their technology and some of their business issues and shortfalls have probably passed by now. We think longer term the business model can shape up and become very profitable very quickly and that chart could turn around very quickly.

We do this all the time. We pay them for their time. Sometimes they do conference calls. Sometimes they prepare slide shows.

Well, we just aren't competitive without our top two players. Unfortunately, they got sick at the same time and we had to just slide everyone up.

We believe the euro could slide to 85 cents and things could get a lot worse, with the Danish referendum going against joining the euro.

We came out and played well and were able to finish some chances. The goals came pretty quick, but it was still a battle the rest of the way. I am proud of the guys. They knew this was a big game and they weren't going to let this one slide by.

We can be undersized and play. We do sacrifice some height and girth when we have to slide down with more lean guys. Where we are now, I'm going to try and get as much time as I can out of each starter.

We (Camp Barnabas) will have a watch party at 5 p.m., Sunday, where PB2 Companies of Rogers, Ark., will show us a slide show of some of the work. Then about 300 people will be watching the debut on TV with us. This is the first time that we will get to see how they did it all.

The president believes that under no circumstances should we slide towards confrontation (with the West), but we should call things by their name. The military strikes are unacceptable and should be stopped.