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!
Davy Crockett
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That rigging slipped down underneath that horse as I came off and I was dragged once and a half times around the arena. I was looking up at the belly of that horse the whole way.
Joe Alexander
Man eternally tries to get back to an organic past that has slipped just beyond his reach.
Terry Eagleton
Obviously we?re not happy with the result. We got out to the lead early like we wanted, but things slipped through our hands from there. It got nasty after that.
Jacob Micflikier
We just lost our intensity. The whole game, we played great defense, trying to slow them down and keep them in front of me. We just slipped up on a couple of plays at the end.
Luther Head
I spent that whole caution [before the green-checkers] thinking about different scenarios, but I really didn't know what was going to happen. He just drove down in there and slipped, and I got by on the outside. The Truck was awesome.
Todd Bodine
The senior athletes are amazing, with a very positive outlook. They have never lost their desire to be physically fit and the ones that slipped are gaining it back.
Angela Sgrignuoli
And then she slipped away from him.
Barbara Crass
He was a complex man. He was not a guy who just slipped on banana peels. He knew most people thought of him as a funny guy who could do funny things. But he was really an intellectual at heart.
Sherwood Schwartz
I do that once every year. I don?t know; it slipped.
Kaitlyn Andrews
Have we slipped over the last 10 years? That's safe to say.
Mark Brazil
Our salaries have slipped below the high schools in our area.
William Lewis
It just slipped off my hand. I had a good look. ... Once I saw I was open, maybe I got too excited. Everybody ran to the paint, and I was wide open. I thought this would be like the rest of them, piece of cake, like in practice.
Danny Brown
He slipped out of my pin in the first (period). From there on I didn't have much, but I had enough to get where I wanted. To get revenge.
Korey Kostur
And Summers and Winters scattered like splinters And four or five years slipped away.
Jimmy Buffett
The Sixties were an oyster decade: slippery, luxurious and reportedly aphrodisiac they slipped down the historical throat without touching the sides.
Julian Barnes
The slipped disc went almost into the spinal cord. She's fine, but could've been in a lot of trouble.
Stuart Townsend
I couldn't even tell you where it slipped away. I couldn't tell you what happened or why it happened or anything. They were just the better team tonight.
Johnny Gray
Together we watched them skate hand in hand, and now his hand slipped from hers and we are left to wonder why, but we will never forget the beauty of Gordeeva & Grinkov.
Peggy Fleming
That song is a story that shows how easily you could get slipped into being labeled as the bad guy, even though what you really trying to do is tell the bad guy to leave you alone.
Slick Rick
The weak update on major renovations in Sydney is just one among a plethora of indicators pointing to NSW having slipped behind the pack.
Harley Dale
It was ridiculous what he was calling - and not calling. I don't know where the water bottle came from. It just ended up being in my hand - and slipped out. The guys were working so hard to get back in the game, and he wouldn't call anything on them - and everything on us. Seven penalties to one in the second period.
Kris Waltze
They're a good team. They're the best one we played. We had some times where we slipped, but they're a good team. They deserved it.
Jenneca Crocker
Death is nothing at all. I have only slipped away into the next room.
Joanna Lumley
I tried to throw a fastball inside, and the ball kind of slipped out of my hand where I didn't want to throw it. That was a big mistake. If I walk Chipper in that situation and get a groundball with the next hitter, then nothing happens and I should win the game 2-0.
Carlos Zambrano
He fell on the triple axel and he missed a spin when he slipped - which he normally never does. Those were huge deductions and he was very disappointed.
Tammy Gambill
He made the initial moves. There were a couple of times when I thought I might have had him, but he slipped away.
Kyle Rodgers
It has yet to be adequately demonstrated to Congress or the American people that it is our vital national interests that has drawn us into this conflict. In fact, I would say, we have stumbled into this conflict, we have slipped into this war.
Tim Hutchinson
They don't catch everything but it is a surprise. They reset the clock, it slipped and it happened to be for a lot of time. What are you going to do? It's like the coin toss in Detroit on Thanksgiving, what are you going to do?
Alan Faneca
The typical exposure has been an occasional lapse for a variety of reasons -- the condom broke, the condom slipped, they in the heat of the moment forgot to put it on -- and typically followed with a great deal of regret and remorse.
Tom Coates
Uncharacteristically, the president's ratings have slipped most among his core constituents -- Republicans and conservatives.
Andy Kohut
One night she slipped a note in my hotel mailbox. It was a small essay of encouragement and praise from out of the blue.
Jill Carroll
She has slipped through the cracks and the wheels of justice have stopped turning.
Daniel Beckett Becnel Iii
What happened in every one of those cases was, we had the guy rated higher and they slipped through. And you say to yourself, 'If we don't take this guy, we're stupid. Let's pick him.' I don't know if that's the case with Whitticker, but it looks like they've hit on him.
Aaron Wolf
(The offense) slipped a little bit, so we had to buckle down a bit tighter. We had to cover their backs.
Darryl Tapp
We worked on set pieces for the past couple days and those are the goals that you usually get in the playoffs. I was at the far post and it just slipped to me in the back post.
Jack Stewart
Sydney is acting as a major drag on the NSW economy and the weak update on major renovations is just one among a plethora of indicators pointing to NSW having slipped behind the pack.
Harley Dale
I would like to say that we caused that fumble, but it looked like it just slipped out of (the runner's) hands.
Marshall Overley
My back foot slipped off the back of the rubber, and once my feet gave way, I started to throw the pitch anyway, and my mind said, change real quick, don't lob one up there and let the guy hit it out, ... I went ahead and took that one on the chin.
Roy Oswalt
I would be concerned, but not especially disappointed, if the PC or enterprise divisions slipped back into the red, ... As part of a long-term strategy, gaining market share is a worthy goal.
Barry Randall
This case is about the obligation the agency has to do a background check on someone with access to your home and access to the most cherished possession in the home, namely children. In a society that does background checks on bus drivers and teachers, the nanny industry seems to have slipped behind some dark corner.
Bernard Clair
It's a strange thing for Bush to have slipped into, given the savvy you expected from this administration, with a vice president who spent over a decade on Capitol Hill. It seems as if his people would have seen that there was potential for trouble, and at least done their homework on the Hill.
Fred Greenstein
Out of the whole bunch only a few slipped up.
Carter Carlson
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.
Haswell Franklin
My previous best was 6-4. On 6-8, I thought I would clear it, but on my third attempt, I slipped on the concrete and scratched. I'm just having a little fun and I ended up winning my event.
Darrell Davis
I know what he's going through. His isn't as bad as mine. His slipped out and popped back in. My shoulder went down and around, and they had to pull my arm to put it back in. Mine was a lot more severe.
Lenny Walls
All of a sudden I slipped and fell and hit the ground and I hit hard.
Brian Keenan
Our penalty killing wasn't great. We allowed them to get their shots on net and they got the rebounds. Our PK has been good all year, but tonight it slipped a little bit. It's been slipping a little bit lately.
Joe Mullen
This result is certainly less than we expected and was primarily attributable to a significant number of deals that slipped into 2006.
Hamish Brewer
I think our defense slipped a little bit. We got a little too relaxed with the ball.
Ronnie Brewer
My leg slipped. That was my goal, 205.
Jessica Reynolds
I was trying to keep him down, but he was tough. I tried to bring him down with a cradle, but he slipped right over. I just hung on to anything I could.
Derek Bennett
The fact that we slipped eight places I don't think is statistically significant.
Richard Morgan
We had no idea anything slipped through until we got a call from Upstate New York that our product was hot.
Mark Brinkmann
The Nasdaq slipped below 1,300 yesterday and that means the market has returned to the level when Federal Reserve Chairman (Alan) Greenspan warned of inflated U.S. stock prices as 'irrational exuberance' in 1996.
Tsuyoshi Segawa
I think they very quickly slipped into the same roles they always played. They haven't changed that much in 12 years.
Matthew Galkin
From the viewpoint of governance, everything has slipped back in a big way.
Guillermo Luz
I remember being a little shocked that I slipped to the fourth round. I just told myself I was going to play well enough that people would stop thinking of me as a second-day pick.
Nathan Vasher
I felt that I had him, he was going down and as he was going down the ball slipped out. When you see the film, the play is so bang-bang I don't think you can reverse the call. It has to be conclusive. We hit him, the ball came out, so ... it seems we can't get a break sometimes.
Kirk Morrison
We fought hard for pretty much the whole game, and then it slipped away.
Brian Lawrence
This is an extraordinary abuse of the legislative process: major amendments to an important law affecting substantial rights, slipped into a bill in the middle of the night, without any debate... apparently all for the benefit of a single special interest.
Peter Langerman
He tried to throw me and I slipped him. He went to the mat and I ended up on top near the edge of the circle. I kept him there until about eight seconds.
Josh Miley
He realized he slipped up when he said that. We all caught it.
Dana Aldrich
I took an extra step and I slipped a little bit on my break.
Dwayne Jarrett
Instead of making doubly sure, we're making triply sure that there are no inadvertent mistakes slipped in with any new systems or software that could cause a problem.
Burke Stinson
I just slipped up and got caught with the wrong people again ... I didn't mean to come back, ... I just lost track of what I was supposed to do.
Mike Phillips
I think people will really be fascinated and drawn in by the story because there are so many local connections. I call it a lost hotel because that one, more than others in town, has disappeared from memory. It just sort of slipped through the cracks of history.
David Barber
Sure I was excited when shoot down the Japanese planes. I also felt I was lucky to get back, ... I didn't get injured. Only one bullet slipped through the edge of my finger.
John Rossi
The first thing Coach Coughlin told me was, 'Good job, but hold on to that ball until you get into the end zone,' ... That's true. That (ball) could've easily slipped out of my hand. But I had it. I was confident I was going to score.
Willie Ponder
When Kevin (Rohrer) hit that three to send it into overtime, we all kind of thought we had it. It just kind of slipped away from us.
Scott Fleming
I'm proud of myself. Sadly I slipped and fell down. The rest was good. It was the best you can ask for.
Jeffrey Buttle
I feel like we made some mistakes at the end but my kids worked really hard. To be up 10 with two minutes left in the game, I felt like it slipped away.
Eric Burnett
The fact that somebody slipped a couple of lines into the budget is something of a fluke. I don't think the majority of the legislature knows that was in there.
Emory Morsberger
The tournament slipped through my hands.
Eddie House
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