Ltanya Sloan Quotes

#1. I think it's important to get pictures of things on your head. Even if they are wrong. And they pretty much always are. #Quote by Holly Goldberg Sloan

#2. … the tone of her voice demanded that the world listen as she stood up for her brother and for me. #Quote by Holly Goldberg Sloan

#3. Hi there ... Let me ask you a question ... How would you find a needle in a haystack?"
The first-grader pauses, pensive, tugging on the green yarn around her neck. She's really thinking this over. Tiny gears are turning; she's twisting her fingers together, pondering. It's cute. Finally she looks up and says gravely, "I would ask the hays to find it."
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Yes, of course. She's a genius!
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It's so simple. Of course, of course. The first-grader is right. It's easy to find a needle in a haystack! Ask the hays to find it! #Quote by Robin Sloan

#4. I'll be ready. I'm not sure for what exactly. But maybe that's what being ready really means. #Quote by Holly Goldberg Sloan

#5. Even through the anger of losing you - I still knew you were my angel. My light. #Quote by Harper Sloan

#6. I'm going to put the moves on her,' he says gravely. 'Things might get weird.' He says it like a commando setting up a midnight raid. Like: Sure, this is going to be extraordinarily dangerous, but don't worry. I've done it before. #Quote by Robin Sloan

#7. This girl has the spark of life. This is my primary filter for new friends (girl- and otherwise) and the highest compliment I can pay. I've tried many times to figure out exactly what ignites it
what cocktail of characteristics come together in the cold, dark cosmos to form a star. I know it's mostly in the face
not just the eyes, but the brow, the cheeks, the mouth, and the micromuscles that connect them all.
Kat's micromuscles are very attractive. #Quote by Robin Sloan

#8. Babe, how can you can be so blind when your eyes are wide open? Even if he wasn't the coolest kid I have ever met, even if I didn't enjoy the hell out of my time reliving my childhood with the little guy, he is part of you. No, he isn't yours and I understand that, but he is part of you, and Beauty, how can I not love that #Quote by Harper Sloan

#9. I don't know why they try to sell smaller candy bars as being more fun than the bigger ones. That's just a lie" -Bett (Dogfish) #Quote by Holly Goldberg Sloan

#10. That had been the trouble with him and Betsy: what with his brooding about the past and worrying about the future, there had never been any present at all. #Quote by Sloan Wilson

#11. Though a living cannot be made from art, art makes life worth living. It makes starving, living. #Quote by John Sloan

#12. If you love someone, you tell them. Even if you're scared that it's not the right thing. Even if you're scared that it'll cause problems. Even if you're scared that it will burn your life to the ground, you say it, and you say it loud and you go from there. #Quote by Mark Sloan

#13. Selfishness beats altruism within groups. Altruistic groups beat selfish groups. Everything else is commentary. #Quote by David Sloan Wilson

#14. At first I thought I had a crush on her, but then I realized she's an android. #Quote by Robin Sloan

#15. Didn't anyone ever tell you that life starts at the end of your comfort zone? When you break free of the fears that have held you back, you're going to be free to fly, and that, honey, is when you're going to find the happiness you deserve. But you have to start somewhere. You have to push that fear aside and just wing it - trusting you will never be alone should you fall. #Quote by Harper Sloan

#16. The idea of something for nothing is appealing in some visceral way.
Even free things are never free.
The burden of ownership means everything has a price. #Quote by Holly Goldberg Sloan

#17. Hadoop! I love the sound of it. Kat Potente, you and I will have a son, and we will name him Hadoop, and he will be a great warrior, a king! #Quote by Robin Sloan

#18. I still love him. This man that I have thought was forever lost to me. If I am completely honest with myself, I never stopped loving him. But, all this knowledge shouldn't scare me. The teenage love we shared over a decade ago has grown with such a power that it will kill me if I lose it again. #Quote by Harper Sloan

#19. We do learn something about ourselves when we are up against the wall, and we do most certainly come out stronger. #Quote by Tina Sloan

#20. I…missed…you…so…much." I sob out, gasping as the emotions over take me.
"God Princess, you have no idea. No fucking idea." He says, rolling to the side and pulling me closer to his hard body. "Never letting you go, Izzy. Never. #Quote by Harper Sloan

#21. Magic is not the only power in this world. #Quote by Robin Sloan

#22. The column's worked out great for me. I've gotten a ton of ego satisfaction, had a lot of fun, won a batch of prizes and occasionally done some public good. #Quote by Allan Sloan

#23. I really like reading stories with an unreliable narrator, because the person telling you what happened can't be trusted with the facts and you have to figure it out.
Maybe when it's your own story, you're always going to be an unreliable narrator" -Avery (Night Owl) #Quote by Holly Goldberg Sloan

#24. Trust me when I tell you that I have lived a life that makes me know when something is worth fighting for. I took one look at you and knew you were worth it to me. It's new, I get that, but I know you feel it too. #Quote by Harper Sloan

#25. To make good decisions, CEOs need the courage to seek out disagreement. Alfred Sloan, the longtime CEO and chairman of General Motors, once interrupted a committee meeting with a question: "Gentlemen, I take it we are all in complete agreement on the decision here?" All the committee members nodded. "Then," Sloan said, "I propose we postpone further discussion of this matter until our next meeting to give ourselves time to develop disagreement and perhaps gain some understanding of what this decision is about. #Quote by Chip Heath

#26. In the hands of a master, light and shade is one of the great qualities of art. #Quote by John French Sloan

#27. We were right about the slush fund. But Sloan did not testify about it to the Grand Jury. #Quote by Ben Bradlee

#28. Pattie saw grief. Her eyes focused on a version of her own young self, and so many other children in Vietnam who grew up without parents, some abandoned because of their ethnicity, others because of tragedy. And her arms reached out wide. #Quote by Holly Goldberg Sloan

#29. Be sensitive to your mistakes. Put it on the wall for a couple of weeks. It may be that you can learn more from the study of your own work than from others. #Quote by John French Sloan

#30. Kat bought a New York Times but couldn't figure out how to operate it, so now she's fiddling with her phone. #Quote by Robin Sloan

#31. Everyone else kept giving you two shit, thinking you were playing some stupid fucking game, but if they would've opened their eyes for one second longer, they would've seen her hiding in plain sight with you fighting all her demons for her. #Quote by Harper Sloan

#32. Every good picture leaves the painter eager to start again, unsatisfied, inspired by the rich mine in which he is working, hoping for more energy, more vitality, more time - condemned to painting for life. #Quote by John French Sloan

#33. I don't have any contempt for the men who have to have jobs and have to commute and have to pay the mortgage and have to get their kids an education. To me, that's the backbone of America, to coin a phrase. #Quote by Sloan Wilson

#34. I walk alone in the darkness and wonder how a person would begin to determine the circumference of the earth. I have no idea. I'd probably just google it. #Quote by Robin Sloan

#35. (about Kindles) I have one and I use it most nights. I always imagine the books staring and whispering, Traitor! #Quote by Robin Sloan

#36. It is impossible to get the measure of what an individual can accomplish unless the responsibility is given him. #Quote by Alfred P. Sloan

#37. Give a man a clear-cut job and let him do it. #Quote by Alfred P. Sloan

#38. Lord knows, I need a little action tonight or my vagina might just run off and join the circus. #Quote by Harper Sloan

#39. It was possible that he was making some progress in his mental health condition by seeing me. #Quote by Holly Goldberg Sloan

#40. Because in my opinion it's not really a great idea to see people as one thing.
Every person has lots of ingredients to make them into what is always a one-of-a-kind creation.
We are all imperfect genetic stews. #Quote by Holly Goldberg Sloan

#41. Google," he breathes. There's a long pause. "How curious." He straightens. He has the strangest expression on his face - the emotive equivalent of 404 PAGE NOT FOUND. #Quote by Robin Sloan

#42. Neel takes a sharp breath and I know exactly what it means. It means: I have waited my whole life to walk through a secret passage built into a bookshelf. #Quote by Robin Sloan

#43. And just being there is ninety-nine percent of what matters when your world falls apart #Quote by Holly Goldberg Sloan

#44. Typographers are designers; designers are my people. #Quote by Robin Sloan

#45. I am fortunate to have witnessed the alchemy of words transform destiny into reality. #Quote by Brenda Sloan