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I've always loved black culture; I don't know any other way to put it. Since I was a kid I loved music and early jazz, Sly and the Family Stone.
— Robert Greene
Where does such tenderness come fromAnd what do I do with it, you, sly,
Adolescent, vagabond singer,
Whose lashes couldn't be longer? — Marina Tsvetaeva
It was a sly trick of God's to give a man work to do - it kept him from asking questions that God couldn't answer.
— Martha Ostenso
I love Sly Stone and James Brown and Stevie Wonder, and I want my music to reflect some of that.
— Al Jarreau
A too explicit elucidation in education destroys much of the pleasure of learning. There should be room for sly hinters, masters of suggestion.
— Theodore Roethke
If anybody knows how to make action movies it's Sly.
— Jason Statham
It's not the teaching, it's the learning.
— Sly Stone
Ryan Alvanos is an offbeat, insanely inventive singer-songwriter who sneaks up on you with a sly wit and subtle power.
— Steve Morse
Although we often hear that data speak for themselves, their voices can be soft and sly
— Frederick Mosteller
The focus on process rather than purpose creates an insidious opportunity for sly employees to manipulate the system.
— Laszlo Bock
A child that has a quick temper, just blaze up and cool down, ain't never likely to be sly or deceitful.
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
Money is sullen And wisdom is sly, But youth is the pollen That blows through the sky And does not ask why.
— Stephen Vincent Benet
For the task assigned them Men aren't smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
— Bertolt Brecht
March felt the same sly, taunting, knowing spark leap out of his eyes, as he turned his head aside, and fall into her soul
— D.H. Lawrence
I've always loved War's Low Rider and Sly Stone's Thank You, and I just wanted to put my take on them.
— Barry White
Time needs another minute.
— Sly Stone
Strength and strength's will are the supreme ethic. All else are dreams from hospital beds, the sly, crawling goodness of sneaking souls.
— Elbert Hubbard
Pretend you want to do something else and write on the sly until you're free to do whatever you want!
— J.K. Rowling
Hi, I'm Justin." Then, unable to help myself, I shot Peyton a sly grin and added," Or, as someone people like to call me, "Baseball Stud.
— Rachel Harris
You have this preconceived notion of him [Sly Stallone] as a big, tough guy, but he speaks four languages and he likes to watercolor.
— Rachael Leigh Cook
Memory is a sly devil that pretends to wear the cloak of truth, but deceives us both in our youth and our age.
— Harley King
February air slid into the thin material of Kami's dress like a sly pickpocket, warmth stolen before she knew it.
— Sarah Rees Brennan
A sly old fish, too cunning for the hook.
— George Crabbe
Eros, again now, the loosener of limbs troubles me,Bittersweet, sly, uncontrollable creature ... . — Sappho
He was full of sly caution and clumsy recklessness. He
— Victor Hugo
No time for foreplay?" I teased breathlessly.His smile was sly. "Oh, we've had nothing but foreplay from the day we first met. — Karina Halle
The golden west between its softly dark shores. The sea moaned eerily on the sand-bar, sorrowful even in spring, but a sly, jovial wind
— L.M. Montgomery
For what use is it to forbid what we can't prevent? If books are forbidden, children read them on the sly.
— Andre Gide
In the middle of life, death comes to take your measurements. The visit is forgotten and life goes on. But the suit is being sewn on the sly.
— Tomas Transtromer
On the sly, scoping for love.
— Aretha Franklin
He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
— Evelyn Waugh
I think the adverb is a much-maligned part of speech. It's always accused of being oppressive, even tyrannical, when in fact it's so supple and sly.
— Eleanor Catton
A sly smirk curled at the corner of his mouth as he peered into the trunk. "Why do you have Robin Hood's toy chest?"- Brendan Daniels — Elizabeth Morgan
There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.
— Honore De Balzac
Only once did McMurdo see him, a sly, little gray-haired rat of a man, with a slinking gait and a sidelong glance which was charged with malice.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
There was always something sly about any act of education. Eve had learned that in the garden.
— Paul Russell
Routine is worry's sly assassin.
— Leif Enger
Stand, you've been sitting much too long, there's a permanent crease in your right or wrong.
— Sly Stone
Your afraid the sly little things will steal your heart if the find out you have one- Natalie Savage Carlson " The Family Under The Bridge — Natalie Savage Carlson
Of course I have a sly plan. I am a Merit, after all.
— Chloe Neill
Sunday school don't make you cool forever.
— Sly Stone
Sly Boots had betrayed them. They had lost the skeletons.
— Claire Legrand
Believe it or not, I got into the charismatic, shady, sly heart of Sedgewick Bell by watching CNN and C-SPAN.
— Emile Hirsch
I'm not a broken dove, I'm a sly fox." - Verona Rubelle
— Angela Richardson
The daughter sat down too and watched him with a cautious sly look as if he were a bird that had come up very close.
— Flannery O'Connor
No, but I'm Quicksilver's friend," Sly Boots replied, "and I won't let her do this alone." Lars
— Claire Legrand
Bein' born is craps," he decided. He glanced at Morg and let loose that sly, lopsided smile of his. "How we live is poker.
— Mary Doria Russell
How few of our young English impressionists knew the difference between a palette and a picture! However, I believe that Walter Sickert did - sly dog!
— Aubrey Beardsley
In 'Plutarch,' her voice begins to come out; there are actual 2,000-year-old quotes from Cleopatra, and they are sly and saucy.
— Stacy Schiff
To have you here, you mean-in reach and yet out of reach? To meet you in this way, on the sly? It's the very reverse of what I want.
— Edith Wharton
As the baby latched on with surprising fierceness, the nurse offered her own prayer.Let her be strong.
Let her be sly.
And let her be ugly. — Kiersten White
Soothe and sly stamina with a short sword they sliceThey are beyond precise making the victim pay the price — Justin Bienvenue
A banty-rooster sort of guy, the kind that likes to pick fights, especially when the odds are all their way.
— Stephen King
My only weapon is my pen, I'm a songwriter.
— Sly Stone
This is our fight, Sly Boots, not yours. You're not a witch." "No,
— Claire Legrand
A sly piece of good luck, which nobody knows of is delightful.
— Publilius Syrus
Leaders that wear the largest hats have few armies to attack a land so this leads them to be sly and cunning as they extend their hand.
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
the sly smile hides the broken heart
— Cornelia Funke