Sly Quotes

(on Elvis Presley in 1957) Sung, played and written for the most part by cretinous goons; and by means of its almost imbecilic reiterations and sly, lewd - in plain fact, dirty - lyrics it manages to be the martial music of every sideburned delinquent on the face of the Earth. This rancid-smelling aphrodisiac I deplore. His kind of music is deplorable, a rancid smelling aphrodisiac . . . it fosters almost totally negative and destructive reactions in young people.

Ten, 15 years ago, Sly, Arnold, those guys, were well-built; of course, they had to act and find good scripts, but today action heroes don`t have to be Mr. Muscles. What really helps a guy to become an action hero today is the directing of the movie. All those fast cuts.

An action hero has to be always in shape mentally and physically. People, sometimes they believe Sly, Arnold, myself, we`re athletes, you cannot make mistakes. But Hollywood forgives, I guess.

(On why she is often cast as the bad-girl) "I have sly eyes. When I was in school they always said, `Emily can never be elected Head Girl because you never know what she`s thinking."

I`ve always loved War`s Low Rider and Sly Stone`s Thank You, and I just wanted to put my take on them.

People were doing it on the sly anyway,

The way Sunny speaks in the books seems a perfect fit for the cause in question. She often uses words that can`t be found in the Oxford English Dictionary, which then are explained as sly commentary on what`s going on around her,

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.