Stick Quotes

1742 Stick quotes by 1362 unique authors

Most lives are a flight from selfhood. Most prefer the truths of the stable. You stick your head into the stanchions and munch contentedly until… — Frank Herbert
Oh, propriety," says Mrs Benjamin. "We're always so concerned with propriety. Even in total madness, we still stick to our hierarchies and chains of command. — Robert Jackson Bennett
What if someone hurts you with a weapon? Wait. Think it over. You probably feel angry. That's normal. But wasn't it the stick striking your… — Sylvia Boorstein
Hate gets going, it goes round, it gets older and tighter and older and tighter, until it holds a person inside it like a fist… — Ursula K. Le Guin
If you follow anything that I've ever done, I never stick to one thing more than one year. I'm just afraid to get typecast. — Phil Ramone
The H-bomb rather favors small nations that doesn't as yet possess it; they feel slightly more free to jostle other nations, having discovered that a… — Elwyn Brooks White
Do you know the times when one seems to stick fast in circumstances like the fly in the jam-pot? It can't be helped, and I… — A. C. Benson
You apply Pilates in everyday life, like how you sit, how you walk. You've heard a lot of people complain about back problems; it is… — Romana Kryzanowska
Over the long term, despite significant drops from time to time, stocks (especially an intelligently selected stock portfolio) will be one of your best investment… — Joel Greenblatt
Advice to rock gods: drugwise, stick to Ibuprofen, decaf lattes, and pale Pilsners ... If your stomach is not a flat slab, please leave your… — Ian Shoales
For every man there is something in the vocabulary that would stick to him like a second skin. His enemies have only to find it. — Ambrose Bierce
Literature is a bad crutch, but a good walking-stick. — Charles Lamb
One should stick to the sort of thing for which one was made; I tried to be an herbalist, Whereas I should keep to the… — Jean de La Fontaine
In dealing with the press, do yourself a favor, stick with one of three responses: (a) I know and I can tell you; (b) I… — Dan Rather
Philosophers have often looked for the defining feature of humans — language, rationality, culture, and so on. I'd stick with this: Man is the only… — Paul Bloom
I had never 'taken a cutting' before ... Do you realize that the whole thing is miraculous? It is exactly as though you were to… — Beverley Nichols
It is commonly said that ridicule is the best test of truth; for that it will not stick where it is not just. I deny… — Lord Chesterfield
God can give a straight blow with a crooked stick. — Corrie Ten Boom
Forty years ago, we were on the tail of the Front Page era. There was a different point of view. Reporters and editors were more… — Mike Royko
There is not many tenors in the male category and that makes me stick out. — Bryan White
It was okay for Wayne Gretzky's dad, for instance, to give him a hockey stick, or Joe Montana's dad to give him a football, or… — Jimmy Connors
Conducting" is when you draw "designs" in the nowhere-with a stick, or with your hands-which are interpreted as "instructional messages" by guys wearing bow ties… — Frank Zappa
If a poet knows more about a horse than he does about heaven, he might better stick to the horse, and some day the horse… — Charles Ives
Theatre people, who are an adaptive species, know that to remain sane in the process of production where everyone and his uncle has an opinion… — John Lahr
So I was in America and I thought I'll stick around while I'm here and just see what happens. The next film I did was… — Radha Mitchell

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