Stiff Quotes

194 quotes by 164 authors

If men were equally at risk from this condition - if they knew their bellies might swell as if they were suffering from end-stage cirrhosis,… — Barbara Ehrenreich
When you are full of pride on the inside, it makes you stiff, stubborn, and creates strife with others. — John C. Maxwell
Keep a stiff upper chin. — Samuel Goldwyn
Yeah, I like causing trouble. It's the teddy boy in me. I used to be a teddy boy. Feeling slightly inferior and wanting to cause… — Michael Gambon
I pulled out the manuscript [from the envelope] and a great big stiff cardboard finger sprung up. This is someone that was so certain they… — Gardner Dozois
The history of those who shed those other tears, the history of those anonymous millions, is what Terkel wants readers and listeners to come away… — Studs Terkel
Vladimir Nabokov was a writer who cared nothing for music and whose favorite sport was the pursuit, capture, and murder of butterflies. This explains many… — Edward Abbey
It's a peculiarity of the Norwegian culture and of the English and American, too, that men are not supposed to cry. Stiff upper lip and… — Philip Jose Farmer
Geez, if I could get through to you, kiddo, that depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction… — Judith Guest
The nightingales are singing near The Convent of the Sacred Heart, And sang within the bloody wood When Agamemnon cried aloud, And let their liquid… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
I've tried several varieties of sex. The conventional position makes me claustrophobic, and the others either give me a stiff neck or lockjaw. — Tallulah Bankhead
I have never in my life encountered a religion as oppressive, cold, and stiff as Progressivism. I've never known a faith more eager to burn… — Matt Walsh
I enjoy reality as much as the next man. It's just that in my case, fortunately, reality includes a good stiff belt every now and… — David Niven
There were two sides to David Lean: on the one side, he was kind of a rather stiff, disciplined Englishman. And then he had this… — John Boorman
Going down on a woman gives me a stiff neck, going down on a man gives me lockjaw and conventional sex gives me claustrophobia. — Tallulah Bankhead
The smell of the sea, of kelp and fish and bitter moving water, rose stronger in my nostrils. It flooded my consciousness like an ancestral… — Ross Macdonald
I like many different things you know so I'm probably going to experiment, and if I didn't I'd be a little bit strange and boring… — Joss Stone
A mouthful of sea air, or a stiff walk in the wind's face would not give grace to the soul, but it would yield oxygen… — Charles Spurgeon
The cords of passion and desire weave a binding net around you. Worldly confrontation makes you stiff and inflexible. The trap of duality is tenacious.… — Laozi
Stiff-necked America, in flagrant rebellion against God, is indulging a caterwauling orgy of sinful maudlin cinementality on the 5th anniversary of God's 9/11 vengeance upon… — Fred Phelps

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