Stiff Quotes

194 Stiff quotes by 164 unique authors

It's a very valuable function and requirement that you're performing, so have a great day and keep a stiff upper lip. — Dan Quayle
I don't write on topics that require a lot of urgency. But in 'Stiff,' I wanted to change people's hearts about organ donation. Whenever I… — Mary Roach
When you do a song new live on stage, it's kind of a bit weird until it gets worn in, you know, like oiled up… — Jeff Lynne
The best scheme of Phonetics is a stiff uncertain thing. — Thomas Edward Brown
I was at the Royal Art School. That was a preparatory school specially for art teachers. You see, it was not so much for the… — Josef Albers
Even when I have to write a simple letter I'm scared stiff as if faced with looming seasickness. — Gustav Klimt
You need to take small steps when you dream big dreams. I am a published author with dyslexia, a professional speaker who was in speech… — Karl Mecklenburg
As the strata of the earth preserve in succession the living creatures of past epochs, so the shelves of libraries preserve in succession the errors… — Arthur Schopenhauer
I've always been slightly self-conscious as an actor, and I guess that sometimes reads as pomposity. Starting when I was 30, I somehow gave off… — Charles Kimbrough
I was always accused of being too stiff. In 1974, when I ran my first primary race for state rep, I was chief aide to… — Jim Edgar
Now as at all times I can see in the mind's eye, In their stiff, painted clothes, the pale unsatisfied ones Appear and disappear in… — William Butler Yeats
Attain and maintain a reputation, for it is the usufruct of fame. A stiff climb, for it is the issue of excellence, as rare as… — Baltasar Gracian
Then, there's the modern mother-in-law. In her mid 40s, she is the compact car of her breed: efficient, trim, attractive and in harmony with her… — Abigail Van Buren
You'll have games where you're out there a long time. Being able to go through that and not get stiff was a good thing for… — Nomar Garciaparra
I managed to potter along tolerably well in the morning, sitting in the sun and sketching the old buildings... but in the afternoon, sitting in… — Howard Pyle
Between 9 and 10 AM the American radio is concerned almost exclusively with love. It seems a little like ending breakfast with a stiff bourbon. — Dean Acheson
I found so-called great art too pompous, too stiff. What at this time was called minor art was freer, more imaginative, more open to all… — Jacques Lipchitz
I wear myself out trying to render the orange trees so that they're not stiff but like those I saw by Botticelli in Florence. It's… — Berthe Morisot
You're going to have an upset stomach. If you eat spicy stiff because you're upset, then you'll get diarrhea. — Kim Su-mi
Get a sales tax, small on necessities and large on luxuries; then a stiff inheritance tax on the fellow that saves and don't spend. That… — Will Rogers
What am I writing for anyway? Is it like dreaming? Is it a benevolent process? Something that moves the past forward? And what about those… — Selima Hill
Science has grown frightfully audacious in these days -- swift-footed, ponderous, careering over her iron ways with unslacking pace. This rampant dragon, on which I… — Amos Bronson Alcott
Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought. — Martin Heidegger
When I was living in Los Angeles, I always booked a moisturizing milk-and-honey massage the day before flying to Spain. It was heaven - I… — Carolina Herrera

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