Stiff Quotes

194 Stiff quotes by 164 unique authors

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
A hairy body, and arms stiff with bristles, give promise of a manly soul. — Juvenal
The one you confront in Yoga is yourself. All that is rigid and stiff in you, all that says 'No. — Frederick Leboyer
If your spine is inflexibly stiff at 30, you are old. IF it is completely flexible at 60, you are young. — Joseph Pilates
Physical fitness is the first requisite of happiness. In order to achieve happiness, it is imperative to gain mastery of your body. If at the… — Joseph Pilates
People are born soft and weak. They die hard and stiff. — Laozi
The hard and stiff are death's companions. The soft and weak are life's companions. — Laozi
I just hate going to the gym, unless I need to do cardio once in a while. I think gymming makes you stiff and takes… — Esha Gupta
I pride myself on how little space I take up. I am going to shrink and shrink until I am a dry fall leaf, complete… — Julie Gregory
Therefore the stiff and unbending is the disciple of death. The gentle and yielding is the disciple of life. — Laozi
When life begins we are tender and weak When life ends we are stiff and rigid All things, including the grass and trees, are soft… — Laozi

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