Stiff Quotes

194 Stiff quotes by 164 unique authors

And I definitely do that very British thing of, take things with a pinch of salt, stiff upper lip, you know what I mean? — Jessie J
I think reconciliation is Obama's goal - but the fight with the Republicans is like a fight with pit bulls, they never let go. Even… — Jesse Jackson
Ireland sober is Ireland stiff. — James Joyce
Whenever I met anyone who knew anything, I would bore them stiff until they told me what they knew. — Doris Lessing
In a climate of tight budgets, reduced workforces and stiff competition, internal training can be a great substitute for costly offsite workshops and conferences. — Harvey Mackay
Are your kids learning the right lessons about 9/11? Ten years after Osama bin Laden's henchmen murdered thousands of innocents on American soil, too many… — Michelle Malkin
When you have committed enough words to paper, you feel you have a spine stiff enough to stand up in the wind. But when you… — Hilary Mantel
While other state governments stiff their vendors, close parks, delay tax refunds, and ignore unacceptably poor service levels, Indiana state employees are setting national standards… — Mitch McConnell
I had polio when I was 13. I started feeling stiff, my joints ached, and over a two-week period I lost my coordination and 20… — Jack Nicklaus
My father made me who I am. He gave me a basketball and told me to play with the ball, sleep with the ball, dream… — Shaquille O'Neal
I'm a working stiff, baby, just like everybody else. — Peter O'Toole
And so I was very grateful that I didn't do the British stiff upper lip, but I went straight to a therapist. And she was… — Lynn Redgrave
If you have a reputation as a big, stiff bureaucracy, you're stuck. — Jack Welch
Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one. — Edith Wharton
Chennai is one of the scariest crowds to face. Everyone looks so conservative, but once you crack the first joke, they are so appreciatively loud… — Vir Das
You can actually be bored stiff while you're dying. — Felix Dennis
To keep my back from getting stiff, I have a strict regime every morning of stretching and do yoga once a week and Pilates. 'Strictly… — Cherie Lunghi
We were so wholly one I had not thought That we could die apart. I had not thought That I could move,—and you be stiff… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
That was the thing about words, they were clear and specific-chair, eye, stone- but when you talked about feelings, words were too stiff, they were… — Janet Fitch
Maycomb was a tired old town, even in 1932 when I first knew it. Somehow, it was hotter then. Men's stiff collars wilted by nine… — Harper Lee
This parrot is no more. It has ceased to be. It's expired and gone to meet its maker. This is a late parrot. It's a… — Graham Chapman
She was the only doctor's wife in Branford, Maine, who hung her wash on an outdoor clothesline instead of putting it through a dryer, because… — Lois Lowry
Again, somehow, one saw life, a pure bead. I lifted the pencil again, useless though I knew it to be. But even as I did… — Virginia Woolf
Flowers spring to blossom where she walks The careful ways of duty; Our hard, stiff lines of life with her Are flowing curves of beauty. — John Greenleaf Whittier
So when the blue smoke of brittle leaves was in the air and the wind blew the wet laundry stiff on the line I decided… — F. Scott Fitzgerald

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