Quotes and Sayings About Sticks
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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 suppose the best thing to do is to lay in a good store of jam!
-- A. C. Benson -
sticks and stones can only break bones; but words can shatter the soul
-- Adam Savage -
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
-- Agatha Christie -
You have to know your own truth and stick to it. And never despair. Never give up. There's always hope.
-- Aidan Chambers -
I do not stick to rules when cooking. I rely on my imagination.
-- Akshay Kumar -
To create an interior, the designer must develop an overall concept and stick to it.
-- Albert Hadley -
When you're pregnant you just want to be comfortable - but I wear more or less the same as I do when I'm not pregnant: pregnancy denim with normal tops and flat shoes. But when the belly starts to really stick out, I'll want the floaty dresses!
-- Alessandra Ambrosio -
Normally, small talk is enough for me to form an opinion of someone. I make quick judgments, often completely wrong, and then stick by them rigidly.
-- Alex Garland -
I'm a hopeless romantic, I say very loudly and proudly. I get a lot of stick for it.
-- Alex Pettyfer -
I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me.
-- Alexander Pope -
The words graphic designer, architect, or industrial designer stick in my throat, giving me a sense of limitation, of specialisation within the specialty, of a relationship to society and form itself that is unsatisfactory and incomplete. This inadequate set of terms to describe an active life reveals only partially the still undefined nature of the designer.
-- Alvin Lustig -
Friends tell each other the truth, and then friends stick around for the aftermath.
-- Amy Dickinson -
Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.
-- Anatole Broyard -
But I am a lover of all kinds of art. And I just can't stick to one thing. I guess I could if I made myself, but I'd always be looking the other way, for other things.
-- Andre Benjamin -
Hard news really is hard. It sticks not in the craw but in the mind. It has an almost physical effect, causing fear, interest, laughter or shock.
-- Andrew Marr -
I want to get under the surface. When I work with a leaf, rock, stick, it is not just that material in itself, it is an opening into the processes of life within and around it. When I leave it, these processes continue.
-- Andy Goldsworthy -
If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth.
-- Angela Thirkell -
Where there's smoke around a conservative, there are journalists furiously rubbing two sticks together.
-- Ann Coulter -
Not, not mine: it's somebody else's wound; I could never have borne it. So take the thing that happened, hide it, stick it in the ground; whisk the lamps away.
-- Anna Akhmatova -
Everybody understands that the basis of being a Christian is that everyone has fallen short of God's ideal. Everyone understands that. We understand is that when there's a problem or failure is the family sticks together.
-- Anna Holmes -
When I cook, I generally stick with what I know, what I'm comfortable with, and what I feel I've paid my dues learning, and am good at.
-- Anthony Bourdain -
I would like to continue being radical. As you get older, some of the world catches up and it's passed you. In the '60s you were on the crest of a wave because you were part of the wave. I don't want be a stick in the mud and do the same thing as I did last year, I want to do something different and see what happens.
-- Anthony Caro -
I feel like a drummer with no sticks and somebody keeps farting on my snare drum.
-- Anthony Langston -
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
-- Arlo Guthrie -
The people who get what they’re after are very often the ones who just stick around long enough.
-- Austin Kleon -
Love & Marriage are about work & Compromise. They're about seeing someone for what he is, being disappointed and deciding to stick around anyway. They're about commitment and comfort, not some kind of sudden, hysterical recognition.
-- Ayelet Waldman -
I don't worry about losing all my fans. Whatever true fans you've got will stick by you, so that's nothing to worry about
-- B.J. Penn -
Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them.
-- Barbara Kingsolver -
The way I see it, a person isn't nothing more than a scarecrow... The only difference between one that stands up good and one that blows over is what kind of a stick they're stuck up there on.
-- Barbara Kingsolver -
Find out what you love. Do it because you love it. Stick with it. Start now.
-- Barbara Sher
