quotes 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 -
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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 GarlandSource : Alex Garland (2005). “The Beach”, p.118, Penguin
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I'm a hopeless romantic, I say very loudly and proudly. I get a lot of stick for it.
-- Alex PettyferSource : Source: collider.com
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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 -
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Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.
-- Anatole BroyardSource : "Books of the Times", New York Times, June 6, 1984.
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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 MarrSource : Andrew Marr (2009). “My Trade: A Short History of British Journalism”, p.50, Pan Macmillan
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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 GoldsworthySource : "The lie of the land" by Richard Mabey, www.theguardian.com. March 31, 2007.
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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 HolmesSource : Source: www.npr.org
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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 GuthrieSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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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 -
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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 -
Sometimes it's hard to know why networks will stick with something. Sometimes the ratings won't happen, but there's excitement at the network, so they'll stay with the show.
-- Beau Bridges -
Because I thought I was in love. And when you think you're in love, you are willing to stick it out and make it work until it is love.
-- Becca FitzpatrickSource : Becca Fitzpatrick (2012). “Hush, Hush”, p.188, Simon and Schuster
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Her hair was strawberry blond, and she had the shape of a popsicle stick: turn her sideways and she practically disappeared.
-- Becca Fitzpatrick -
We tell ourselves we're here to be flexible and to be nimble, and not necessarily to stick to a master plan.
-- Ben Huh -
Don't try to be a jack of all investments. Stick to the field you know best.
-- Bernard Baruch -
Free men stick their necks out.
-- Bernard CrickSource : Bernard Crick (1993). “In Defense of Politics”, p.28, University of Chicago Press
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You've got to stick at a thing, a particular thing, until you succeed.I feel that's the only way to succeed - by concentrating on something in particular. Once you know what you've got to do you will succeed, you will succeed.
-- Betty CuthbertSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Just because you're gay, I won't turn you away. If you stick around, I'm sure we can find some common ground.
-- Billy Bragg -
I grew up in a house of no love or emotion - it kind of sticks with you.
-- Billy Corgan -
I've been traveling in Guatemala in the rainforest, and here all these houses are made of sticks. It seems so easy to make one.
-- Bjork -
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So I took the bright red stick and at the center of the nation's hoop I thrust it in the earth.
-- Black Elk -
If you love something and stick with it, you will get phenomenal results.
-- Bob Proctor -
It is very important that when you put something on the grill, you leave it in place to cook. If you move it around too quickly, chances are it is going to stick.
-- Bobby Flay -
The challenges surrounding HIV and AIDS are getting more complex and mature, and we just can't stick our heads in the sand and say 'it can't happen to me.'
-- Brande Roderick -
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Dude, I throw a stick. Come on. I get paid a pretty good salary to throw a stick.
-- Breaux Greer -
Hey, man, I toss a stick for a living. Gotta spice up that deal, y'know. Gotta stand out.
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Don't be too quickTo break bad habits: better stick,Like the Mission folk, to your arsenic.
-- Bret Harte -
I don't like two stories. I like one story. I never grew up with stairs. I like to stick to what I know.
-- Bruno Mars -
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There is not many tenors in the male category and that makes me stick out.
-- Bryan White -
Did you found something? asked she with hope. Yes, this until... Until what...? Until you stick your breasts on my back.And you realize that now I can't think about lions anymore!
-- C.C. Hunter -
Almost none of the poetries I admire stick to their labels, native or adopted ones. Rather, they are vagrant in their identifications. Tramp poets, there you go, a new label for those with unstable allegiances.
-- C.D. WrightSource : C.D. Wright (2012). “Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil”, p.37, Copper Canyon Press
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If you stick to what you know; you sell yourself short.
-- Carrie Underwood -
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I'm very thoughtful, and when I make a decision I usually stick to it.
-- Casey StonerSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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I hate her." Merlin laughed, tossing the stick down. "Not so. You have forgotten how to love. That's a different sorrow.
-- Catherine Fisher -
I have found out one thing and that is, if you have an idea, and it is a good idea, if you only stick to it you will come out all right.
-- Cecil Rhodes -
Literature is a bad crutch, but a good walking-stick.
-- Charles Lamb -
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If there is any verse that you would like left out of the Bible, that is the verse that ought to stick to you, like a blister, until you really attend to its teaching.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
When you approach a problem, strip yourself of preconceived opinions and prejudice, assemble and learn the facts of the situation, make the decision which seems to you to be the most honest, and then stick to it.
-- Chester Bowles -
Love sticks around even when it has a lot to put up with.
-- Chip Ingram -
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When you get a little older, you think, I'd like to make a little money and stick it away or buy a place - or win the world championship.
-- Chris LeDoux -
Never count your chickens before you can stick a fork into them.
-- Christian McKay -
I don't see a lot of films. I'm quite choosy, but there's certain films that stick out.
-- Christopher Eccleston -
Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack go under the limbo stick.
-- Chubby Checker -
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Wiggle like a stick, wobble like a duck, that's what you do when you do the Hucklebuck.
-- Chubby CheckerSource : Song: The Hucklebuck
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With acting there are a lot more choices, With this, I either stick it or I don't. There's something really unforgiving about that.
-- Claire Danes -
I am going to have to stick to the script. If I muck around with the words it will defeat the object.
-- Clive Anderson -
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If you get the dirty end of the stick, sharpen it and turn it into a useful tool.
-- Colin Powell -
You either stick or you quit. And I wouldnt quit you I dont care what you done.
-- Cormac McCarthy -
Veterans continue to get the short end of the stick when it comes to this administration.
-- Corrine Brown -
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The companies are multinational--why should labor still stick to borders?
-- Cory Doctorow -
Vampires don't live at all," she points out, "neither do we." She has me there. "Fine, I'll go. But when Kurt leads his minions in a march around the cemetary with our heads on sticks, don't say I didn't warn you.
-- Cynthia Leitich SmithSource : Cynthia Leitich Smith (2010). “Eternal”, p.19, Candlewick Press
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It's easier to throw sticks on the campfire than to try to restart it when it goes out.
-- Cynthia Lewis -
We just keep trying to beat every show with the funny stick until it's funny
-- Dan PovenmireSource : Interview with Dana Stevens, www.slate.com. June 10, 2015.
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In dealing with the press, do yourself a favor, stick with one of three responses: (a) I know and I can tell you; (b) I know and I can't tell you; (c) I don't know.
-- Dan Rather -
With a title like this-There's a Box in the Garage You Can Beat with a Stick-is there really a whole lot left to say? With cunning and quintessential stealth, with artful restraint, with whats fathering and foxy and filled with intelligence and wit, Michael Teig goes about making what seems to be invisible and unspeakable, the most palpable and important matter in the world.
-- Dara Wier -
I don't make films that are easy to market, unfortunately. I think that 'Pi' was the easiest one, because we had that symbol to stick up everywhere, so that was a good gimmick, and created a good mystery, and we didn't have to do huge scale.
-- Darren Aronofsky -
I hope I don't sound like an old-fashioned stick-in-the-mud, but when I hear about people making vast fortunes without doing any productive work or contributing anything to society, my reaction is: “How can I get in on that?
-- Dave Barry -
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When you create a basic budget and stick to it, it will suddenly seem like you have more money.
-- Dave Ramsey -
You must stick to your conviction, but be ready to abandon your assumptions.
-- Denis Waitley -
You aren't going to stick around long with just two pitches
-- Dennis Eckersley -
If you're going to stick around in this business, you have to have the ability to reinvent yourself, whether consciously or unconsciously.
-- Dennis Quaid -
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If you really serious ’bout helpin’ somebody, crawl down in the ditch with ’em, bandage up their wounds, and stick with ’em until they is strong enough to crawl up on your back and get out
-- Denver Moore -
Put God first in everything you do ... Everything that I have is by the grace of God, understand that. It's a gift ... I didn't always stick with Him, but He stuck with me.
-- Denzel Washington -
I haven't ever really found a place that I call homeI never stick around quite long enough to make itI apologize that once again I'm not in loveBut it's not as if I mindthat your heart ain't exactly breaking.
-- Dido Armstrong -
I can't tell you why there's a delay, but stick your head out of the window and you'll know why.
-- Dizzy Dean -
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I think it is clear to everyone what happens in the Fifth . The rejoicing is forced, created under threat, as in Boris Godunov . It's as if someone were beating you with a stick and saying, "Your business is rejoicing, your business is rejoicing," and you rise, shaky, and go marching off, muttering, "Our business is rejoicing, our business is rejoicing.
-- Dmitri Shostakovich -
I like being the villian. I don't know if it has to do with my personality. You get to have a lot more fun as a villian. You don't have to stick to the rules. You can be a lot crazier. You can go off the rails.
-- Dolph LundgrenSource : Source: www.movieweb.com
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I'm always writing at night - things I would change, things I would do differently. When I write a note, it sticks in my head differently.
-- Don Mattingly -
When I write a note, it sticks in my head differently.
-- Don Mattingly -
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Who among us is not thinking about divorce, except for a few tiny-minded stick-in-the-muds who don't count?
-- Donald Barthelme -
I always travel with my bike and it has become a little more difficult to do it nowadays, but I stick it in 3,5 by 6-foot case and wheel that thing in.
-- Donny Robinson -
I'm opinionated. I always stick to my design plan. I don't waver.
-- Douglas Wilson -
Do not wave stick when trying to catch dog.
-- Earl Derr Biggers -
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The world gets very small after a while, if you stick around long enough.
-- Edie Falco -
In the good old days physicists repeated each other's experiments, just to be sure. Today they stick to FORTRAN, so that they can share each other's programs, bugs included.
-- Edsger Dijkstra -
But be careful about the parts you agree to play...You never know when one is going to stick.
-- Edward Bloor -
Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt -