Drumsticks Quotes:

It's been years and years and years I've been playing the drums, and they're still a challenge. I still enjoy using drumsticks and a snare drum.

- Charlie Watts

topic: Years, Challenges, Snares, Drumsticks

If people knew how KFC treats its chickens, they'd never eat another drumstick.

- Pamela Anderson

topic: Kfc, People, Treats, Drumsticks

If drumsticks are for playing drums, you would think that breadsticks would be for playing bread, wouldn't you? "Would you like some breadsticks?" "No, thank you, I don't play bread. I play drums. Perhaps I'll have a drum roll."

- George Carlin

source: George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

topic: Funny, Humor, Thinking, Drumsticks, Playing Drums

You want a drumstick? Like a ice cream cone or a chicken wing!?

- Billie Joe Armstrong

topic: Ice Cream, Wings, Want, Chicken Wings, Drumsticks

I try not to think about the drums themselves. If I do, I'll end up hitting myself in the head with a drumstick, or sustaining some weird injury.

- Greg Saunier

source: "Deerhoof". Interview with Marc Masters, pitchfork.com. February 26, 2006.

topic: Thinking, Trying, Hitting, Drumsticks

none of what I know is out of books. ... I prefer tactual learning. Touching, on the quick of the sore nail, of present, mobile life. To toy, to gnaw, to tear: at the living element of pain. Like at a living drumstick.

- Caitlin Thomas

topic: Pain, Book, Learning, Drumsticks, Mobile

I was not so comfortable with my new authority that I could say 'We eat the chicken now!' but the magus had seen that I was considering it... "My purse is full enough," said the magus, "to keep you supplied with roast chickens." "So, so, so," I said. "We know who the power behind the throne is," and the magus laughed. "You eat more than Gen did after prison," he said. "I have more sympathy with him all the time. Are you going to finish that drumstick?" I asked. "I am. Stop staring at it.

- Megan Whalen Turner

topic: Thrones, Purses, Enough Said, Drumsticks, Roast Chicken

I can't play anywhere near like I used to, and I was a hot drummer. It doesn't bother me, because frankly, if you get to that point where you can't hold a drumstick properly, there are many other things in life which are far more important, like cutting a loaf of bread or a piece of cheese.

- Phil Collins

topic: Cutting, Play, Important, Drumsticks

My mother had been slicing up the chicken. She took a drumstick and dropped it on the floor. She kicked it around a little, picked it up and put it on the edge of the plate. "There," she said, "we'll give him this drumstick." "Deal.

- Janet Evanovich

source: Janet Evanovich (2007). “More Plums in One: Four to Score, High Five, and Hot Six”, p.17, Macmillan

topic: Mother, Giving, Littles, Drumsticks

Unless you're living on the street and surviving on a diet of discarded turkey drumsticks, there's no point in being gloomy. We've spent too long trying to cheer ourselves up by spending money on brightly coloured things we don't really need. We've stopped using our imaginations.

- Jarvis Cocker

topic: Cheer, Turkeys, Long, Drumsticks, Spending Money

The day Metallica's over, i'm not going to put an ad looking for another band. I'll put my drumsticks on the shelf and there's 14 other things I wanna try. Metallica's the only band I've ever been and it's the only I ever wanna be in.

- Lars Ulrich

topic: Trying, Band, Metallica, Drumsticks, Try Me

I remember on Thanksgiving all the kids wanted the drumstick. There were four of us then. Well, today you can go into the supermarket and get 12 drumsticks. Years ago you couldn't do that. So I was sucking on the neck for two years. My mother told me it was the leg, and I believed it. I went to my father and said, Why is my leg always cockeyed? He said, The bird has arthritis.

- Pat Cooper

topic: Mother, Father, Kids, Arthritis, Supermarkets

How come drummers leave their drumsticks on the dashboard of their car? So they can park in the handicapped spaces.

- Dave Grohl

topic: Space, Car, Dashboards, Handicapped, Drumsticks

I would think that the drumstick is probably pretty good. Because you can put that anywhere. If you are a strong guy, you can put it in the throat, the nose, the mouth, the ear. It's also easily concealed. The guitar is pretty good, but you have to break it. And that's pretty difficult.

- Dolph Lundgren

source: Source: movieweb.com

topic: Strong, Thinking, Guitar, Drumsticks

The Little Drummer Boy was playing in the background for what seemed like the third time in a row. I fought off an urge to beat that Little Drummer Boy senseless with his own drumsticks.

- Dana Reinhardt

topic: Christmas, Boys, Littles, Third Time, Drumsticks

She glanced up at him, and in that moment he pulled his wet shirt over his head. She forced her mind blank. Blank as a new sheet of paper, blank as a starless sky. He came to the fire and crouched before it. He rubbed the water from his bare arms and flicked it in the flames. She stared at the goose and sliced his drumstick carefully and thought of the blankest expression on the blankest face she could possibly imagine. It was a chilly evening; she thought about that. The goose would be delicious, they must eat as much of it as possible, they must not waste it; she thought about that.

- Kristin Cashore

topic: Fire, Expression, Flames, Katsa, Graceling

A few years ago, kids from poor areas in France were asked to draw items of food. For a chicken, they drew a drumstick. For a fish, they drew a fish stick. Those are extremes, but there is a lot that needs to be done to help children discover good food.

- Joel Robuchon

topic: Children, Kids, Years, Drumsticks