Quotes with stick

  • An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick
  • 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.
  • Good stories flow like honey. Bad stories stick in the craw. A bad story? One that cannot be absorbed on the first time of reading.
  • You stick your head above the crowd and attract attention, and sometime, maybe somebody, will throw a rock at you. That's the territory. You buy the land, you get the Indians.
  • I don't like two stories. I like one story. I never grew up with stairs. I like to stick to what I know.
  • There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature - the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick.
  • What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog?
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  • William Shakespeare I am a kind of burr; I shall stick.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Josh Billings Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Bernard Levin His absent-minded scientist, Dr. Strabismus (whom God Preserve) of Utrecht, had to his credit a list of inventions that included 'a leather grape', 'a revolving wheelbarrow', 'a hollow glass walking stick for keeping very small flannel shirts in...
    Bernard Levin
    English journalist, author and broadcaster (1928 - 2004)
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  • Henry Wheeler Shaw My son, observe the postage stamp! Its usefulness depends upon its ability to stick to one thing until it gets there.
    Henry Wheeler Shaw
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Ogden Nash A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your girdle when your hips stick.
    Ogden Nash
    American poet (1902 - 1971)
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  • John Cheever A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind.
    John Cheever
    American writer (1912 - 1982)
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  • Patrick Kavanagh Actors are loved because they are unoriginal. Actors stick to their script. The unoriginal man is loved by the mediocrity because this kind of ''artistic'' expression is something to which the merest five-eighth can climb.
    Patrick Kavanagh
    Irish poet and novelist (1904 - 1967)
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  • William Butler Yeats An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes And when you stick on conversation's burrs, don't strew your pathway with those dreadful urs.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Andrew Jackson Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • Anatole Broyard Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.
    Anatole Broyard
    American writer, literary critic, and editor (0 - 1990)
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  • Bob Dylan Because Dickens and Dostoevsky and Woody Guthrie were telling their stories much better than I ever could, I decided to stick to my own mind.
    Liner notes, The Bootleg Series Vol. 6: Bob Dylan Live 1964 (2004)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Damn your principals. Stick to your Party!
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Bret Harte Don't be too quick
    To break bad habits: better stick,
    Like the Mission folk, to your arsenic.
    East and West Poems, Part I The Wonderful Spring of San Joaquin
    Bret Harte
    American short story writer and poet (1836 - 1902)
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  • Breaux Greer Dude, I throw a stick. Come on. I get paid a pretty good salary to throw a stick.
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  • Charles M. Schwab Every one's got it in him, if he'll only make up his mind and stick at it. None of us is born with a stop-valve on his powers or with a set limit to his capacities, There's no limit possible to the expansion of each one of us.
    Charles M. Schwab
    American industrialist (1862 - 1939)
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  • Samuel Johnson Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Arthur Christiansen Good stories flow like honey. Bad stories stick in the craw. A bad story? One that cannot be absorbed on the first time of reading.
    Arthur Christiansen
    British journalist, and editor (1904 - 1963)
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  • 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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  • Jesse Jackson Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
    Jesse Jackson
    American Clergyman, Civil Rights Leader (1941 - )
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