#stick

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #stick




Those were the days, you know. It's an English thing; as soon as it's gets to 6 pm, you have to go and have a drink. We used to stick to that religiously.


Andy Taylor


#drink #english #gets #go #know

Surfing is such an amazing concept. You're taking on Nature with a little stick and saying, 'I'm gonna ride you!' And a lot of times Nature says, 'No you're not!' and crashes you to the bottom.


Jolene Blalock


#bottom #concept #crashes #gonna #i

It would be ugly to watch people poking sticks at a caged rat. It is uglier still to watch rats poking sticks at a caged person.


Jean Harris


#people #person #poking #rat #rats

He turned to Edwin. "You know, the stuff you just told me makes more sense than all the weird things the counselors and psychologist have told me in school and at the detention center." Edwin tapped Cole's shoulder with the broken stick. "That's because those people still think you can get rid of the left end of the stick.


Ben Mikaelsen


#anger #happiness #left-end-of-the-stick #anger

Macbeth: If we should fail? Lady Macbeth: We fail? But screw your courage to the sticking place, And we'll not fail.


William Shakespeare


#screw #sticking-place #courage

A more accurate statement would be that I was the first person since Jedi who was permitted to stick a fork into the piecrust to see if there was still any steam underneath.


Timothy Zahn


#any #first #fork #i #into

There is a curious paradox that no one can explain. Who understands the secret of the reaping of the grain? Who understands why Spring is born out of Winter’s laboring pain, or why we must all die a bit before we grow again? I do not know the answer; I merely know it’s true. I hurt them for that reason, and myself a little bit too.


Tom Jones


#paradox #the-fantasticks #music

Really good literature is seldom appreciated in its own day. The best authors die poor, the bad ones make money - it's always been like that.


Walter Moers


#the-city-of-dreaming-books #walter-moers #dreams

If I'm feeling down in the dumps, or like I need a pop of colour, I'll put on MAC's Lipstick in Lady Danger. I discovered red lipstick when I did the Oscar season: Chanel sent me one and I realised how classic and glamorous it can be.


Chloe Sevigny


#classic #colour #danger #did #discovered

The Aha! experience is much more satisfying when it's preceded by the huh experience.


Chip Heath


#experience