#stiff

Time, which runs through the world like an endless tinsel thread, seemed to pass through the centre of this room and through the centre of these people and suddenly to pause and petrify, stiff, still and glittering... and the objects in the room drew a little closer together. ↗

— Robert Musil

#closer #drew #endless #glittering #like

I had polio when I was 13. I started feeling stiff, my joints ached, and over a two-week period I lost my coordination and 20 pounds. ↗

— Jack Nicklaus

#feeling #had #i #joints #lost

And so I was very grateful that I didn't do the British stiff upper lip, but I went straight to a therapist. And she was wonderful and helpful, and I went for about two years. ↗

— Lynn Redgrave

#british #grateful #helpful #i #lip

I used to not really like going to the gym when I was playing tournaments because I'd be sore and stiff. But the more you keep doing it, the less soreness you have. And you actually start to enjoy it. ↗

— Rory McIlroy

#because #doing #enjoy #going #gym

I think reconciliation is Obama's goal - but the fight with the Republicans is like a fight with pit bulls, they never let go. Even worse, now the Republicans feel they can keep pushing and he will keep giving. They have not seen a stiff resistance on his part. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#even #even worse #feel #fight #giving

Even when I have to write a simple letter I'm scared stiff as if faced with looming seasickness. ↗

— Gustav Klimt

#faced #i #letter #looming #scared

I like many different things you know so I'm probably going to experiment, and if I didn't I'd be a little bit strange and boring and stiff and kind of dead, and I'm very not that. ↗

— Joss Stone

#boring #dead #different #different things #experiment

Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections. ↗

— Meg Greenfield

#everybody #gives #objections #only #practice

Just because I'm no jaw clacker doesn't mean there should be a ruction put up whenever I have sommat to say. ↗

— Tamora Pierce

#mastiff #silence #humor

Now, clear your minds. It knows what scares you. It has from the very beginning. Don't give it any help, it knows too much already. ↗

— Poltergeist the movie

#movies #stiff-upper-lip #inspirational