Sticks Quotes - Page 26

• It is the first line that gives the inspiration and then it's like riding a bull. Either you just stick with it, or you don't.

  Bob Dylan

  Inspiration, Writing, Giving

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• If you get a certain amount of notoriety for doing something, and you can stick to that type of project for the rest of your life and make a decent living, I think you still have a responsibility to stretch. Flexibility is what keeps you alive.

  Clint Eastwood

  Teamwork, Responsibility, Thinking

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• Something of calumny always sticks.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Calumny

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• Calumniate, calumniate; there will always be something which sticks.

  Pierre Beaumarchais

  Calumny Is, Calumny

  "'Le Barbier de Séville' ('The Barber of Seville')". Play by Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, Act 3, Scene 13, 1775.

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• Until film is just as easily accessible as a pen or pencil, then it's not completely an art form. In painting you can just pick up a piece of chalk, a stick or whatever. In sculpture you can get a rock. Writing you just need a pencil and paper.

  Forest Whitaker

  Art, Writing, Rocks

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I had placed my stick on the table, as I do every evening. It had been specially made to suit my height, to enable me to walk without too much difficulty. As I was standing up, a customer called to me: 'Monsieur, don't forget your pencil.' It was very unkind, but most funny.

  Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

  Tables, Height, Too Much

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• Above all, good leaders are open. They go up, down, and around their organization to reach people. They don't stick to the established channels. They're informal. They're straight with people. They make a religion out of being accessible. They never get bored telling their story.

  Jack Welch

  Organization, People, Bored

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• If you enjoy depth, don't force yourself to seek breadth. If you prefer single-tasking to multi-tasking, stick to your guns.

  Susan Cain

  Gun, Depth, Force

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.173, Broadway Books

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• If you stick to your work it will take care of you somehow.

  Kiki Smith

  Determination, Care, Working It

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• If you persevere, stick with it, wok at it, you have a real opportunity to achieve. If you do your best and keep a true compass, you'll get there.

  Edward Kennedy

  Perseverance, Real, Opportunity

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• We artists stick ourselves out. This in itself deserves respect.

  Robert Genn

  Artist, Criticism, Deserve

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• Don't go overboard with exotic or complex ways to paint. Stick to simple solutions, unless there is a good reason to do otherwise.

  Richard Schmid

  Simple, Exotic, Way

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• There is a homely old adage which runs: "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far." If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Running, Patriotic, Training

  Speech at Chicago, 3 April 1903, in 'New York Times' 4 April 1903

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• I ran into the gigantic and gigantically wasteful lumbering of great Sequoias, many of whose trunks were so huge they had to be blown apart before they could be handled. I resented then, and I still resent, the practice of making vine stakes hardly bigger than walking sticks out of these greatest of living things.

  Gifford Pinchot

  Science, Practice, Walking Sticks

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• 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

  Persistence, Mind, Expansion

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• There are fashions in reading, even in thinking. You don't have to follow them unless you want to. On the other hand, watch out. Don't stick too closely to your favorite subject. That would keep you from adventuring into other fields. It's silly to build a wall around your interests.

  Walt Disney

  Fashion, Wall, Reading

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• Once you have made up your mind, stick to it; there is no longer any 'if' or 'but'.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Mind, Made, Ifs

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• A friend told me of visiting the Dalai Lama in India and asking him for a succinct definition of compassion. She prefaced her question by describing how heart-stricken she'd felt when, earlier that day, she'd seen a man in the street beating a mangy stray dog with a stick. "Compassion," the Dalai Lama told her, "is when you feel as sorry for the man as you do for the dog."

  Marc Ian Barasch

  Dog, Sorry, Heart

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• We just keep trying to beat every show with the funny stick until it's funny

  Dan Povenmire

  Trying, Beats, Shows

  Interview with Dana Stevens, www.slate.com. June 10, 2015.

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• My favorite wild animal is a narwhal - the unicorn of the sea. It’s a whale with a tooth that sticks out of its head that’s almost two-thirds the length of its entire body.

  Kesha

  Animal, Whales, Sea

  Interview with Matt Diehl, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 19, 2010.

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• A band has a certain responsibility to work songs for years and stick to rules more. A solo artist can just do whatever they want, and also present themselves as somebody who's just singing about their life.

  Christopher Owens

  Song, Responsibility, Artist

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. December 5, 2012.

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• I do not love the Sabbath, The soapsuds and the starch, The troops of solemn people Who to Salvation march. I take my book, I take my stick On the Sabbath day, In woody nooks and valleys I hide myself away. To ponder there in quiet God's Universal Plan, Resolved that church and Sabbath Were never made for man.

  Robert Graves

  Book, Men, People

  Robert Graves, Beryl Graves, Dunstan Ward (1999). “Complete poems”, Carcanet Pr

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• When we turn the Bible into an adjective and stick it in front of another loaded word, we tend to ignore or downplay the parts of the Bible that don’t quite fit our preferences and presuppositions. In an attempt to simplify, we force the Bible’s cacophony of voices into a single tone and turn a complicated, beautiful, and diverse holy text into a list of bullet points we can put in a manifesto or creed. More often than not, we end up more committed to what we want the Bible to say than what it actually says.

  Rachel Held Evans

  Beautiful, Voice, Cacophony

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• For envy, like lightning, generally strikes at the top Or any point which sticks out from the ordinary level. LUCRETIUS, De Rerum Natura Our envy always outlives the felicity of its object.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Envy, Lightning, Ordinary

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• But if anyone were to conduct his life by reason He would find great riches in living a peaceful life And being contented; one is never short of a little But men want always to be powerful and famous So that their fortune rests on a solid foundation And they can spend a placid life in opulence. There isn't a hope of it; to attain great honours You have to struggle along a dangerous way And even when you reach the top there is envy Which can strike you down like lightning into Tartarus. For envy, like lightning, generally strikes at the top Or any point which sticks out from the ordinary level.

  Lucretius

  Powerful, Struggle, Men

  Titus Lucretius Carus, Lucretius, C. H. Sisson (2003). “De Rerum Natura”, p.167, Psychology Press

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