Sticks Quotes - Page 29

• The issue of fracking is a stick in the hornet's nest.

  Titus Welliver

  Issues, Fracking, Nests

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• Candice is the original spelling of my name. I changed it to Kandyse when I was really young and first starting out in the business as kind of a joke. I didnt realize it would stick! I did consider changing it, but then it seemed too confusing, so then I asked them to change it back. Not too soon, however!

  Kandyse McClure

  Names, Confusing, Starting Out

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• In November, the trees are standing all sticks and bones. Without their leaves, how lovely they are, spreading their arms like dancers. They know it is time to be still.

  Cynthia Rylant

  Dancer, Tree, Lovely

  Cynthia Rylant (2015). “In November”, p.9, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is no sense of weariness like that which closes in a day of eager and unintermittent pursuit of pleasure. The apple is eaten, but "the core sticks in the throat." Expectation has then given way to ennui, appetite to satiety.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Apples, Expectations, Way

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.142

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• Thus, be every device from the stick to the carrot, the emaciated Austrian donkey is made to pull the Nazi barrow up an ever-steepening hill.

  Winston Churchill

  Hills, Nazi, Donkey

  Wolfgang Mieder, Winston Churchill (1995). “The Proverbial Winston S. Churchill: An Index to Proverbs in the Works of Sir Winston Churchill”, Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press

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• As anyone who has received or dispensed psychotherapy knows, it's a profession whose mainspring is love. Nearly everyone who visits a therapist has a love disorder of one sort or another, and each has a story to tell - of love lost or denied, love twisted or betrayed, love perverted or shackled to violence. Broken attachments litter the office floors like pick-up sticks. People appear with frayed seams and spilling pockets.

  Diane Ackerman

  Lost Love, Attachment, People

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural History of the Senses”, p.136, Vintage

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• Christian society is like a bundle of sticks laid together, whereof one kindles another. Solitary men have fewest provocations to evil, but, again, fewest incitations to good. So much as doing good is better than not doing evil will I account Christian good-fellowship better than an hermitish and melancholy solitariness.

  Joseph Hall

  Christian, Men, Evil

  Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (1808). “The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His Life and Sufferings. Devotional works”, p.21

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• The public only takes up yesterday as a stick to beat today.

  Jean Cocteau

  Yesterday, Criticism, Today

  Jean Cocteau (1926*). “A Call to Order, Written Between the Years 1918 and 1926 and Including "Cock and Harlequin", "Professional Secrets", and Other Critical Essays”

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• If you light upon an impertinent talker, that sticks to you like a bur, to the disappointment of your important occasions, deal freely with him, break off the discourse, and pursue your business.

  Plutarch

  Disappointment, Light, Break Off

  Plutarch, Matthew Morgan (1718). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.64

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• When you make a decision to write according to a set schedule and really stick to it, you find yourself writing very fast. At least I do.

  Francoise Sagan

  Writing, Decision, Finding Yourself

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• Stothard learned the art of combining colors by closely studying butterflies wings; he would often say that no one knew what he owed to these tiny insects. A burnt stick and a barn door served Wilkie in lieu of pencil and canvas.

  Samuel Smiles

  Art, Butterfly, Doors

  Samuel Smiles (1861). “Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.103

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• Don't scatter your fire! You are a prose writer: stick to your own tool!

  Sarah Orne Jewett

  Fire, Tools, Prose

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• The guys who stick around are the smartest guys and the guys who are the most self-driven. You have to have drive. The coaches can only take you so far. You have to want to learn and work.

  Aaron Rodgers

  Self, Nfl, Guy

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• If I'm doing something I do like to take it to the limit. I've got a high ceiling. A wide threshold for seeing what those boundaries are for myself. I'm very resilient inside. I find things that I like and do and boy, I do like to stick to them. I'm not necessarily a guy who gets addicted to more of certain things, but if I find something I like to do, I like to stick to it.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Boys, Guy, Ceilings

  Source: movieweb.com

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• My audience is a diehard audience. They are dedicated. My audience always follows me and sticks with me. They're the reason I'm still here - in the films and in stand-ups.

  Martin Lawrence

  Film, Follow Me, Reason

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• When, to gratify a private appetite, it is once resolved upon that an ignorant and helpless creature shall be sacrificed, it is an easy matter to pick up sticks enough from any thicket where it has strayed, to make a fire to offer it up with.

  Laurence Sterne

  Fire, Ignorant, Matter

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• The happiness we seek cannot be found through grasping, trying to hold on to things. It cannot be found through getting serious and uptight about wanting things to go in the direction we think will bring happiness. We are always taking hold of the wrong end of the stick. The point is that the happiness we seek is already here and it will be found through relaxation and letting go rather than through struggle.

  Pema Chodron

  Happiness, Letting Go, Struggle

  Pema Chodron (2001). “Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living”, p.115, Shambhala Publications

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• a local train ... moved gently off up the line with a very singular motion indeed, in which the leap of a frog, the bounce of a pogo-stick, and the canter of a very short fat pony all were brought to mind.

  Honor Tracy

  Mind, Ponies, Lines

  Honor Tracy (1957). “Silk Hats and No Breakfast: Notes on a Spanish Journey”, New York, Random House [1958

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• it is immoral for powerless people to accept this powerlessness. They may not succeed in getting power but they can fight for it, and if enough fight for it, it makes it very difficult for the people with the big sticks.

  Jane Jacobs

  Fighting, People, Succeed

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• As I do not live in an age when rustling black skirts billow about me, and I do not carry an ebony stick to strike the floor in sharp rebuke, as this is denied me, I rap out a sentence in my note book and feel better. If a grandmother wants to put her foot down, the only safe place to do it these days is in a note book.

  Florida Scott-Maxwell

  Book, Rap, Grandmother

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• Instead of celebrating what makes each child unique, most parents push their children to "fit in" so that they don't "stick out." This unwittingly stomps out individuality and encourages conformity, despite these parents' good intentions

  Tom Rath

  Children, Unique, Parent

  Tom Rath, Donald O. Clifton (2007). “How Full Is Your Bucket? Educator's Edition: Positive Strategies for Work and Life”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• Wearing a bold print gets harder as you get older. Its safer to stick to subtle prints or block colours. I have always found prints quite tricky. My daughter Carly, who is on the design team at Stella McCartney, is obsessed with them.

  Twiggy

  Daughter, Block, Team

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• If I could do anything about the way people behave towards each other, I would, but since I can't, I'll stick to animals.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Animal, People, Way

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The smell of subjectivity clings to the mechanical definition of complexity as stubbornly as it sticks to the definition of information.

  Hans Christian von Baeyer

  Smell, Definitions, Information

  Hans Christian Von Baeyer (2004). “Information: The New Language of Science”, p.104, Harvard University Press

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• This does not come naturally. I have to work out 60 to 90 minutes at least five days a week and stick to a high- fiber, low-calorie eating plan.

  Molly Sims

  Work Out, Fiber, Doe

  "Molly Sims Is in Shape!". extratv.com. December 22, 2011.

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