Stuck Up Quotes

• I was thought to be 'stuck up.' I wasn't. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure.

  Bette Davis

  Heartless, Quality, Unforgivable

  Bette Davis (1962). “The lonely life: an autobiography”, Putnam's

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• I had a mom and a pop who kept telling me that I was wonderful at a very early age. So when someone said to me, "Oh, you're stuck up. Who do you think you are?" I'd say, "I know who I am, and I don't mind being stuck up".

  Diahann Carroll

  Mom, Thinking, Mind

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• A lot of people have their own perceptions about me, like I'm very stuck up, so full of myself, you know. But it's not true.

  Nadia Buari

  People, Perception, Knows

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• I got stuck up a tree when I was about seven, and my dad had to come and get the ladder to get me down. I loved to climb all the way up to the top. I must have been a koala in my past life.

  Miranda Kerr

  Dad, Past, Koalas

  "'I believe in celebrating the female figure' says a very hot, very naked Miranda Kerr" by Caroline Corcoran, www.mirror.co.uk. October 30, 2012.

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• I was thought to be "stuck up." I wasn't. i was just sure of myself.

  Bette Davis

  Stuck

  Bette Davis (2017). “The Lonely Life: An Autobiography”, p.34, Hachette UK

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• It didn't help that she was painfully shy and kept to herself, because then they just thought she was stuck-up, which she wasn't. She was just quiet.

  Melissa de la Cruz

  Shy, Helping, Quiet

  Melissa de la Cruz (2010). “Blue Bloods: Number 1 in series”, p.11, Hachette UK

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• I don't mean this in a stuck-up way, but I needed an attitude song.

  Gwen Stefani

  Song, Attitude, Mean

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• A lot of people think I'm stuck up. Pretty much that I'm arrogant. I only do that when I'm on the field.

  Terrell Owens

  Thinking, People, Arrogant

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• People think that I'm haughty and stuck up, but really I'm just very shy.

  Laurence Fishburne

  Thinking, People, Shy

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• In terms of coke, the only money I ever thought about was that dollar bill I had stuck up my nose.

  George Carlin

  Dollar Bills, Dollars, Noses

  Source: reprints.longform.org

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• I don't want to change. I don't ever want to be a stuck-up asshole. I mean, some people probably think I am now, but I don't care what they think, because I know I'm not. I'm a down to earth person. I always have time for my fans. I don't care who they are, what they look like, if they're rich or poor, pretty or ugly. I always have time for them. I wouldn't be where I am today if it wasn't for them, and I'll never forget that.

  Lita Ford

  Mean, Thinking, Rich Or Poor

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• I love shooting French films because I don't have to stick with being sophisticated or stuck-up.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Shooting, Sticks, Film

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• It's interesting because I laugh and tell people when I give speeches, ' I know what y'all think, oh we love Ed, but he's kinda stuck up or he's kinda this or he's kinda that.'

  Ed Gordon

  Thinking, People, Giving

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• Justification by religious performances, and meritorious deeds, is nothing better than the old Pharisaism with a Christian name stuck upon it. . . That doctrine makes the Lord Jesus Christ to be practically a nobody; for if salvation be of works, then the way of salvation through faith in a Savior is superfluous, and even mischievous

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Religious, Jesus

  Charles Spurgeon (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 37”, p.433, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• I have no modesty. Modesty is a learned affectation. It's like decal stuck up on a person.

  Maya Angelou

  Modesty, Stuck, Persons

  Source: www.npr.org

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• You've got a lot of time for abstract thought when you've got your hand stuck up a dead badger.

  Terry Pratchett

  Hands, Abstract, Badgers

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• The way I see it, a person isn't nothing more than a scarecrow... The only difference between one that stands up good and one that blows over is what kind of a stick they're stuck up there on.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Blow, Differences, Way

  Barbara Kingsolver (2009). “The Bean Trees: A Novel”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• Julia Child wasn't afraid to have fun. She made fantastic food but knew how to have a good time and not be too stuck up about the kitchen space.

  Nadia Giosia

  Children, Fun, Space

  "World Chefs: No-nonsense food with a pinch of punk". Interview with Dorene Internicola, www.reuters.com. August 16, 2011.

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• Of course there are people who would like to eat breakfast without the screams of toddlers all around them, but those people should get over themselves and stop being stuck up and idiotic.

  Jon Ronson

  People, Breakfast, Scream

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• So, there was this beautiful princess. She was locked in a high tower(...)She was stuck up there(...)So the only thing was to jump.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Beautiful, Princess, Towers

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• Who's Kreacher?" "The house-elf who lives here," said Ron. "Nutter. Never met one like him." "He is not a nutter," said Hermione. "His life's ambition is to have his head cut off and stuck up on a plaque like his mother", said Ron. "Is that normal, Hermione?

  J. K. Rowling

  Mother, Ambition, Cutting

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• I have never stuck up for any criminal. I have merely asked for the orderly administration of an impartial justice...Due legal process is my own safeguard against being convicted unjustly. To my mind, that's government. That's law and order.

  Erle Stanley Gardner

  Government, Order, Law

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• Yeah, arrest that man on the crime of having 8 Chicken McNuggets stuck up his arse.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Men, Wwe, Arses

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• Voters inclined to loathe and fear elite Ivy League schools rarely make fine distinctions between Yale and Harvard. All they know is that both are full of rich, fancy, stuck-up and possibly dangerous intellectuals who never sit down to supper in their undershirt no matter how hot the weather gets.

  Russell Baker

  School, Yale, Ivy

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• The last thing in the world I should have done was go into the theater because was inordinately shy as a young man. I couldnt open my mouth. At a party, I was the one stuck up against the wall. I was embarrassed about talking. I felt that I couldnt talk well.

  Gale Gordon

  Wall, Party, Men

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