Stuck Quotes - Page 6

• The pigs stuck out their little feet and snored.

  Elizabeth Bishop

  Pigs, Feet, Littles

  Elizabeth Bishop (2015). “Poems”, p.69, Macmillan

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• It's a huge Carthusian monastery, stuck down between rocks and sea, where you may imagine me, without white gloves or hair curling, as pale as ever, in a cell with such doors as Paris never had for gates. The cell is the shape of a tall coffin, with an enormous dusty vaulting, a small window... Bach, my scrawls and waste paper - silence - you could scream - there would still be silence. Indeed, I write to you from a strange place.

  Frederic Chopin

  Writing, Paris, White

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• I started improvisation at age nine, and I loved it so much I stuck with it. As a by-product, acting was just something I was lucky enough to fall into.

  Cassie Steele

  Love, Fall, Age

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• That was what stuck in the craws of all the good women of Deptford: Mrs Dempster had not been raped, as a decent woman would have been-no, she had yielded because a man wanted her. The subject was not one that could be freely discussed even among intimates, but it was understood without saying that if women began to yield for such reasons as that, marriage and society would not last long. Any man who spoke up for Mrs Dempster probably believed in Free Love. Certainly he associated sex with pleasure, and that put him in a class with filthy thinkers like Cece Athelstan.

  Robertson Davies

  Love, Sex, Men

  Robertson Davies (1996). “Fifth business”, Penguin, 1996

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• But wherefore could not I pronounce 'Amen'? I had most need of blessing, and 'Amen' Stuck in my throat.

  William Shakespeare

  Blessing, Lady Macbeth, Needs

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 2, l. 32

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• My dad told me he knew where to find Zay. Which meant I had to cooperate with him....Do you see what we have accomplished together? The healing of souls with the magic you carry. We have healed souls in death. With light and dark magic.We? No, you stuck your hands in my chest and stole my magic and threw it at them. If you try that again, you won't have hands. Where's Zayvion? Okay, maybe I was a little rusty on the whole cooperation thing.

  Devon Monk

  Dad, Healing, Dark

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• I'm getting fed up of living away from home so much. They look after you very well but it doesn't matter how well you're looked after, how nice the hotel is, if you're away from home constantly, the bloody dog savages you, thinks you're a stranger, the kid cries and the wife's stuck to your face!

  David Jason

  Dog, Nice, Home

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• I haven't stuck to any formula. Most great writers stick to the same style, but I wanted to be more various

  Irwin Shaw

  Style, Sticks, Formulas

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• The war won't be over until the last spammer's head is stuck onto a spear at the city limits.

  Paul Vixie

  War, Cities, Lasts

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• There are definitely people who are stuck in the '60s and there are definitely people who think I am and it's just not true. I was performing for a long time before the '60s and I'll be doing exciting interesting things for along time to come.

  Petula Clark

  Thinking, Long, People

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• On the other hand when you are someone who records their own songs you are basically stuck writing for one voice and for one style that can stifle you a bit. It's a real trade off.

  Cynthia Weil

  Song, Real, Writing

  "Q&A: Mann & Weil on surving as songwriters". Interview with Steve Sailer, www.upi.com. July 22, 2002.

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• The only thing that feels worse than being stuck in a situation that makes you unhappy is realizing that you are not ready or willing to change whatever it is.

  Ashly Lorenzana

  Unhappy, Realizing, Situation

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• We come into this world with a specific, personal destiny. We have a job to do, a calling to enact, a self to become. We are who we are from the cradle, and we're stuck with it.

  Steven Pressfield

  Jobs, Destiny, Self

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.146, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• Prayer is especially crucial when you come to a place in your study where you are stuck and confused.

  Howard G. Hendricks

  Prayer, Confused, Study

  Howard G. Hendricks, William D. Hendricks (2007). “Living By the Book: The Art and Science of Reading the Bible”, p.68, Moody Publishers

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• I am not here for me
  I am not here to promote my ego
  I am here to serve the Great Spirit
  To be a voice for those afraid to speak
  To be movement for those who are stuck
  I am here to reveal a mystery
  To learn something new about myself

  Holly Near

  Voice, Ego, Movement

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• I've always been a firm believer in mind over matter. If you don't believe you can achieve, your body will start to believe this and you'll be stuck.

  Sheryl Swoopes

  Basketball, Believe, Mind

  "Sheryl Swoopes' finishing move". Interview with Adena Andrews, www.espn.com. June 20, 2011.

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• An image has stuck for most of my career and it isn't flattering.

  Robbie Fowler

  Careers, Flattering

  Robbie Fowler (2009). “Fowler: My Autobiography”, p.106, Pan Macmillan

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• The soul, in its longing to grow, will push us toward crisis points, bringing about a situation that will force us to leave behind the old toys and the worn-out ways of operating. Our soul brings us these crises to remind us that we don’t have to remain stuck in the land of the hunters and the hunted. We are called to draw ourselves up to our full height and confidence, even when terrified at the prospect of the unknown.

  Alberto Villoldo

  Land, Soul, Hunters

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• My only requirement for life is that I don't get stuck in a rut.

  Malin Akerman

  Requirements, Ruts, Life Is

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

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• I was stuck for 16 months without a win there, and now I've had five this year. Once you break that barrier for yourself it makes it easier; you're not thinking about it... It opened up the floodgate for me.

  Kelly Slater

  Winning, Thinking, Years

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• Recently, lobbyists for the pharmaceutical industry wrote a prescription drug bill that increased their profits and did nothing to help seniors. The result: seniors are stuck with a confusing prescription drug plan that does little to help them with their costs.

  Marty Meehan

  Senior, Drug, Confusing

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• If you reject the infinite, you are stuck with the finite, and the finite is parochial... the best explanation of anything eventually involves universality, and therefore infinity. The reach of explanations cannot be limited by fiat.

  David Deutsch

  Infinity, Infinite, Explanation

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• It's like pouring oil from one glass to another down a line - in the end, you don't have any oil left; it is all stuck to the inside of the glasses. This way, 1,000 dollars become 100 dollars by the time it reaches the people. Whereas if we get 10 dollars, we add our effort to it and the money multiplies.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Glasses, Oil, People

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• Phonographic. It goes around and around. Sometimes it gets stuck. That's why I remember things so well.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Remember, Sometimes, Wells

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• If you're 'stuck' right now, you're probably into fear. Get out of there. You've already looked both ways. Now cross the street, for heaven sake. The cars have long since gone. The coast is clear. Your only obstacle now is your own mind.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Long, Car, Heaven

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