Studs Quotes

• Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.

  H. L. Mencken

  Horse, Jobs, Society

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.622, Vintage

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• People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being. Storytelling is a form of history, of immortality too. It goes from one generation to another. -Studs Terkel

  Studs Terkel

  People, Generations, Stories

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• The American ideal of sexuality appears to be rooted in the American ideal of masculinity. This idea has created cowboys and Indians, good guys and bad guys, punks and studs, tough guys and softies, butch and faggot, black and white. It is an ideal so paralytically infantile that it is virtually forbidden - as an unpatriotic act - that the American boy evolve into the complexity of manhood

  James A. Baldwin

  Black And White, Boys, Cowboy

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• I should consent to breed under pressure, if I were convinced in any way of the reasonableness of reproducing the species. But my nerves and the nerves of any woman I could live with three months, would produce only a victim... lacking in impulse, a mere bundle of discriminations. If I were wealthy I might subsidize a stud of young peasants, or a tribal group in Tahiti.

  Ezra Pound

  Way, Pressure, Months

  Ezra Pound (1958). “Pavannes and Divagations”, p.55, New Directions Publishing

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• Superheroes are mostly aimed at young teen-age males concerned with their manhood. The medium will have to address itself more to content. . . . I see 22 year olds draw massive Schwarzenegger types, outfitted with metal studs, pressing a mostly naked woman to their breastplates. And I think Poor girl, thats got to be cold.

  Will Eisner

  Girl, Thinking, Years

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• With optimism, you look upon the sunny side of things. People say, 'Studs, you're an optimist.' I never said I was an optimist. I have hope because what's the alternative to hope? Despair? If you have despair, you might as well put your head in the oven.

  Studs Terkel

  People, Optimism, Despair

  Religion & Ethics Newsweekly Interview, www.pbs.org. December 19, 2003.

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• His legs remembered the correct position for squatting down with toys. He played. He fit the round male studs into the round female grooves. He got some thinking done as he hunkered down on his fallen-sleep legs.

  Colson Whitehead

  Sleep, Thinking, Males

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• Its always nice to have a stud muffin at the table.

  Janet Evanovich

  Nice, Tables, Muffins

  Janet Evanovich (2011). “Stephanie Plum One, Two, Three: One for the Money, Two for the Dough, Three to Get Deadly”, p.556, Simon and Schuster

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• Well sir, I may not be a for-real cowboy... But I am one hell of a stud!

  Jon Voight

  Real, Cowboy, May

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• We would have two less championships here if it was not for Manu Ginobili. In my eyes, he's the stud of the world.

  Gregg Popovich

  Basketball, Eye, Two

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• Any other iron on you?” he asked impatiently. “Just my tongue stud.” His look was a mixture of curiosity and horror. “I’m kidding, you idiot. Let’s go.

  Kiersten White

  Iron, Curiosity, Looks

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• It's cool not growing old. I like being the eternal stud.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Growing, Eternal, Growing Old

  "The Vampire Diaries: Family Ties". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 2009.

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• Hold'em is to stud what chess is to checkers.

  Johnny Moss

  Gambling, Ems, Chess

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• His breath in my ear, he ran his tongue along the curved edge, sucking the fleshy lobe and my small diamond stud into his mouth, and my eyes drifted closed while I babbled a weak sound of longing.

  Tammara Webber

  Eye, Sound, Ears

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• I have known a number of Don Juans who were good studs and who cavorted between the sheets without a psychiatrist to guide them. But most of the busy love-makers I knew were looking for masculinity rather than practicing it. They were fellows of dubious lust.

  Ben Hecht

  Numbers, Lust, Juan

  Ben Hecht (1954). “A child of the century”, Signet

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• I feel like in L.A., you wake up, you put your diamond studs on, put your workout gear, your cute shades, and it is kind of the outfit you stay in the entire day.

  Adrienne Bailon

  Cute, Workout, Wake Up

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• I've always had my ear pierced with a diamond stud. I did it myself when I was 16.

  Vinnie Jones

  Ears, Diamond

  "What I see in the mirror" by Vinnie Jones, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2013.

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• I have seen everything possible covered in studs and grommets. Also, what I call angry shoes: those platforms with the multiple buckles and studs. I think the polished girl is back.

  Nina Garcia

  Girl, Thinking, Shoes

  "Nina Garcia So Over ‘Angry Shoes,’ Says ‘Polished Girl Is Back’", www.huffingtonpost.com. August 11, 2010.

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• I had grown up as a fan of Studs Terkel. In Chicago he sort of looms large and is mentioned often.

  Dave Eggers

  Chicago, Fans

  Interview with Justine Sharrock, www.motherjones.com. March/April 2009.

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• She had to go," said Rose. "It was because of her angel," said Indigo. "And because of Granddad," added Caddy. "And because of her nose stud." "And because her name isn't on the color chart." "She's lonely," said Rose. "That's why.

  Hilary McKay

  Lonely, Angel, Color

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• Takako looked into Hiroki's eyes and grinned. "You've become quie a stud." "And...you're the most stylin' girl in the world." Takako smiled faintly. She wanted to thank him, but she was out of breath. She just stared at Hiroki's eyes. She was grateful. At least she wasn't going to die alone. The last person to stay with her ended up being Hiroki. And she was grateful. She really was.

  Koushun Takami

  Girl, Grateful, Eye

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• Studs Lonigan, on the verge of fifteen, and wearing his first suit of long trousers, stood in the bathroom with a Sweet Caporal pasted on his mug.

  James T. Farrell

  Sweet, Book, Long

  James T. Farrell (2001). “Studs Lonigan”, p.22, Penguin

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• Go to work and be a Hollywood stud, drive your four wheel drive right into the mud.

  John Mellencamp

  Art, Media, Hollywood

  Song: Hand To Hold On To

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• The Now, that indivisible point which studs the length of infinite line Whose ends are nowhere, is thine all , the puny all thou callest thine.

  Richard Francis Burton

  Lines, Infinite, Length

  Sir Richard Francis Burton (1894). “The Kasîdah (couplets) of Hâjî Abdû Al-Yazdi: A Lay of the Higher Law”

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• I had a grungy period and looked like a tramp for a very long time - my mum really hated it! I destroyed her entire '70s wardrobe by putting studs into everything - I thought I was really cool. But it's good to experiment - I even had dreadlocks at one point.

  Clemence Poesy

  Long, Really Cool, Periods

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