Sticks Quotes

While Congress can't overturn the Supreme Court, we can provide carrots and sticks to prevent local governments from unfairly taking property from landowners.

I've been traveling in Guatemala in the rainforest, and here all these houses are made of sticks. It seems so easy to make one.

Some of the people that I photographed as sticks became much more voluptuous, much rounder, in some cases dramatically so, and I think they're even more beautiful.

There are people I would like to work with. It's a bit harder, because I live out in the sticks anyway, and plus being in a wheelchair means that I can't really circulate. So I tend to stick to my own thing.

In five years' time I'd like to be a mum. I want to settle down and have a family, definitely sooner rather than later. I'd like to have finished my second album too, maybe even my third. I'd like a sound that sticks around that other people are inspired by and that people know is me.

Arsenic sticks around and today it's easily found after death if somebody thinks of looking for it, because the problem with arsenic, it isn't looked for in the common tests for drugs.

The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.

I don't like my hockey sticks touching other sticks, and I don't like them crossing one another, and I kind of have them hidden in the corner. I put baby powder on the ends. I think it's essentially a matter of taking care of what takes care of you.

Well, what I try to do is throw as much mud on the wall as I possibly can and just see what sticks, what shines as quirky or more interesting that the others, and I try to cling onto that one, somehow join a link from there to there.

Most studios in Memphis had a house set of drums; the drummers just brought their own sticks.

Led Zeppelin was pretty much what made me pick up drum sticks.

My preference is that, that day when someone sticks a tripod in front of you with a camera on the top, it is not day one.

My drum sticks are in the "Hall of Fame." I know that.

What you make up in your heads sticks if it's good, falls out if it's bad. If we still remember something a day after we made it up, it might be worth building on.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.

If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs.

When I write a note, it sticks in my head differently.

I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.

My parents were vegetarians. I'd show up at school, this giant black kid, with none of the cool clothes and a tofu sandwich and celery sticks.

I'm a fantasy writer, called a fantasy writer. But there's very little, apart from one or two basic concepts in 'I Shall Wear Midnight,' which are in fact fantasy. You have sticks that fly, but they're practical broomsticks, with a bloody great strap that you can hold on to so you don't fall off. And you try not to use them too often.

I'm shooting in Brooklyn, we've got all kinds of crap going on, and I'm all alone now in a big hotel suite that you can't believe the size of it and a thing sticks in my foot and I just think it's the funniest thing that's ever happened to me.

A fanatic is one who sticks to his guns whether they're loaded or not.

Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

CD stores have the disadvantage of an expensive inventory, but digital bookshops would need no such thing: they could write copies at the time of sale on to memory sticks, and sell you one if you forgot your own.

The good poet sticks to his real loves, those within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.

If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.

I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.

Sometimes, you just get a label and it sticks.

If you play a gay role, it sticks more than it does if an actor were to play a murderer or a psychopath.

I grew up in a house of no love or emotion - it kind of sticks with you.