Sticks Quotes - page 5

I grew up with lacrosse in my life because my dad played lacrosse all throughout college, so I grew up with the gear in my house - like the sticks, the helmet. (Tyler Posey)
If the opposing of one cock to fight with another may be justly esteemed a national barbarism, what shall be said of a custom more inhuman, which authorised the throwing at them with sticks, and ferociously putting them to a painful and lingering death? I know not at what time this unfortunate animal became the object of such wicked and wanton abuse: the sport, if such a denomination may be given to it, is certainly no recent invention, and perhaps is alluded to by Chaucer...If the poor bird by chance had its legs broken, or was otherwise so lamed as not to be able to stand, the barbarous owners were wont to support it with sticks, in order to prolong the pleasure received from the reiteration of its torment. View quote
Joseph Strutt
Fruit trees in this world are ancient and exhausted sticks coming out of poor soil; the people of the village are worn down to their skulls, caricatures of some ultimate grotesque typology of basic human feature types. How is it, then, that in Van Gogh such things as apple trees explode into a hallucinatory surface of color, while his village stereotypes are suddenly and garishly overlaid with hues of red and green? View quote
Fredric Jameson
...kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks. View quote
Aimee Bender
I have learned not to overlook the advantages of being me. From when I was a softball player, and I held the stolen bases record. I would slide into second with my prostheses, and the girl on the base could either step aside or meet two wooden sticks. View quote
Aimee Mullins
Vampires don't live at all," she points out, "neither do we." She has me there. "Fine, I'll go. But when Kurt leads his minions in a march around the cemetary with our heads on sticks, don't say I didn't warn you. View quote
Cynthia Leitich Smith
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. View quote
Cynthia Rylant
You can't always get someone where you want to with just sticks. There have to be some carrots, there have to be some other shaping things. View quote
Dennis C. Blair
When I write a note, it sticks in my head differently. View quote
Don Mattingly
I'm always writing at night - things I would change, things I would do differently. When I write a note, it sticks in my head differently. View quote
Don Mattingly
I just assumed the world was full of solo percussionists. I couldn't find sticks or music or anything where I was, but that was expected because there was nothing there anyway. And I think that was possibly the greatest asset for me, just not knowing. (Evelyn Glennie)
People in America and Hollywood are very good at pronouncing my name, to begin with. Socially, they're very adept at listening to somebody's name and repeating it, cleverly in the first couple of sentences so the name sticks to begin with. View quote
Ioan Gruffudd
Sometimes, you just get a label and it sticks. View quote
Jamie Redknapp
It would be ugly to watch people poking sticks at a caged rat. It is uglier still to watch rats poking sticks at a caged person. View quote
Jean Harris
During my childhood, I was surrounded by actors and all I remember is they were fun to be around. That kind of sticks. View quote
Jack Davenport
My drum sticks are in the 'Hall of Fame.' I know that. View quote
Jimmy Carl Black
Usually when you're doing concepts for a character, you just try a couple different things to see what sticks. View quote
Joe Madureira
I was very fascinated by the time when firearms went from being fire sticks to being something people could use to hunt and to survive. View quote
Joe Perry
I see it all the time in politics. If a candidate gets caught in a lie, he quickly tries to change the subject by throwing more mud at his opponent. The mud keeps flying until some of the slanderous material sticks. View quote
Joe Scarborough
Led Zeppelin was pretty much what made me pick up drum sticks. View quote
Jon Fishman
I seriously think I could have sat in the middle of the kitchen floor rubbing two sticks together over a pile of dynamite blocks and gasoline cans, and my parents would be oblivious, as long as I was keeping myself occupied. (Jordan Sonnenblick)
My band and I, we cover our bodies in hairspray and glitter. We use the hairspray to make sure the glitter sticks. View quote
Kesha
I hadn't fully realized just how powerful words could be before this. Whoever came up with the saying 'sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me' was talking out of his or her armpit. View quote
Malorie Blackman
There's nowhere like home for me, but there has been something so interesting about most of the places I've visited. One that sticks out in my mind is traveling around South America. It's a huge continent, and I only got to see a small portion of it, but I've always liked going there. View quote
Brittany Bowe
One of my first days shooting on 'Game of Thrones' was possibly the coldest day I've ever experienced in my life, and that sticks out especially because I'd never, ever done anything before. View quote
Isaac Hempstead-Wright