Top 100 Quotes About A Stick
#1. What kind of power was it if everybody knew that it would never be used? Better to say that it was not there, that it was no more than the power in the anus of the proud dog who tried to put out a furnace with his puny fart ... He turned the yam with a stick.
Chinua Achebe
#2. If one of my players ever wants to hit me, he better do it really hard because otherwise, I'll find a rock, a stick, or a piece of wood - and believe me, it's gonna be a brawl.
Pat Burns
#3. Your mind is the canvas upon which you are the artist. What will you paint on your canvas today? Will you draw a stick figure or create a masterpiece ... ?
James A. Murphy
#4. You were safe on a troll. Anyone wanting to mug a troll would have to use a building on a stick.
Terry Pratchett
#5. If you live among dogs, keep a stick. After all, this is what a hound has teeth for-to bite when he feels like it!
Nikita Khrushchev
#6. Up until college age I was using the typical little-boy dummy that sits on the knee and makes woodpecker jokes. My first original character didn't happen until later, and that was Jose the Jalapeno on a Stick.
Jeff Dunham
#8. An emotion: *pokes its head through the mountain of suppression I've buried it under*
Me, beating it with a stick: Back! Back!
Unknown
#9. If he lived by a simple code of ethics, it was not an end in itself, but a way to get something done without selling his soul or destroying his reputation. It was a tool to be wielded like a shovel or a stick of dynamite.
Neal Stephenson
#10. It is not caving in to the bees to stop poking a stick into their hive.
Llewellyn Rockwell
#11. You have no idea about presents or what they mean. The last
present you gave me was a stick."
"You wanted a weapon."
"It was a stick."
"It had a bow on it."
"It was a stick."
"I thought you liked the stick. You laughed.
Derek Landy
#12. Around them peddlers were selling dog sausages, roast onions, and unborn puppies on a stick, but Dany had no need of such.
George R R Martin
#13. Peeing on a stick is not as easy as it sounds! #WhenRavensFall
Matilda Wren
#14. No one wakes up one day and decides they want to become a drug dealer or they want to be a stick-up kid. Those decisions are made after a series of events have happened in one's life.
Michael K. Williams
#15. Her favorite game was golf because its essential principles consisted of a stick, a small ball, and a state of mind.
Harper Lee
#16. An Eskimo custom offers an angry person release by walking the emotion out of his or her system in a straight line across the landscape; the point at which the anger is conquered is marked with a stick, bearing witness to the strength or length of the rage.
Lucy R. Lippard
#17. The best cure for a stick up your butt is a dog to play fetch with.
Ryan Lilly
#18. An aged man is but a paltry thing,
A tattered coat upon a stick, unless
Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing
For every tatter in its mortal dress
W.B.Yeats
#19. The public only takes up yesterday as a stick to beat today.
Jean Cocteau
#20. I'd way rather defend myself against a man with a stick than a social worker with good intentions.
Wendelin Van Draanen
#21. You can't teach a young musician to compose any more than you can teach a delicate plant to grow, but you can guide him a little by planting a stick in here and a stick in there.
Frederick Delius
#22. it seems very extraordinary that the complex psychology of a human being can be taught with a stick.
Helen Macdonald
#23. I got a girl named Bony Maronie, she's as skinny as a stick of macaroni.
Little Richard
#24. A writer is like a stick of rock - the words go right through.
Sara Sheridan
#25. My final word: don't follow your dreams ... chase them. With a stick, or a shovel, or whatever you have handy. Get that [bleep]ing dream!
Maureen Johnson
#26. If he weren't a stick his own self, I'd say he had a stick up his butt.
Tom Robbins
#27. I don't know if you know this - I don't drive a stick. I mean, I barely drive my automatic. I get to work and everything, but I'm not any kind of driving prodigy.
Jessica Pare
#28. Discipline is a difficult word for most of us. It conjures up images of somebody standing over you with a stick, telling you that you're wrong. But self-discipline is different. It's the skill of seeing through the hollow shouting of your own impulses and piercing their secret.
Henepola Gunaratana
#29. As a stick, when once it is dry and stiff you may break it, but you can never bend it into a straighter posture; so doth the man become incorrigible who is settled and stiffened into vice.
Isaac Barrow
#30. The gummy bears tattoo was my idea. It's my son's favorite candy. The sketch was my other son's idea. It's a self-portrait of himself. I just showed the artist his sketch and had him tattoo it on my forearm. It looks like a stick person with big hair. It's pretty funny.
Prince Fielder
#31. I decide that we could always indulge ourselves later. First, I had a soul-eating stone of power to poke with a stick.
Lisa Shearin
#32. I thought it out this very day,
Noon upon the clock,
A man may put pretence away
Who leans upon a stick,
May sing, and sing until he drop,
Whether to maid or hag ...
William Butler Yeats
#33. What's that supposed to mean? A wolf's head on a stick. Big wolf barbecue tonight? Bring your own wolf?
Eoin Colfer
#34. The gentlemanly Number 23 would have never made such a crude statement to a lady. But I was not a lady. Sure, I was intelligent and strong, but I dared to be wide open. I was Maggie Young, chaser of boys, writer of scandal, dropper of f-bombs, tits on a stick.
Maggie Young
#35. I think Ray might have wanted a son. One night when I was seven or eight I announced to my family that I wanted to play hockey with the boys on Friday nights and Ray became just a little too eager. Okay he shouted. All right We have to get you a stick We have to get tape I'll be waiting in the car
Miriam Toews
#36. From cheesecake on a stick to meat skewers to deep-fried bananas on a stick - there are no plates anymore. In Los Angeles, everything has become a corn dog. Actually, corn dogs still work. But most other food should be stickless.
Steve Carell
#37. Because when you got right down to it, humans were still just curious monkeys. They still had to poke everything they found with a stick to see what it did.
James S.A. Corey
#38. A man would know the end he goes to, but he cannot know it if he does not turn, and return to his beginning, and hold that beginning in his being. If he would not be a stick whirled and whelmed in the stream, he must be the stream itself, all of it, from its spring to its sinking in the sea.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#39. Good God, Rachel, cant you go five minutes ... sweet sticky hell on a stick!' the demon exclaimed, his thoughts reeling from anger to concern as he realized I was hopped up on something.
Kim Harrison
#40. A few alligators are naturally of the vicious type and inclined to resent it when you prod them with a stick. You can find out which ones these are by prodding them.
Will Cuppy
#41. anybody who has spent two months training a goshawk, knowing that it will be fatal even to give the creature even a cross look,' the man says, 'it seems very extraordinary that the complex psychology of a human being can be taught with a stick.' Sitting
Helen Macdonald
#42. Stupid young people, what did they expect to achieve by rummaging around like this? Those who poke around in the past will get a stick in the eye. A beam would be better, though.
Sofi Oksanen
#43. Romance
Make eye contact.
Show your form.
Strut.
Grunt.
Throw a stick.
Grunt some more.
Make some moves.
Romance is hard work.
It looks easy on TV.
I'm not sure I will ever get the hang of it.
Katherine Applegate
#44. Sound is the hard currency; meaning is the network of cultural and formal conventions that turns it into a stick of gum at the
candy store.
Randy Allen Harris
#45. I keep telling you, nobody wants legs like a stick insect. They want a bottom they can park in a bike in and balance a pint of beer on.
Helen Fielding
#46. (Lisa Henson about her father) He admired the job of the man who walks along the road picking up trash with a long stick. He thought that guy had a great job, walking along with a stick, enjoying the road, and doing only good in the world, with hundreds of small actions.
Jim Henson
#47. There are times when players have got to feel that if they work hard and they give everything, they get the carrot, but they also need to know that there's a stick. If performance, discipline or attitude isn't good enough, there is a bit of the stick and there will be a punishment.
Warren Gatland
#48. I feel like a donkey, with a stick in my mouth and a carrot up my ass.
Anton Chekhov
#49. If you are in a dark room, don't beat at the darkness with a stick, but rather try to turn on the light
Paramahansa Yogananda
#50. Why on earth would you buy a car like this if you can't drive a stick? There are dozens of cars
new cars
that have automatic transmission. It'd be a million times easier."
Adrian shrugged. "I like the color. It matches my living room.
Richelle Mead
#51. I swear I have never told a player to attack another player. In fact, I have told my players if they ever hear me saying something like this, they can break a stick over my skull. I ask only that they play aggressively.
Fred Shero
#52. Man lowers his head and lunges into civilization, forgetting the days of his infancy when he sought truth in a snowflake or a stick. Man forgets the wisdom of the child.
Jack Kerouac
#53. Her figure wasn't bad. Maybe a little round at the breasts and hips, but she was a woman, damn it, not a stick figure.
L.E. Harner
#54. Deke looked at me anxiously, reminding me very much of a large and handsome dog who needs a stick to fetch.
Jeff Lindsay
#55. Are you going to answer my questions, or do I have to whack you with a stick until delicious candy surprises fall out?
Molly Harper
#56. I had to go to a mirror and look at it. I couldn't picture myself in my own head. I had no image beyond a stick figure. I wasn't a mean person as a kid, or dumb, and something has to be said to justify excluding you.
Uma Thurman
#58. Why would you want to stand there waving a stick when you could be playing an instrument?
Nigel Kennedy
#59. Hairy monkeyballs!" I hiss. "Dogshit on a stick! Puke pancakes!"
A head pokes in. Wren, green eyes smiling, walks over to my bed.
"I knew you were awake. Who else spews such original and captivating swears?
Sara Wolf
#60. The C-4 really did look like a stick of butter, neatly wrapped in brown paper. So did the next brick she took from her trunk. And the next. "How much did you get?" I asked. She shrugged with a smile. "I called in some favors. Figured we might as well go all out on the shock and awe.
Craig Schaefer
#61. Our story opens where countless stories have ended in the last twenty-six years: with an idiot
in this case, my brother, Shaun
deciding it would be a good idea to go out and poke a zombie with a stick to see what happens.
Mira Grant
#62. I would sooner have bowel surgery in the woods with a stick.
Bill Bryson
#63. A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind.
John Cheever
#64. I think people are transient. Back in the early church, there was a 'stick and stay' mentality. In this day and time, people have a fast food mentality of ministry. If it doesn't fit them or if it doesn't fit in their schedule, they'll move on to something else. That's a norm in today's time.
Marvin Sapp
#65. Sometimes I think being an actor is like being a dog for a director; it's like they throw a stick, and you want to fetch it and bring it back to them. You want a pat on the head for it.
Joel Edgerton
#66. Our favorite games were killing.
Our favorite books were death.
It had been beaten into us:
God is love.
Not the parched face and gnarled
capes across a stick body; jittering
in the nude sky, we couldn't see
trying to touch us
for the blood in our eyes.
Joseph Bathanti
#67. You don't know what you're doing," Mitchell says. "Poking a stick into a den of snakes." "Poke-poke, motherfuckers." Atlanta pulls the trigger.
Chuck Wendig
#68. I look for things that are left of center, something you've only seen your whole life, but never heard. Hit it! With a stick! I have a guitar made out of a 2x4 that I bought in Cleveland.
Tom Waits
#69. Having the courage to stand up for yourself is like bringing swords to a stick fight.
Kyle Schmalenberg
#70. You've had a stick shoved so high up your ass all night, I'm surprised you can't taste it.
Penny Reid
#71. People pay money to go in there and that row thrown at them? Could stick your head in a bucket and whack it with a stick for free ...
Charlie Fletcher
#72. [A]ngling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.
Samuel Johnson
#74. Of course they won't bloody remember, they'll be dead.' Then she called him a name in a dead language that translated, roughly, to 'poop on a stick,' but sounded more succinct, like this: 'Of course they won't bloody remember, they'll be dead, Poopstick.
Christopher Moore
#75. Actors, to a certain extent, never grow up, you see. It's an extension of being out in the back yard with a stick, only you're being paid to do it. It's borderline madness.
Ioan Gruffudd
#76. What's with you all, anyway? You jam a stick up your own arse then preen at how tall and straight your standing.
Steven Erikson
#77. I'm sick of this. Call me what you like, say I'm without honor, I don't care. I'm not getting on any more horses to whack you people with a stick.
Tamora Pierce
#78. If you hit a midget on the head with a stick, he turns into 40 gold coins.
Patton Oswalt
#79. Conscience is a great moralist inside us with a stick in its hand. It is a whip of virtue which oppresses us unmercifully when we do wrong.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#80. I am a wizard, not a baboon brandishing a stick.
J.K. Rowling
#81. But of course these are scientists. Tell them to leave something alone, and all they want to do is poke it with a stick.
Beth Revis
#82. In the hot summer months, popsicles are a perfect way to cool down while enjoying a delicious, fruity treat. Frozen, refreshing, mouth-friendly candy on a stick cannot get any better ... or can it?
Marcus Samuelsson
#83. I am officially a doctor, and believe it or not, I can save lives and tune certain instruments and can beat peasants with a stick.
Sanjeev Bhaskar
#84. Two of the tiny shepherds were using their shepherds' staffs for swords, nearly hitting Mary and Joseph.
"I remember you doing that."
"You hand a boy a stick, he will use it as a sword. I remember you being upset about that."
"Because I was Mary and you ruined the whole scene.
Sarah Holman
#85. As they die, the ones we love, we lose our witnesses, our watchers, those who know and understand the tiny little meaningless patterns, those words drawn in water with a stick. And there is nothing left but the endless flow.
Anne Rice
#86. What is
there in being able
to say that one has dominated the stream in an attitude of
self-defense;
in proving that one has had the experience
of carrying a stick?
Marianne Moore
#87. I had a '56 Ford, and my first car was a '49 Chevy. I converted it to a stick and used to race with the other high school kids down along the river.
Craig T. Nelson
#88. It's not always so easy," she said softly.
"Why not? It's a part of who you are, isn't it?" he asked with all the sympathy of an asp being prodded with a stick.
Page Morgan
#89. Who would want to be poked by some dumb girl with a stick?
Lauren Myracle
#90. Had I crossed the pass
Supported by a stick,
I would have spared myself
The fall from the horse.
Matsuo Basho
#91. Maybe if everything was beautiful, nothing would be.
People saw one thing, they swooned over it. They saw this other thing, they pounded it with sticks.
Maybe there had to be variety for life to work. Swoon over everything, you get bored. Beat everything with a stick-boring.
Dean Koontz
#92. Montessori is about a kid with a stick, digging a hole in the mud - hands dirty, engaged, fascinated, uninterrupted.
Trevor Eissler
#93. If you were a man, you'd go into business
for yourself. I know a fellow who started out last year with just a
canoe. Now he's got more women than you can shake a stick at, if
that's your idea of a good time.
Groucho Marx
#94. jose jaliopinio on a stick" do you like bmw's (big mexican weman)
Jeff Dunham
#95. She depended on him to smooth her brow when her shit-on-a-stick life got too covered in poop sprinkles.
Jean Oram
#96. Sister, I do what I do, and I do it better than most, and I take some satisfaction in that. I am like a very dependable dog. They throw a stick into a jungle and I can go in there and bring it back.
John D. MacDonald
#97. I really need some answers."
"I know you do." Her hands came down. "I just can't believe you don't know anything."
"Believe it."
"How am I supposed to explain this to you?"
"With words. That'd work for me. Faster than drawing pictures in the sand with a stick.
Veronica Rossi
#98. I furrowed my brows at him. What was so amazing about a stick? I could pick one up outside on the way to the car.
Let me guess, you're Harry Potter and this is the school of Hogwarts. If I say Lumos will it light up?
Brandi Salazar
#99. I smoke two cartons of unfiltered cigs and down a bottle of American rye whiskey as a warm up, generally. Then swallow beach sand and general aggregate to get some texture in the voice, followed by a stick of butter to smooth it all out. This works for me, but may not be for everyone.
Roger Craig Smith
#100. Not at all. You look as though magic has taken hold of you. It must be magic because I don't know how you can draw like that. I can barely manage a stick figure.
Sharon Biggs Waller
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