Top 100 Stayed Quotes
#1. I've stayed in hotels where you were scared to even put your feet on the floor, or had to sleep in a chair.
Peter Hook
#2. Noah, why did you ask me here tonight?" ...
His eyes stayed focused on the ground as he whispered, "I miss you.
Alison G. Bailey
#3. The presiding spirit of Welsh history has been the shape-shifter Gwydion the Magician, who always changed his shape and always stayed the same.
Gwyn Alfred Williams
#4. If only Sam could have stayed just like the Dog, she thought. A comforting friend without the complication of romantic interest.There had to be something she could do to completely discourage him, short of throwing up, or making herself totally unattractive.
"I'm thirty-five," she said at last.
Garth Nix
#5. I actually studied in college, for the three semesters that I stayed in school, I don't recommend that, but I studied theater, and in high school I was involved in the drama department.
Katharine McPhee
#6. I'm a hotel baby, absolutely: it's hard to think of a hotel I haven't stayed in.
Elaine Stritch
#7. I spent two years living in London - I'd have stayed for ever if I could have got a work visa. It was there I started collecting vinyl and fell in love with the sounds of the 1970s.
Lady Starlight
#8. He passed out in my arms. I don't know how long we stayed like that with my hands tangled in his knotted hair like I was trying to pray. I couldn't tell if I was sleeping; it was so dark, I thought my eyes were closed even when they were open.
Raziel Reid
#9. What has motivated some people to leave Churches of Christ? . . . those of us who stayed. . . need to . . . do a better job of presenting ideas and practices that we believe are non-negotiable.
Flavil R. Yeakley Jr.
#10. Nothing ever stayed the same. There was no force in this world strong enough to withstand the march of time.
Sam J. Charlton
#11. I don't think I would be a writer if I had stayed in Chile. I would be trapped in the chores, in the family, in the person that people expected me to be.
Isabel Allende
#12. The first Mardi Gras I went to, I stayed at the Tulane AE Pi house on Broadway. Slept on a pool table one night, slept under it the next.
Adam Richman
#13. I lost my balance when the train pulled away, but a human crumple zone buffered my fall. We stayed like that, half fallen. Diagonal People.
David Mitchell
#14. As she looked around, she realised although she had stayed here many times before, there was nothing there that was truly hers.
Lara Pass
#15. Maybe it was true that the more things changed, the more they stayed the same.
Nancy Holder
#16. I was homeless for about 8 months, I refused to live with my dad or anyone for that matter. So I stayed somewhere that had no hot water, ever, no heat, I told myself I have to be strong and get through it on my own.
Eric West
#17. Upright in my bed, my pulse racing as I untangled myself from my sheets. Beads of sweat trickled down my skin, sticking my t-shirt to my back. I rubbed my eyes and blinked a few times, seeing if my room stayed in place. Nothing budged and I relaxed. It had been a dream, just like it had
Jessica Sorensen
#18. But shadows spread, and deepened, and stayed. After thousands of years we're still strangers to darkness, fearful aliens in an enemy camp with our arms crossed over our chests.
Annie Dillard
#19. The things that stayed were things that didn't matter except they stayed, night and day, all seasons the same, and were peaceful to a fault and boded no ill but thought well enough of themselves to repeat their presences.
William H Gass
#20. CompUSA was a bad decision. We stayed too much with CompUSA, and we stayed too short with Apple.
Carlos Slim
#21. Those in favour rarely stayed in favour; it was just a question of when they fell.
Julian Barnes
#22. I don't live in L.A. I actually live in Atlanta, Georgia. After I graduated from Spelman, I just stayed and never left. And I love it.
Keshia Knight Pulliam
#23. This time, his bear stayed quiet, finally getting with the "sneaky like a cat" program. Today
Nalini Singh
#24. They kept to themselves. We all had a 'live and let live' philosophy, so we didn't mix unless someone committed crimes in our territories. Karpatii, mage and humans were close. The others stayed away from us and from each other.
Christine Feehan
#25. There was no let-up. The tempo was always moderate but steady. If a new guy decided to pick up the pace, that's where it stayed, whether he finished with the group or not. You showed off at your peril.
John L. Parker Jr.
#26. Either you play the game or let the game play you and be that broke sucka talkin bout I stayed true
J. Cole
#27. Predictably, his eyes widened at her beauty
then stayed wide as he beheld the death lurking beneath it.
Sarah J. Maas
#28. The best time to leave a party is when the party's just beginning. There's no drink that kills except the drink that you didn't want to take, as the saying goes, and there's no hour that kills except the hour you stayed after you wanted to go home.
Diana Vreeland
#29. I don't like the discussions about whether photography is an art. Even though I think that if it would be just a craft I would not have stayed with it all my life.
Josef Sudek
#30. I first watched 'Adhe Adhure' in college. I loved it, and it stayed with me ever since. I decided that I would some day direct this play - not in English, but in Hindi.
Lillete Dubey
#31. Go where ye list,' as the Good Book says. But go there alive, Trisha. Don't be no ghost. If you turn into one of those, it might be better if you stayed away.
Stephen King
#32. I guess that means I won in the end, at least in a financial sense. But in my heart I stayed ashamed. I kept hearing Miss Hisler asking me why I wanted to waste my talent, why I wanted to waste my time, why I wanted to write junk.
Stephen King
#33. If a cat stays, it's a true bond. They are intelligent, you see, they don't tend to rely on humans. He must have really loved the old man to want to stay here with him.' 'So even though he wanted to be alone, his cat stayed behind for him. That's lovely,' I mused, smiling.
Clare Wilson
#34. I love you, but you are another death, a death that has stayed with me and befriended me as the old death in the lake did, but death all the same.
Gene Wolfe
#35. You've had time, Luce. I've given you your space." he said, the bed moaning as he stood. "I've aged fifty years in three weeks' time because I did my part and stayed away from you. But now you're here. And maybe you're not here because of me, but either way, you couldn't stay away.
Nicole Williams
#36. The quarterback, you can play with a lot of big injuries. You get a little injury like an index finger or a thumb that most people can play with, sometimes you can't. I've stayed away from some of those.
Eli Manning
#37. I was the last, the sole survivor. The most honorable thing a survivor could do was survive. If you stayed on your feet, stayed alive, you were the winner.
Jean-Claude Izzo
#38. He told me to run so I ran, like a coward, I should have stayed. Oh my God! -Aurora
Candace Knoebel
#39. My family came in 1635 from England and settled in Williamsburg. Shortly after, they split up; half went to New England and half stayed in Virginia. I'm a Virginian Ballard.
Robert Ballard
#40. The pain flooded in again. It was always there, of course. Through the shaking hands and slapping of the backs, the grief stayed by his side, tapping Griffin on the shoulder, whispering in his ear, reminding him that they were partners for life.
Harlan Coben
#41. Starting in '98 when I was researching 'Traffic,' I got to meet really serious people in Washington, which for a screenwriter was kind of a great gift. And I really valued these guys; I stayed in touch with them, and I find their point-of-view quite interesting.
Stephen Gaghan
#42. Dr. Buford's profession was medicine and his obsession was anything that grew in the ground, so he stayed poor.
Harper Lee
#43. If we wanted home truths, we should have stayed at home.
Clifford Geertz
#44. I always stayed away from the studio environment as much as possible. But I just wanted to see if I could work in one. It's not easy. Just having an engineer's assistant around is enough for me to be uncomfortable. With more than one person there in the room, it feels strange.
Jack White
#45. They were women not strong enough or smart enough to leave. Women without imagination. So they stayed in Wind Gap and played their teenage lives on an endless loop.
Gillian Flynn
#46. He stayed true to his convictions, despite the overwhelming pressure to capitulate.
Elizabeth Camden
#47. I would have stayed a hundred times and I would have left one time only - still, I left.
Mihail Drumes
#48. My mom and dad? Oh, they were a fiery pair. They stayed together for the kids and also because they were hopelessly in love with each other, but they were totally incompatible.
Peter Scolari
#49. Mattia stayed right where he was, feeling those clothes that weren't his, but with the pleasant sensation of disappearing into them.
Paolo Giordano
#50. When I see friends from school I think they've all grown old and I've stayed the same.
Steve Coogan
#51. Three hours ago I was in bed, I thought miserably. I should have stayed there.
Diana Rowland
#52. He also went invisible, yet stayed (such privilege hath omnipresence).
John Milton
#53. Into the air, and what seemed corporal Melted as breath into the wind. Would they had stayed.
Anonymous
#54. You know, the pessimism which exists now in the Middle East existed in Northern Ireland, but we stayed at it.
George J. Mitchell
#55. I absolutely believe that those who come here illegally should not be given favoritism or a special route to becoming permanent residents or citizens that's not given to those people that have stayed in line legally. I just think we have to follow the law. I think that's the right course.
Mitt Romney
#56. We stayed like that, him watching me crying, for as long as we could stand it. Then he took a couple of paces away. The room needed a window for him to go to and look out of. I could feel the grammar of the moment demanding it.
Glen Duncan
#57. I could see flames from the windows of my chambers. For the next three or four days we had major rioting here in Washington and I stayed at the court day and night.
Harold H. Greene
#58. I really believe God called on me to coach, and that is the reason I stayed in it for so long.
Bobby Bowden
#59. As an Olympic champion gymnast, I have always stayed involved in my sport.
Nadia Comaneci
#60. When I first made photographs, they were too plain to be considered art and I wasn't considered an artist. I didn't get any attention at all. The people who looked at my work thought, well, that's just a snapshot of the backyard. Privately I knew otherwise and through stubbornness stayed with it ...
Walker Evans
#61. And what, brothers, I had to escape into sleep from then was the horrible and wrong feeling that it was better to get the hit than give it. If that veck had stayed I might even have like presented the other cheek.
Anthony Burgess
#62. All that winter the crannogman stayed on the isle, but when the spring broke he heard the wide world calling and knew the time had come to leave.
George R R Martin
#63. Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on Thee.
Isaiah
#64. In state of deep depression, I stayed alone; my time was occupied with reading sacred books.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#65. I finally returned to Iran in 1979, when I got my degree in English and American literature, and stayed for 18 years in the Islamic republic.
Azar Nafisi
#66. But, here was a curious thing. The more I tried to give up thinking of her, the more I said to myself, 'She's nothing to you', the harder I tried to pluck the idea of her out of my heart, the more she stayed there.
Sarah Waters
#68. George Orr stayed in Portland because he had always lived there and because he had no reason to believe that life anywhere else would be better, or different.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#69. I dropped out of Reed College [Portland, Oregon] after the first six months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?
Steve Jobs
#70. The idea of being in the State Department was exciting. On the other hand, I always had in the back of my mind going into politics. If I stayed in Washington, I might end up a government hack.
Elliot Richardson
#71. Came up that's all me, stayed true that's all me, no help that's all me, all me for real
Drake
#72. He wanted to shout, telling her to stop. He wanted to tell her that he could stay, that he wanted to stay, that if leaving meant losing her, then going home wasn't worth it. But the words stayed trapped inside him ...
Nicholas Sparks
#73. Will you stay? I think I'd sleep better if you stayed here tonight. Then we could miss them together.
Veronica Rossi
#74. I wasn't a woman who stayed tiny like I thought I would. I definitely gave myself the freedom to eat what I wanted.
Jennifer Garner
#75. Books could be an incredible adventure. I stayed under my blanket and barely moved, and no one would have guessed how my mind raced and my heart soared with stories.
Paula McLain
#77. I stayed involved with music my whole life. I was always playing with other people.
Daniel Powter
#78. I took a gap year myself after high school and worked on a farm near Lyon, France. I stayed with the Vallet family, picked and packed fruit, and discovered that red wine can be a breakfast drink. That led to further travel as a university student.
Nicholas Kristof
#79. Abstention means you stayed at home or went to the beach. By casting a blank vote, you're saying you have a political conscience but you don't agree with any of the existing parties.
Jose Saramago
#80. I don't think you make fans happy by just replicating frames. What they want to see is that you stayed true to the story, true to the characters and true to the design.
Sylvain White
#81. stayed friends because they could keep each other's secrets. Now,
Katherine Boo
#82. If I'd stayed on in London and carried on going to literary parties, it would have wrecked me as a writer.
Colin Wilson
#83. I went away, dear Agnes, loving you. I stayed away, loving you. I returned home, loving you!
Charles Dickens
#84. I just remembered songs my grandmother taught me, and songs that I learned for the recordings. But, then I learned to speak Italian. When I was there, I hired a professor who stayed with me 24 hours a day. She wouldn't let me speak a word of English.
Connie Francis
#85. All great and successful people stayed alone with themselves to develop their gift
Sunday Adelaja
#86. There was a big possibility that I would have had to leave Newcastle had Ruud Gullit stayed as manager.
Alan Shearer
#87. I wish I had stayed and finished my career here in New York.
Patrick Ewing
#88. I've stayed away from doing 'urban film' because I just don't relate to the characters. I'm not going to take a role because I happen to have the same skin color.
Zoe Kravitz
#89. We stayed a long, long time, to see you, to meet you, to see you at last.
Sufjan Stevens
#90. I stayed out of the sun when I was young, not because I knew better, but because I'm a Type A personality who gets too restless to lay around and do nothing.
Georgette Mosbacher
#91. I always stayed for the first curtain call and people always said, 'Who's that?' But this got me started in acting.
James Stewart
#94. When I was young, I despised old people. I was provincial and narrow-minded. It's the reason I stayed stupid so long. If you only get involved with young people you don't learn anything about the world.
Edmund White
#95. My wife and I went back to the hotel where we spent our wedding night. Only this time, I stayed in the bathroom and cried.
Henny Youngman
#96. I had a cat I could not see,
Because it stayed in back of me.
It was a very loyal pet-
It's sad we never really met.
I had a nice pet
Who I never met,
Remember it always stayed behind me.
And I'm sure it was a cat, too.
Peggy Rathmann
#97. We were strong. We stayed bright as lightning,
we sang loud as thunder, we moved ever forward.
We are not our failures. We are love.
La Dispute
#98. Like many Catholics, I was very affected by the personality of Jesus and that impression, pious as it was, has stayed with me.
Simon Callow
#99. The detectives who stayed positive, who carried hope in their hearts, were the ones most likely to have stamina.
James Patterson
#100. stopped coming home for lunch. He just stayed in his office
Elizabeth Strout
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