Top 27 Stiffen Quotes
#1. Then imitate the action of the tiger; stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood.
William Shakespeare
#2. Without enough nitric oxide, your arteries can stiffen, raising blood pressure and your risk of heart attack.
Michael Greger
#3. In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility; but when the blast of war blows in our ears, then imitate the action of the tiger; stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, disguise fair nature with hard-favor'd rage.
William Shakespeare
#4. There are times when images blow to fluff, and comparisons stiffen and shrivel.
Dorothy Parker
#5. As soon as he touched her she seemed to wince and stiffen. To embrace her was like embracing a jointed wooden image. And what was strange was that even when she was clasping him against her he had the feeling that she was simultaneously pushing him away with all her strength.
George Orwell
#6. Long past the moment when her neck begins to stiffen and ache, she continues to stare into the darkness, even though none of the human secrets she needs to know are to be found in the stars but rather closer to the earth her boots stand upon.
Larry Watson
#7. If I "try" to play, I fail; if I force the play, I crush it; if I race, I trip. Any time I stiffen or brace myself against some error or problem, the very act of bracing would cause the problem to occur. The only road to strength is vulnerability.
Stephen Nachmanovitch
#8. Raffe throws me a dirty look. He bends over and swipes his arm behind my knees, lifting me up in his embrace.
'I can go with one of the locusts.' I stiffen in his arms and try to lean as far away from him as I can.
'The hell you will.' He runs a couple of steps before spreading his wings.
Susan Ee
#9. To stiffen into stone, to persevere!
We long forever for the right to stay.
But all that stays with us is fear,
And we shall never rest upon our way.
Hermann Hesse
#10. Alas! It seems to me that when one is as good as this at dissecting children who are to born, one can't stiffen up enough to create them.
Gustave Flaubert
#11. When you stiffen, you know that whatever you stiffen about is very important. The stuff is important, the fear itself is information.
Toni Morrison
#12. Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.
F.H. Bradley
#13. Winter dawn is the color of metal,
The trees stiffen into place like burnt nerves.
Sylvia Plath
#14. Though my muscles may stiffen, though my skin
may
wrinkle, may I never find myself yawning
at life.
Toyohiko Kagawa
#15. How have you always felt?" he wondered.
"Loved." Her eyes opened and met his. "Wanted, happy, excited. A little sad."
He felt himself stiffen. "Why sad?"
"Because it always feels like one lifetime with you just isn't enough.
Airicka Phoenix
#16. Most people stiffen with self-consciousness when they pose for a photograph. Lighting and fine camera equipment are useless if the photographer cannot make them drop the mask, at least for a moment, so he can capture on his film their real, undistorted personality and character.
Philippe Halsman
#17. Most things fail with age. Our hands and backs stiffen. Our eyes dim. Skin roughens and our beauty fades. The only exception is the voice. Properly cared for, a voice does nothing but grow sweeter with age and constant use.
Patrick Rothfuss
#19. Even before Melanchthon sank into his grave, he was dismayed at seeing Lutheranism stiffen into dogmas and formulas, and heartbroken by a persecution from his fellow-Protestants more bitter than anything he had ever experienced from Catholics.
Andrew Dickson White
#20. Maybe people really don't change as much as we think. Maybe they just ... maybe they just stiffen up.
Stephen King
#21. That Hollywood thing, where everybody hugs and kisses everybody else - I always stiffen. It's an assumed familiarity. It's phony.
Jennifer Tilly
#22. My mother, Nicolette, is the Katagaria Grand Regis Ursulan- so don't start no shit, won't be no shit. Quick rule rundown. No fighting, no biting, no magick. You break the rules, we break body parts and you're banned from here ... if you survive. In short, come in peace or leave in pieces. (Dev)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#23. The journey is over when you begin to love, thought Jean, as the two youngsters feasted their eyes on each other.
Nina George
#24. In particular what is most important to me is the transformation of a sound by slowing it down, sometimes extremely, so that the inner of sound becomes a conceivable rhythm.
Karlheinz Stockhausen
#25. In North America, more than half of all children travel to school by bus. We need a similar programme in London.
Zac Goldsmith
#26. A person gets used to being alone, but break it just for a day and you have to get used to it again, all over from the beginning.
Richard Bach
