Stiffer Quotes

#1. If her rump were any stiffer, she'd break it every time she rides', I thought to Pounce.
'If she fell on the steps, they would never be able to put her together again', he replied.

Tamora Pierce

#2. Death's face became a little stiffer, if that were possible. The blue glow in his eye sockets flickered red for an instant. I SEE, he said. The tone suggested that death was too good for cat-haters. YOU LIKE GREAT BIG DOGS, I IMAGINE.

Terry Pratchett

#3. My general take on American music since 1969 is that it's just getting stiffer and people are getting more uptight - audience, performance, and palace guard.

Iggy Pop

#4. Time doesn't heal scars as most people commonly think. It simply makes them firmer, stiffer. One must accept it and not hope to mend and return to what he or she once was.

V.C. Andrews

#5. I hate cats."
Death's face became a little stiffer, if that were possible. The blue glow in his eye sockets flickered red for an instant.
"I SEE," he said. The tone suggested that death was too good for cat haters.

Terry Pratchett

#6. The stiffer the penalty, the greater the message is sent.

Lou Brock

#7. If he were any stiffer, Alanna thought wryly, I'd paint a design on him and use him for a shield.

Tamora Pierce

#8. Beer is fine," I said.
"For now." Adam waited as I put in my order. "You'll need something stiffer after Mike really starts getting to you."
"Oh, he's getting to me," I said, as the bartender brought my beer. "Usually, I drink Sprite.

Diana Peterfreund

#9. Pettiness seems to go hand in hand with vindictiveness. The smaller the person, the larger the need for revenge. This may account for the fact that some consensual crimes have stiffer penalties than do most crimes with innocent victims.

Peter McWilliams

#10. Our pointe shoes are our instruments. If something's wrong with my feet, all my mind goes there. I usually have six pairs ready. Soft shoes for one act, stiffer shoes for another, stronger shoes for a variation with a lot of turns.

Nina Ananiashvili

#11. I use men's skis because, honestly, they work better for me. They're longer, they're stiffer, they're harder to turn - but at the same time, they're much more stable.

Lindsey Vonn

#12. I love watching Anthony Kim play, but I'm not a fan of the way he grips down a good two inches on his full-swing shots. Choking down lightens the club's swing weight and effectively makes the shaft stiffer. It also makes it difficult to hit the ball high enough for all situations.

Lee Trevino

#13. As you get older, you get stuck in your ways; just as you become stiffer physically, you also become stiffer mentally and more narrow-minded unless you make a conscious effort to keep yourself flexible.

Viggo Mortensen

#14. Nothing is more dreadful in life than the profound thought that death may only greet you with eternal nothingness.

Kim Elizabeth

#15. I do not enjoy when people don't like me.

Janeane Garofalo

#16. If I cannot trust myself to love the right person, what can I trust?

Kiersten White

#17. What kind of a man would turn his daughter into an outboard motor?

Kurt Vonnegut

#18. Marco Rubio's presidential campaign has raised $40 million in the last week. When he heard that, Rubio said, 'Hey, any chance I can drop out of the race and just keep the 40 million?'

Jimmy Fallon

#19. Sometimes life begins when the marriage ends

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#20. One only has an adventure when one makes a mistake, but [as] my grandmother used to say: "You don't have to get out of trouble if you don't get into trouble."

Richard S. Wheeler

#21. Ye gods, annihilate but space and time,
And make two lovers happy.

Alexander Pope

#22. She cried like someone heartbroken.

Jojo Moyes

#23. I noticed for the first time that his expression was completely changed - strangely expressionless, eyes out of focus. He seemed to be staring into a void.

Haruki Murakami

#24. A major fault, for example, is the fact that, along with the materialist principle, Darwin introduced into his theory of evolution reactionary Malthusian ideas.

Trofim Lysenko

#25. The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed.

Nelson Boswell

#26. If you cheat in the dark of the morning, you'll get found in the bright lights of the night.

Joe Frazier

#27. Emotional sympathies just dry up and die as we change, and they are as mysterious in friendship as in love. It's a relationship like any other.

Vivian Gornick