Stilted Quotes

#1. I'd hear a tune in my head and the words would come. And then, very suddenly it just stopped. It seemed too stilted to try and learn how to write a song, to go to round robins and to learn things from other people on how to write a song. So I just stopped and did other things.

Joan Baez

#2. Continuous present is all we have, and stream of consciousness - which in a novel is arguably just as artificial as the stilted dialogue that you get in most conventional novels. They're all stratagems to try to get closer to the texture of lived life.

Will Self

#3. ...he softly touched his lips to hers. Sweetly. Innocently.

"Ronin," she drew in a short, stilted breath. The ache in her body was reaching a tortuous level.

"I know. I'm sorry." Ronin studied her closely before he softly said, "Had to.

Sibylla Matilde

#4. Beer bottles, whiskey bottles, brown glass, green. They fell to the lawn and I'd feel serene. Adam was king to my stilted queen.

Kate Bernheimer

#5. Videogames are a little more work and they're a little more stilted.

Carlos Alazraqui

#6. We have taken beauty and exchanged it for stilted voices.

Mark Bailey

#7. Time is a false thing, meaningless when it's not attached to colors and people and light because in the dark there is nothing - only the stilted shadows of lie as they wait for the sun.

Laekan Zea Kemp

#8. Himself had apparently thought the stilted, wooden quality of nonprofessionals helped to strip away the pernicious illusion of realism and to remind the audience that they were in reality watching actors acting and not people behaving.

David Foster Wallace

#9. A stilted heron labored up into the air and pounded down the river.

John Steinbeck

#10. Don't feel so sad and disappointed when the telephone conversation with a friend starts to slow down and become stilted. Just try to be smart, lay it gentle and see it as a great given opportunity, a set up to draw attention to your long awaited goals.

Euginia Herlihy

#11. You know, making fun of the excessiveness and the priorities that are most stilted out here which does make it difficult to have a very sort of grounded, normal life because there's really nothing normal about Hollywood.

Debra Messing

#12. I always designed clothes from a very young age because I didn't like the way they were. They were paralyzing; they were stilted.

Mary Quant

#13. That is all the money in the world at my disposition." She dropped the stilted words into the court like pebbles into a calm pool, wrapping her strange dignity around her like a cloak.

Cyril Hare

#14. What works in a story is very different than what works in cinema. For example, dialogue in books: If you translate it too faithfully, it sounds a little stilted, because we often don't speak the way we speak in novels. Oral language is much punchier, shorter sentences.

Yann Martel

#15. A Dumont actor was considered to be too stilted - the way we Dumont actors used to speak.

Leon Askin

#16. To him, a stilted geometric love of arrangement was "system," and indefatigable and feverish interest in the pettiest facets of day-to-day bureaucracy was "industry", indecision when right was "caution", and blind stubbornness when wrong, "determination.

Isaac Asimov

#17. Writing becomes a really good creative outlet when you're sitting there and feeling creatively frustrated or stilted, but also you then get to write parts for yourself.

Zoe Lister-Jones

#18. I kept writing not because I felt I was so good, but because I felt they were so bad, including Shakespeare, all those. The stilted formalism, like chewing cardboard.

Charles Bukowski

#19. In so many ways, Ascham thought, she was beyond her years - but in the presence of her father she became a little girl again. So confident and assured in private, now she moved with the stilted awkwardness of every twelve-year-old girl. Ascham's heart went out to her.

Matthew Reilly

#20. Our imaginations are so stilted. The very thought of being like Jesus is breathtaking.

Billy Graham

#21. All the money in the world doesn't make you a better person. It simply means that you have more money.

Frank Sonnenberg

#22. Gratitude is the first sign of a thinking, rational creature.

Solanus Casey

#23. Julie Seagle: A typical espresso only has 1/3 the caffeine of a regular-size cup of coffee, so all you snobs can bite me. I can out-caffeine you any day. Of course, I can't pretend to be a giant using a non-giant's cup, but I'll deal.

Jessica Park

#24. You can't educate a child who isn't healthy, and you can't keep a child healthy who isn't educated.

Joycelyn Elders

#25. I love playing the guitar.

Chang Chen-yue

#26. So, are we going to talk about the fact that your jeans have just ripped apart like a hooker's legs on a Friday night?

Rae Matthews

#27. Nemo suggested that it might be some monster giant but his papa called him a "rattlebrain" and ordered him to pacify his mama who was making elaborate plans to faint.

Winsor McCay

#28. A lot of people have nothing very well organized, and a lot of people have nothing, very well organized.

David Allen

#29. The duty of motherhood, which the vast majority of woman will always undertake, requires the qualities which men need not possess.

Mahatma Gandhi

#30. He lay on the bed, freshly shaven and washed, legs crossed at the ankles and arms propped behind his head. His posture said, Yes, ladies. I truly am this handsome. And I don't even have to try.

Tessa Dare

#31. Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim

Percy Bysshe Shelley