Top 624 Sticks Quotes & Sayings

I am a person who sticks to her word.

To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.

It would be ugly to watch people poking sticks at a caged rat. It is uglier still to watch rats poking sticks at a caged person.

Something of calumny always sticks.

When your Super Bowl guests arrive, they should find a mound of potato chips large enough to conceal a pony sitting in front of the television. For nutritional balance, you should also put out a bowl of carrot sticks. If you have no carrot sticks, you can use pinecones, or used electrical fuses, because nobody will eat them anyway. This is no time for nutritional balance: This is the Super Bowl, for God's sake.

The comedian sticks as religiously to her theme as a dancer sticks to a diet.

Sometimes, you just get a label and it sticks.

For some reason or another, 'Richard Diamond, Private Eye,' still sticks out in my mind. I don't think I particularly liked that show, but for some reason, he sticks in my mind.

A fanatic is one who sticks to his guns whether they're loaded or not.

Their monument sticks like a fishbone in the city's throat.

using parking meters as walking sticks.

I stay away from the writing part because I think that if it sticks, it sticks. You just know it. The stuff that doesn't stick, goes away. The stuff that propels you forward, you can see it in your partner's eyes.

My drum sticks are in the 'Hall of Fame.' I know that.

Love sticks around even when it has a lot to put up with.

Maybe they should go back to wooden sticks.

When you're thinking about something that you don't understand, you have a terrible, uncomfortable feeling called confusion... Now, is the confusion's because we're all some kind of apes that are kind of stupid working against this, trying to figure out [how] to put the two sticks together to reach the banana and we can't quite make it... So I always feel stupid. Once in a while, though, the sticks go together on me and I reach the banana.

Guardiola has a way of playing; he has a system, and he sticks to that.

If you don't enjoy something you can't keep at it. That's the thing that sticks with me.

I love playing for Mourinho. He is honest and sticks to his guns.

A farmer who had a quarrelsome family called his sons and told them to lay a bunch of sticks before him. Then, after laying the sticks parallel to one another and binding them, he challenged his sons, one after one, to pick up the bundle and break it. They all tried, but in vain. Then, untying the bundle, he gave them the sticks to break one by one. This they did with the greatest ease. Then said the father, "Thus, my sons, as long as you remain united, you are a match for anything, but differ and separate, and you are undone".

My drum sticks are in the "Hall of Fame." I know that.

Today, words. Tomorrow, sticks and stones. And the day after that?

Every foreign policy of every major nation involves reason, common sense, carrots and sticks. You can't have all carrots and no sticks.

Plato in his dialogue The Phaedo says that whereas sticks and stones are both equal and unequal, (so maybe what that means is that each stick is going to be equal to some other sticks and unequal to some other sticks, so equal to the stick on the left maybe but shorter than the stick on its right) the form of equal is going to be just equal, and it won't partake of inequality at all. And it will be the cause of equality in things that are equal, for example, equal sticks and stones.

The reason why nothing sticks to Trump - or very little sticks to Trump - is that he created this brand idea that has to do with being the guy who gets away from it.

A writer's notebook is the best way in the world to immortalize bad ideas. My idea about a good idea is one that sticks around and sticks around and sticks around.

When I write a note, it sticks in my head differently.

The reason why nothing sticks to Trump - or very little sticks to Trump - is that Trump created his brand idea that has to do with being the guy who gets away from it. It's this ultimate power through wealth and this dream that represents in an age of tremendous economic precariousness and constrained options for so many people - that watching Trump be able to do whatever he wants to whoever he wants is this obvious vicarious kind of thrill for a certain demographic.

I put a lot of stock in the written word, and the power of it. That's what I love about acting and reading scripts. Words are really powerful. I don't believe that axiom at all - words can absolutely hurt you. Words can wound. They can do a lot of damage. I think they can do way more damage than sticks and stones. I'll take sticks and stones.

It's only in the seventies that I put the sticks down and I moved to the front.

Like I say, I'm always writing and if something sticks, it sticks. I get to write with great songwriters in town. Lori McKenna is one of my all-time favorite singer-songwriters who's ever walked the planet. I get to write with her. The Warren Brothers are friends of mine and I write with them all the time. Lance Miller is a great songwriter. Tom Douglas - you can't get any better than that. I write a lot of stuff but it's got to stick.

Winning and losing, it sticks with you forever.

Talent sticks out like a sore thumb.

There is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.

A dream is a feeling that sticks - and propels.

If something sticks with me for a long time, it goes into a painting.

If the Japanese are so smart, why do they eat with sticks?

Good music always sticks around.

Two dry Sticks will burn a green One.

..and only sticks and stones can break my bones.

I write when something sticks in my craw. Writing is a compulsion — or an itch.

A leader puts himself last then he sticks out.

Bullying is a horrible thing. It sticks with you forever. It poisons you. But only if you let it.

I'll tell you what I like about Chinese people: they're hanging in there with the chop sticks, aren't they? You know they've seen the fork. They're staying with the sticks.

JOSS-STICKS- Small sticks burned by the Chinese in their pagan tomfoolery, in imitation of certain sacred rites of our holy religion.

Ban walking sticks in wilderness. Hikers that use walking sticks are more likely to chase animals.

Let's throw it on the wall and see if it sticks.

I'm from so far back in the sticks that they had to pump the light in there.

DNA is a 'thing' - a chemical that sticks to your fingers.

Words are really powerful. I don't believe that axiom at all - words can absolutely hurt you. Words can wound. They can do a lot of damage. I think they can do way more damage than sticks and stones. I'll take sticks and stones.

I already have a drink. Do you think he'd buy me mozzarella sticks?

Climate is an angry beast and we are poking at it with sticks

Sometimes when I watch my dog, I think about how good life can be, if we only lose ourselves in our stories. Lucy doesn't read self-help books about how to be a dog; she just IS a dog. All she wants to do is chase ducks and sticks and do other things that make both her and me happy. It makes me wonder if that was the intention for man, to chase sticks and ducks, to name animals, to create families, and to keep looking back at God to feed off his pleasure at our pleasure.

I think who you are in school really sticks with you.

The faster the word sticks to the thought, the more beautiful is the effect.

Follow Through is elegant, sure footed, smart—a nest of sticks that won’t stay sticks—a nest of sticks that snowballs—scary and marvelous.

I don't like my hockey sticks touching other sticks, and I don't like them crossing one another, and I kind of have them hidden in the corner. I put baby powder on the ends. I think it's essentially a matter of taking care of what takes care of you.

I think Donald Trump is at his best when he sticks to the issues.

Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.

I love memory sticks. They seem to me to be magic.