Quotes about stick
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“It just always reveals to me how many misconceptions and what a misunderstanding there is about what feminism is. Feminism is about giving women choice. Feminism is not a stick with which to beat other women with. It’s about freedom, it’s about liberation, it’s about equality. I really don’t know what my tits have to do with it. It’s very confusing.”

Emma Watson (1990) British actress and model

"Actress Emma Watson says revealing photo does not undermine feminism" http://www.reuters.com/article/us-people-emmawatson-idUSKBN16C0QV, Reuters, in response to critics of her photos in Vogue magazine (March 5, 2017)

Women, Freedom

“One afternoon, which is ever present in my recollection, I was enjoying a walk with my friend in the city park and reciting poetry. At that age I knew entire books by heart, word for word. One of these was Goethe's Faust. The sun was just setting and reminded me of a glorious passage:
Sie rückt und weicht, der Tag ist überlebt,
Dort eilt sie hin und fördert neues Leben.
O! daß kein Flügel mich vom Boden hebt,
Ihr nach und immer nach zu streben!
Ein schöner Traum, indessen sie entweicht.
Ach! zu des Geistes Flügeln wird so leicht
Kein körperlicher Flügel sich gesellen![The glow retreats, done is the day of toil;
It yonder hastes, new fields of life exploring;
Ah, that no wing can lift me from the soil
Upon its track to follow, follow soaring!
A glorious dream! though now the glories fade.
Alas! the wings that lift the mind no aid
Of wings to lift the body can bequeath me.
(tr. Bayard Taylor)
As I uttered these inspiring words the idea came like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed. I drew with a stick on the sand the diagram shown six years later in my address before the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, and my companion understood them perfectly. The images I saw were wonderfully sharp and clear and had the solidity of metal and stone, so much so that I told him, "See my motor here; watch me reverse it."”

Nikola Tesla (1856–1943) Serbian American inventor

I cannot begin to describe my emotions. Pygmalion seeing his statue come to life could not have been more deeply moved. A thousand secrets of nature which I might have stumbled upon accidentally, I would have given for that one which I had wrested from her against all odds and at the peril of my existence …

On the Invention of the Induction Motor
My Inventions (1919)

Life, Truth, Books, Age

“That's why I said, ‘Hey, you bystanders, when your bishop passes by, stick him up, that son of a bitch is rich. Kill him.”

Rodrigo Duterte (1945) Filipino politician and the 16th President of the Philippines

Kaya pagdating ko sabi ko, ‘Hoy, kayong mga tambay diyan, 'pag dumaan 'yang obispo ninyo holdapan 'yan maraming pera 'yan putang ina niya. Patayin mo.’ Duterte to tambays: Steal from, kill 'rich' bishops https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5Z8kVCJ-Z8&t=58 (January 10, 2019)

Bitch

“If the Republicans, who think slavery is wrong, get possession of the general government, we may not root out the evil at once, but may at least prevent its extension. If I find a venomous snake lying on the open praire, I seize the first stick and kill him at once. But if that snake is in bed with my children, I must be more cautious. I shall, in striking the snake, also strike the children, or arouse the reptile to bite the children. Slavery is the venomous snake in bed with the children. But if the question is whether to kill it on the prairie or put it in bed with other children, I think we'd kill it!”

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States

1860s, Speech at Hartford (1860)

Children, Lying, Question, Thinking

“Words were so puzzling. should mean a present just asshould mean to stick tacks in people.”

Beverly Cleary book Ramona the Pest

Source: Ramona the Pest

People

“Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe. The others have a certain stickiness, they stick to the mass.”

D.H. Lawrence book Lady Chatterley's Lover

Source: Lady Chatterley's Lover

People, Universe

“Normally, small talk is enough for me to form an opinion of someone. I make quick judgments, often completely wrong, and then stick by them rigidly.”

Alex Garland (1970) English novelist, screenwriter, film producer and director

“You might think you made a new world or a new self, but your old self is always gonna be there, just below the surface, and if something happens, it'll stick its head out and say 'Hi.' You don't seem to realize that. You were made somewhere else.”

Haruki Murakami book The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

World, Thinking

“Shane - "Tell you what: you can be Glammera the vampire hunter. I'll stick with being manly and
heavily armed.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Variant: Tell you what: you can be Glammera the vampire hunter. I'll stick with being manly and heavily armed.
Source: Ghost Town

“Do you want me to call you Celery Stick instead of Cupcake or Honey-Pie? It just doesn’t inspire the same warm and fuzzy feelings.”

Richelle Mead book The Indigo Spell

Source: The Indigo Spell

Feeling

“If he says jump, she doesn't even ask "How high?" She goes out and buys a pogo stick.”

Jodi Picoult book House Rules

Source: House Rules

“The word Styx got her [Mrs. O'Leary, the hellhound] excited. She probably thought I meant sticks. She jumped a few times,, and then calmed down enough for me to push Nico onto her back.”

Rick Riordan (1964) American writer

Time

“Why on earth would you buy a car like this if you can't drive a stick? There are dozens of cars--new cars--that have automatic transmission. It'd be a million times easier."
Adrian shrugged. "I like the color. It matches my living room.”

Richelle Mead book The Golden Lily

Source: The Golden Lily

Cars, Color, Time

“Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken!”

Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club

Source: Fight Club

“He planned to stick to her like pasties on a stripper.”

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

Source: The Darkest Lie

“You have one family, Charley. For good or bad. You have one family. You can’t trade them in. You can’t lie to them. You can’t run two at once, substituting back and forth.
“Sticking with your family is what makes it a family.”

Mitch Albom For One More Day

Source: For One More Day

Lie, Family

“Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts.”

Robert Fulghum book All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (1986)

Heart

“Sticks and stones and small caliber bullets may break my bones… Words will never, et cetera.”

Jim Butcher book White Night

Source: White Night

“Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers.”

Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary

Source: Madame Bovary

“Sticks and stones can break my bones and I have my Swiss Army Knife if they hit me and if I kill them it will be self defense and I won't go to prison.”

Mark Haddon book The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Source: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

“If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.”

D.H. Lawrence (1885–1930) English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter

“Nick, fetch my car, fetch my clothes, sweep the chimney, make my bed, watch my psychopath, fetch my slippers.’ Yeah, I’ll fetch those slippers and stick them someplace real uncomfortable. I swear, my mother should have named me Fido. (Nick)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon Night Embrace

Source: Night Embrace

Cars, Clothes

“Listen,' Clover said. 'Don't worry about not being able to come back, I've lived both places, and trust me, you won't be getting the short end of the stick if you end up in Foo. I mean, candy alone…”

Obert Skye (1970) American writer

“What's that supposed to mean? A wolf's head on a stick. Big wolf barbecue tonight? Bring your own wolf?”

Eoin Colfer (1965) Irish author of children's books

Source: The Lost Colony

Wolf

“If you stick to something doggedly, you are off to a bad start.”

Karl Lagerfeld (1933–2019) German fashion designer

“Your failures and your faults, they stick with you. They glob into ugly, cancerous growths inside you and make you want to die.”

Julie Anne Peters (1952) American writer

Source: By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead

Failure

“And it is still true, no matter how old you are -- when you go out into the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.”

Robert Fulghum book All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

Source: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (1986)
Context: Take any one of those items and extrapolate it into sophisticated adult terms and apply it to your family life or your work or your government or your world and it holds true and clear and firm. Think what a better world it would be if we all — the whole world — had cookies and milk about three o’clock every afternoon and then lay down with our blankies for a nap. Or if all governments had as a basic policy to always put things back where they found them and to clean up their own mess.
And it is still true, no matter how old you are — when you go out into the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.

World

“As Hazel marched down the hill, she cursed in Latin. Percy didn’t understand all of it, but he got,, and a few choice suggestions about where Octavian could stick his knife.”

Rick Riordan book The Son of Neptune

Source: The Son of Neptune

Understanding

“Sex should be friendly. Otherwise stick to mechanical toys; it's more sanitary.”

Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988) American science fiction author

Sex

“Does it make you brave to stick your hand in a bear's mouth? Would you do it again just because you didn't die?”

Robert Jordan The Dragon Reborn

Source: The Dragon Reborn

“If you're just starting out as a writer, you could do worse than strip your television's electric plug-wire, wrap a spike around it, and then stick it back into the wall. See what blows, and how far. Just an idea.”

Stephen King (1947) American author

Source: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

Idea

“Rule number one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.”

John Berendt Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Source: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Drink

“Jessica swallowed. "I think you had better stick to English."

"But Italian is so moving," Dain said.

"To ho voluto dal primo che ti vedi." I've wanted you from the first moment I saw you.

"Mi tormenti ancora." You've tormented me ever since.”

Loretta Chase book Lord of Scoundrels

Source: Lord of Scoundrels

Thinking

“Mirror becomes a razor when it's broken. A stick becomes a flute when it's loved.”

Yoko Ono (1933) Japanese artist, author, and peace activist

Source: Grapefruit: A Book of Instructions and Drawings

Love

“I've had so many bikini waxes, I cry every time I see a Popsicle stick.”

Libba Bray (1964) American teen writer

Source: Beauty Queens

Time, Cry

“Perfection is a stick with which to beat the possible.”

Rebecca Solnit (1961) Author and essayist from United States

Source: Hope in the Dark

Perfection

“I really want to play Princess Leia. Stick some big pastries on my head. Now that would be interesting.”

Ewan McGregor (1971) British actor

Princess

“People say that time slips through our fingers like sand. What they don't acknowledge is that some of the sand sticks to the skin. These are memories that will remain, memories of the time when there was still time left.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: Invisibility

People, Memory, Time

“A woman being never at a loss… the devil always sticks by them.”

George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement

Source: Lord Byron: Selected Letters and Journals,

Loss

“my imagination persisted in sticking horrors into the dark- so I stuck my imagination into the dark instead, and let it look out at me.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book This Side of Paradise

Source: This Side of Paradise

Imagination

“What fabrications they are, mothers. Scarecrows, wax dolls for us to stick pins into, crude diagrams. We deny them an existence of their own, we make them up to suit ourselves -- our own hungers, our own wishes, our own deficiencies.”

Margaret Atwood book The Blind Assassin

Source: The Blind Assassin

Hunger

“Tanith has a sword.' said Valkyrie. 'I want a stick.'
'I'll get you a stick for Christmas”

Derek Landy (1974) Irish children's writer

Christmas

“Sticks and stones may break your bones, but Chinese throwing stars get you a dozen stitches.”

Jim Butcher Dead Beat

Source: Dead Beat

Star

“There you go… let it all slide out. Unhappiness can't stick in a person's soul when it's slick with tears.”

Shannon Hale Princess Academy

Source: Princess Academy

Soul, Tear, Personality

“How does it taste?” Carter wondered.
Zia smiled. “Stick out your tongue.”
To answer Carter’s question, the tattoo tasted like burning car tires.
“Ugh.” I spit a blue gob of “order and harmony” into the fountain.”

Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid

Source: The Red Pyramid

Smile, Cars, Question, Tattoo

“A curse on this game. How can you stick at a game when the rules keep on changing? I shall call myself Alice and play croquet with the flamingos. In Wonderland everyone cheats and love is Wonderland, isn't it?”

Jeanette Winterson (1959) English writer

Source: Written on the Body

Love, Game, Change, Cheating

“Sticks and stones can break your bones, but names can kill you.”

Philip G. Zimbardo book The Lucifer Effect

Source: The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil

“All that was required to measure the planet was a man with a stick and a brain. In other words, couple an intellect with some experimental apparatus and almost anything seems achievable.”

Simon Singh (1964) British author

Source: Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe

“A classroom. People trying to stick me in classrooms was becoming as predictable and annoying as people trying to kill me, but with less-fun results.”

James Patterson book Maximum Ride

Source: Max

People

“I swear, Oliver, when did you become such a stick-in-the-mud?”
“I’ve always been a stick-in-the-mud.” Her brother cast her a thin smile. “I just hid it beneath all the debauchery.”
She sniffed. “I wish you’d hide it again. It’s quite annoying.”

Sabrina Jeffries (1960) American writer

Source: How to Woo a Reluctant Lady

Smile

“I stopped the blade two inches before it touched Andrea’s neck. Because she was my best friend, and sticking knives into your best friend’s windpipe was generally considered to be a social faux pas.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Strikes

“Your lifeline… oh, the burning stick. Right." Leo resisted the urge to set his hand ablaze and yell: BWAH HA HA!”

Rick Riordan The Mark of Athena

Source: The Mark of Athena

“Always stick to the story. It was when you started backtracking that people got in trouble. Interrogation 101.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Lucky One

Source: The Lucky One

People

“Only knowledge that is used sticks in your mind.”

Dale Carnegie How to Win Friends and Influence People

Source: How to Win Friends and Influence People

Knowledge

“Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.”

Desmond Tutu (1931) South African churchman, politician, archbishop, Nobel Prize winner

Religion

“She had always wanted words, she loved them, grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape. Whereas I thought words bent emotions like sticks in water.”

Michael Ondaatje book The English Patient

Source: The English Patient

Love, Water

“Regin to Fegley:

"I finally understand what a dickie-do is. Your gut does stick out more than your dickie do.”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Dreams of a Dark Warrior

Understanding

“Sticking with your family is whatit a family.”

Mitch Albom For One More Day

Source: For One More Day

Family

“The blankets had fallen off and I stared down at her white back, the shoulder blades sticking out as if they wanted to grow into wings, poke through that skin. Little blades. She was helpless.”

Charles Bukowski book Post Office

Source: Post Office

“If you don't stick to your values when they're being tested, they're not values: they're hobbies.”

Jon Stewart (1962) American political satirist, writer, television host, actor, media critic and stand-up comedian

“People tend to stick to their own size group because it's easier on the neck. Unless they are romantically involved, in which case the size difference is sexy. It means: I am willing to go the distance for you.”

Miranda July (1974) American performance artist, musician and writer

Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You

People

“The other package has pieces of dried stag stick. The pups like chewing on those."

"What's a stag stick?" Meg asked, taking the packages.

He stared at her for a moment. Then he put a fist below his belt and popped out a thumb.

"Oh," Meg said. ".”

Anne Bishop book Written in Red

Source: Written in Red

“I'm looking for what might be called a body language. One thing I do is stick a vibrator up my cunt and start writing -- writing from the point of orgasm and losing control of the language and seeing what that's like.”

Kathy Acker (1947–1997) American novelist, playwright, essayist, and poet

“Sticks and stones may break your bones, but watch out for those damn words.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Lullaby

Variant: Sticks and stones may break your bones but words can hurt like hell.
Source: Lullaby (2002), Chapter 14

“Look, I know you meant well creating the world and all, but how could you let it get away from you like this? How come you couldn't stick with your original idea of paradise? People's lives were a mess.”

Sue Monk Kidd book The Secret Life of Bees

Source: The Secret Life of Bees

People, World, Idea

“I am a stick.”

Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer

“I was watching television and I saw how you stick your fingers in a person's eyes to slow them down."
Grandma Mazur”

Janet Evanovich Two for the Dough

Source: Two for the Dough

Grandma, Personality

“Mrs. O' Leary is my pet. I couldn't let you stick a sword in her rump, now, could I? That might've scared her.”

Rick Riordan book The Battle of the Labyrinth

Source: The Battle of the Labyrinth

“Man" Rhage muttered, "someone hit this place with the Hallmark stick."

Until it broke.”

Jessica Bird book Lover Revealed

Source: Lover Revealed

“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Interview with Alfred Werner, Liberal Judaism 16 (April-May 1949), Einstein Archive 30-1104, as sourced in The New Quotable Einstein by Alice Calaprice (2005), p. 173 Differing versions of such a statement are attributed to conversations as early as 1948 (e.g. The Rotarian, 72 (6), June 1948, p. 9 http://books.google.com/books?id=0UMEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA9: "I don't know. But I can tell you what they'll use in the fourth. They'll use rocks!"). Another variant ("I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones") is attributed to an unidentified letter to Harry S. Truman in "The culture of Einstein" by Alex Johnson http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7406337/, MSNBC, (18 April 2005). However, prior to 1948 very similar quotes were attributed in various articles to an unnamed army lieutenant, as discussed at Quote Investigator : "The Futuristic Weapons of WW3 Are Unknown, But WW4 Will Be Fought With Stones and Spears" http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/06/16/future-weapons/#more-679. The earliest found was from “Quote and Unquote: Raising ‘Alarmist’ Cry Brings a Winchell Reply” by Walter Winchell, in the Wisconsin State Journal (23 September 1946), p. 6, Col. 3. In this article Winchell wrote: <blockquote> Joe Laitin reports that reporters at Bikini were questioning an army lieutenant about what weapons would be used in the next war. “I dunno,” he said, “but in the war after the next war, sure as Hell, they’ll be using spears!” </blockquote> : It seems plausible, therefore, that Einstein may have been quoting or paraphrasing an expression which he had heard or read elsewhere. 1940s Variant: I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

War, World, Peaceful

“It's all very well going round with two fingers stuck up at the world, but what happens when the world turns round and sticks them back up at you?
The world's a lot bigger than I am.”

Liz Kessler (1966) British children's writer

Source: Read Me Like a Book

World

“The denigration of those we love always detaches us from them in some degree. Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers.”

Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary

Source: Madame Bovary

Love

“Vampires don't live at all," she points out, "neither do we."
She has me there. "Fine, I'll go. But when Kurt leads his minions in a march around the cemetary with our heads on sticks, don't say I didn't warn you.”

Cynthia Leitich Smith (1967) American writer and poet

Source: Eternal

“In November, the trees are standing all sticks and bones. Without their leaves, how lovely they are, spreading their arms like dancers. They know it is time to be still.”

Cynthia Rylant (1954) American author of children's books and librarian

Source: In November

Love, Tree, Time

“Rose pictured him standing at the boundary of the Ogletree house in that enormous fur cape, with a giant sword sticking over his shoulder, roaring at the top of his lungs and then being upset that nobody came out, and laughed.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: On the Edge

Housing

“I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.”

Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism

Deep

“This is not a good time, Miss Implant." Roman felt Jean-Luc jabbing him in the back with his walking stick. "Uh, Porky. No, I mean--" Damn, what the hell was her name?”

Kerrelyn Sparks (1955) American writer

Source: How to Marry a Millionaire Vampire

Hell, Time

“Good God, Rachel, cant you go five minutes… sweet sticky hell on a stick!' the demon exclaimed, his thoughts reeling from anger to concern as he realized I was hopped up on something.”

Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym

Source: Black Magic Sanction

God, Hell, Anger

“An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral. And the advance of man's knowledge is a greater miracle than all the sticks turned to snakes or the parting of the waters.”

Jerome Lawrence Inherit the Wind

Source: Inherit the Wind

Idea, Knowledge, Water, Parting

“You're Giving me a… stick"
MaryL to a very dangerious vampire”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Source: Night World, No. 1

“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will always hurt me.”

Stephen Fry book Moab Is My Washpot

Source: Moab Is My Washpot

Hurt

“Sometimes all you need to live one more day is a good reason to stick around.”

Jodi Picoult book The Storyteller

Source: The Storyteller

“Your lifeline…oh, the burning stick. Right.” Leo resisted the urge to set his hand ablaze and yell: Bwah ha ha! The idea was sort of funny, but he wasn’t that cruel.”

Rick Riordan The Mark of Athena

Source: The Mark of Athena

Idea

“Stick Boy liked Match Girl,
he liked her a lot.
He liked her cute figure,
he thought she was hot.”

Tim Burton (1958) American filmmaker

Girl, Boy

“…kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.”

Aimee Bender (1969) Novelist, short story writer

Source: The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

Kiss

“You can use a spear for a walking stick, but it will not change its nature.”

Madeline Miller book The Song of Achilles

Variant: He is a weapon, a killer. Do not forget it. You can use a spear as a walking stick, but that will not change its nature.
Source: The Song of Achilles

Nature, Change

“But sticking to rules just because they're there does not make them right. You need to learn when the rules should be broken.”

Ilsa J. Bick (1957) American writer

Source: Ashes

Learning

“We of alien looks or words must stick together.”

C.J. Sansom Revelation

Source: Revelation

“Stick two different people with two different sets of expectations under one roof and it ain't always going to be shrimp and grits on Easter.”

Nicholas Sparks (1965) American writer and novelist

People

“Genuine feelings cannot be produced, nor can they be eradicated. We can only repress them, delude ourselves, and deceive our bodies. The body sticks to the facts.”