Stuck Quotes

The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less. (Arthur Miller)
Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck. View quote
George Carlin
Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
I am a collection of thoughts and memories and likes and dislikes. I am the things that have happened to me and the sum of everything I've ever done. I am the clothes I wear on my back. I am every place and every person and every object I have ever come across. I am a bag of bones stuck to a very large rock spinning a thousand miles an hour. View quote
Macaulay Culkin
I stuck my head out the window this morning and spring kissed me bang in the face. View quote
Langston Hughes
God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny. View quote
Garrison Keillor
Some people live as though they are already dead. There are people moving around us who are consumed by their past, terrified of their future, and stuck in their anger and jealousy. They are not alive; they are just walking corpses. View quote
Nhat Hanh
A man who publishes his letters becomes a nudist nothing shields him from the world's gaze except his bare skin. A writer, writing away, can always fix things up to make himself more presentable, but a man who has written a letter is stuck with it for all time. View quote
E. B. White
You get an image in the first couple of years of your career, and then whether you like it or not, you are stuck with it for the rest of your life. View quote
Rahul Dravid
Goodness was more difficult than evil. Evil men knew that more than good men. That's why they became evil. That's why it stuck with them. Evil was for those who could never reach the truth. It was a mask for stupidity and lack of love. even of people laughed at the notion of goodness, if they found it sentimental, or nostalgic, he said, it had to be fought for. View quote
Colum McCann
Everyone has two memories. The one you can tell and the one that is stuck to the underside of that, the dark, tarry smear of what happened. (Amy Bloom)
But if we can manage it so people don't have things forced on them that they don't want, I think there's every reason to believe things can settle out in a situation that is recognizably better than the one we're stuck in today. View quote
K. Eric Drexler
I'm the worst person to be stuck with in a traffic jam. View quote
Larry King
When everyone goes home, you're stuck with yourself. View quote
Layne Staley
I've had the luxury of owning my own studio, 24 analogue, 48 digital, endless effects, endless hardcore gear, that I don't have to rent, I don't get stuck with the bills, it's all mine. View quote
Billy Sherwood
Could people be trained to be less gullible? Or are you as stuck with gullibility as you are with skin colour? View quote
Keith Henson
Being stuck in airports, you always end up buying perfume and sunglasses. View quote
Lexa Doig
Most illegals are without health insurance, and when these workers need emergency healthcare, the American taxpayer gets stuck with the bill. View quote
Spencer Bachus
If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society. View quote
Sargent Shriver
When you think I've been wounded by a good five bullets, one in the face, one in the shoulder, one in the head, two in the body, and that the last one stuck in the barrel because the trigger jammed... You have to believe in miracles. I've had so many air disasters, and yet I've always come out unscathed – thanks to a miracle while by God and the prophets. View quote
Muhammad Reza Pahlavi
The 'Women' [paintings] had to do with the female painted through all ages, all those idols, and maybe I was stuck to a certain extent; I couldn't go on. It did one thing for me: it eliminated composition, arrangement, relationships, light – all this silly talk about line, colour and form – because that was the thing I wanted to get hold of. (Willem de Kooning)
I know so well what becomes of unmarried women who aren't prepared to occupy a position. I've seen such pitiful cases in the South - barely tolerated spinsters living upon the grudging patronage of sister's husband or brother's wife! - stuck away in some little mouse-trap of a room - encouraged by one in-law to visit another - little birdlike women without any nest - eating the crust of humility all their life! Is that the future that we've mapped out for ourselves? View quote
Tennessee Williams
You must have stuck a finger up your arse at least once. View quote
Noel Fielding
I didn't have much, but I was always happy to share what I did have. It seemed like every African that came to New York City would show up at my apartment door at dinnertime, and I couldn't turn them away. I wasn't much older than any of them, but they started calling me ‘Mama Africa' and the name stuck. View quote
Miriam Makeba
I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it. View quote
Colin Powell
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