It is hard work to be good when you are very little and very hungry, and have many sticks to beat you, and no mother's lips to kiss you.
Ouida

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.
Jean Harris

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

Led Zeppelin was pretty much what made me pick up drum sticks.
Jon Fishman

Many people think that open source projects are sort of chaotic and and anarchistic. They think that developers randomly throw code at the code base and see what sticks.
Mitchell Baker

Most studios in Memphis had a house set of drums; the drummers just brought their own sticks.
Steve Cropper

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

My parents were vegetarians. I'd show up at school, this giant black kid, with none of the cool clothes and a tofu sandwich and celery sticks.
Aisha Tyler

Some of the people that I photographed as sticks became much more voluptuous, much rounder, in some cases dramatically so, and I think they're even more beautiful.
Jock Sturges

Sometimes, you just get a label and it sticks.
Jamie Redknapp

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.
Eric Idle

Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts.
Robert Fulghum

That's life. Whichever way you turn, fate sticks out a foot to trip you.
Martin Goldsmith

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

The good poet sticks to his real loves, those within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.
Karl Shapiro

The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
Napoleon Hill

There are people I would like to work with. It's a bit harder, because I live out in the sticks anyway, and plus being in a wheelchair means that I can't really circulate. So I tend to stick to my own thing.
Robert Wyatt

To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
A. A. Milne

We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Well, what I try to do is throw as much mud on the wall as I possibly can and just see what sticks, what shines as quirky or more interesting that the others, and I try to cling onto that one, somehow join a link from there to there.
Guy Ritchie