#stick

I just get really bored with sticking to the norm and having the proper conservative image. That's just so not me. ↗

— Christina Aguilera

#conservative #get #having #i #image

I have seen one shrike occupy himself for hours in sticking up on thorns, a number of small fishes that the fishermen had thrown on the shore. The fishes dried up and decayed. ↗

— John Bachman

#dried #fishermen #fishes #had #himself

You gotta stick your neck out and put out a record that isn't safe... that's the Green Day way! ↗

— Tre Cool

#gotta #green #green day #neck #out

I have found that a smile and a stick will carry you through all right, and in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it is the smile that does the trick. ↗

— Robert Powell

#carry #cases #does #found #hundred

I have found out one thing and that is, if you have an idea, and it is a good idea, if you only stick to it you will come out all right. ↗

— Cecil Rhodes

#found #good #good idea #i #idea

Under the Healthy Americans Act, you're in charge of your health care - not your employer. If you lose your job, change jobs or just can't find a job, your health insurance is guaranteed to stick with you. ↗

— Ron Wyden

#care #change #charge #employer #find

I said pour yourself a drink, put on some lipstick, and pull yourself together. ↗

— Marilyn Monroe

#life #lipstick #marilyn-monroe #self-improvement #beauty

She stayed beside me until I slept, waveringly, brilliantly, hooded in diaphanous scarlet, and occasionally she left an imperative written in lipstick on my dusty windowpane. BE AMOROUS! she exhorted one night and, another night, BE MYSTERIOUS! Some nights later, she scribbled: WHEN YOU BEGIN TO THINK, YOU LOSE THE POINT. ↗

— Angela Carter

#desire #dreams #lipstick #messages #mirrors

Evil influence is like a nicotine patch, you cannot help but absorb what sticks to you. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#bad-company #bad-influence #evil #evil-people #evil-thoughts

It’s always good to give respect, even when you might not feel it’s due. It serves two purposes in particular: one, you’ll soothe the angry beast, should the person have a temper—by visually and verbally submitting to their imagined authority, and; two, by displaying that you acknowledge their authority (especially if others don’t), you are likely to gain favor which can be used to your advantage. ↗

— Höbin Luckyfeller

#hobin-luckyfeller #jaime-buckley #wanted-hero #imagination