#tick

One thing you learned as a Cubs fan: when you bought you ticket, you could bank on seeing the bottom of the ninth. ↗

— Joe Garagiola

#bank #bottom #bought #could #cubs

I've had to take a lot of stick down the years but the one thing that really got to me was when someone questioned my integrity. It's the one thing that really grates with you. ↗

— Gordon Strachan

#got #grates #had #i #integrity

A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect. ↗

— Charles Lamb

#ear #feather #intellect #laws #limit

My mom was always saying: 'Be whatever you want to be, but stick with it. Don't waver. Don't change who you are for anybody.' ↗

— Miranda Lambert

#anybody #change #mom #saying #stick

This system of encouragement proves serviceable as a preventive of punishment, the attainment of the tickets being a reward, the forfeiture of them the reverse; and, as such, boys seem often more affected by their loss than by coercion. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

#attainment #being #coercion #encouragement #forfeiture

Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even. Be able to carry money without spending it. Do your duty without being supervised. ↗

— Ann Landers

#bear #being #carry #duty #even

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

— David Herbert Lawrence

#got #harlot #hasn #her #rule

The first few games that we played against some of the teams, the young guys, you know, want a stick sign or photo sign, and I think that they respect what I have achieved throughout my career. ↗

— Mario Lemieux

#against #career #few #first #games

I realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity. ↗

— Philip Levine

#i #i can #intensity #poetry #realized

My preference is that, that day when someone sticks a tripod in front of you with a camera on the top, it is not day one. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#day #front #preference #someone #sticks