#ticks

We, the artists, make the stuff they sell and they're like ticks on our backs, sucking the life out of us. ↗

— Malcolm Wilson

#backs #life #like #make #our

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

#because #being #bit #circulate #harder

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

— Lou Gramm

#front #i #moved #only #put

I don't like my hockey sticks touching other sticks, and I don't like them crossing one another, and I kind of have them hidden in the corner. I put baby powder on the ends. I think it's essentially a matter of taking care of what takes care of you. ↗

— Wayne Gretzky

#baby #care #corner #crossing #ends

Cancer is like a cockroach. It just comes back stronger. I'm tearing apart the immune system of the cockroach and seeing how it ticks. I've opened up my own pathology center. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#back #cancer #center #cockroach #comes

If you play a gay role, it sticks more than it does if an actor were to play a murderer or a psychopath. ↗

— Harry Hamlin

#does #gay #more #play #role

I know that I've got big ears and a big forehead and that my hair sticks up. But I'm happy with myself. I'm not necessarily trying to win a beauty pageant here. ↗

— Clay Aiken

#big #ears #forehead #got #hair

My darling father gave me some decent getaway sticks - my legs are OK. ↗

— Julie Bowen

#decent #father #gave #legs #me

Fish sticks and beef stew that millions of children love to hate. ↗

— Marian Burros

#children #fish #hate #love #millions

I don't want to be daft and say I had some spiritual awakening or something, but I really did come of age in Los Angeles, where we recorded the album. I had my own little house and my own little circle and I really got to feel how the city ticks. ↗

— Melanie Chisholm

#album #angeles #awakening #circle #city