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Attain and maintain a reputation, for it is the usufruct of fame. A stiff climb, for it is the issue of excellence, as rare as mediocrity is common. — Baltasar Gracian

People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile. — Judith Guest

Rand Paul comes off like an academic stiff who wants to give us a lecture on American civics. — Mark McKinnon

Sorry, Bramblestar!" Purdy gasped. "I'm too old and stiff for this. I can't get up or down, so I'd better live here, okay? — Erin Hunter

Between 9 and 10 AM the American radio is concerned almost exclusively with love. It seems a little like ending breakfast with a stiff bourbon. — Dean Acheson

I don't mind dying, the trouble is you feel so bloody stiff the next day. — George Axelrod

If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two, Thy soul the fixt foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if the other do. — John Donne

Wit, wit! - I look upon it always as a draught of air; it cools indeed, but one gets a stiff neck from it. — Katharina Elisabeth Goethe

He was stiff as a drum-major and selfish as an Englishman, but a fairly conscientious pupil and a fairly upright man. — Anonymous

Damn,' someone behind me says. 'I was hoping we would get to scrape some Stiff pancake off the pavement later. — Veronica Roth

I have more fun hanging out with my friends who are musicians and rock stars. You know politicians by and large are pretty stiff, pretty rehearsed. — Jann Wenner

So when the blue smoke of brittle leaves was in the air and the wind blew the wet laundry stiff on the line I decided to come back home. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Stiff-necked fools, you think you are cool to deny me for simplicity. — Bob Marley

Nick is like a good stiff drink: He gives everything the correct perspective. — Gillian Flynn

People that keep stiff upper lips find that it's hard to smile. — Judith Guest

If you have a reputation as a big, stiff bureaucracy, you're stuck. — Jack Welch

The hard and stiff are death's companions. The soft and weak are life's companions. — Laozi

The man may not be dead, but he was certainly stiff. And this had nothing to do with rigor mortis. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

We mustn't be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class. — George Bernard Shaw

The stiff-backed prig, with his dandified airs and West End swagger. — William Makepeace Thackeray

With more insight into the English character, I poured out a stiff whisky and soda and placed it in front of the gloomy inspector. — Agatha Christie

The thing had woken him up as usual, an alarm clock. as reliable and stiff off the ground as Big Fucking Ben. [John Matthew] — J.R. Ward

You stiff-necked fool," he muttered, "too proud to listen. Can you eat pride, Stark? Will honor shield your children? — George R R Martin

They grow stiff in the joints. They get in a rut. They go to seed. — James A. Garfield

German civility, which often seems stiff to us, shows an attentive and touching respect for the person that I often prefer to our offhandedness. — Adrienne Monnier

Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they were. — Lawrence Durrell

The Muse honors the working stiff. — Steven Pressfield

I only make storyboards for action scenes. Once you make a storyboard, you don't film; it can be a stiff move. — Anton Corbijn

Stiff, huh? I think seeing you roll around on the floor in that tight little outfit accomplished that. — Collette West

The purpose of work is to make the worker - whether a working stiff or a CEO - feel good about life. — Ricardo Semler

Pretty sure we can't call you 'Stiff' anymore, Tris. — Veronica Roth

Often you see people on the red carpet with tight up-dos, but that makes me feel stiff. — Blake Lively

and yet, whenever he started with the questions I froze stiff, as if I'd been pushed onstage in a play where I didn't know the lines. — Donna Tartt

I'm a working stiff, baby, just like everybody else. — Peter O'Toole

Nico's hair was combed straight up, stiff with mousse, the tips dyed the color of traffic cones. — Frederick Weisel

I glance at Tris. She grins at me, then leans in to whisper something to Christina.
"Are you here to help or what, Stiff?" I say. — Veronica Roth

We should come up with another name for you," he says casually. "Something tougher than 'Stiff'. Like 'Blade' or 'Killer' or something. — Veronica Roth

I am too old and stiff-necked to change my memories now. — Willard R. Espy

Death is an inconvenience, to be sure," The Wizard Landau Bain, Lucky Stiff (still writing it) — Robert Lee Beers

I know they say that a stiff dick has no conscience, but I tell you now that some cunts have teeth ... — Stephen King

You look and sound like you could you use a stiff one.
Mark Willburn — Madison Sevier

Every man in Ingary is scared stiff of her. You ought to know how that feels, Sophie dear. — Diana Wynne Jones

She became a morality tale stiff with Schadenfreude, and so many columnists made allusion to Icarus that Private Eye ran a special column. — Robert Galbraith

All I can do is lie here, brain turning somersaults. It's nights like these when memories stir, whipping themselves into stiff peaks of pain. — Ellen Hopkins

You can actually be bored stiff while you're dying. — Felix Dennis

Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs. — Emily Carr

when you don't create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. your tastes only narrow & exclude people. so create. — Why The Lucky Stiff

You okay there, Stiff?" he says. "You look like you're about to cry. I might go easy on you if you cry. — Veronica Roth

Reality's kind of a medium, maybe greater than paper. We all want life to have the same texture that we read about in novels. — Why The Lucky Stiff

This was incredibly foolish. To live just to die. And to die so easily. — Why The Lucky Stiff

Darling, you know how I like the sight of a stiff one. — RoChe Montoya

Not what we think, but what we do, / Makes saints of us: all stiff and cold, / The outlines of the corpse show through / The cloth of gold. — Alice Cary

Disappeared like fog in a stiff morning breeze, teen revilers when a squad car creeps up the driveway, roaches when the kitchen light comes on. — Dennis Vickers

The stiff rails were softened to swan's-down, and still fluttered down the snow. — James Russell Lowell

It is important that you strive for humility, but not humiliation, for a cool, level-headed confidence, not a stiff, delusional arrogance. — Michael Johnson

And floating in the Sound was a triangle of silver scales, trembling a little to the stiff, tinny drip of the banjoes on the lawn. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Going down on a woman gives me a stiff neck, going down on a man gives me lockjaw and conventional sex gives me claustrophobia. — Tallulah Bankhead

Well, I enjoy reality as much as the next man. It's just that in my case, fortunately, reality includes a good stiff belt every now and then. — Blake Edwards

I have had hundreds and hundreds of stroke cases. My methods cured them
when they were so stiff they were almost dead. — Richard M. Schulze

Body is not stiff, mind is stiff. — K. Pattabhi Jois

Even when I have to write a simple letter I'm scared stiff as if faced with looming seasickness. — Gustav Klimt

if you program and want any longevity to your work, make a game. all else recycles, but people rewrite architectures to keep games alive. — Why The Lucky Stiff

I had polio when I was 13. I started feeling stiff, my joints ached, and over a two-week period I lost my coordination and 20 pounds. — Jack Nicklaus

Next steps?" I asked, turning him back to business once again. "A stiff drink?" "Have I finally driven you to alcohol, Sentinel? — Chloe Neill

Plover's words were like dried flowers, stiff and crumbling, crushed flat between pages, when we'd had the living, blooming blossoms all around — Lev Grossman

God loves to show mercy ... His anger must be released by a stiff safety lock, but His mercy has a hair trigger. — John Piper

My name is Four," I say. "Call me 'Stiff' again and you and I will have a problem. — Veronica Roth

And as I walked, I believed myself to be an Adam setting foot in a new Eden, sinless and wild-eyed, my sinews still stiff with creation. — Lauren Groff

I shoot from the hip and keep a stiff upper lip. - AC/DC — Stephen King

I was bored stiff while reading this. I got so bored I wanted to slit my wrists to see how my flatmate would react. — Zaki

Among of green stiff old bright broken branch come white sweet May again — William Carlos Williams

Just as actors are afraid of child audiences because they're so honest, I would be scared stiff of going before the big folks. — Bob Keeshan

If your spine is inflexibly stiff at 30, you are old. IF it is completely flexible at 60, you are young. — Joseph Pilates

Cersei in 'Game of Thrones' is quite solid and stiff. — Lena Headey

You're not sure because you're feeling pretty stiff and achy, and — Josh Lanyon

But, surely, if the mind is too long directed to one object only, it will get stiff and rigid, and unable to take in many interests. — Elizabeth Gaskell

Stiff. That's why you're strong, get it? - Tobias Eaton — Veronica Roth

If you're a big celebrity, you get money to be private. I'm just a working stiff. I don't get bodyguards or alarm systems. — Mark Fuhrman

Crooked things may be as stiff and unflexible as streight: and Men may be as positive and peremptory in Error as in Truth. — John Locke

I do not want to be like a small animal bitten by a snake, going stiff with that poison. I want to bite back. — Yvette Christianse

I often take a brand-new suit or hat and throw it up against the wall a few times to get that stiff, square newness out of it. — Fred Astaire

Sometimes I do believe in predestination. I feel helpless to do anything but what I am compelled to do. — Why The Lucky Stiff

Only yield when you must, never "give up the ship," but fight on to the last "with a stiff upper lip! — Phoebe Cary

Whenever I met anyone who knew anything, I would bore them stiff until they told me what they knew. — Doris Lessing

God break me out of this stiff life I've made — Jean Valentine

If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed, but either too stiff, too tight, or too fashionable. — Beau Brummell

When I compare myself to the other fellows there is something stiff and awkward about me; I look as if I had been in prison for ten years. — Irving Stone

I went to college, grad school. I got an M.B.A., had a really cush corporate job. But I was just bored stiff. I didn't fit that mold. — Dean Karnazes

It's a cold night out tonight. The Padres better warm up real good because it's stiff out there. — Jerry Coleman

programming is rather thankless. u see your works become replaced by superior ones in a year. unable to run at all in a few more. — Why The Lucky Stiff

For someone so small, you're heavy, Stiff, he mutters. — Veronica Roth

A Stiff, the first to jump? Unheard of." "There's a reason why she left them, Lauren," he says. His voice is deep, and it rumbles. — Veronica Roth

Ireland sober is Ireland stiff. — James Joyce

Fuck! Is one expected to be a gentleman when one is stiff? — Marquis De Sade

Now, clear your minds. It knows what scares you. It has from the very beginning. Don't give it any help, it knows too much already. — Poltergeist The Movie

In my stiff, brocaded gown.
With my powdered hair and jeweled fan,
I too am a rare
Pattern. — Amy Lowell

Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one. — Edith Wharton

If the body is stiff that is understandable. But if the mind is also stiff then you can't get anywhere. The mind has to become flexible. — Geeta Iyengar

If you sit by the wayside waiting for Success, your knees will be too stiff to follow her when she passes. — Austin O'Malley

It's a very valuable function and requirement that you're performing, so have a great day and keep a stiff upper lip. — Dan Quayle