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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
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
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
Damn,' someone behind me says. 'I was hoping we would get to scrape some Stiff pancake off the pavement later.
— Veronica Roth
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
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
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
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
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
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 themwhen 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
God loves to show mercy ... His anger must be released by a stiff safety lock, but His mercy has a hair trigger.
— John Piper
I shoot from the hip and keep a stiff upper lip. - AC/DC
— Stephen King
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
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
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
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
