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«Good stories flow like honey. Bad stories stick in the craw. A bad story? One that cannot be absorbed on the first time of reading.»
«Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.»
Author: Eric Idle
(
Actor,
Comedian)
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Keywords:
boned,
bones,
break,
corner,
cornered,
cry,
get stuck,
go in,
hours,
myself,
sticks,
stick in,
stick on,
stick out,
stick up,
stones,
stoning,
the sticks
«Certain phrases stick in the throat, even if they offer nothing that is analytically improbable. 'A dashing Swiss officer' is one such. Another is 'the beautiful Law Courts.»
«Teflon brain - nothing sticks»
Author: Lily Tomlin
(
Actress,
Comedian)
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Keywords:
brain,
brained,
get stuck,
sticks,
stick in,
stick on,
stick out,
stick up,
Teflon,
the sticks
«I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(
Physicist)
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About:
Civilization,
War
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Keywords:
fought,
get stuck,
III,
known,
sticks,
stick in,
stick on,
stick out,
stick up,
stones,
the sticks,
war,
weapons,
world war,
World War I
«Sticks an' stones, love. I've saved your life an' you've saved mine. We're square.»
Author: Johnny Depp
(
Actor)
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Keywords:
get stuck,
mine,
saved,
square,
squared,
squares,
sticks,
stick in,
stick on,
stick out,
stick up,
stones,
the sticks
«There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency- and a virtue; and that to climb out of the rut is inconsistency- and a vice»
Author: Mark Twain
(
Humorist,
Lecturer,
Writer)
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Keywords:
climb,
consistency,
inconsistencies,
inconsistency,
rut,
ruts,
rutting,
stick,
stick in
«He's a stick in the mud»
«Just for a handful of silver he left us, / Just for a riband to stick in his coat.»
«If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his mind; but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves. We should knock him down first, and pity him afterwards.»