Famous quotes containing the word stick:
“Plantin and readin, plantin and readin. Fill a man full of lead, stick em in the ground, and then read words on em. Why when ya killed a man, why try to read the Lord in as a partner on the job.”
—Borden Chase [Frank Fowler] (19001971)
“I get a little Verlaine
for Patsy with drawings by Bonnard although I do
think of Hesiod, trans. Richmond Lattimore or
Brendan Behans new play or Le Balcon or Les Negres
of Genet, but I dont, I stick with Verlaine
after practically going to sleep with quandariness”
—Frank OHara (19261966)
“It is commonly said, and more particularly by Lord Shaftesbury, that ridicule is the best test of truth; for that it will not stick where it is not just. I deny it. A truth learned in a certain light, and attacked in certain words, by men of wit and humour, may, and often doth, become ridiculous, at least so far, that the truth is only remembered and repeated for the sake of the ridicule.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (16941773)