Famous quotes containing the word stuck:
“Al: Aint you gonna look back, Ma? Give the old place a last look?
Ma Joad: Were goin to California, aint we? Alright then, lets go to California.
Al: That dont sound like you, Ma. You never was like that before.
Ma Joad: I never had my house pushed over before. Never had my family stuck out on the road. I never had to lose everything I had in life.”
—Nunnally Johnson (18971977)
“Darling,
will you come home today
after a few hours,
or at noon,
or a little later,
or when the whole days passed?
A young wife
with tearful words stuck in her throat
spoils the departure of her man
who wishes to go to a land
that takes a hundred days
to reach.”
—Amaru (c. seventh century A.D.)
“A man who publishes his letters becomes a nudistnothing shields him from the worlds gaze except his bare skin. A writer, writing away, can always fix himself up to make himself more presentable, but a man who has written a letter is stuck with it for all time.”
—E.B. (Elwyn Brooks)