Stuck Quotes

• When I first started doing my stand-up act, I played the banjo, did comedy, magic tricks, juggled, read poetry. I stuck it all in. I didn't know you were supposed to just stand up and tell jokes. Essentially, that's what my act became: those five elements - except I dropped the poetry.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Comedy
  • Magic
  • Jokes

• I've always been a firm believer in mind over matter. If you don't believe you can achieve, your body will start to believe this and you'll be stuck.

  

  Sheryl Swoopes
  • Believe
  • Mind
  • Achieve

• I'm still grappling with all the things most people resolve by the time they're 35. Maybe that's why I make music that is relevant to young people. I'm emotionally stuck at the age of 13.

  

  Siobhan Máire Deirdre Fahey Bananarama
  • People
  • Age
  • Resolve

• I'm not stuck strictly doing hip-hop. Songs from the dance/electronic scene are my favorite to make and remix, and I like that world.

  

  AraabMuzik
  • Hip Hop
  • Stuck
  • Remix

• I could not sleep when I got on such a hunt for an idea until I had caught it; ...This was a kind of passion with me, and it has stuck by me; for I am never easy now, when I am handling a thought, till I have bounded it north, and bounded it south, and bounded it east, and bounded it west.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Passion
  • Sleep
  • Idea

• I’m stuck babysitting turtle eggs while a volleyball player slash grease monkey slash aquarium volunteer tries to hit on me.” I’m not hitting on you,” he protested. No?” Believe me, you’d know if I was hitting on you. You wouldn’t be able to stop yourself from succumbing to my charms.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Believe
  • Trying
  • Player

• I suppose it’s easier to see the way out of anything when you’ve found your way out of that maze. When you’re stuck in the middle, in a series of dead-ends making circles, it’s difficult to make any sense of anything.

  

  Cecelia Ahern
  • Difficult
  • Stuck
  • Circles

• I often tell people to stop being afraid of writing bad poetry, or bad anything. I think that a lot of times, when people claim that they have writer's block, or that they get stuck, it's just because they're scared of writing bad things.

  

  Sarah Kay
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• I've developed my passion for cars that drive themselves from being stuck in traffic for many, many, many hours of my life. I don't know what it adds up to, but I feel like I've lost a year or two just in traffic. That's big to me. That's a lot of time, a lot of money that I just lose on the road.

  

  Sebastian Thrun
  • Passion
  • Car
  • Hours

• The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day when you are writing a novel you will never be stuck. That is the most valuable thing I can tell you so try to remember it.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Remember

• I'm deeply driven and want my finger stuck in every pot there is.

  

  Michael Musto
  • Want
  • Fingers
  • Driven

• Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Country
  • Architecture
  • Clock

• I'm not a big advocate of living together before marriage. It can be the right thing, but it can also leave two people stuck together who haven't figured out what they really want out of the relationship.

  

  Emily Yoffe
  • Together
  • Relationship
  • Marriage

• [Arab peoples] are stuck back thousands of years and they think they're going to get out with a TV set.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Thinking
  • Years
  • Stuck

• I want to be famous so I can be humble about being famous. What good is my humility when I am stuck in this obscurity?

  

  David Budbill
  • Humility
  • Humble
  • Obscurity

• It was V-day and I was stuck at home while the guy I was dating was at an Anti-Valentine's Day party. How wrong was that? It was one thing to be totally alone on V-day, but another to want to be with someone who would rather spend the evening protesting love instead of making it.

  

  Kate Madison
  • Home
  • Evening
  • Valentine

• We have to look forward and keep filming new films and not get stuck in the past.

  

  Nick Park
  • Past
  • Stuck
  • Filming

• I'm getting fed up of living away from home so much. They look after you very well but it doesn't matter how well you're looked after, how nice the hotel is, if you're away from home constantly, the bloody dog savages you, thinks you're a stranger, the kid cries and the wife's stuck to your face!

  

  David Jason
  • Home
  • Dog
  • Cry

• He's very nice. He's something I replied. She considered this zipping her purse shut. Then she said Well everyone is. Everyone is Something. For some reason that stuck with me simple and yet not every since she'd said it. It was like a puzzle as well two vague words with one clear one between them.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Nice
  • Simple
  • Reason

• Yes, I think it's okay to abandon the big, established, stuck tribe. It's okay to say to them, "You're not going where I need to go, and there's no way I'm going to persuade all of you to follow me. So rather than standing here watching the opportunities fade away, I'm heading off. I'm betting some of you, the best of you, will follow me.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Opportunity
  • Okay
  • Abandon

• I think I had a tendency to get stuck inside my head and go to some very dark places in my mind, and get stuck there. I couldn't see a way to get out.

  

  Joan Osborne
  • Head
  • Stuck
  • Get Out

• Suspicion shall be all stuck full of eyes.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Eye
  • Stuck
  • Suspicion

• I was locked in. I’m locked in. I’m sold out. I’m like He’s stuck with me and I am not going anywhere.

  

  Ricky Dillard
  • Going
  • Stuck
  • Locked

• My mother has always been the point I calibrated myself against. In knowing where she was, I could always locate myself, as well. These months she'd been gone, I felt like I'd been floating, loose and boundaryless, but now that I knew where she was, I kept waiting for a kind of certainty to kick in. It didn't. Instead, I was more unsure than ever, stuck between this new life and the one I'd left behind.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Mother
  • Waiting
  • Behinds

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