Sticking Out Quotes

• My notion of an elegant table is you don't leave the knife sticking out of the mayonnaise jar.

  Sue Grafton

  Knives, Tables, Jars

  Sue Grafton (2011). “D is for Deadbeat”, p.112, Pan Macmillan

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• I contemplate the notion that maybe regrets are a process of accumulation of time, as unavoidable as a closet full of clothes and more bags of them in the attic. Is accumulated baggage what makes people get old? If so, they need to clean out their fecking attics, send the stuff to consignment shops and remember how to walk around naked like kids, little bellies sticking out, always ready for a good laugh.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Regret, Kids, Clothes

  Karen Marie Moning (2012). “Iced: Fever Series”, p.306, Delacorte Press

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• The only way to look at men is like they're electrons. They have all these charges sticking out, and they're always looking for a hole where they can put those charges.

  Candace Bushnell

  Men, Looks, Way

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• Sometimes you can hide just as effectively by sticking out.

  Pittacus Lore

  Sometimes

  Pittacus Lore (2011). “I Am Number Four: The Lost Files: Six's Legacy”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• She’s really gone, then. The little girl with the back of her shirt sticking out like a duck tail, the one who needed help reaching the dishes, and who begged to see the frosted cakes in the bakery window. Time and tragedy have forced her to grow too quickly, at least for my taste, into a young woman who stitches bleeding wounds and knows our mother can hear only so much.

  Suzanne Collins

  Girl, Mother, Cake

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• The blankets had fallen off and I stared down at her white back, the shoulder blades sticking out as if they wanted to grow into wings, poke through that skin. Little blades. She was helpless.

  Charles Bukowski

  Wings, White, Skins

  Charles Bukowski (2014). “Charles Bukowski Fiction Collection”, Harper Collins

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• Voodoo Girl Her skin is white cloth, and she's all sewn apart and she has many colored pins sticking out of her heart. She has many different zombies who are deeply in her trance. She even has a zombie who was originally from France. But she knows she has a curse on her, a curse she cannot win. For if someone gets too close to her, the pins stick farther in.

  Tim Burton

  Girl, Heart, Winning

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• Americans will eat anything if it is toasted and held together with a couple of toothpicks and has lettuce sticking out of the sides, preferably a little wilted.

  Raymond Chandler

  Couple, Together, Littles

  Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Long Goodbye: A Novel”, p.303, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• The Fomorians skittered backward, away from me, looking justifiably confused. I mean, really, how many human women actually run to them? And I was a human woman covered in swamp yuck, with wild red hair sticking out in matted hunks and arms flailing like a demented Bride of Frankenstein. I'd run from me.

  P. C. Cast

  Running, Confused, Mean

  P.C. Cast (2006). “Divine By Mistake”, p.637, LUNA

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• Any man who can look handsome in a dirty baseball suit is an Adonis. There is something about the baggy pants, and the Micawber-shaped collar, and the skull-fitting cap, and the foot or so of tan, or blue, or pink undershirt sleeve sticking out at the arms, that just naturally kills a man's best points.

  Edna Ferber

  Baseball, Dirty, Men

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• I shall never forget what I saw at the Museum of Modern Art: in a spotless schoolroom, fifty little girls painting away at tables covered with brushes, pots, tubes, bowls, staring into space and sticking out their tongues like the clever animals that ring a bell, tongues lolling and eyes vague. Teachers supervise these young creators of abstract art and slap their wrists if what they paint represents something and dangerously inclines toward realism. The mothers - still at the Picasso stage - are not admitted.

  Jean Cocteau

  Girl, Mother, Teacher

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• I could never give up Mexican food. Nachos are usually my go-to if I'm courtside at an NBA game. I always, always get my picture taken with my mouth wide open and a tortilla chip sticking out of it!

  Eva Longoria

  Giving Up, Taken, Nba

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• If you don't have a flag sticking out
  of your ass, you must be a communist.

  Chrissie Hynde

  Flags, Ass, Communist

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• Once somebody's aware of a plot, it's like a bone sticking out. If it breaks through the skin, it's very ugly.

  Louis Auchincloss

  Break Through, Skins, Plot

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• Be an unstoppable force. Write with an imaginary machete strapped to your thigh. This is not wishy-washy, polite, drinking-tea-with-your-pinkie-sticking-out stuff. It’s who you want to be, your most powerful self. Write your books. Finish them, then make them better. Find the way. No one will make this dream come true for you but you.

  Laini Taylor

  Dream, Powerful, Drinking

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• The truth is that you cannot attain God if you have even a trace of desire. Subtle is the way of dharma. If you are trying to thread a needle, you will not succeed if the thread has even a slight fiber sticking out.

  Ramakrishna

  Desire, Trying, Way

  Ramakrishna, Mahendra Nath Gupta (1942). “The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna”, Ramakrishna Vivekanada Center

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• Bury the hatchet, but leave the handle sticking out.

  Garth Brooks

  Adages, Hatchet, Handle

  Song: We Bury The Hatchet, 1991

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• I like when a guy wears a T-shirt, and you can see a little curve of the muscle sticking out. That's sexy!

  Jennifer Morrison

  Sexy, Curves, Guy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you want to bless me you can bless my bottom, for it is sticking out of the hole.

  Richard Adams

  Want, Bless, Holes

  Richard Adams (2014). “Watership Down”, p.35, Oneworld Publications

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• Something is sticking out its tongue at me from the corner of my mirror.

  Mason Cooley

  Mirrors, Tongue, Corners

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• Denmark (also called Norway) is best known as the original home of the prune Danish as well as the Vikings, who wore hats with horns sticking out of them, and for a very good reason: they were insane.

  Dave Barry

  Home, Insane, Norway

  "Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need". Book by Dave Barry, 1991.

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• I like the glamorous indie rock look, like The Libertines. But you know, without the heroin needle sticking out of my arm.

  Ed Westwick

  Indie Rock, Rocks, Arms

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• No nose hair. Ever. You'd be surprised at all the little twigs sticking out. I just can't get it. How can you see that and not just want to hack it off?

  Kyan Douglas

  Hair, Noses, Want

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My signature look is an eighties baby doll dress, combat boots with colorful socks sticking out, and then mounds of jewelry. I love silver and turquoise. I go to Montana every winter, so I hunt around for cool pieces there.

  Zoey Deutch

  Baby, Winter, Signatures

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• Beside Mama, in my own folding chair, with my feet sticking out in front of me, I thought about my own innards. Just a few months before I'd had no idea whether my reproductive equipment worked. There was no evidence. But that week I had become a full-fledged bleeder and was still absorbed by this first change in myself that I had ever noticed. The click and buzz of my synapses kept making the same connection. If you can change, you can also end. Death had always been a theory to me. Now I knew. The terror hurt good and I nursed it and played it like a loose tooth.

  Katherine Dunn

  Hurt, Feet, Ideas

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