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• Well China, you got us. Phelps was doping - and he still beat you. He smoked the sticky-icky, and then he smoked your ass!

  Stephen Colbert

  Funny, London Olympics, Ass

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• The walls were wet and sticky, and peach juice was dripping from the ceiling. James opened his mouth and caught some of it on his tongue. It tasted delicious.

  Roald Dahl

  Wall, Ceilings, Juice

  Roald Dahl (2007). “James and the Giant Peach”, p.37, Penguin

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• I think maybe, if I could be a Canadian super hero, I'd have some kind of freezing power and some sort of maple syrup weapon. Could be a little sticky.

  Nathan Fillion

  Hero, Thinking, Maple Syrup

  "Nathan Fillion Dishes on Being Steve Trevor in Wonder Woman". Movieweb Interview, www.movieweb.com. January 28, 2009.

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• Whoever the kid had been, whoever had the grand attitude, has finally heeded the admonishment of parents, teachers, governments, religions, and the law: "You just change your attitude now please, young man." This transformation in kids - from flashing dragonflies, so to say, to sticky water-surface worms slowly slipping downstream - is noticed with pride by society and with mortification by God, which is a fantastic way of saying I don't like to see kids throw away their truth just because it isn't worth a dime in the open market.

  William Saroyan

  Teacher, Attitude, Kids

  William Saroyan (1968). “I used to believe I had forever, now I'm not so sure”

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• I sat up in bed. My T-shirt was soaking wet. My pillow was wet. My hair was wet. And my room was sticky and humid.

  Kami Garcia

  Hair, Bed, Rooms

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• It almost felt like she was sucking it all out of me, like she sucked on that sticky red lollipop, the one she kept licking as she drove.

  Kami Garcia

  Lollipop, Red, Licking

  Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl (2010). “Beautiful Creatures”, p.109, Penguin UK

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• You've read half the books in this house? This whole house?" "Well, approximately half." Sticky said. "To be more accurate, I suppose I've read more like" - his eyes went up as he calculated - "three sevenths? Yes, three sevenths." "Only three sevenths?" said Kate, pretending to look disappointed. "And here I was prepared to be impressed.

  Trenton Lee Stewart

  Book, Eye, House

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• The girl in me wanted to slap Lung across his face and yell, "Get your eyes off my sticky buns, ya creep!

  Jennifer Rardin

  Girl, Eye, Buns

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• [Crisco] ain't just for frying. You ever get a sticky something stuck in your hair,like gum?...That's right, Crisco. Spread this on a baby's bottom, you won't even know what diaper rash is...shoot, I seen ladies rub it under they eyes and on they husband's scaly feet...Clean the goo from a price tag, take the squeak out a door hinge. Lights get cut off, stick a wick in it and burn it like a candle....And after all that, it'll still fry your chicken.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Baby, Husband, Eye

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• You can't land on the moon and say, "Ooh, it's all sticky! It's covered in jam!

  Eddie Izzard

  Moon, Land, Jam

  Twitter post from Feb 17, 2015

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• She fell into a deep pool of sticky water, which eventually closed over her head. She saw nothing and heard nothing but a faint booming sound, which was the sound of the sea rolling over her head. While all her tormentors thought that she was dead, she was not dead, but curled up at the bottom of the sea.

  Virginia Woolf

  Sea, Water, Sound

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.299, Delphi Classics

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• Yeah. I mean, acknowledging is easy. Something happened or it didn't. But understanding... that's where things get sticky.

  Sarah Dessen

  Mean, Understanding, Easy

  Sarah Dessen (2011). “What Happened to Goodbye”, p.107, Penguin

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• Needless to say, the business of living interferes with the solitude so needed for any work of the imagination. Here's what Virginia Woolf said in her diary about the sticky issue: "I've shirked two parties, and another Frenchman, and buying a hat, and tea with Hilda Trevelyan, for I really can't combine all this with keeping all my imaginary people going.

  Virginia Woolf

  Party, Virginia, Two

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• Come make me sticky. Dimitri to Honor

  Nalini Singh

  Honor, Dimitri

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• Human reproduction can be a sticky subject—” “Ewww!” groaned a chorus of students

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Students, Chorus, Humans

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2014). “Hush, Hush Parts 1 & 2: includes Hush, Hush and Crescendo”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• Though I do not believe in the order of things, still the sticky little leaves that come out in the spring are dear to me, the blue sky is dear to me, some people are dear to me, whom one loves sometimes, would you believe it, without even knowing why; some human deeds are dear to me, which one has perhaps long ceased believing in, but still honors with one's heart, out of old habit..." --Ivan Karamazov

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Spring, Believe, Heart

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2002). “The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue”, p.230, Macmillan

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• Hey!" I exclaimed, seeing the total. "They're charging me retail. Glenn!" I complained. "They can't do that." I shook it at him. "I shouldn't have to pay retail!" "What did you expect? You can keep that. It's your copy." I sat back in a huff and shoved it in my bag with my sticky scarf as he typed his slow, painful way through my report. "Where's this human compassion I keep hearing about?" "That's it, baby doll," he said, voice smoother than usual. He was laughing at me.

  Kim Harrison

  Baby, Compassion, Voice

  Kim Harrison (2013). “Black Magic Sanction”, p.35, HarperCollins UK

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• C'mon, Amy, cinnamon rolls are calling us." Dan put a hand to his ear. "Do you hear? 'Amy? Dan?'" he squeaked. "'Come and get my sugary, sticky goodness!

  Judy Blundell

  Hands, Cinnamon, Calling

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• ... Speaking of which, the boys weren't actually touching the breifcases in the trunk, I hope?" Wondering how Milligan knew, Kate stuck her head out the office door and gave Reynie and Sticky a warning look. They nodded and tried to close the trunk as quietly as possible. "They aren't now anyway." "Good," Milligan said, picking up his duffel bag. "I'd hate to have to speak sternly to them again. It embarasses me to be so ineffective.

  Trenton Lee Stewart

  Hate, Boys, Doors

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• I am the Raskolnikov of jerking off – the sticky evidence is everywhere!

  Philip Roth

  Raskolnikov, Evidence

  Philip Roth (1969). “Portnoy's complaint”, Random House Inc

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• The ship's boards were still sticky with new resin. We leaned over the railing to wave our last farewell, the sun-warm wood pressed against our bellies. The sailors heaved up the anchor, square and chalky with barnacles, and loosened the sails. Then they took their seats at the oars that fringed the boat like eyelashes, waiting for the count. The drums began to beat, and the oars lifted and fell, taking us to Troy.

  Madeline Miller

  Farewell, Squares, Eyelashes

  Madeline Miller (2011). “The Song of Achilles”, p.179, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Mayonnaise is a lot like men, it can make everything much better, adding flavor and ease to your life. Or, it can just be sticky and gross and make you nauseous"- "Keeping the Moon

  Sarah Dessen

  Moon, Men, Flavor

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• The sound of her laughter was sticky as sap, the smell of night-blooming jasmine soft as a milk bath.

  Janet Fitch

  Laughter, Night, Smell

  Janet Fitch (2013). “White Oleander”, p.134, Hachette UK

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• When Isaiah predicted that spears would become pruning hooks, that's a reference to cultivating. Pruning and trimming and growing and paying close attention to the plants and whether they're getting enough water and if their roots are deep enough. Soil under the fingernails, grapes being trampled under bare feet, fingers sticky from handling fresh fruit. It's that green stripe you get around the sole of your shoes when you mow the lawn. Life in the age to come. Earthy.

  Rob Bell

  Shoes, Roots, Feet

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• If there ever was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson, call New York. Cosmopolitan they call it, you bet. So's a piece of fly-paper. You listen close when they're buzzing and trying to pull their feet out of the sticky stuff. "Little old New York's good enough for us"--that's what they sing.

  O. Henry

  New York, Feet, Trying

  O. Henry (2007). “41 Stories: 150th Anniversary Edition”, p.168, Penguin

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