Sticky Quotations

It must be admitted that science has its castes. The man whose chief apparatus is the differential equation looks down upon one who uses a galvanometer, and he in turn upon those who putter about with sticky and smelly things in test tubes.

I've always been able to be firm, to talk my way out of sticky situations. Bullies at school. Attempted muggings.

We all have, in my family, what we call the 'Vorderman bottom' - a sticky out, bigger-than-normal, signature, of the rear variety. It's been a family joke all our lives - even my lovely brother has one. I know the lines to all the good singalong big bum songs.

Political scientists have long argued that party identification is the best possible predictor of voting behavior and is remarkably sticky over time.

If you get into the area of judging the character you're playing you're getting into a sticky area.

What we do is put an aluminum plate with a barcode on the top of the laptop. It has a 3M sticky tag underneath which sticks to the laptop itself reading 'Stolen Property' with a phone number to call if the plate is ever removed.

When you're acting to a piece of sticky tape rather than seeing someone come back from the dead, that's when it's difficult.

Online communities are one of those sticky applications where users come back again and again,

I'm a great believer in governments doing as little as possible and people power doing the rest, so I'm in favour of governments being there to govern in the areas that need governing, not a whole heap of other things that they stick their sticky fingers into.

I had one guy pretend to be me, go to a hotel room, and tell the people at the front desk that it was me, and then he went in and stole all of our luggage. There's always that eager beaver that wants to be a part of the team and comes off as a sticky fly.

We try to make people sticky by moving people onto the broadband platform and getting them into the bundles.

We think both the governor and the utility stepped over the line. This is getting into real sticky territory.

It got sticky there in the fourth quarter,

It feels like a game, this work I do. It is totally heartfelt, and I love the sticky terrain, the straight-up cartoons, how the irrepressible and icky rise to the surface. But I am not just trying to call forth bugaboos and demons for the sake of it, for fun.

Michigan is my home, but Rochester has become a place that's awfully sticky for me and my family.

When the baby's head appeared it was covered in dark, sticky blood so it was hard to know which end was coming out. Rod said, 'What is that?!' He thought it looked like a lump of coal.

Which was the extent of our restaurant experience when we opened the first Sticky Fingers.

We are in the stickiest situation since sticky the stick insect got stuck on a sticky bun.

It's not sticky unless it touches itself.

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 ...

Communication and games make for a sticky application.

I steal scenes, I steal opportunities. I am the ultimate thief. I got sticky fingers, man. They all call me The Thief.

It would resolve a sticking point of who owns the copyright of pictures going forward, and that might still be somewhat of a sticky issue.

Raisins are perceived as sweet and sticky and any food that contains sugar and is sticky is assumed to cause cavities.

People can afford to be more selective about what they want to view, and many home entertainment systems are now the presentational equal of what you'd get in a movie theater -- and environmentally superior, without the talking neighbors, strangers' cell phones and sticky floors.

They may want to appear that they consider it, ... I am less hopeful than I was earlier this week. I heard they were making progress in some sticky areas, and apparently they hit a wall.

They're going to make it sticky on you for awhile. You can't get discouraged. You've got to keep grinding. I was pleased with that.

It's probably an uneasy feeling, that's the best way to describe it. You've got to be careful with the (salary) cap, so it's a sticky situation. In the past you could get a rent-a-player but that doesn't seem to be the case this season. I think you'll see a few moves, but not as many as previous years.

Sticky toffee pudding is my favorite dessert in the U.K.

Tape is wonderful at preserving evidence - fingerprints, hairs, .fibers. Tape preserves this, especially on the sticky side, even if the body's been out there for a year.

It wasn't a shortage of ideas. You could walk through NASA with double-sided sticky tape and wait 30 seconds and you've got 15 new ideas, or notions of where we should go,

Nothing will replace the lives of those three people lost. It's a very sticky situation. We were basically just following the court's lead.

In Saigon we met people who had been doing the same sticky rice recipe for 25 years and that's all they do. And think about the quality you can deliver in that case, not having to be responsible for a long menu.

I personally thought he had sticky fingers when I was around him.

Clearly he wasn't the Rocket that we've been seeing, ... He's fine. He feels fine. But I think maybe the sticky part of the mound got to him a little bit. It just seemed he never really got in a groove and never really got comfortable.

We're sticky at the ends and the middle is getting squeezed

I chose not to work. It was one of those sticky things that happen in people's careers when you have been around for a long time.

I don't like to keep making excuses, but he struggled on the sticky ground. We'll give him a break and start working back towards Cheltenham.

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

The cattle started getting really hot and sticky and there were a lot of no times (when teams didn't get a score because of taking too long or driving too many cows past the center line) this afternoon.

The growth rate is also higher than our database business. It's a sticky business with the license renewals and is on the high end of our value chain.

All the time that I'm acting with an animated character, I'm looking at a tennis ball or sticky tape or an eyeline or a man in a green suit. There's no real environment, just this electric green that's blaring into your brain.

They had to call and call And pick the worms off me like sticky pearls.