Stuck Quotations | Page 2

You know, when you've established a certain thing, what can you do? You're stuck with it.

I was formerly so stuck into plans. I can now live more spontaneously. This I want not yet to give away.

I've got a very short attention span, and this has been part of the reason I'm so kind of dumbfounded at the fact that I've still stayed with music. Nothing has ever stuck for me, and music's the only thing that's managed to stick out for a long period of time.

I've always resented the force of attraction that traps me here on Planet Earth. It makes me feel like a bug stuck to a piece of duct tape. Ever since my teenage years, when I used to read a lot of science fiction and took it much too seriously, I've dreamed of somehow reaching escape velocity. I am, you might say, anti-gravity.

I don't get star-stuck. I love Angelina Jolie, though.

It was like there's got to be some way to stay working and stay productive in Los Angeles. TV is that kind of thing for an actor. Unless you get stuck in one of these shows where you have to go to Vancouver.

I think we get stuck in routines so easily that when an absurd moment in life seems to be there for no reason, it wakes you up out of your everyday pattern. You pull back and look at life a little bit wider because of that one weird thing you weren't expecting.

Scenes change all the time. Scenes will change while you're shooting them, and you just have to roll with it 'cause that's what makes it funny. It's not being stuck in your character and how you're gonna do something, but to react to other people and to really have a real-life conversation.

We stuck the record head so it kept on recording over and over on top of itself and played keyboard notes into it to create this ghost repetition melody.

We are anxious in the face of our unchangeable past; we long to recreate segments of our private histories, but we are stuck with them.

Yes, Carl Vine stuck around. He's now number one composer for choreography.

I was stuck with looking like a girl. As soon as I got out of music it was straight off to the hairdressers.

I regrettably wasted time at university by being overwhelmed and intimidated by the talent of other composers. I felt stuck and didn't know what I was doing there. I enjoyed my experience, but I didn't grab it in the way I would now.

As ye sow, so shall ye reap. When a ballet company spends a lot of money on gimmicky pieces, it's stuck with them for a while - they have to earn their keep.

Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.

A friend of mine told me a bunch of stuff on Buddhism and about Avicii being the lowest level of Buddhist hell, and it just sort of got stuck in my head. Later on when I went to setup a MySpace, I tried a bunch of names and they were all taken so I just kind of ended up with Avicii and then I got really attached to it.

New Year's resolutions often fail because toxic emotions and experiences from our past can sabotage us or keep us stuck with the same old thoughts, patterns and regrets.

To say what I would have been if I wasn't boxing, I don't know why, but I always wanted to be an x-ray technician or a substitute teacher. Those two occupations always stuck with me, maybe because my substitute teacher didn't give us homework, or because I've always had x-rays of my hands.

I haven't stuck to any formula. Most great writers stick to the same style, but I wanted to be more various

My music is a direct reflection of the eclectic person I am. I don't like to be stuck in an R&B box.

I read the script for Wonder Boys, and I said that was almost perfect, it was so classy, cool and funny. It's a really specific thing. We stuck to it, it turned out good and a lot of people liked it.

We've had three big ideas at Amazon that we've stuck with for 18 years, and they're the reason we're successful: Put the customer first. Invent. And be patient.

I still do lots of gigs where I'm the support act and people are chatting through my set, but I've got better at grabbing attention. I mean, my parents would play on bills with people like Judas Priest and get booed all the way through. But they stuck it out, got tough.

My number-one goal is to never feel like I'm strictly defining myself. The minute I feel like I'm doing that as anything - as theatrical, as feminist, as songwriter - I feel like the minute I name it, I'm stuck in a box.

'Pretty Little Liars' - my sister and I read the books, so we stuck to it for the first season, but it started to kind of drift off; so did we.

That was my first introduction to BMWs in 1978, when my friend bought it for me as a surprise with my money. And ever since then, I've stuck to BMWs.

Bringing my two children up while writing was just a part of life. I'd much rather have had their interruptions than been stuck in a sterile office. This way, I had welcome distractions. I had to load the washing machine, I had to go out and buy lemons.

Eighty-five per cent of the time, people want to talk about 'True Romance.' That's the film I've made that really seems to have stuck with people.

If you are playing repertoire material, you're stuck. There's not huge amounts you can do.

Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.

One needs to constantly read up, practice and work, irrespective of your profession. If I feel as an actor that I know everything, then how will I to grow? How will I improve? I'll be stuck in a rut, and eventually I'll grow complacent.

An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting.

I knew what I wanted to do for my entire life, from nursery to university. I've always been geared towards wanting to act. I've stuck with it, dedicated time to it.

I'm a California Angels fan because that's the first game my dad took me to see, and they stuck with me.

People say I am stuck in childhood, but it's not that. I remember seeing a Matisse retrospective, and you could see he started out one way, and then he tried something different, and then he seemed to spend his whole life trying to get back to the first thing.

My mom always wanted to go to Maryland to live there. Baltimore, actually. She had a best friend who lived there. She kept saying that she was going to move there and make that her home, but she only made it halfway across the country and got stuck in Iowa.

The worst thing that can happen is if you're stuck within a bubble and you think that is what life is all about. It's great to see other people and hear from people of different ages and opinions.

We penalize and suspend players for making contact with the head while checking, in an effort to reduce head injuries, yet we still allow fighting. We're stuck in the middle and need to decide what kind of sport do we want to be. Either anything goes and we accept the consequences, or take the next step and eliminate fighting.

If you stuck me in a room and gave me art-making tools but told me no one would ever see the results, I don't think I'd have much desire to make art. What I do comes from a deep desire to be seen and to see others.

If you don't have savings, and your co-founders are as poor as you are, and if Mom and Dad won't loan you money, then your best bet is to find people that know you - your friends. If they, too, won't help, then you're stuck seeking out angel investors.

I went whale-watching, and I was really looking forward to that, but when you see it on TV and you see other programs do it, you're seeing close-ups of these massive creatures, and the music that's added gives you a certain feeling. But in reality, you're stuck on a boat that's bobbing up and down, you feel sick, the whale isn't there on demand.

I always believed it would happen and stuck to my guns.

There's nothing I've done that I feel a lot of regret over because I stuck to my guns, even when it got uncomfortable - and it will get uncomfortable because you're going up against the wall.

Many times an actor is stuck for the lack of choices. The same happened with me when I started my career. That was the time when mainly romantic films were being made, and that is what I was offered all the time.

If you say that there was no first cause (a Creator), then you are stuck with the unscientific and thoughtless belief that nothing created everything. So, what is it that you believe? Is it that something created everything? Then you are not an atheist, because you believe in a Creator.

Almost every month, I have a day where I get stuck in the mud of me. I used to blame hormones and PMS. After I hit 50, I blamed the lack of hormones. But men get stuck, too, so it must simply be the human condition.

Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.

Casseroles don't have to be about canned ingredients and vegetables you normally wouldn't even think of eating alone, much less stuck in between layers of sauce and breadcrumbs. They can vary from everyone's favorite all-time casserole, macaroni and cheese, to the ultimate English casserole, Shepherd's Pie.

Every story about me is so heavy and dramatic. That's not how I do life. But that's the impression people have, and that's what keeps getting reiterated. As if I'm still stuck in all the muck of the past. And I am so not.

In 1927, if you were stuck with idle time, reading is what you did. It's no accident that the 'Book-of-the-Month Club' and 'The Literary Guild' were founded in that period as well as a lot of magazines, like 'Reader's Digest,' 'Time,' and 'The New Yorker.'

Sometimes I don't even know what to name a song when I get done with it, and I'll let somebody else tell me what I should call it because it's whatever stuck in their head.

I was stuck in a wheelchair playing this deranged villain. I felt this mass amount of rage at being so confined. I thought, 'What can I do that is the direct opposite of this situation?' The only thing I could think of was that I could sing and dance.

If I get stuck doing comic-book films for the rest of my life, I'll be really happy.

What is a danger is that we stay stuck in a new normal where unemployment rates stay high, people who have jobs see their incomes go up, businesses make big profits. But they're learned to do more with less, and so they don't hire.

'Unforgiven' is probably an example of a script that I liked right away but thought, 'This is great, but I'd like to do this when I'm older.' So I stuck it in the drawer for ten years and then took it out.

We've also gotten on the field early. Usually we're stuck in a parking lot.

We started to get a little nervous, because we knew the whole season was on the line. So we took a deep breath and stuck with it. We never let it get to us and just kept playing tough defense.

We started the season 5-5 and it would have been easy to fall off. The girls stuck with it, and we rattled off 14 straight wins at one point. Getting back to the conference championship and making the NCAA tournament is pretty important to our players. Hopefully, we will advance and do well.

We stuck with what we do and we made plays. These kids deserve credit. Craig made the big shot and we made enough free throws down the stretch.

We stuck with the same plan, we kept believing. It was a great game to watch, I'm sure, for everyone.

We stuck with them. We'll keep playing and keep working at it.

We stuck with our game plan. We knew what we wanted to do and we did it.

We stuck with it. It's a good sign when you don't play your best and you win a game like this. It shows our team is maturing and finding ways to win.

We stuck with it. Definitely, we had to compete.

We stuck to the game plan for four quarters. We did not deviate from it at all. Instead of a one-goal victory, we have a five-goal victory.

We stuck to the game plan and we knew what they were doing.

We stuck to the basics. They have really good chemistry on the court and were able to put together a great run and get a little breathing room.

We stuck to our plan and it worked. We just had to keep plugging and plugging, and we got into a little groove in the second half.

We stuck to our game plan of pushing the ball down the court. We kept pushing and pushing, and when (Flower Mound) started to get tired, we pushed some more. Some of their players got tired, but I kept fresh legs on the court by subbing in and out.

We stuck to our game plan, even when it was painful at times. We wanted to go test, we just knew it wasn't time to start that just yet.

We stuck together. We didn't get down on ourselves or point fingers.

We stuck through. With Jon making all his shots we knew we were going to have to withstand it, and my teammates and I were able to fight through at the end. This was just a great game, there isn't much else to say but that.

We stuck it out. We knew they would come out jacked up and ready to play. That's their style. They always come out big in the first couple minutes, and big in the second half.

We stuck him in there when we ran out of other options last year. He settled into that role real well. He's not just a guy hitting behind (Todd) Helton anymore. He's a legitimate fourth-place hitter.

We are looking forward to next year now that we have a full season. I?m just proud how our team stuck together and handled adversity. There was a lot of prayer time.

We're in a position right now where we are stuck in between Toys 'R' Us and its expertise and all its assets, and being No. 1 in many countries around the world, ... And on the other side we have Amazon, No. 1 on the Web, and we have access to their customers. And we are just scratching the surface on the stuff that we can do. There's no one in a position like we are at the moment.

There is no pain, just coldness which leads to a lack of sensation. It feels like I stuck my thumb in a freezer.

When I was in the running for the role of Elphaba, I knew it was important to research and study as much background information as I could, so I got my head stuck into 'Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West' by Gregory Maguire, and I believe I lost many days, weeks, and months reading it - I was captivated!

We're managing to get by. We're lucky enough. We've got transportation. We can go get something. A lot of these folks can't. They're just stuck in.

What a great soccer game. I thought my kids really deserved it. I thought we had them on their heals most of the game. We didn't have that many chances offensively, but,boy, when we needed it, someone stuck it in the net. What a great feeling to be heading the finals.

We found something that was working, ... and we stuck with it.

We both were on and off, ... We both had some great points and we both had some bad - a lot of unforced errors. But we both fought hard and stuck to the end.

Usually by the time the fourth quarter rolls around we're outside playing softball or doing a track and field unit and maybe tennis. This year we've been stuck in the gym and the weight room.

Through all of the choke talk and everything else that was said, this team really stuck together when the chips were down and we weren't playing as well together as we knew we could. Everybody stuck together and nobody paid attention to that and we were all a unit, and it paid off in the end.

We knew this was a team that could hit threes. We tried to get them from not having too many threes and kept them off the boards. We stuck with our game plan, and that's the reason we were successful.

We knew they were a little undersized going in. We worked hard and we stuck to our game plan.

We know we have a lot of pressure on us - a lot of haters or whatever. But the thing about it is we stuck together as family and pulled through.

Until earnings and forecasts start turning around, we are going to stay stuck in this tight trading range. There is no incentive for buyers to get back in the market.

Things rarely get stuck because of lack of time. They get stuck because the doing of them has not been defined.

I've always played Vash [in the Sausage Party]. I played him at the table read. We probably did five or six table reads over the course of the first five years of trying to get it made and finally getting it made. I saw a lot of actors come and go, but I stuck around, so I guess they were happy with what I was doing. No one could play a lavash wrap like I could.

If you reject the infinite, you are stuck with the finite, and the finite is parochial... the best explanation of anything eventually involves universality, and therefore infinity. The reach of explanations cannot be limited by fiat.

It's our nature to be free, and until we're stuck in a stressful belief system, we're pretty happy.

Trauma is nothing more than being stuck in what you believe.

Would've preferred to get one more point (in a 3-2 shootout loss to St. Louis Monday) but I think coming off a tough month -- nine of 13 on the road -- I think that we did a good job and stuck with it.

We've got a mix of holes. We've got greens that are stuck up in the air and greens that are flat on the ground. So we've got a real variety not only of looks, but how you can attack the holes.

We've typically started games slowly and methodically stuck to our game. Everybody is pretty excited to play us. We've been resilient.

We have to focus on getting hitters to transition aggressively and play strong every time, ... We got stuck against bigger teams, and hopefully we can fix that.

My father once told me, and it's stuck with me to this day: As you walk through life, every time you fart it pushes you forward.

Phonographic. It goes around and around. Sometimes it gets stuck. That's why I remember things so well.

It's hard to be stuck with people that you love, when nobody trusts