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(To Randy Orton) "If I had a nickel for every stiff like you that walked into this ring, challenged me and lost, I would be a millionaire...Oh, wait a minute, I am a millionaire and it`s because of stiffs like you!"

- Shawn Michaels

I was just a poor student. I had no interest in it. When I make a film the tacit contract with the audience is that I will give them some entertainment and not bore them. I have to do that. I just lay a message on them. Great filmmakers, like Ingmar Bergman or Akira Kurosawa or Federico Fellini, they`re very entertaining, their films are fun. Well, in college they never made it entertaining for me, they just bored me stiff.

- Woody Allen

(Then came the extreme scenes.) They were scary, ... and I was suitably fearful. But I operate better on that sort of level of emotion. (Then) I went home and had a stiff drink and I rang up my kids and got back to reality.

- Polly Walker

In the defense of our nation, a president must be a clear-eyed realist. There are limits to the smiles and scowls of diplomacy. Armies and missiles are not stopped by stiff notes of condemnation. They are held in check by strength and purpose and the promise of swift punishment.

- George W. Bush

In the defense of our nation, a president must be a clear-eyed realist. There are limits to the smiles and scowls of diplomacy. Armies and missiles are not stopped by stiff notes of condemnation. They are held in check by strength and purpose and the promise of swift punishment.

- George W. Bush

Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought.

- Martin Heidegger

I`m a working stiff, baby, just like everybody else.

- Peter O'Toole

People who keep stiff upper lips find that it`s damn hard to smile.

- Judith Guest

And so I was very grateful that I didn`t do the British stiff upper lip, but I went straight to a therapist. And she was wonderful and helpful, and I went for about two years.

- Lynn Redgrave

The competition for people will be very stiff.

- Richard Bennett

I`ve tried several varieties of sex, all of which I hate. The conventional position makes me claustrophobic; the others give me a stiff neck and/or lockjaw.

- Tallulah Bankhead

There were two sides to David Lean: on the one side, he was kind of a rather stiff, disciplined Englishman. And then he had this kind of romantic side to him. I think being true to both sides of your nature is important.

- John Boorman

I got kicked on the inside at the end of the game in Portland. It was a bone bruise. It was real puffy and stiff, but the swelling has gone down a little bit. I never had one like this, on the inside.

- Derek Anderson

(Southwest turns its planes around twice as fast as competitors, getting more flights out of expensive aircraft and pilots. Wal-Mart invented loading-dock processes to quash expensive inventory. Dell runs) their entire company with three days of inventory, you pay up front, and they stiff their suppliers, ... Operations is where these industries are won and lost.

- Michael Hammer

The competition is pretty stiff the next few weeks. The kids are working hard this week. You want to show well and be heading into league on a positive, no matter what happens on the scoreboard.

- Patrick Brown

Time, which runs through the world like an endless tinsel thread, seemed to pass through the centre of this room and through the centre of these people and suddenly to pause and petrify, stiff, still and glittering... and the objects in the room drew a little closer together.

- Robert Musil

She wasn`t stiff. She was very heavy. Very heavy. Very, very. And I remember that she, she was (a) mess, and so heavy I think I probably ended up dropping her.

- Kelly Ryan

It was fairly nothing. It came through and had a good stiff wind, but that was about it.

- Gary Wood

Twenty can`t be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty`s eternal love affairs.

- Alderman Joe Charles

Little soul, wandering , gentle guest and companion of my body, into what places will you now go, pale, stiff, and naked, no longer sporting as you did.

- Andy Haste

Always the problem with wanting to do structure is to do them in a way that still moves and is still comfortable, not really stiff,

- Anja de Beer

I`ve invited young swimmers to train with me, to see what it takes, ... They see us warm up, see us perform. But they don`t see the months and months of training, the mornings when you`re so stiff you can`t even get out of bed. I want them to see that.

- Ann Godesky

It`s still stiff, so we`ll see where he`s at tomorrow. It`s going to be day-to-day.

- Ashley Brasovan

I have acute pain in my right shoulder which is very stiff. I could have played by taking pain killer injections but it is risky and I have decided to take the rest.

- Barbara Dooley

I broke a sweat while watching her out there. Arakawa-san looked full of confidence and her rivals appeared to be stiff and nervous.

- Bari Rogers

...Depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling...People who keep stiff upper lips find that it`s damn hard to smile.

- Judith Guest

A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.

- G.K. Chesterton