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Quotes About Stuck

can't drive off because of the flat tires,
~ Delores Fossen
Her father sagged as relief spread through him. "I thought something awful was happening." She frowned. "Something awful was happening. It could have got stuck in my hair.
~ Derek Landy
You got stuck in a wall?" she said. "For how long?" "A few minutes. Half an hour. An hour at the most. Maybe two. Or a day. Remember that day I called Valkyrie and told her to take the afternoon off? Yeah, I was stuck in a wall.
~ Derek Landy
But sometimes a person's brain starts cycling. No matter what you do, the same thoughts just keep repeating, over and over. You get stuck in a loop, and when you're inside that loop, you can't see past it. You'll keep coming up with the same possibilities, to no end, because the answers you need—they're outside the loop. Distractions aren't just distractions. Sometimes they can break you out of the loop.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
But sometimes a person's brain starts cycling. No matter what you do, the same thoughts just keep repeating, over and over. You get stuck in a loop, and when you're inside that loop, you can't see past it. You'll keep coming up with the same possibilities, to no end, because the answers you need—they're outside the loop.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
The people who are stuck between here and there, waiting. It reminds me of winter, how everything is all pale and cold and full of nothing, and all you can do is wait for spring.
~ Jennifer McMahon
the room. 'Do you ever pick anything up when you drop it? Goodness, what's this mess on the carpet – something stuck to it?' 'Oh – so that's where my nougat went!' said Peter, scraping
~ Enid Blyton
I can't keep doing this," she said to Sy, "but I can't do anything else, either. So where does that leave me?
~ Amy Stewart
As a dancer, you learn the importance of transitional moments. If you figure out what you can do next, that's how you don't get stuck.
~ Omarion
A Latin teacher told me I might make a good actress, and that stuck in my memory. I did some modeling, and Polanski gave me that small part.
~ Jacqueline Bisset
When we are depressed, we have a sense of being deadened and blocked. When we fully experience our sadness, we may not feel on top of the world, but we will feel very much alive and may even have a sense of wellbeing. Most importantly, when we experience our emotions fully, we will eventually move through them to a new feeling space. On the other hand, if we avoid our emotions, we tend to stay stuck in a particular emotional state.
~ Rick Carson
You could pay Arthur Janov to teach you to scream about history, or you could learn prayer or a mantra, or you could write your life down and hope to make peace with it, write it down, or paint it, or turn it into improvisational theater, but that was the best you could probably do. You were stuck.
~ Rick Moody
It had been a futile gesture, of course, but then they were trapped in an era when futile gestures were all that were available.
~ Robert Harris
If your mind is truly, profoundly stuck, then it might be much better off than when it was loaded with ideas
~ Robert M. Pirsig
But, the stultifying lingo aside, the question I raise is a vital one for us all, we are all stuck with trying to find the meaning of our lives, and the only thing we have to work on, or with, is our past.
~ Robert Penn Warren
Non riesco a fermarmi, ma non posso andare avanti.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
Ik kan er niet mee ophouden, maar ik kan er ook niet mee doorgaan.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
But too often we dread being stuck. Especially our students and young people. We believe that if we are stuck we have failed. On the contrary, we should welcome getting stuck. We should embrace getting stuck. That's when discovery begins.
~ Alan Lightman
She'd read lots of books about people finding new lives, which hadn't helped her mood either, had made her feel more and more trapped and stuck where she was, as if everyone except her was managing to get away and do interesting things.
~ Jenny Colgan
You could give us a hand instead of staring into space like a constipated camel.
~ Angie Sage
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.
~ Robert Downey Jr.
Now, I don't even want to be associated with him (President Obama). It's like touching a, a tar baby and you get it . . . you know you're stuck, and you're part of the problem now, and you can't get away."
~ Doug Lamborn
People get stuck a lot because they're afraid to act; in the worst case,...we get so attached to some end result that we can't function. We need help just to move on, only life doesn't wait.
~ Bernie Glassman
I'd tell him to go to hell, but it just so happens I'm stuck there and don't want to have to see him every day.
~ Jill Shalvis