Quotes About Stiff

She raised herself up on her elbow and jerked her chin at his stiff arms and motionless body. You're acting like you've never been in bed with a female before. This time only one eyebrow went up and his lip twitched like he was trying to hide a smile. Is that how you'd like me to relax?

Boxing is so loose and flowy, and martial arts is more stiff, and about strength and structure.

I note how stiff they are with each other, how carefully they keep separate, as magnets must keep a safe distance or be slammed together by their very nature.

My schoolfellows were mostly stiff, illiterate lads, who, with a little bad Latin and worse Greek, plumed themselves mightily on their scholarship; and I had little inducement to form any intimacies among them; for, of all men, the ignorant scholar is the least amusing.

A story danced in his head as he walked through the dried buffalo grass of winter. The stiff stalks made a swishing sound, like a brush lightly moving over a drum. His imagination was all the escape he needed most days. He was leaving his world, his reality, his home, if only for an hour. If only in his mind.

In addition to changes in the meanings of English words, we find differences in what linguists call "register," such as how formal language differs from informal, spoken from written, casual from stiff, etc. (We

This parrot is no more! It has ceased to be! It's expired and gone to meet its maker! This is a late parrot! It's a stiff! Bereft of life, it rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed it to the perch, it would be pushing up the daisies! It's rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. This is an ex-parrot!

Every man in Ingary is scared stiff of her. You ought to know how that feels, Sophie dear.

...Don't you just hate a phony-looking stiff?" - Aunt Edna