Bristle Quotes

#1. Gina Rodgers raised her hand, triggering a class-wide bristle. Everyone wanted to impress Mr. Tipton, but it was Gina who always raised her hand first, like he was going to fall in love with her for her 4.3 GPA or something.

Mira Jacob

#2. There's something about seeing an adult you knew in childhood that makes them marginally vulnerable to you, and vice versa. There's also something comforting in thinking that if they made it this far, relatively unscathed, then maybe you didn't turn out half bad either.

Vicki Pettersson

#3. Invisible airwaves crackle with life Bright antennae bristle with the energy Emotional feedback on a timeless wavelength Bearing a gift beyond price, almost free

Geddy Lee

#4. Biology textbooks tell you the opposite action of sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems. One produces cold, blue-white anger, the other flushed apoplexy. Roy's was the pink sort. He was a big blonde man, with Viking bristle to eyebrows and mustache.

Alison Jolly

#5. He, who loves the bristle of bayonets, only sees in their glitter what beforehand he feels in his hand.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#6. She saw the man below looking at her, she saw the insolent hint of amusement tell her that he knew she did not want him to look at her now. She turned her head away.

Ayn Rand

#7. The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do not say.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#8. I bristle at the implication that only with the help of a Big Six editor does a novel lose its self-indulgent aspects. Before the advent of self-publishing, there were plenty of self-indulgent novels on the shelves.

Jennifer Armintrout

#9. I want to make you scream and claw and faint in my arms, he whispered, his masculine bristle scraping against her skin.

Lisa Kleypas

#10. I'm not like her. I don't steal people."
Mr. Tibbalt watched her, saying nothing.
The silence made Victoria bristle. "Well, I don't.

Claire Legrand

#11. Guess?" Vizzini cried. "I don't guess. I think. I ponder. I deduce. Then I decide. But I never guess.

William Goldman

#12. Move from an earthly mindset that makes us bristle at the thought of submission to a joyful expectation of good, we must focus on the One who is leading. We must look at the full spectrum of His love, grace, and wisdom.

Amy Layne Litzelman

#13. The wooden hairbrush has two practical uses, the bristle side to be used on her silken locks, and the harsh, wooden side to be used on her shapely seat of learning

Michael

#14. When the doors to the control room opened, I instantly threw my knife. Liam stared at the knife lodged in the wall by his head before looking at me wide eyed.

J.J. McAvoy

#15. Albion Park on a fierce spring morning. A mad March day of ice and fire. Thomas's feet beat a tattoo on the path. Every hair, every bristle on his chin stands on end. He is a small star-ship of blazing neurons- He is a librarian on his way to work, half-blind with sun and cold and memory.

Maggie Gee

#16. Now?" Cooper looks back at me with a joyous grin. "Now we live happily ever after.

Meg Cabot

#17. You are alive, and you don't need to justify your existence. You can be the biggest mystery in your own story.

Miguel Ruiz

#18. You know what intimacy is? It's into-me-you-see.

Martin De Maat

#19. Fame puts you there where things are hollow.

David Bowie

#20. I don't bill myself as an atheist but as a naturalist. Naturalism is a belief system. A lot of scientists bristle at that. We all have to believe we can find the truth. Evidence is my guide. I rely on observation, experimentation and verification.

Greg Graffin

#21. The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he discovers that his great-grandfather was a Pirate.

Bernard Williams

#22. In my case, I got hit a lot by bullies when I was a child, and so I naturally bristle against anybody who abuses power. And that seems to make me rather persistent when it comes to exposing the abuse of power.

Nick Davies

#23. Who is wiser: the man who plants flowers along life's way or the man who makes it bristle with thorns?

Charles Fourier

#24. Most atheists bristle at the thought that atheism has anything to do with faith, but not Penn Jillette.

Ray Comfort

#25. I don't want my daughter to be educated. I think women should just be decorative.

Richard Brautigan

#26. Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.

Edna O'Brien

#27. I totally bristle against words like "dysfunction" or "abuse."

Justin Torres

#28. My girlishness has sharp teeth.

Kristen Orser

#29. :She still didn't have to lock you in a box,: said the wolf, emerging from Cricket's thoughts. :If she does that again, I will eat her.:
Cricket laughed. :You wouldn't do that.:
:No, I would not. But as your companion and protector, I must bristle and play the part.:

Ash Gray

#30. This is his uncle's teaching, this Worcester, Malevolent to you In all aspects, Which makes him prune himself and bristle up The crest of youth against your dignity.

William Shakespeare

#31. I know what makes me happy. I know what makes me miserable. I'm trying to stay on the happy side.

Chamique Holdsclaw

#32. Some women bristle, in certain contexts, at being called female: it seems to focus exclusively on the reproductive system, and makes you feel like a chicken, all thighs and breasts.

Mary Norris

#33. Make an exercise out of everything you can't do.

Steve Vai

#34. Sometimes I envy religious people for the comfort of believing. It would make everything so much easier.

Peter Cameron

#35. GenXers naturally bristle at hierarchies, but thrive on partnerships.

Mal Fletcher