Bristles Quotes

#1. You could weave silk from pig bristles before you could make a man anything but a man.

Robert Jordan

#2. Pork - no animal is more used for nourishment and none more indispensable in the kitchen; employed either fresh or salt, all is useful, even to its bristles and its blood; it is the superfluous riches of the farmer, and helps to pay the rent of the cottager.

Alexis Soyer

#3. Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.

A.E. Housman

#4. I fell asleep to the scent of my wolf. Pine needles, cold rain, earthy perfume, coarse bristles on my face.

Maggie Stiefvater

#5. Eventually he kicked the bristles and gave a long intake of breath, a sort of reverse whistle, which is the secret sign of craftsmen across the universe and means that something expensive is about to happen.

Terry Pratchett

#6. Proceed with caution, but don't be put off. After all, bristles aside, the porcupine is a harmless creature.

Susan Francis

#7. It is here that we see the dawn of hope: for no matter how formidably Communism bristles with tanks and rockets, no matter what successes it attains in seizing the planet, it is doomed never to vanquish Christianity.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#8. There is joy in feeling the bristles of a quality brush, seeing the richness and lush color of truly good pigment flowing onto the paper or canvas. The cheap stuff just makes for harder work and lesser results.

Gene Black

#9. Grace: I picked up my sweater from the floor and crawled back into bed. Shoving my pillow aside, I balled up the sweater to use instead.
I fell asleep to the scent of my wolf. Pine needles, cold rain, earthy perfume, coarse bristles on my face.
It was almost like he was there.

Maggie Stiefvater

#10. I choose me bristles with pride
Yes, I do
A broom for the shaft
And a broom for the flume
Though I'm covered with soot
From me 'ead to me toes
A sweep knows 'e's welcome
Wherever 'e goes

Richard M. Sherman

#11. A hairy body, and arms stiff with bristles, give promise of a manly soul.

Juvenal

#12. It always seems to me odd to call a place a wilderness when every wilderness area in the US bristles with rules and regulations as to how you can behave, what you're allowed to do, and is patrolled by armed rangers enforcing the small print. They're parks, of course, not wildernesses at all.

Jonathan Raban

#13. Mr. Feeder, B.A. (who was in the habit of shaving his head for coolness, and had nothing but little bristles on it), gave him a boney hand, and told him he was glad to see him - which Paul would have been very glad to have told him, if he could have done so with the least sincerity. Then

Charles Dickens

#14. The pig is taught by sermons and epistles
To think the God of Swine has snout and bristles.

Ambrose Bierce

#15. Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.

Honore De Balzac

#16. Maybe he wouldn't fear my bite, my kookiness, maybe he'd get past my thorny bristles to see there is sweetness here. Would understand that moving on doesn't mean never talking about it, never crying about it.

Jessica Knoll

#17. Dreams form the bristles of the artist's brush.

Arshile Gorky

#18. What I saw appalled me. I felt my hair rise like bristles on the back of my neck, and my heart seemed to stand still.

Bram Stoker

#19. The stuff of thought is the seed of the artist. Dreams form the bristles of the artist's brush. As the eye functions as the brain's sentry, I communicate my innermost perceptions through the art, my worldview.

Arshile Gorky

#20. These stupid chignons! There's no getting at the real daughter. One simply strokes the bristles of dead women.

Leo Tolstoy

#21. This is the way I think I should always paint you- with a size twenty-four round brush in my hand as you coat the bristles

Ella Frank

#22. With girls house bristles with suspicion and frigidity; how much is paranoia transference? The damnable thing is that they can sense insecurity and meaness like animals smell blood.

Sylvia Plath

#23. I was looking for a father, he was gone. I hung around with the thugs, and even though they sold drugs, they showed a young brother love.

Tupac Shakur

#24. Science can prove nothing about God, because God lies outside its province.

Huston Smith

#25. Motivation is an inner force that compels behavior. Your inner drives will propel you further and faster than external perks.

Denis Waitley

#26. When you can become completely impassive in play, then you become fluid and completely unpredictable. No one knows, including yourself, what you will do next. You couldn't even explain it.

Frederick Lenz

#27. I've never really sought out publicity.

Dennis Quaid

#28. If you read a book which does not make you wonder, ponder!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#29. I am James's but he is not mine.

Kiersten White

#30. She stole my dreams. I wanted to show her I can survive and now that won't happen

Sondra Torres