Hedgehog Quotes

#1. A hedgehog? And just how does a hedgehog make love?" he demanded.
No, I thought. I won't. I will not. But I did. "Very carefully," I replied, giggling helplessly. So now we know just how old that one is, I thought.

Diana Gabaldon

#2. So my answer is, YES, everyone can find a hedgehog concept. If these companies can do it, anyone can do it. And anybody who says they can't is simply whining.

James Collins

#3. Nothing kills a party like an oversize metal hedgehog.

Ilona Andrews

#4. The figure stopped to cough long and hard, making a noise like a wall being hit repeatedly with a bag of rocks. Moist saw that it had a beard of the short bristled type that suggested that its owner had been interrupted halfway through eating a hedgehog.

Terry Pratchett

#5. She was still going somewhere terrible, but she had a hedgehog, damnit.

T. Kingfisher

#6. Hair and hole, horn and teeth - hedgehog, walrus, ape, Josef Breuer. He

Irvin D. Yalom

#7. Art is life playing to other rhythms."
"The Elegance of the Hedgehog

Muriel Barbery

#8. My future chef was an oversized, hysterical hedgehog with a martyr complex.

Ilona Andrews

#9. When I was super young, I had an Atari and used to play 'Space Invaders.' Then I fell in love with 'Mario Bros.,' 'Sonic the Hedgehog' and 'Yoshi' on Super Nintendo. I was quite a bit of a gamer as a kid when I think about it.

Amber Rose

#10. You must be hungry," said the satyr. "Either that, or your stomach speaks hedgehog. That was quite a statement in hedgehog.

Rick Riordan

#11. It was still white, and it still glowed under the moon, and the cobbles were still as rounded as old skulls, and the leaves still looked like splashes of blood across the stones, but Rhea felt better. She was still going somewhere terrible, but she had a hedgehog, dammit.

T. Kingfisher

#12. An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.

Friedrich Von Schlegel

#13. At least he went on saying this till Aslan had loaded him up with three dwarfs, one dryad, two rabbits, and a hedgehog, that steadied him a bit.

C.S. Lewis

#14. Sharon exuded the brightness of a firefly, the confidence of a double-decker bus, the optimism of a hedgehog and the tact of a small thermonuclear missile.

Kate Griffin

#15. It may seem odd to talk about something as soft and fuzzy as "passion" as an integral part of a strategic framework. But throughout the good-to-great companies, passion became a key part of the Hedgehog Concept.

James C. Collins

#16. The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.

Isaiah Berlin

#17. Reichardt kept people relentlessly focused on the simple hedgehog idea,

James C. Collins

#18. Better not sit on a hedgehog if you're naked." ~ Russian Author Mikhail Bulgakov ~ The White Guard 1925

T.C. Donivan

#19. The hedgehog was engaged in a fight with another hedgehog, which seemed to Alice an excellent opportunity for croqueting one of them with the other: the only difficulty was, that her flamingo was gone across to

Lewis Carroll

#20. Hedgehog Concept - disciplined action, following from disciplined people who exercise disciplined thought.

James C. Collins

#21. Isabelle looked dubious. "Mom and Dad won't be pleased if they find out."
"That you freed a possible criminal by trading away your brother to a warlock who looks like a gay Sonic the Hedgehog and dresses like the Child Catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Band? Simon inquired. "No, probably not.

Cassandra Clare

#22. It was starting to get impatient. A hedgehog hopping irritably on its hind legs is a tragic sight.

T. Kingfisher

#23. I successfully chloroformed a hedgehog that was entangled in the tennis net and so managed to release it.

Agatha Christie

#24. He had about the same life expectancy as a three legged hedgehog on a six lane motorway.

Terry Pratchett

#25. He has been mad for you these many months, ever since you prodded him in the nether regions with a hedgehog.

Gail Carriger

#26. It is somehow easier to face things when one is not alone. Courage still does most of the heavy lifting, but Pride gets its shoulder in there, too, just to keep you from embarrassing yourself in front of the other person...or hedgehog, as the case may be.

T. Kingfisher

#27. The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one, but that is the best of all.

Archilochos

#28. I'm not a mouse or a tigress, she thought, I'm a hedgehog.

Vikram Seth

#29. If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.

Douglas Adams

#30. I hate the hand that comes out of a car and just drops litter in the street. I hate that! For some reason, it just fills me with fury! It's just utter laziness, lack of interest in other people, lack of interest in the planet, in the hedgehog who might eat the plastic bag, it's a lack of concern.

Joanna Lumley

#31. Some persons think that they have to look like a hedgehog to be pious.

Billy Sunday

#32. Finding peace and contentment with Evernight - two emotions he was certain he'd never found in bed with a woman before - was entirely unacceptable. When awake, the woman was prickly as a hedgehog and about as lovable as a block of ice.

Kristen Callihan

#33. In other words, the budget process is not about figuring out how much each activity gets, but about determining which activities best support the Hedgehog Concept and should be fully strengthened and which should be eliminated entirely.

James C. Collins

#34. What ... you're a hedgehog!" It stirred at her touch and then curled up tighter. "You're a very small hedgehog. And you shouldn't be wandering round enchanted palaces looking for adventures.

Robin McKinley

#35. "Growth!" is not a Hedgehog Concept. Rather, if you have the right Hedgehog Concept and make decisions relentlessly consistent with it, you will create such momentum that your main problem will not be how to grow, but how not to grow too fast.

James C. Collins

#36. When I went to college, I discovered the Sega console, and 'Sonic the Hedgehog' became very dear to me.

Edgar Wright

#37. Smiley was the oddest. You thought, to look at him, that he couldn't cross the road alone, but you might as well have offered protection to a hedgehog.

John Le Carre

#38. We all make mistakes, as the hedgehog said as he climbed off the scrubbing brush

Anne Sullivan Macy

#39. If wits were pins, the man would be a veritable hedgehog.

Frances Hardinge

#40. Sonic the hedgehog is a beautiful statement on capitalism. You spend your whole life collecting yellow rings and then hit one spike and lose them all. And there is a fat man who wants to kill you.

Thom Yorke

#41. Fraser stood quite still for a moment, breathing slowly and regarding Woodbine as a tiger might regard a hedgehog: yes, he could eat it, but would the inconvenience of swallowing be worth it?

Diana Gabaldon

#42. That's what the future is for: to build the present, with real plans, made by living people. - The Elegance of the Hedgehog

Muriel Barbery

#43. I'm an inveterate fox and not a hedgehog, so I always think you should try everything.

Clifford Geertz

#44. The way you want to respond is to ask a question: Is this technology directly relevant to our hedgehog concept? If the answer is YES, then we want to become pioneers, not in the technology, but in the application of that technology specifically linked to our hedgehog concept.

James Collins

#45. Toby, watch Jaden. I heard he had a bad night and is in the mood for annihilation. End of the world's not on me today, bud. Hey, Takeshi, get your fat butt off me. You're squishing the fox. There is no honor in sacrificing the fox, you ugly hedgehog. (Acheron)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#46. He lies like a hedgehog rolled up the wrong way, Tormenting himself with his prickles.

Thomas Hood

#47. Small, short-sighted, blonde, barbed - she reminds me of a bright little hedgehog.

Edwina Currie

#48. This area produces a protein given the whimsical name Sonic Hedgehog,

Brian Switek

#49. Coraline also explored for animals. She found a hedgehog, and a snakeskin )but no snake), and a rock that looked just like a frog, and a toad that looked just like a rock.

Neil Gaiman

#50. Ringo's eyes narrowed as he studied me. "Yer different." "Than what? A hedgehog?" He

April White

#51. In classic hedgehog style, Walgreens took this simple concept and implemented it with fanatical consistency.

James C. Collins

#52. How the fuck do you keep your hair like that? I look like a hedgehog's been humping my skull.

James S.A. Corey

#53. I don't know why I'm second-guessing Crevan's sanity - I'm sitting here talking to a hedgehog mime.

T. Kingfisher

#54. Daemon Black could be as prickly as a hedgehog having a really bad day, but underneath all that spindly armor, he was sweet, protective, and incredibly selfless.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#55. I never sleep before 4 A.M. and usually play 'Sonic the Hedgehog' computer games before bed. I like Sonic - he reminds me of Happy, my hamster that died. I used to stay up and watch Happy.

Martin Millar

#56. Step aside? I step aside for nobeast, whether it be a hallowed hedgehog, an officious otter, a seasoned squirrel, a mutterin' mole or a befuddled badger!

Brian Jacques

#57. The fox knows many tricks; the hedgehog one good one.

Archilochos

#58. The fox knows many things . . . the hedgehog knows one big thing.

Eric Greitens

#59. I recognize a few more of the attendees: Mustela fae - ferret-like creatures with long, venomous fangs and vulnerable craniums, a hedgehog being with the face of a sparrow, a pink woman with a neck as long as a flamingo. There

A.G. Howard

#60. I speak many times about Stephen Ireland, that he is shy like a hedgehog.

Giovanni Trapattoni

#61. My digestion is not mocked!" boomed the Russian. "Nor will I stand idly while Miss Larouche is insulted! You are banished, hedgehog! My digestion has spoken-BEGONE!

James Kennedy

#62. The English, who look on stoically as national health hospitals in run-down metropolitan areas close their wards through lack of support and patients spend time on trolleys in corridors, are comforted by the knowledge that wounded hedgehogs are tenderly cared for in a hedgehog hospital.

Antony Miall

#63. The Gerat Bald Swamp Hedgehog of Billericay displays, in courtship, his single prickle and does impressions of Holiday Inn desk clerks. Since this means him standing motionless for enormous periods of time he is often eaten in full display by The Great Bald Swamp Hedgehog Eater.

Mike Harding

#64. I am voice actor Roger Craig Smith. You may know me as Batman, Captain America, Sonic the Hedgehog, Ezio from Assassin's Creed, Transformers: RID, or narrator of "Say Yes To the Dress" (among many other things). AMA!

Roger Craig Smith

#65. With respect to the ZPA, what kind of digit develops depends on how close the digit is to the source of Sonic hedgehog.

Neil Shubin

#66. The box filled gradually around them over the next half hour. Mr. Weasley kept shaking hands with people who were obviously very important wizards. Percy jumped to his feet so often that he looked as though he were trying to sit on a hedgehog.

J.K. Rowling

#67. That you freed a possible criminal by trading away your brother to a warlock who looks like a gay sonic the Hedgehog and dresses like the childcatcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

Cassandra Clare

#68. Consider the simple hedgehog, and his neighbor, the opossum ... do they waste their energy trying to throw one another into chasms when they face a common enemy, the winter? No!

Ransom Riggs

#69. Madame Michel has the elegance of the hedgehog: on the outside she is covered in quills, a real fortress, but my gut feeling is that on the inside, she has the same simple refinement as the hedgehog: a deceptively indolent little creature, fiercely solitary
and terrible elegant.

Muriel Barbery

#70. So if there is something on the planet that is worth living for, I'd better not miss it, because once you're dead, it's too late for regrets, and if you die by mistake, that is really, really dumb.

Muriel Barbery