Prod's Quotes

#1. I think it's always good for the author to stay a good cattle prod's distance from the actual moviemaking.

Carl Hiaasen

#2. A commander in chief with military experience might be able to prod a conservative military into thinking more imaginatively.

Wesley Clark

#3. The point of poetry is to be acutely discomforting, to prod and provoke, to poke us in the eye, to punch us in the nose, to knock us off our feet, to take our breath away.

Paul Muldoon

#4. This is the worst of our ways of remembering
this tendency to prod the crust of anecdote in the hope of releasing a gush of piping-hot symbolism.

Kamila Shamsie

#5. Churches we build only by our own efforts and not in the strength of the Spirit will quickly collapse when we don't push and prod people along.

Francis Chan

#6. Humor is in fact an essential element in the mirth of creation. We can see how, in many matters in our lives, God wants to prod us into taking things a bit more lightly.

Pope Benedict XVI

#7. When you hit a groove, it's not you; it's the spirit world. The spirits whisper the ideas in your brain and prod you along. They're the ones that are really happy.

Tommy Chong

#8. Working with the media remains an effective and essential way to raise issues, educate the public, and prod policy-makers and corporate leaders to change for the better.

Chuck Schumer

#9. You must learn how to handle rejection. To succeed, you must learn how to cope with a little word 'no', learn how to strip that rejection of all its power. The best salesmen are those who are rejected most. They are the ones who can take any 'no' and use it as a prod to go onto the next 'yes'.

Tony Robbins

#10. It was him taught Idi Amin's lads how to extract voluntary confessions with the aid of an electric cattle-prod. Our chum likes them English and he likes them with a dirty past. He

John Le Carre

#11. I will employ the gentle, vague expression "I'm not crazy about that on you," which should mean to you, "Holy shit, take that off, that looks terrible!" I owe it to you to give feedback like a cattle prod: painful but quick.

Mindy Kaling

#12. A few alligators are naturally of the vicious type and inclined to resent it when you prod them with a stick. You can find out which ones these are by prodding them.

Will Cuppy

#13. What are your duties?" said Vimes. "To Serve The Public Trust, Protect The Innocent, And Seriously Prod Buttock, Sir," said Dorfl.

Terry Pratchett

#14. Occasionally, I'll dream I'm in the factory. That will help me write. Not creatively, but more like a prod. I don't want to go back there.

Robert Reed

#15. Wiggles hissed as I crossed the floor toward the throne. She fixed me with her empty hateful eyes and smelled the air, her long tongue shivering
through the slit of the lipless mouth. Nice to see you too, sweetheart. Remember my cattle prod?

Ilona Andrews

#16. The First Amendment is now being used by the secularists of our day as a cattle prod to herd conservative religious people out of the public life of the nation and into, as others have put it, a religious ghetto.

Pat Swindall

#17. If you think someone is seriously on the prod for your ass, it keeps you awake.

Richard Bachman

#18. I hate how books do this to you. They destroy your soul, pick and prod them till the bleed, stab your eyes so you have no choice but cry, yet ... " she paused, "yet you cannot help but love them.

Darby Browne

#19. My mind spins. This last stage of pregnancy has been positively surreal. Acquaintances ask me when I will have my second kid. Doctors prod me toward contraception. How bizarre to question a woman who can't even picture herself with one baby about the logistics (or not) of a second. I

Hope Jahren

#20. Calling out people for not voting, what experts term 'public shaming,' can prod someone to cast a ballot.

Charles Duhigg

#21. Warlock D. J. Prod of Didsbury says:
My wife used to sneer at my feeble charms, but one month into your fabulous Kwikspell course and I succeeded in turning her into a yak!
Thank you, Kwikspell!

J.K. Rowling

#22. [Your] dream will challenge, prod and haunt you until you surrender to its call.

Wayne Cordeiro

#23. People want to do good things, they just need a prod sometimes, and what Twitter and other technologies that connect people are showing us is that if you make it a little easier for people then you will enable them to do what they want to do, to help people out, to form groups and do good.

Evan Williams

#24. If you are squeamish
Don't prod the
beach rubble.

Sappho

#25. The bubbly play of wit, the chesty laughs, the resonant voices of men when glass in hand they shut the grey world outside and prod their brains with the fun and folly of an accelerated pulse.

Jack London

#26. I have yet to face Writer's Block and I don't believe I ever will. It is much more difficult for me to shut my imagination down to get a good nights sleep than it is to prod it to life.

Kenneth J. Ester

#27. I didn't feel like gymnastics were part of The Cars. I certainly philosophically didn't want to prod the audience to react to anything. To me, it was more like negative theater. We didn't really talk to the audience. I didn't see that being a part of this band.

Ric Ocasek

#28. But you know, only boring people get bored. They have to prod themselves continually in order to feel alive.

Charles Bukowski

#29. I'm doing all that I can to prod the industry and get them to pay more attention [ to larger women and petite women]. Because I find it to be reprehensible and repugnant that two populations that are so pervasive in this nation should be so badly neglected.

Tim Gunn

#30. I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.

Winston S. Churchill

#31. Stroke the fire, prod the tiger. Hate me. Hate me like you did that night. Let's start at the beginning, and end it right here, annihilate everything.
Annihilate me.

Aleksandr Voinov

#32. Curiously, the novels we escaped into led us finally to question and prod our own realities, about which we felt so helplessly speechless.

Azar Nafisi

#33. My job as an editor is to gently prod the attention of the audience to look at various parts of the frame. And that - I do that by manipulating how and where I cut and what succession of images I work with.

Walter Murch

#34. My parents would have to put the fire hose on me to get me out of bed, to go to school in the morning. They would use a cattle prod and just shock me, or throw boiling water on me, or fire a gun next to my head, to get me out of bed.

Jackson Rathbone

#35. You have to know when to prod and when to be quiet, when to let things take their course.

Sue Monk Kidd

#36. There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.

Robert Frost

#37. It stings to clean a wound, to poke it and prod it until certain that any contagions have been excised, but we want to heal.

Bromleigh McCleneghan

#38. As a writer of historical fiction, I believe you don't want to fictionalize gratuitously; you want the fictional aspects to prod and pressure the history into new and exciting reactions.

Matthew Pearl

#39. By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films do battle for our very soul.

Theodore Bikel

#40. I don't care whose son he is. I won't go belly-up like a timid pup. If he's fool enough to take a poke at me, I'll snap the finger clean off that does the poking.

Patrick Rothfuss

#41. I don't agree with the sentiment 'write what you know.' ... I think one should write what one doesn't know. The world is bigger and wider and more complex than our small subjective selves. One should prod, goad the imagination.

Cynthia Ozick

#42. You were torturing a cat," she says. "With a freaking prod."
"A prod I built myself in metal shop," he says. "But of course you never mention that.

George Saunders

#43. Look, there's more to this than either of us thought." Finch waited for her to continue. He knew the pattern: whenever she had new information, she needed to assess what part she could reveal to him. He realized she needed another prod. "Jennie, I didn't have to tell you about the Whitelaw's

D.F. Bailey

#44. Then there was Mani, the Mighty Good-For-Nothing. He towered above all the other boys of the class. He seldom brought any books to the class, and never bothered about homework. He came to the class, monopolized the last bench, ans slept bravely. No teacher ever tried to prod him.

R.K. Narayan

#45. I don't know what the problem with Capitol is. Some one's got to wake 'em up. Prod 'em a little bit.

Les Baxter

#46. As much as others may need to change, or we may want them to change, the only person we can continually inspire, prod, and shape - with any degree of success - is the person in the mirror.

Kerry Patterson

#47. No matter how much I prove and prod, I cannot quite believe in God; But oh, I hope to God that He Unswervingly believes in me.

Yip Harburg

#48. Never prod at woman, unless you must, she will kill you faster than a man and for less reason. Even if she weeps over it after.

Robert Jordan

#49. He knew taht many of his compatriots avoided marriage at all costs. They saw matrimony as an annoyance, a wife as another person who would nag and prod. But when he repeated his vows, he heard "as long as we both shall life" and he hoped.

Courtney Milan

#50. Aunt Alice was known to have a tongue with the kick of a cattle prod when she was upset.

Elizabeth M. Thompson

#51. Religion is a dangerous prod, because it can always be misused and get out of hand, but it's useful for keeping people on the straight and narrow.

Octavia Butler

#52. At the end of each day, you should play back the tapes of your performance. The results should either applaud you or prod you.

Jim Rohn