Quotes About Porcupines

#1. Once I got away from him, I was smart enough to stay away from him. To hunt that one is as wise as to go hunting a porcupine.

I cannot leave this alone, Nighteyes.

I understand. I am the same about porcupines.

Robin Hobb

#2. For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see wild penguins sledding downhill to sea on their bellies, giant pandas holding bamboo lollipops in China or tree porcupines in the Canadian Rockies, balled up like giant pine cones.

Diane Ackerman

#3. Schopenhauer has a metaphor for human closeness. He writes about cold porcupines who have to snuggle up to keep warm, but if they snuggle too close they stab each other with their quills. A crowd of porcupines is constantly, uncomfortably assessing the safety of proximity.

Brenda Walker

#4. Rise and shine, porcupines!

Maureen Johnson

#5. In the nuclear age, superpowers make war like porcupines make love - carefully.

Robert F. Kennedy

#6. Writing Vampire Erotica is like writing sex scenes for porcupines.

Benjamin R. Smith

#7. I do declare! I'd rather jump barefoot off a six-foot step ladder into a five-gallon bucket full of porcupines than see anything gad happen to you."
"I don'y think that's necessary , but the situation scares me a little

Ashlyn Chase

#8. The weather was fine and moderate. The hunters all returned, having killed during their absence three elk, four deer, two porcupines, a fox and a hare.

Meriwether Lewis

#9. Relationships with negative people are simply tedious encounters with porcupines. You don't have the remote knowledge how to be close to them without quills being shot in your direction.

Shannon L. Alder

#10. If you start throwing hedgehogs under me, I shall throw a couple of porcupines under you.

Nikita Khrushchev

#11. We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?

Walter Matthau

#12. I'm a little hoarse tonight. I've been living in Chicago for the past two months, and you know how it is, yelling for help on the way home every night. Things are so tough in Chicago that at Easter time, for bunnies the little kids use porcupines.

Fred Allen

#13. A prickle of porcupines, a cackle of hyenas, a pounce of cats, a slither of snakes. But it's a nest of vipers, a quiver of cobras, and a rhumba of rattlesnakes. They also have a parliament of owls and a congress of baboons, which I find insulting to baboons myself.

Abigail Roux

#14. Cat piss and porcupines!

Kate Hattemer

#15. Memories, as my father once said, are porcupines. To hell with them! Stay away from them! They make you unhappy. They ruin your work. They make you cry

Ray Bradbury

#16. Etiquette was so confounding in this country. Still, looking at Mirabella-her fists balled together like small, white porcupines, her brows knitted in animal confusion-I felt a throb of compassion. How can people live like they do? I wondered. Then I congragulated myself. This was a Stage 3 thought.

Karen Russell

#17. There is no universal language in the jungles; each species has its own language, and though the vocabulary of some is limited, as in the case of porcupines and vultures, the language of each species is understood by all the jungle-folk.

Jim Corbett

#18. Susan, you were a mighty fine woman when you were alive and all, but personally I'd rather be gang-raped by giant, rabid, syphilitic porcupines, than join your shithead, hippie-commune, undead family, you scrawny-ass, vampire skank whore.

Larry Correia

#19. You can fight a porcupine and win, but if other folks get a look at you they may think it's a bad idea to mess with porcupines.

Neal Knox

#20. I have a weird sense of humour. My dad's the same. We love watching 'Monty Python' together.

Miranda Kerr

#21. I once was the walrus, now I'm John.

John Lennon

#22. Every time you rip the bandages off, you just open the wound up again. Every time he sees you, it's like tearing off the bandages.

Cassandra Clare

#23. A witty writer is like a porcupine; his quill makes no distinction between friend and foe.

Josh Billings

#24. I find that the great artists I've met are people who are so playfully invested in their process that, even if it doesn't come out the way they like, they still power through and even take energy from it.

George Saunders

#25. American musicians are very giving - they have the highest standard in the world - but they are also very demanding in their conditions.

Zubin Mehta

#26. We all know what happens to first ladies who shoot their mouths off.

Maria Shriver

#27. If I went to jail, at least I wouldn't have to sign autographs.

Kurt Cobain

#28. By one bait or another, Nature allures inhabitants into all her recesses.

Henry David Thoreau

#29. The porcupine, which one must handle gloved, may be respected, but is never loved.

Arthur Guiterman

#30. Just ended a conversation with one of America's most famous atheists with "God bless you." Couldn't help it. And I meant it. And he knew it.

Albert Mohler

#31. We often observe that there is abundance of capital to be had at low rates of interest, while there are also large numbers of artisans starving for want of employment.

William Stanley Jevons