Quotes About Quills

#1. Prickly
When I'm feeling
porcupine-y,
I get nasty,
I get whiny.
Stay away or
I might stick you.
My sharp words are
quills to prick you.

Laura Purdie Salas

#2. We're not very dangerous animals; we don't have a horn like a rhino or quills like a porcupine.

Helen Fisher

#3. You mean there's someone out there better than your father? (Quills) No, idiot. My father trained him. Just FYI, my father is also his godfather. So you want to be real nice to Dev. All of us take it personally when people aren't. (Adron)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#4. Before you attack the porcupine, think of its quills!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#5. 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

#6. I don't understand how I could have believed you were a warm, affectionate, and tenderhearted person! You're obviously as prickly as a porcupine and any man who comes close to you will end up with a face full of quills!

Colleen Houck

#7. No disorders have employed so many quacks, as those that have no cure; and no sciences have exercised so many quills, as those that have no certainty.

Charles Caleb Colton

#8. It was for one minute that I saw him, but the hair stood upon my head like quills. Sir, if that was my master, why had he a mask upon his face?

Robert Louis Stevenson

#9. Wars are won with quills and ravens, wasn't that what you said?

George R R Martin

#10. Move or die. (Quills) Never give someone a choice that doesn't leave them with any way out except to hurt you. (Devyn)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#11. But having quills is a waste, even a double luxury when one can choose not to have quills but open hands.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#12. The dangerous men were still asleep, their blades sheathed next to their beds. The really dangerous men had been up for hours, and their quills and ledgers were getting hard use.

Daniel Polansky

#13. 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

#14. Feathers shall raise men even as they do birds towards heaven :- That is by letters written with their quills.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#15. He touch'd the tender stops of various quills, With eager thought warbling his Doric lay.

John Milton

#16. That's what you're up against. That's what I've got to teach you to fight. You need preparing. You need arming. But most of all, you need to practice constant, never-ceasing vigilance. Get out your quills . . . copy this down. . . .

J.K. Rowling

#17. If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new.

Ben Jonson

#18. I scared a little porcupine
and caught a quill in my behind.
It hurt so badly in my tail,
but tugging on it made me yell.
The porcupine was still around,
so I complained. He simply frowned
and said, Stop whining! Look and see
how many quills are stuck on me!

Richelle E. Goodrich

#19. 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

#20. To call that writing, madam, is an insult to quills and ink across the world.

Julia Quinn

#21. Luther once said, "The devil hates goose quills" and, doubtless, he has good reason, for ready writers, by the Holy Spirit's blessing, have done his kingdom much damage.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#22. Some battles are won with swords and spears, others with quills and ravens.

George R R Martin

#23. If the Bible is called the Good Book, it's not because its people are. Blood flows as freely through the stories as the ink through the quills that penned them.

Max Lucado

#24. Give me a condor's quill! Give me Vesuvius crater for an inkstand!

Herman Melville

#25. Born on the ground. Live in the air!

Armin Houman

#26. The Deer don't dineWhen a Wolf's about,And the PorcupineSticks his quill-points out.

Arthur Guiterman

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

Josh Billings

#28. You can't be a proper writer without a touch of madness, can you?

Kate Winslet

#29. Sometimes your dream is so special that ... you can't kill it. You can't die even if you try. Life will find a way to fulfill it, and a way to keep you alive. Because the Earth needs dreamers to survive.

Haidji

#30. Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.

Arnold Palmer

#31. I stay neutral with homosexuality; I neither support nor condemn it. But if people are happy with it we must not interfere.

M.F. Moonzajer

#32. I've always done quite well as far as the charts are concerned. And yet I always felt I conveyed the spirit of the music I love, which didn't have any chart success.

Steven Morrissey

#33. What is really scary is running naked inside yourself, revealing the real you.

Wes Adamson

#34. Let the words of a virgin, though in a good cause, and to as good purpose, be neither violent, many, nor first, nor last; it is less shame for a virgin to be lost in a blushing silence than to be found in a bold eloquence.

Francis Quarles

#35. Novels are a kind of experiment in selfhood, for the reader as well as for the author.

Jonathan Dee

#36. What you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.

Norton Juster

#37. The thought hath good leggs, and the quill a good tongue.

George Herbert

#38. I was a real mummy's girl - still am. And as for my father, well, I have an Oedipus complex I'm still working out. I love that man!

Shakira

#39. The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes.

Arthur Miller

#40. My mom was always a big fan of Elvis. She made me listen to Elvis when I was a kid. I hated it. And I think now I've kind of grown up to fill in some of the sort of controversy that he created back in his day, but in a much more extreme, modern sense.

Marilyn Manson

#41. The difference between art about death and actual death is that one's a celebration and the other's a dull fact.

Damien Hirst

#42. Google attempted to run a search engine in China, and they ended up giving up.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#43. But I don't want to just believe it, I want it to be true.

Audrey Niffenegger