Ruffle My Feathers Sayings

#1. Their smiles never lit up their eyes, and

John Connolly

#2. The fact is that co-operation between independent countries - to our mutual advantage - is the way of the modern world.

Nicola Sturgeon

#3. I ruffle a lot of feathers. And I'm also selective - that makes you a troublemaker. But so be it. I laid a cornerstone for black actors, and that makes me happy.

Esther Rolle

#4. 'The Tudors' was ground-breaking in the sense that it did ruffle the feathers of classical historians and alter the way people did period drama at the time.

Annabelle Wallis

#5. If feathers don't ruffle, nothing flies.

Jessica Raine

#6. I needed to change the lens through which I viewed everything familiar.

Gretchen Rubin

#7. Anytime I feel my feathers ruffle off of someone else's success, I have to check myself. It's normally fear based or ego related and it's my daily work to let it go and focus on me, because that's the only person I can control and make grow.

Kathryn Budig

#8. Coaches will do what they can but it doesn't necessarily bother me. You are an international referee for a reason. If things like that are going to ruffle your feathers, don't bother doing the job.

Alan Lewis

#9. I think it's every girl's dream, a little bit, to be a model because it seems from the outside to be a glamorous industry and I was really into fashion, and I remember just being excited and wanting to be part of that.

Alexa Chung

#10. I think inherently, a little bit, I'm a bit of a pleaser, and I want people to like me and be nice, and to not ruffle feathers and just make everybody happy and stuff. It's a personality flaw.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#11. When I'm back at home it's just reality. I kind of separate myself from Hollywood.

Logan Lerman

#12. When men speak, they should say that which does not go in at one side of the head and out at the other. Their words shouldn't be feathers, so light that a wind which does not ruffle the water can blow them away.

James Fenimore Cooper

#13. I think women have long been defined by their roles as procreators and wives, and we're expected to serve, take care of, say 'Yes,' and not ruffle any feathers. Women, in particular, are sometimes not allowed to consider who they are outside of the roles that they play.

Carrie Coon

#14. No ... No ... We don't walk away but when we're holding on to something precious we run. We run away. We run as fast as we can.

The Doctor

#15. Know that you're coming from plentitude and abundance.
You lack nothing. You have star power.

Michael Beckwith

#16. The suffering of his body is as naught to the joy of being free from the pain of being seen.

Helen Macdonald

#17. You can get too close as a team. You need time away from each other. You change in the same dressing room, you play on the same cricket field, you stay in the same hotel, you travel in the same planes and buses. C'mon - this business of everyone holding hands and being pally is nonsense.

Glenn Turner

#18. I'll only be wearing a t-shirt," she said. "I love to let the tropical breeze ruffle my tail feathers.

Fred Barnett

#19. My purpose: to lift your spirit and to motivate you.

Mavis Staples

#20. Without Valentine's Day, February would be ... well, January.

Jim Gaffigan

#21. You have forgotten the One
who doesn't care about ownership,
who doesn't try to turn a profit
from every human exchange.

Rumi

#22. I'm one of those people who was taught not to ruffle any feathers. Of course, I have no problem ruffling feathers.

Anne Heche

#23. I say 'cuz' around Bloods, and I say 'blood' around Crips ... I'm twisted.
Got Mary, got Lucy, got Molly: that's wifey, girlfriend and mistress.

Ab-Soul

#24. Never ruffle the feathers of a spiteful woman because she will not only want to hurt you, but she will want to draw your blood. Yikes,

Mia Asher

#25. I wanted to ruffle this man's pretty feathers. Then I wanted to pluck them out and make a fancy headband.

Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

#26. You are such a chicken. Bock. Bock. Bock.
He refused to allow her very bad chicken impression to ruffle his feathers. He was above petty name-calling.

Christine Feehan

#27. Everybody goes through a phase of fatigue, and I am no different. Re-inventing yourself in your profession is the key to deal with fatigue.

Malaika Arora Khan