Ruffle Quotes

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

Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

#2. 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

#3. On 'Love Actually,' I met Hugh Grant, who is a relative: our great-grandmothers were sisters. He'd call me cousin and ruffle my hair. And it was brilliant working with David Tennant on 'Doctor Who.'

Thomas Sangster

#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. Define a feather when condemned to the wind. Say how the shaft tapers, straining to be weightless. Describe what the vanes do on the air, how they luff and ruffle and flute, how the barbs somersault on the downward curve of their resisting ride.

Richard Powers

#7. A saying from the Hindu scriptures is: "In shallow men the fish of little thoughts cause much commotion. In oceanic minds the whales of inspiration make hardly a ruffle." Because

Paramahansa Yogananda

#8. Ty leaned over and touched his head lightly to Julian's shoulder- a friendly head butt, as if he were Church, seeking affection. Julian reached out to ruffle up his younger brother's hair and nearly smiled.

Cassandra Clare

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

#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 have, of all the inglorious things, a malignant hemorrhoid. What color bracelet does one wear for that? And where does one wear it? And what slogan is apropos? Perhaps that slogan can be sewn in needlepoint around the ruffle on a cover for my embarrassing little doughnut buttocks pillow.

P. J. O'Rourke

#14. 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

#15. 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

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

Anne Heche

#17. In shallow men the fish of little thoughts cause much commotion. In oceanic minds the whales of inspiration make hardly a ruffle.

Sri Yukteswar Giri

#18. The Frenchman invented the ruffle; the Englishman added the shirt.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#19. Alack, the night comes on, and the bleak winds
Do sorely ruffle; for many miles about
There's scarce a bush.

William Shakespeare

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

Fred Barnett

#21. In politics, Bugs Bunny always beats Daffy Duck. Daffy's always going berserk, jumping up and down, yelling. Bugs's got that sly smile, like he always knows what's up, like nothing can ruffle him.

Jeff Greenfield

#22. 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

#23. Sometimes good men need to do things that aren't good. Right?"
I ruffle his hair. Luis is way more innocent than I was at his age. "You know, I think you're gonna be the smartest Fuentes yet, little bro.

Simone Elkeles

#24. My sisters and my mom, those people help me get through every single day.

Demi Lovato

#25. No matter how great you are, the next great one is already sitting there waiting to take your place.

Joe Theismann

#26. People aren't grapes - you can't weigh them in a bunch, but I guess it's easier than dealing with people as individuals.

Rita Mae Brown

#27. Inertia is the first law of history, as it is of physics.

Morris Raphael Cohen

#28. When you are in love, you do all sorts of crazy, impossible things with and for the person you love.

M.F. Moonzajer

#29. As the daughter of immigrants, growing up in New York City, you are either at the table or on the menu.

Grace Meng

#30. Given the credible estimate that we've spent $1 trillion on anti-terrorism security

Bruce Schneier