Quotes About Prickly

Holly girl, you are all too human, I can assure you. Prickly and awkward and human, because that's what witches are - human, that is, not necessarily the prickly and annoying bit. That's just you.

Something about cactuses and rock music is a good combination.

Plants develop poison as a protection against predation. Should I keep one out simply because it has learnt better than its brothers how to defend itself? Roses have thorns and yet no one ever thinks to ban them from a garden for being prickly.

She felt listless, tragic, and slightly murderous. She was irritable and prickly with exactly those people who were the kindest to her.

I'm well aware that I have been described in some quarters as being 'enigmatic, taciturn, prickly, explosive and forbidding'. Well, I have my moods like anyone else; I won't deny it.

I remember my father saying to me once, 'I finally know how to describe you, Charlotte. You're prickly.' And he was right - prickly is a very good description. If I had to be an animal, I'd probably be a porcupine.

Sloth is the natural result of unrewarded hard work among the poor, reason enough for them to be prickly.

We cut down (after much deliberation) two big prickly bushes that were growing together like eyebrows at either side of our small path.

Joseph would reach out to me occasionally, the same way the desert blooms a flower every now and then. You get so used to the subtleties of beige and Brown, and then a sunshine-yellow poppy bursts from the arm of a prickly pear.

And trust, yes, which is important, but that is what I aim towards. Now that is difficult for some people, and with that desire to get things as good as possible, I would say that I'm probably regarded as quite prickly to work with.

hold with gloves of porcupine-skin?

For decades, Turkey was widely viewed as a reliable NATO ally: prickly at times, but safely in America's corner.

You are like a chestnut burr, prickly outside, but silky-soft within, and a sweet kernel, if one can only get at it. Love will make you show your heart some day, and then the rough burr will fall off.

Inu-Yasha: Is it my imagination, or have you been a little prickly lately? Sango: It's your imagination! GLARE KA-BOOM ROARRRR KRAKLE KRAKLE

Alone, we are doomed, but by the same token, we've learned that people are impossible, even the ones we love most—especially the ones we love most: they're damaged, prickly and set in their ways.

Then know that I'll be laughing at your ineptitude every time your enemies strike you, and if you fail to return with my daughter, I'll have your heart and your head for decorations. (Zephyra) Your words are noted, my most prickly rose. And I shall endeavor to keep your amusement at a bare minimum. (Stryker)

Best be ready for the consequences when you go poking a porcupine with a stick, missy. Someone's bound to get hurt and it won't be the porcupine.

Its prickly commander, Samuel P. Heintzelman, a short, bearded West Point graduate who had served in the Mexican-American War and later became a major general in the Civil War, didn't want to be there and was preoccupied with making extra cash through the thriving ferry service.

All stiff and icy and prickly, like she wasn't scared half out of her mind.

A number of porcupines huddled together for warmth on a cold day in winter; but, as they began to prick one another with their quills, they were obliged to disperse. However the cold drove them together again, when just the same thing happened. . . . In the same way the need of society drives the human porcupines together, only to be mutually repelled by the many prickly and disagreeable qualities of their nature

Porcupine, whom one must Handle, glove'd, May be Respected, but is never Loved.

Brambleclaw wondered whether Crowfeather's pain would ever be healed. Sometimes he seemed as prickly and self-contained as he had been at the start of their journey, before he had learned to trust his companions, and before he had fallen in love with Feathertail.

It's the rule of all potentially prickly interviews: Don't go on the offense until you have to, first see if they'll hang themselves all on their own.

Newleaf is here now," Squirrelflight pointed out. "There's more prey running around, so the Clans should be less prickly." Hollypaw glanced at Jaypaw. "Some cats are still prickly even with a full belly!