Bristling Quotes

21 quotes by 19 authors

I suppose we all have our recollections of our earlier holidays, all bristling with horror. — Flann O'Brien
How many thorns of human nature - hard, sharp, lifeless protuberances that tear and wound us, narrow prejudices, bristling conceits that repel and disgust us… — John Burroughs
Gel'fand amazed me by talking of mathematics as though it were poetry. He once said about a long paper bristling with formulas that it contained… — Dusa McDuff
It was like hiking into a Hemingway story; everything was sepia-toned and bristling with subtext. — Leslie What
What constitutes the bulwark of our liberty and independence? It is not our frowning battlements, our bristling sea-coasts, our army and our navy. ... Our… — Abraham Lincoln
When dealing with people, let us remember that we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling… — Dale Carnegie
Land of opportunity, land for the huddled masses where would the opportunity have been without the genocide of those Old Guard, bristling Indian tribes? — Edward Hoagland
A good picture, any picture, has to be bristling with razor blades. — Pablo Picasso
I want to create a cat like the real cats I see crossing the streets, not like those you see in houses. They have nothing… — Pablo Picasso
I don't think of Bush as a particularly angry person - if anything, he has a facility for not harboring grudges, for letting things roll… — Robert Draper
Half a dozen brats turned with expressions of derision, and Lyra threw her cigarette down, recognizing the cue for a fight. Everyone's daemon instantly became… — Philip Pullman
Life is bristling with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to cultivate one's garden. — Voltaire
There was some murmuring, but also some grins on the faces of the men looking on: the sight of their Captain sitting on the ground… — J.R.R. Tolkien
This time is difficult, wait for me: we will live it out vividly. Give me your small hand: we will rise and suffer, we will… — Pablo Neruda
But nobody else ever romped with White Fang. He did not permit it. He stood on his dignity, and when they attempted it, his warning… — Jack London
Men always seemed to growl and sniff around each other, bristling over nothing, and just as suddenly become buddies at the least likely moments. — Christine Feehan
The bristling eyebrows shot up in mock surprise. Mesmerized, the boy watched them disappear under the hanging thatch of white hair. There, almost coyly, they… — Jonathan Stroud
Whitney smacked Coop's snout while simultaneously pressing herself deeper into the couch. Coop fixed her with an unblinking ice-blue stare, gray-brown fur bristling along his… — Kathy Reichs
We all go through life bristling at our external limitations, but the most difficult chains to break are inside us. — Bradley Whitford
For the first two weeks of filming, I remember bristling at some of the occurrences on the set, none of which directly involved me. Then… — Madeleine Stowe

Who Wrote These Bristling Quotes

19 authors contributed a total of 21 Bristling Quotes as follows: