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- I am a kind of burr; I shall stick. — William Shakespeare
- Whether we know it or not, we transmit the presence of everyone we have ever known, as though by being in each… — Natalie Goldberg
- A prudent silence will frequently be taken for wisdom and a sentence or two cautiously thrown in will sometimes gain the palm… — Ron Chernow
- The words of some men are thrown forcibly against you and adhere like burrs. — Henry David Thoreau
- Heaven sometimes hedges a rare character about with ungainliness and odium, as the burr that protects the fruit. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- These bits of poetry that stick to her like burrs. — Jenny Offill
- The real story of our times is seldom told in the horse-puckey-filled memoirs of dopey, self-serving presidents or generals, but in the… — Harlan Ellison
- I'm not against accents - my husband's from Lancashire and has a rural Lancs accent. We've just got back from Scotland yesterday,… — Penelope Keith
- You will be favorable to Burr, and so must fail, because the American reader cannot bear a surprise. He knows that this… — Gore Vidal
- The even mead, that erst brought sweetly forth The freckled cowslip, burnet, and green clover, Wanting the scythe, all uncorrected, rank, Conceives… — William Shakespeare
- He looked blank. “He’s the one who’s been doing the magic against us?” “Duh,” I said. “Doona be ‘duh’ing me, lass,” he… — Karen Marie Moning
- You are like a chestnut burr, prickly outside, but silky-soft within, and a sweet kernel, if one can only get at it.… — Louisa May Alcott