Prickly Quotes
22 quotes by 21 authors
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I've learned that success comes in a very prickly package. Whether you choose to accept it or not is up to you.
— Sandra Bullock
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Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses.
— Ovid
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I've learned that success comes in a very prickly package. Whether you choose to accept it or not is up to you. It's what you…
— Sandra Bullock
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The love of dress is very marked in this attractive animal; he is proud of the lustre of his coat, and cannot endure that a…
— Champfleury
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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…
— Jeremy Irons
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I don’t think ‘science fiction’ is a very good name for it, but it’s the name that we’ve got. It is different from other kinds…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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Dublin was a glorious name in our family and had pleasurable associations of violence …Today I am so at home in Dublin, more than in…
— Louis MacNeice
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A magnificent cause can overcome a prickly personality, but your ability to enchant people increases if they like you, so you should aspire to both.…
— Guy Kawasaki
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... Tal accepted absolutely all the world champion's conditions with a smile, taking away a very important psychological trump card from him - the harsh,…
— Gennadi Sosonko
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I love to go out in late September among the fat, overripe, icy, black blackberries to eat blackberries for breakfast, the stalks very prickly, a…
— Galway Kinnell
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Your skin is prickly from fatigue and pain and there is a hissing in your ears. Time passes and the pills are taking hold like…
— Patrick deWitt
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So it is with life. Those thorns, the prickly problems of life, cause us to strive to rise above them and then, as we do,…
— James Michael
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I had always been fascinated by the whole idea that Australia was this different ecology and that when rabbits and prickly pears and other things…
— David Gerrold
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With copious evidence ranging from Plato's haughtiness to Beethoven's tirades, we may conclude that the most brilliant people of history tend to be a prickly…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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The desert seems to be a brown wasteland of dry, prickly scrub whose only purpose is to serve as a setting for the majestic saguaros.…
— Jerry Spinelli
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You’re far too prickly tempered to be a mistress. You’re far better suited as a wife.
— Lisa Kleypas
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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…
— Louisa May Alcott
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We are shoulder to shoulder due to the size of the cab, and if Gratton is made of flour and potatoes, Sean is made of…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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The infant-inconvenience kicked in response, and Conall twitched at the sensation. “Active little pup, isn’t he?†“She,†corrected his wife. “As if any child of…
— Gail Carriger
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He gives me a look that says, “Dude, if I knew that do you think I’d have enlisted your puny help?†I snicker. “Something funny…
— Karen Marie Moning
Who Wrote These Prickly Quotes
21 authors contributed a total of 22 Prickly Quotes as follows: