The child probably overheard their voices; for, looking up to the window, with a bright, but naughty smile of mirth and intelligence, she threw one of the prickly burrs at the Reverend Mr. Dimmesdale. The sensitive clergyman shrunk, with nervous dread, from the light missile.
Quotes about prickly (13 Quotes)
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.
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. Then, little by little, the plants of the desert begin to identify themselves: the porcupiny yucca, the beaver tail and prickly pear and barrel cacti, buckhorn and staghorn and devil's fingers, the tall, sky-reaching tendrils of the ocotillo.
We're most pleased with it when it's revelatory character stuff, when we're getting her attitude and philosophy out of that voice-over. I'll even have her being deflecting and defensive within first-person narration. She's a prickly girl.
Here we go round the prickly pear At five o'clock in the morning.
It's been a prickly relationship over the years because we know all too well how to get each other's goat, but we've developed a very easy partnership.
Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses. Saepe creat molles aspera spina rosas.
When you say mainstream, that usually implies mediocre. And this is not mediocre. There's probably a good chance that it could be the most widely seen of any of his movies, but he's still peeling the layers away, looking at how weird we are, looking at how strangely we look at the world, looking at how prickly we can be, looking at how paranoid we can be.
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.
All in its rude and prickly bower,
That crimson rose, how sweet and fair;
But love is far a sweeter flower,
Amid life's thorny path o' care.
But yesterday, the ugly mess became unforgivable. That, of course, was when Garcia was forced to face questions about his prickly relationship with the receiver whose career he helped to make, and then about the interview itself, and then, sadly, about his sexual orientation, as if it was anybody else's freaking business. As if it matters. As if we need to hear him deny something. According to The Associated Press , Garcia noted that it has been reported that he has a girlfriend and has had girlfriends in the past. ... So many people know my situation here. It has never been a secret.
Here we go round the prickly pear
Prickly pear prickly pear
Here we go round the prickly pear
At five o'clock in the morning.
If he didn't have this issue hanging over him, he'd be in much greater demand, even with his prickly reputation. He's always had that prickly reputation and it didn't stop us from signing him for two brands in the past.