Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue. Honoré de Balzac
You could weave silk from pig bristles before you could make a man anything but a man. Robert Jordan
The stuff of thought is the seed of the artist. Dreams form the bristles of the artist's brush. As the eye functions as the brain's sentry, I communicate my innermost perceptions through the art, my worldview. Arshile Gorky
I am a straightforward man, with no crime on my conscience, But I was accused of being a spy for China So life, you see, is never a very smooth business And now the present bristles with difficulties. Ho Chí Minh
Only a man who doubts his own bravery bristles when called a coward. Robert Silverberg
Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act...The seat of this sensation is the pit of the stomach. Houseman's test for great poetry. A. E. Housman