Words matter. These are the best Prod Quotes from famous people such as Les Baxter, Vic Reeves, Chuck Schumer, Matthew Pearl, Robert Frost, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I don’t know what the problem with Capitol is. Some one’s got to wake ’em up. Prod ’em a little bit.
I pretended to be dead in front of a pig once, because I heard that they snuffle you, they try and wake you up, to check if you really are dead. And if you are dead, they eat you, but they like having a little prod first.
Working with the media remains an effective and essential way to raise issues, educate the public, and prod policy-makers and corporate leaders to change for the better.
As a writer of historical fiction, I believe you don’t want to fictionalize gratuitously; you want the fictional aspects to prod and pressure the history into new and exciting reactions.
There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can’t move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.
I think it’s always good for the author to stay a good cattle prod’s distance from the actual moviemaking.
When you hit a groove, it’s not you; it’s the spirit world. The spirits whisper the ideas in your brain and prod you along. They’re the ones that are really happy.
Calling out people for not voting, what experts term ‘public shaming,’ can prod someone to cast a ballot.
I didn’t feel like gymnastics were part of The Cars. I certainly philosophically didn’t want to prod the audience to react to anything. To me, it was more like negative theater. We didn’t really talk to the audience. I didn’t see that being a part of this band.
Whenever there’s a big story with vast potential to get social media content and find out what’s happening, your first object is to prod into that and then test it to see whether it’s valid. If you don’t do the second part, you’re basically a bilge pump.
I’m going to demand. I’m going to push and prod. And a lot of times, players don’t know what is needed for a team to break through.
I don’t agree with the sentiment ‘write what you know.’… I think one should write what one doesn’t know. The world is bigger and wider and more complex than our small subjective selves. One should prod, goad the imagination.
My job as an editor is to gently prod the attention of the audience to look at various parts of the frame. And that – I do that by manipulating how and where I cut and what succession of images I work with.
Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there’s time, the Bastard Time.
Churches we build only by our own efforts and not in the strength of the Spirit will quickly collapse when we don’t push and prod people along.
I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.
Lawsuits prod companies to make their products safer.
By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films do battle for our very soul.
