“Out of Print" is bookseller speak for "We can't be hedgehogged.”
Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author
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“If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.”
Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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“If wits were pins, the man would be a veritable hedgehog.”
Frances Hardinge book Fly by Night
Source: Fly by Night
“If you start throwing hedgehogs under me, I shall throw a couple of porcupines under you.”
Nikita Khrushchev (1894–1971) First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
As quoted in The New York Times (7 November 1963)
“The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.”
Isaiah Berlin (1909–1997) Russo-British Jewish social and political theorist, philosopher and historian of ideas
“The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.”
Archilochus (-680–-645 BC) Ancient Greek lyric poet
As quoted in The Hedgehog and the Fox (1953) by Isaiah Berlin
Variant translations:
The fox knows many things; the hedgehog one great thing.
The fox knows many tricks; the hedgehog one good one.
The fox knows many tricks; and the hedgehog only one; but that is the best one of all.
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Mark Haddon book The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Source: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
“He had about the same life expectancy as a three legged hedgehog on a six lane motorway.”
Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author
“He lies like a hedgehog rolled up the wrong way,
Tormenting himself with his prickles.”
Thomas Hood (1799–1845) British writer
Miss Kilmansegg and Her Precious Leg. Her Dream http://www.gerald-massey.org.uk/eop_hood_poetical_works_4.htm#146 (Part the Third, 1840). <br class="br">1840s