Ze Frank

I consider creativity to be a more non-rational, subconscious thing. You have a relationship to your creativity - you can feed it with content, with some rational prodding and sleep and things like that, but the mechanisms by which your creativity work are largely unknown.

American Comedian

David Harsanyi

The crusade to convince us that global warming can only be dealt with by wealth destruction and higher energy prices began with an effort to 'raise awareness,' which turned into some delicate nanny-state prodding before efforts to artificially inflate prices.

American Journalist

Eskinder Nega

Tyranny is increasingly unsustainable in this post-cold-war era. It is doomed to failure. But it must be prodded to exit the stage with a whimper - not the bang that extremists long for.

Ethiopian Journalist

Sonia Sotomayor

I savor life. When you have anything that threatens life... it prods you into stepping back and really appreciating the value of life and taking from it what you can.

American Judge

James Mercer

The way I was brought up, there was a little bit of prodding to do something more practical, and I wasted a lot of time trying to be a practical person.

American Musician

Helena Bonham Carter

It's different when you're an actor and playing a part, but when it's just you, you feel immensely vulnerable have strangers prodding and prying.

British Actress

Gail Sheehy

In the case of my husband, we found that facing a life-threatening illness prodded us to make a dramatic change in our lives.

American Writer

Winston Churchill

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.

British Statesman

Caroline Flack

Relationships are bloody hard enough without people prodding them.

English Celebrity

Adam Cohen

Lawsuits prod companies to make their products safer.

Using 'prod' suggests that someone is being physically touched, which could be invasive or annoying.

Physical contact

'Prod' is often used to describe a specific, deliberate poking action, rather than an accidental one.

Literal action

Sometimes 'prod' can be used figuratively to suggest inciting an emotion or reaction.

Figurative use

'Prod' implies giving someone a bit of a push or encouragement to do something they're hesitant about.

Motivational push

When 'prod' is used to encourage someone, it's less forceful than 'push' or 'pressure'.

Not forceful

'Prod' in its noun form often creates a visual image of an action, making it vivid and tangible.

Visual imagery

A 'prod' usually targets a specific area or point on an object or being.

Specific location

The noun 'prod' can refer to a physical tool used to guide or urge farm animals to move.

Agricultural tool

As an agriculture term, 'prod' refers to a more gentle guidance than forcing or hurting animals.

Handling livestock

 The doors open, the kids descend on this table of legs, and they are poking and prodding, and they're wiggling toes, and they're trying to put their full weight on the sprinting leg to see what happens with that. And I said, "Kids, really quickly -- I woke up this morning, I decided I wanted to be able to jump over a house --

It's not fair having 12...

 by the doctors and nurses for sure but maybe more so in my own mind, and I found myself comparing what I thought I was going to be able to do going forward with what I once was able to do. And I became pretty frustrated. It took some very consistent prodding from my wife, who kept saying,

To overcome challenges,...

 and it was clear to the sanctuary that he had to be euthanized humanely, and he was. But then the sanctuary workers did a brilliant thing, because they brought Harper to the body to see. And at first, Harper prodded the body of his friend, but then he laid himself over it,

Grief and love in the...

 the surgeon came in and whipped the sheet off of me he had three or four friends with him and he does that and they all look and there's there was no infection and there they bend over me and they're poking and prodding and they like there's no hematomas look at the

A story about knots and...

 I looked as well and even I was only looking at myself to try and avoid my reflection in the picture but still I realized that it did it did eat away at these girls self-esteem they're being you know they're constantly being measured and prodded and that's not a

Anastasia Taylor-Lind:...

 and whipped the sheet off of me. He had three or four friends with him, and he does that, and they all look, and there was no infection, and they bend over me and they're poking and prodding, and they're like, "There's no hematomas, blah blah,

Ed Gavagan: A story...

 But what about the sperm? Why have none of my male friends or the guys I've dated been exposed to this same pressure? Well, we know from historical data that for generations, research into fertility has focused on poking and prodding uteruses,

How did we get fertility...

 this eyebrow raise is about a four. I spent hours, days, weeks in secret meetings, arguing with my colleagues over this little bump, poking and prodding it with our most ruthless experimental sticks to see if it would withstand scrutiny.

How we explore...

 mr. Reagan never pride or prodded for why some of us wanted to stay at school until 8 o'clock at night he just met us

Let’s put compassion...

 at last after seven long hours spent hunting poking and prodding in Oklahoma Lakes success it's a colossal catfish