George Hill

Sometimes you have to stand up for what's right, and sometimes that may be ruffling feathers and may be frowned upon by everyone else, but at the end of the day in your heart, knowing you're on the right side of history and knowing that you did the right thing, good or bad, you have to live with that.

American Athlete

Zadie Smith

Some people like just sitting down and being taken for a ride. That's a beautiful thing that fiction can do. But it's not the only thing. In television and film, people are ready to accept any kind of jump cut, but the slightest disturbance on the page ruffles their feathers.

British Novelist

Sucheta Dalal

There is little incentive even for the media to encourage whistle-blowing or ruffling powerful feathers. They lose advertising, are harassed by government and cut off from the all-important 'A' lists of the rich and the powerful.

Chris Harrison

I've been doing 'The Bachelor' long enough that I don't really care whose feathers I ruffle and how many waves I cause, because my personal life is much more important to me than my professional life now.

American Entertainer

Paolo Bacigalupi

I think inherently, a little bit, I'm a bit of a pleaser, and I want people to like me and be nice, and to not ruffle feathers and just make everybody happy and stuff. It's a personality flaw.

American Writer

Esther Rolle

I ruffle a lot of feathers. And I'm also selective - that makes you a troublemaker. But so be it. I laid a cornerstone for black actors, and that makes me happy.

American Actress

Nuseir Yassin

Any time you make a big statement about something in the world, you are bound to ruffle some feathers.

Palestinian Entertainer

Kate Garraway

There's something deliciously flirty about a ruffle.

English Journalist

Charlotte Bronte

Anu Malik

Indian Composer

Used to describe when an object's smooth line or surface becomes uneven or messy.

Visual disruption

Implies purposefully creating a disordered look for style or effect.

Intentional action

Highlights the emotional disturbance it can cause, usually a negative reaction.

Emotional impact

Suggests a mild level of irritation, not deeply upsetting.

Light annoyance

Often used to refer to a strip of fabric designed to decorate clothes.

Decorative feature

Describes the effect of adding volume or dynamic shapes to clothing.

Layers or texture

References a specific avian action often associated with their mood or health.

Bird behavior

Indicates a possible communicative intent behind the bird's action.

Display signal

 black chested youngster it's so tricky in it this in this particular part of the world it was so the short ideal also looks quite similar so I don't know I mean could it be I was hoping it was gonna fly off it ruffled its feathers a little bit just now I was hoping that I was gonna see it actually take off and

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 because they are quite thoroughly something code." Oh, so Picasso is not art because it's oil paint. Right? So it's so fantastic to see how these feathers that were ruffled, and these reactions, were so vehement. And you know what?

Paola Antonelli: Why I...

 we call the social hours which are always normally early in the morning and late in the evening so seeing two of them which were two Cubs that belong to ruffles running and kissing each other it was quite epic so we just sting here

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 enough that that that in itself yes sleep I think we're learning performs a form of emotional first aid as it were and it reminds me actually of another lovely phrase by charlotte brontë who said that a ruffled mind

Why sleep matters now...

 i mean i thought i knew about the display of ostrich and it's very dramatic i mean the male comes and and opens his wings and then sways his head from side to side and ruffles and it's very dramatic stuff

Sir David Attenborough...

 find the sausage tree pride in this area so I do need to move off anyway so we see looks like a juvenile or not it's actually sure which species this one is those ruffled feathers very cold

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 gas that have you know followed them for a very long time and they have been naming this highness or they have a nomenclature from something of food ruffles mace soup

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 Except I'm not a hot guy my old needle which is something you know if you watched our life I don't want to ruffle your feathers They'll be a success

These Animals Will Be...

 ever have the absolute definition of feathers ruffled right up there with a pecking order sorry my boy I don't think it's a nest I

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 the survivors may have had their feathers ruffled but they've learned an important lesson

Ruffle