Those with the softest hearts build the hardest shells.
It blows me away the number of truck drivers or macho guys that will call, and then I start peeling back the layers, and I find out they've been listening to me for 10 or 15 years, and they know every lyric to every sappy song.
They accuse me of having a hard hand, but people closest to me know that is not the nature of my heart.
Sarcastic people tend to be marshmallows underneath the armor
I have this tough exterior, but inside, I'm very mushy and soft.
And just so you know for the future, I like my double-chocolate chip cookies warm and soft in the middle...and without magnets glued to them." "Me, too. When you decide to bake me some, let me know.
I'm really a pussycat - with an iron tail.
In a confrontation with the politics of power, the soft center has always melted away.
You are like a chestnut burr, prickly outside, but silky-soft within, and a sweet kernel, if one can only get at it. Love will make you show your heart some day, and then the rough burr will fall off.
I am tough, but deep inside my toughness, I like to let people know I'm an old-fashioned mama's boy.
I'm a real pussy cat - with an iron tail.
There is nothing hard inside the olive; nothing hard outside the nut.
