Ants Quotes · Page 12

“It was the luckiest day of my life when those ants clogged up your fuel filter.” “Hm, maybe this was their plan…

— Connie Bailey

“The classic example from biology is the huge, towerlike structure that is built by some ant and termite species. These structures only…

— Michael S. Gazzaniga

For Dostoevsky, Fourier is one of the industrious ant-hill engineers, busy, protected by the delusion that his goal, the will-ordered society, is…

— John Carroll

We have plenty to learn from the numerous ants. Sawako Nakayasu-writer, antologist, Baudelaire's sister-turns daily life inside out and upside down then…

— John Granger

All living beings, things that move, are equally important, whether they are human beings, dogs, birds, fish, trees, ants, weeds, rivers, wind…

— John Africa

I think a pretty good modus operandi is to believe that everything we know is wrong. The stomach will be the key…

— Scott McClanahan

It seems to me that as soon as politicians get in, they become part of this club, and the rest of us,…

— David Jason

A million million worlds that move in peace;A million mighty laws that never cease;And one small ant-heap, hidden by small weeds,Rich with…

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Lay down these words Before your mind like rocks. placed solid, by hands In choice of place, set Before the body of…

— Gary Snyder

“Perhaps more importantly, the ants used all the sugar lumps they could steal to build a small sugar pyramid in one of…

— Terry Pratchett

I like comic conventions. I genuinely like comic conventions. I like wandering around from table to table; I like wandering up and…

— Neil Gaiman

I took two or three months and I came up with a reason that I thought was enough and I went with…

— Tarsem Singh

I love the old stuff that's why I included it. I did see them play a lot as they supported the Banshees…

— Marco Pirroni

Each man carries the vestiges of his birth; the slime and eggshells of his primeval past with him to the end of…

— Hermann Hesse

It is only when you watch the dense mass of thousands of ants, crowded together around the Hill, blackening the ground, that…

— Lewis Thomas

Everything is a hero: A lighthouse which gives light to us; weeds that provide shelter to little insects; a water drop which…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“The ants are bad" The Bear "the ants?"Tahir "Do not be fooled. They look very small, so harm you don't think of…

— Tahir Shah

The walls of this elevator are made of crystal so that you can watch the people on the ground floor shrink to…

— Suzanne Collins

“Ants are averse to coffee grounds.  So the next time you will replace your coffee on your coffee maker or percolator, remember…

— Jesse Jacobs

She watched me with a creepy sort of detached curiosity, as if I were a bug crawling across the sidewalk in front…

— Rachel Vincent

Whenever I see an old lady slip and fall on a wet sidewalk, my first instinct is to laugh. But then I…

— Jack Handey

“But what if we are more indomitable than we realize? What if we’re not so fragile after all? There are colonies of…

— Hugh Howey

I was playing golf. I swung, missed the ball, and got a big chunk of dirt. I swung again, missed the ball,…

— Henny Youngman

Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into…

— Lewis Thomas

The more films we make the more we get to deal with those pre-existing relationships. But when it comes to a movie…

— Kevin Feige

When I look up and see the sun shining on the patch of white clouds up in the blue, I begin to…

— Eddie Rickenbacker

While an ant was wandering under the shade of the tree of Phaeton, a drop of amber enveloped the tiny insect; thus…

— Martial

“Friends are like ants, they walk into your life unnoticed and take over your life as if its like their own. But…

— Hanif Hassan Barbhuiya

It's better to keep grief inside. Grief inside works like bees or ants, building curious and perfect structures, complicating you. Grief outside…

— Hilary Thayer Hamann

Acting in general you just feel kind of stupid doing it anyway, but when you're pretending to be rolling around and dodging…

— Paul Rudd

The fact that we can't easily foresee clues that would betray an intelligence a million millennia farther down the road suggests that…

— Seth Shostak

There's a good case to be made that having fun is a key evolutionary advantage right next to opposable thumbs in terms…

— Raph Koster

Myrmecophaga jubata: The anteater. The existence of this predator demonstrates that thinking 71 percent of the time, as ants do, won't prevent…

— John Ralston Saul

Nothing is more important than saving ... the Lions, Tigers, Giraffes, Elephants, Froggies, Turtles, Apes, Raccoons, Beetles, Ants, Sharks, Bears, and, of…

— James Lee

Ants can live together in solidarity and forget themselves in the community. In a normative capitalist society, everyone is an egoist. In…

— Bernard Werber

The aboriginal women leaders of Papunya - the Papunya Artists - performed a dance for me: the Honey Ant dance. They'd never…

— Quentin Bryce

I do not see a delegation for the Four Footed. I see no seat for the Eagles. We forget and we consider…

— Oren Lyons

If you're an ant, and you're walking along across the top of a cup of pudding, you probably have no idea that…

— Jack Handey

Why let them order you about? Why let them tell you to hurry and scurry like ants or maggots? Take your time!…

— Harlan Ellison

Ignorant have always the tendency to see the donkey as the noble horse, to see the pig as the lion! Ignore the…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan