I've always gone with Kafka's model of establishing the world from the first line, as in Kafka's famous line from Metamorphosis, "Gregor… — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
When people talk about people who are optimistic about gold, they call them 'gold bugs.' A bug is an insect. I don't… — Marc Faber Copy Share Image
personally my ambition is to get my time as a cockroach shortened for good behavior and be promoted to a revenue officer… — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
We've left the moment. It's gone. We're somewhere else now, and that's okay. We've still got that moment with us somewhere, deep… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
The psychologist, Paul Rozin, an expert on disgust, observed that a single cockroach will completely wreck the appeal of a bowl of… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Man wants to see nature and evolution as separate from human activities. There is a natural world, and there is man. But… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
What scares me? Oh, now that's a big question. I don't know what scares me- cockroaches, nuclear apocalypse. Fear is an interesting… — Zachary Quinto Copy Share Image
The Alien is gross, scary. There is something in a human being that looks at them and sees it as a cockroach.… — Sanaa Lathan Copy Share Image
Well the thing is, once you have a snow leopard it's difficult to go back. Everything is going to be slightly disappointing.… — Daniel Craig Copy Share Image
Nature, the ultimate pragmatist, doggedly searches for something that works. But as the cockroach demonstrates, what works best in nature does not… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
Violence is never the answer but sometimes, like with cockroaches, it is the only possible response. — Tanya Huff Copy Share Image
Harry looked at Bellman. He could not help but admire him. The way you admire a cockroach you flush down the toilet… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
I've found that wherever there is one cockroach in plain sight, many more are lurking behind the corner out of view. — Harry Markopolos Copy Share Image
Long after the bomb falls and you and your good deeds are gone, cockroaches will still be here, prowling the streets like… — Tama Janowitz Copy Share Image
I just want to be considered a heavy metal band, because metal has always been around and will always be around. We're… — Mitch Lucker Copy Share Image
Here's the thing: We have plenty of time. These are cockroaches and we want to kill them all. They're just absolute pieces… — Eric Bolling Copy Share Image
A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beetle, cockroach, fly, mosquito, flea, bacillus, and microbe. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Art has been hijacked by nonartists. It's been taken over by bookkeeping. The whole thing is so corrupt. But I suppose that's… — Elaine de Kooning Copy Share Image
Without birds to feed on them, the insects would multiply catastrophically. ... The insects, not man or other proud species, are really… — H. Bentley Glass Copy Share Image
What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
Frog has no nerves. Frog is as old as a cockroach. Frog is my father's genitals. Frog is a malformed doorknob. Frog… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
I live in New York, and the only live animals you see are cockroaches, rats and pigeons, which I admire immensely. When… — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share Image
Americans have a lower opinion of Congress than they do of the NFL replacement refs, head lice, traffic jams, cockroaches and even… — Juan Williams Copy Share Image
Natural selection shaped the human brain to be drawn toward aspects of nature that enhance our survival and reproduction, like verdant landscapes… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
