The South is the land of the sustained sibilant. Everywhere, for the appreciative visitor, the letter "s" insinuates itself in the scene:… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Boys and girls, And women, that would groan to see a child Pull off an insect's leg, all read of war, The… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“Insect life was so loud that when you parked the car and got out it sounded as if you had suddenly tuned… — David Samuels Copy Share Image
“Another instance when I see sparkles is when I do a kind deed for an insect or animal. I often put beetles,… — Sarah Rajkotwala Copy Share Image
Travel is said to be broadening because it makes us realize that our way of doing things is not the only one,… — Marlene Zuk Copy Share Image
If you see a thing that looks like a cross between a flying lobster and the figure of Abraxas on a Gnostic… — Mary Kingsley Copy Share Image
If the flower were not attached to its stem, it would flee at the approach of man, like the insect or the… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Very little makes me feel vulnerable these days. I hit my absolute apex of vulnerability when I returned to my home state… — Ian Somerhalder Copy Share Image
Hana: What on Earth is a 'barbeque'? Hel: A primitive tribal ritual featuring paper plates, elbows, flying insects, encrusted meat, hush puppies,… — Trevanian Copy Share Image
One cannot overestimate the power of a good rancorous hatred on the part of the stupid. The stupid have so much more… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“The cultural fear of “bugs” we have as a society, without understanding what they do or how vital they are to the… — Joey Santore Copy Share Image
I had that trapped feeling, like some sort of a poor insect that you've put inside a downturned glass, and it tries… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
The insect-youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the honied spring, And float amid the liquid noon! — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
People have this idea that nature dictates a sort of 1950s sitcom version of what males and females are like. That is… — Marlene Zuk Copy Share Image
That nothing is static or fixed, that all is fleeting and impermanent, is the first mark of existence. It is the ordinary… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
One of the really remarkably beneficial aspects of genetic engineering is that much of the previous methodology for controlling pests and so… — Nina Fedoroff Copy Share Image
I'm a fly fisherman. I make flies. They're imitations of insects at different stages in their development. — Christopher Guest Copy Share Image
Well do I remember that dark hot little office in the hospital at Begumpett, with the necessary gleam of light coming in… — Ronald Ross Copy Share Image
Is there a polity better ordered, the offices better distributed, and more inviolably observed and maintained, than that of bees? — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
'Politics' is made up of two words, 'poli,' which is Greek for 'many,' and 'tics,' which are blood-sucking insects. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The traveler fancies he has seen the country. So he has, the outside of it at least; but the angler only sees… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
All these sounds, the crowing of cocks, the baying of dogs, and the hum of insects at noon, are the evidence of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
