Sure, I’m dramatic and sloppily semi-cynical and semi-sentimental. But, in leisure years I could grow and choose my way. Now I am… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Consciousness," according to current scientific thought, was something the higher mammals had evolved in order to help them reproduce, much the way… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
Slugs crawl and crawl over our cabbages, like the world's slander over a good name. You may kill them, it is true;… — Douglas William Jerrold Copy Share Image
Hey!" Sam snapped, ducking the sticky shrapnel. "Keep your snot to yourself." Dev scoffed at that. "Oh, so now you don't want… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
The magic in that country was so thick and tenacious that it settled over the land like chalk-dust and over floors and… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
“You [demagogues] are like the fishers for eels; in still waters they catch nothing, but if they thoroughly stir up the slime,… — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
I would like my pictures to look as if a human being had passed between them, like a snail, leaving a trail… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
It seems to me the worst of all the plagues is the slug, the snail without a shell. He is beyond description… — Celia Thaxter Copy Share Image
Reelfoot is, and has always been, a lake of mystery.In places it is bottomless. Other places the skeletons of the cypress-trees that… — Irvin S. Cobb Copy Share Image
So behave that the odor of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere, that when we behold or scent… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Could slavery suggest a more complete servility than some of these journals exhibit? Is there any dust which their conduct does not… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Modernity sees humanity as having ascended from what is inferior to it - life begins in slime and ends in intelligence -… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
I'm just a no-good, scum sucking, nose picking, boot licking, sniveling, groveling, worthless hunk of slime. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But you don't do it. Because guys like us, Red, we know there's a third choice. An alternative to staying simon-pure or… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The excrement bubbles, the century slime decays, and the brainwashing government lackeys would have us say it's under control. — Jethro Tull Copy Share Image
Ever since we crawled out of that primordial slime, that's been our unifying cry, 'More light.' Sunlight. Torchlight. Candlelight. Neon, incandescent lights… — Diane Frolov Copy Share Image
The question is, why are politicians so eager to be president? What is it about the job that makes it worth revealing,… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
There is a reference in Aristotle to a gnat produced by larvae engendered in the slime of vinegar. This must have been… — Alfred Sturtevant Copy Share Image
Mayonnaise, like hollandaise, was invented by the French to cover up the flavor of spoiled flesh, stale vegetables, rotten fish. Beware the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Nobody seems more obsessed by diet than our antimaterialist, otherworldly, New Age, spiritual types. But if the material world is merely illusion,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Evil lives in a pit. If you want to fight it, you must climb down into the slime to do so. White… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
Old or new, the only sign I always try to rid my books of (usually with little success) is the price-sticker that… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
I'm the best you can get. Have you guessed me yet? I'm the slime oozin' out from your TV set! — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
“A war doesn’t merely kill off a few thousand or a few hundred thousand young men. It kills off something in a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
