Ants Quote by Bela Lugosi

“People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants.”

Bela Lugosi

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I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.

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I've been using narcotics for 20 years.

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I will not be tortured, I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!

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In Hungary, acting is a profession. In America, it is a decision.

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Some people are like ants. Give them a warm day and a piece of ground and they start digging. There the similarity ends. Ants keepon digging. Most people don't. They establish contact with the soil, absorb so much vernal vigor that they can't stay in one place, and desert the fork or spade to see how the rhubarb is coming…

Hal Borland

Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel.

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Pray look upon the plants and birds, the ants, spiders, and bees, and you will see them all exerting their nature, and busy in…

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People are like ants: Just a few of them give all the orders. And most of them spend their lives getting squashed.

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

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We know of no behavior in ants or any other social insects that can be construed as play.

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Oh, ants, my sisters, good old honeydew-seekers! From close up you are sticky and shiny and gristly; and your nymphs have parasitic red mites stuck to them. You are too intent upon your chewing and gathering to listen to me, but I tell you that despite my warm feelings I really do not like you, and I cannot feel sorry…

William T. Vollmann

Albert and I would spend hours and hours looking at them. Cleo had this big magnifying glass on his desk, and we'd find centipedes and grasshoppers and beetles and potato bugs, ants . . . and put them in a jar and look at them. They have the sweetest little faces and the cutest expressions. After we'd looked at them…

Fannie Flagg

When someone criticizes or disagrees with you, a small ant of hatred and antagonism is born in your heart. If you do not squash that ant at once, it might grow into a snake, or even a dragon.

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There's a scientific hypothesis that every person's name is a primary suggestive command that contains the entire script of their life in highly concentrated form. . . . According to this point of view, there is only a limited number of names, because society only needs a limited number of human types. Just a few models of worker and warrior…

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