Body Quote by Billie Joe Armstrong

Critical lice are like body lice, which desert corpses to seek the living.

— Theophile Gautier

A work of art is an act of love. Critics are crab lice.

— David Gerrold

Do they merit vitriol, even a drop of it? Yes, because they corrupt the young, persuading them that the mature world, which produced Beethoven…

— Anthony Burgess

Stu walked Bennie over to Chris in the chair and parted his hair to reveal some tan little creatures the size of poppy seeds…

— Jennifer Egan

“She crowned him with a whisky bottle and her tongue was full of lice and tomorrows.”

— Henry Miller

Love is a delicate plant that needs constant tending and nurturing, and this cannot be done by snorting at the adored object like a…

— Anonymous

“Glory of war, indeed! In war, all soldiers are lousy, at least when it is warm enough. The men who fought at Verdun, at…

— George Orwell

There is a cultural taste which tries very hard to get rid of the lice in a fur coat. There is another which tolerates…

— Karl Kraus

Actually, scientists don't know exactly how lice jumped from gorillas to our human ancestors. They speculate that we may have eaten them or perhaps…

— Ziya Tong

When I was a child, headlice were something to be mentioned in hushed horror. There was undoubtedly an element of snobbery in this, since…

— Rebecca Front

“Lice consume grass, rust consumes iron, and lying the soul!”

— Anton Chekhov

According to a Public Policy Polling survey, most Americans find lice and colonoscopies more appealing than Capitol Hill.

— Ron Fournier

“Indeed, to spur your Baal to action, I will taunt and challenge you ... to create as much as a single frog in the…

— Martin Luther

The very first thing I tell my new students on the first day of a workshop is that good writing is about telling the…

— Anne Lamott

A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the…

— Elias Canetti