Cockroaches Quotes

65 quotes by 62 authors

We try to exile ourselves more and more from nature - not always consciously: We build houses; we dismiss nature; nature has to be outside,… — Diane Ackerman
What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but… — Russell Baker
Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything. — Herb Caen
Intelligence is a valuable thing, but it is not usually the key to survival. Sheer fecundity ... usually counts. The intelligent gorilla doesn't do as… — Isaac Asimov
How little it takes to make life unbearable: a pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a woman's laugh. — H. L. Mencken
We lived in Yorkville, which is located on the East End of Manhattan. It's further east than Hell's Kitchen, and back then it was the… — Bob Cousy
A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beetle, cockroach, fly, mosquito, flea, bacillus, and microbe. — Ambrose Bierce
Without birds to feed on them, the insects would multiply catastrophically. ... The insects, not man or other proud species, are really the only ones… — H. Bentley Glass
Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To heck with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is… — Kurt Vonnegut
What scares me? Oh, now that's a big question. I don't know what scares me- cockroaches, nuclear apocalypse. Fear is an interesting thing. It has… — Zachary Quinto
I am informed that 5,000 cockroaches were used in the filming of Joe's Apartment. That depresses me, but not as much as the news that… — Roger Ebert
I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of horses. — Norman Mailer
There is nothing so despicable as a secret society that is based upon religious prejudice and that will attempt to defeat a man because of… — William Howard Taft
Songwriting is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed. You try to go to sleep, but the song won't let you.… — John Lennon
Long after the bomb falls and you and your good deeds are gone, cockroaches will still be here, prowling the streets like armored cars. — Tama Janowitz
A cockroach canâ€™t defeat a dinosaur. But the cockroach is better at one thing, and it has ensured its survival through the ages: Adaptation. One… — Georges St-Pierre
You never feel good when you lie. It doesn't matter how much you want something, if you lie to somebody you love, and they actually,… — Randa Abdel-Fattah
The Alien is gross, scary. There is something in a human being that looks at them and sees it as a cockroach. You can never… — Sanaa Lathan
My apartment is infested with koala bears. It's the cutest infestation ever. Way better than cockroaches. When I turn on the light a bunch of… — Mitch Hedberg
It began as this desire to do this science fiction movie about perhaps one of the last insects left that nobody's done anything on, which… — Michael O'Donoghue

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