Insect Quotes

111 quotes by 99 authors

This man is the bee's knees, Arthur, he is the wasp's nipples. He is, I would go so far as to say, the entire set… — Douglas Adams
The spoken word is nothing. It hardly lives longer than an insect! Only the written word is eternal. - Balbulus — Cornelia Funke
He raged for hours. And the skeleton, ever the frail and solelmn philosopher, hung quietly inside, saying not a word, suspended like a delicate insect… — Ray Bradbury
Time is rhythm: the insect rhythm of a warm humid night, brain ripple, breathing, the drum in my templeâ€”these are our faithful timekeepers; and reason… — Vladimir Nabokov
What gives a wriggle And makes you giggle When you eat'em? Whose weensy little feet Make my heart really beat? Why, it's those little creepy… — Kathryn Lasky
Squatting on old bones and excrement and rusty iron, in a white blaze of heat, a panorama of naked idiots stretches to the horizon. Complete… — William S. Burroughs
Looking a dead insect in the sack of basmati that had come all the way from Dehra Dun, he almost wept with sorrow and marvel… — Kiran Desai
The poor dog, in life the firmest friend, The first to welcome, foremost to defend, Whose honest heart is still the master's own, Who labours,… — Lord Byron
Ben: "Gorog's no assassin! She's my best friend." Mara: "She's an insect, Ben." Ben: "So? Your best friend's a lizard." Mara: "Don't be ridiculous. Aunt… — Troy Denning
Of all the systems of the body - neurological, cognitive, special, sensory - the cardiological system is the most sensitive and easily disturbed. The role… — Lauren Oliver
I tell you solemnly, that I have many times tried to become an insect. But I was not equal even to that. I swear, gentlemen,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
I had that trapped feeling, like some sort of a poor insect that you've put inside a downturned glass, and it tries to climb up… — Cornell Woolrich
It is ironic to think that man might determine his own future by something so seemingly trivial as the choice of an insect spray. — Rachel Carson
She was afraid of all that and so much more, but what terrified her most was inside of her, an insect of unnatural intelligence whoâ€™d… — Dennis Lehane
Ah, Meese has brought us her finest goblets! A moment, whilst Kruppe sweeps out cobwebs, insect husks and other assorted proofs of said goblets' treasured… — Steven Erikson
A brown spotted lady-bug climbed the dizzy height of a grass blade, and Tom bent down close to it and said, "Lady-bug, lady-bug, fly away… — Mark Twain
Historical Re-creation, he thought glumly, as they picked their way across, under, over or through the boulders and insect-buzzing heaps of splintered timber, with streamlets… — Terry Pratchett
One night a friend lent me a book of short stories by Franz Kafka. I went back to the pension where I was staying and… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Make them free, and they will quickly become wise and virtous, as men become more so; for the improvement must be mutual, or the injustice… — Mary Wollstonecraft
Perfect hexagonal tubes in a packed array. Bees are hard-wired to lay them down, but how does an insect know enough geometry to lay down… — Peter Watts

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