Worm Quotes

237 quotes by 200 authors

Memories must enter the bloodstream, must churn awhile through the heart's mill, must be crushed and polished, be nearly forgotten or cling like burs to… — Keith Miller
If your Olympic Hero were to use the Worm in the 1996 Olympic Games, it would be so embarassing to all the other atheletes -… — Kurt Angle
The eastern light our spires touch at morning, The light that slants upon our western doors at evening, The twilight over stagnant pools at batflight,… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
That old saw about the early bird just proves that the worm should have stayed in bed. — Robert A. Heinlein
Civil dissension is a viperous worm That gnaws the bowels of the commonwealth. — William Shakespeare
The book-worm wraps himself up in his web of verbal generalities, and sees only the glimmering shadows of things reflected from the minds of others. — William Hazlitt
Time spent in a casino is time given to death, a foretaste of the hour when one's flesh will be diverted to the purposes of… — Rebecca West
Electronic calculators can solve problems which the man who made them cannot solve; but no government-subsidized commission of engineers and physicists could create a worm. — Joseph Wood Krutch
If every gnat that flies were an archangel, all that could but tell me that there is a God; and the poorest worm that creeps… — John Donne
The fate of the worm refutes the pretended ethical teaching of the proverb, which assumes to illustrate the advantage of early rising and does so… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
After his death the gardener does not become a butterfly, intoxicated by the perfumes of the flowers, but a garden worm tasting all the dark,… — Karel Capek
A critic is a lug-worm in the liver of literature. — Lawrence Durrell
In neurotics, worm phobias are usually found as well as snake phobias. — Karl Abraham
I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist. — Carlos Fuentes
The message is not so much that the worms will inherit the Earth, but that all things play a role in nature, even the lowly… — Gary Larson
The devil lives in a double-shot", Roman explains himself obscurely. "I got a great worm inside. Gnaws and gnaws. Every day I drown him and… — Nelson Algren
Amoeba has her picture in the book, Proud Protozoon!-Yet beware of pride, All she can do is fatten and divide; She cannot even read, or… — Julian Huxley
Prostration is our natural position. A worm-like movement from a spot of sunlight to a spot of shade, and back, is the type of movement… — Wyndham Lewis
I was in three academic clubs, a huge book worm and the teacher's pet. I was kind of an easy target for bullies. — Nicole Anderson
In Nature there is no dirt, everything is in the right condition; the swamp and the worm, as well as the grass and the bird,-all… — Berthold Auerbach

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