Worms Quotes
363 quotes by 297 authors
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What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one is…
— Ernest Becker
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What deity in the realms of dementia, what rabid god decocted out of the smoking lobes of hydrophobia could have devised a keeping place for…
— Cormac McCarthy
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What actually happens when you die is that your brain stops working and your body rots, like Rabbit did when he died and we buried…
— Mark Haddon
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Man wasn't made to share the universe with gods. Their ways are not meant for the humble likes of us. But we've decoded some of…
— Darren Shan
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We all stared at the scoreboard in stunned silence. Only Carter was able to get anything out. "That," he told Robert exuberantly, "is how a…
— Richelle Mead
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Let Pascal say that man is a thinking reed. He is wrong; man is a thinking erratum. Each period in life is a new edition…
— Machado de Assis
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HAMLET [...] we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots. Your fat king and your lean beggar is but…
— William Shakespeare
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The duck swallows the worm, the fox kills the duck, the men shoot the fox, and the devil hunts the men.
— Ken Follett
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When you collect marine animals there are certain flat worms so delicate that they are almost impossible to catch whole for they will break and…
— John Steinbeck
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Why did I not die? More miserable than man ever was before, why did I not sink into forgetfulness and rest? Death snatches away many…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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I don’t know [why we're here]. People sometimes say to me, ‘Why don’t you admit that the humming bird, the butterfly, the Bird of Paradise…
— David Attenborough
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Ladies and gentlemen.†He [Jabba] sighed. “Meet the kamikaze of computer invaders...the worm.
— Dan Brown
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If the fall of man consists in the separation of god and the devil the serpent must have appeared out of the middle of the…
— Diane Arbus
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What’s happened so far? Coyotes evolved limited powers of speech. Worms developed teeth and became aggressive and territorial. Snakes grew wings and developed a new…
— Michael Grant
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Light, Life and Love are like three glow-worms at thy feet: the whole universe of stars, the dewdrops on the grass whereon thou walkest!
— Aleister Crowley
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The heart is a place with worm holes made by feelings you aren't supposed to have but do.
— Elizabeth Scott
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We’re beings toward death, we’re … two-legged, linguistically-conscious creatures born between urine and feces whose body will one day be the culinary delight of terrestrial…
— Cornel West
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Personally I am very fond of strawberries and cream, but I have found that for some strange reason, fish prefer worms. So when I went…
— Dale Carnegie
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The worm that destroys you is the temptation to agree with your critics, to get their approval.
— Thomas Harris
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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
Who Wrote These Worms Quotes
297 authors contributed a total of 363 Worms Quotes, led by these top contributors: