Certainty Quote by George Eliot

The mind is the most capricious of insects — flitting, fluttering.

— Virginia Woolf

“The spiraling flights of moths appear haphazard only because of the mechanisms of olfactory tracking are so different from our own. Using binocular vision,…

— Barbara Kingsolver

I have found from experience that it is often interesting and useful to start from the edges and work inward - another flaw of…

— Erik Larson

Insects are what neurosis would sound like, if neurosis could make a noise with its nose.

— Martin Amis

“But if they’re all rigid and stiff, then how do they move at all? Ahhh, that’s where the joints come in. The stiff shells…

— Anonymous

Walks. The body advances, while the mind flutters around it like a bird.

— Jules Renard

How narrow is the vision that exalts the busyness of the ant above the singing of the grasshopper.

— Khalil Gibran

I can say, if I like, that social insects behave like the working parts of an immense central nervous system: the termite colony is…

— Lewis Thomas

I looked to animal and insect imagery to develop the lack of substance and wasted motion that my Terminator has. I tried to tap…

— Robert Patrick

“Perhaps it's the alien equivalent of a discarded tomato can. Does a beetle know why it can enter the can only from one end…

— Algis Budrys

“ANTLIONS, LACEWINGS, AND RELATIVES: ORDER NEUROPTERA The net-winged insects are an order of beneficial predators with interesting appearances, habits, and names. Though the adult…

— Daniel Marlos

In handling a stinging insect, move very slowly.

— Robert A. Heinlein