"It's like a cockroach working up a plan……" — Rick Yancey
"It's like a cockroach working up a plan to defeat the shoe on its way down to crush it."
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139 Quotes by Rick Yancey
Rick Yancey has 139 quotes on this site.
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There are times when fear is not our enemy. There are times when fear is our truest, sometimes only, friend.
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But if I'm it, the last of my kind, the last page of human history, like hell I'm going to…
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To show mercy is not naïve. To hold out against the end of hope is not stupidity or madness. It…
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A man lies upon the floor, spreads his arms, and transforms himself into a ship of a thousand sails.
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So often the monsters that crowd our minds are nothing more than the strange and thoroughly alien progeny of our…
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What boy my age didn’t dream of fleeing the well-tended lawn and lamp-lit street for the untamed wilderness, where grand…
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To hold on, you have to find something you’re willing to die for.
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You never know when the truth will come home. You can't choose the time. The time chooses you.
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Maybe you reach a certain point in evolution where boredom is the greatest threat to your survival. Maybe this isn't…
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When you look death in the eye and death blinks first, nothing seems impossible.
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A miscalculation is not negligence, nor prudence a crime. I am a scientist. I base my action or inaction upon…
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How oft do they rescue or ruin us, through whimsy or design or a combination of both, the adults to…
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More Cockroach Quotes
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one of 45 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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We try to exile ourselves more and more from nature - not always consciously: We build houses; we dismiss nature;…
— Diane Ackerman
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Intelligence is a valuable thing, but it is not usually the key to survival. Sheer fecundity ... usually counts. The…
— Isaac Asimov
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How little it takes to make life unbearable: a pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a woman's…
— H. L. Mencken
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A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beetle, cockroach, fly, mosquito, flea, bacillus, and microbe.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Without birds to feed on them, the insects would multiply catastrophically. ... The insects, not man or other proud species,…
— H. Bentley Glass
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There is nothing so despicable as a secret society that is based upon religious prejudice and that will attempt to…
— William Howard Taft
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A cockroach can’t defeat a dinosaur. But the cockroach is better at one thing, and it has ensured its survival…
— Georges St-Pierre
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You never feel good when you lie. It doesn't matter how much you want something, if you lie to somebody…
— Randa Abdel-Fattah
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The Alien is gross, scary. There is something in a human being that looks at them and sees it as…
— Sanaa Lathan
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It began as this desire to do this science fiction movie about perhaps one of the last insects left that…
— Michael O'Donoghue
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I’m not a bloody cockroach. What’s all this about? What are you trying to find out?
— Amanda Hocking
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As every cockroach knows, thriving on poisons is the secret of success.
— Mason Cooley
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