quotes about Cockroaches
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I owned a 1972 Plymouth Valiant that we bought for $125. It was infested with cockroaches and geckos - it was its own little ecosystem.
-- Aaron Eckhart -
I’m not a bloody cockroach. What’s all this about? What are you trying to find out?
-- Amanda Hocking -
I'm horrified of lobsters. And shrimp and lobsters are the cockroaches of the ocean.
-- Brooke Burke -
The psychologist, Paul Rozin, an expert on disgust, observed that a single cockroach will completely wreck the appeal of a bowl of cherries, but a cherry will do nothing at all for a bowl of cockroaches.
-- Daniel KahnemanSource : Daniel Kahneman (2011). “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, p.342, Macmillan
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There are three things in this world that will survive a nuclear explosion: Twinkies, cockroaches and Dean Ambroses.
-- Dean Ambrose -
personally my ambition is to get my time as a cockroach shortened for good behavior and be promoted to a revenue officer it is not much of a step up but i am humble
-- Don Marquis -
Cancer is like a cockroach. It just comes back stronger. I'm tearing apart the immune system of the cockroach and seeing how it ticks. I've opened up my own pathology center.
-- Eddie Van Halen -
Artists are like cockroaches; everything is grist for the mill.
-- Elaine de Kooning -
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Adolescents are like cockroaches: They come out the minute you leave town, crawl the walls, feed indiscriminately, reproduce alarmingly unless drugged, and will certainly outlast you.
-- Gail Sheehy -
I've found that wherever there is one cockroach in plain sight, many more are lurking behind the corner out of view.
-- Harry Markopolos -
I'm convinced my cockroaches have military training, I set off a roach bomb - they diffused it.
-- Jay London -
Harry looked at Bellman. He could not help but admire him. The way you admire a cockroach you flush down the toilet and it comes creeping back again and again and in the end it inherits the world.
-- Jo Nesbo -
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Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.
-- Joseph Wood Krutch -
The cockroach and the bird were both here long before we were. Both could.
-- Joseph Wood Krutch -
sexual predators were like cockroaches. For every one you saw, there were twenty more hiding behind the walls.
-- Karin Slaughter -
Nature, the ultimate pragmatist, doggedly searches for something that works. But as the cockroach demonstrates, what works best in nature does not always appeal to us.
-- Mark Kurlansky -
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Elephants have a hard time adapting. Cockroaches outlive everything.
-- Peter Drucker -
The Alien is gross, scary. There is something in a human being that looks at them and sees it as a cockroach. You can never feel nurturing towards the cockroach.
-- Sanaa Lathan -
Violence is never the answer but sometimes, like with cockroaches, it is the only possible response.
-- Tanya HuffSource : Tanya Huff (2007). “Blood Trail”, p.31, Penguin
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Problems in a company are like cockroaches in the kitchen. You will never find just one
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I used to hit the kitchen lights, cockroaches everywhere/Hit the kitchen lights, now it's marble floors everywhere.
-- Young JeezySource : "Song: 'Thug Motivation 101'". 2005.
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I've hated cockroaches my entire life.Tweeting jokes about it helps me cope, in a way. I'm not as jumpy killing cave crickets as I used to be. I still jump plenty though.
-- Drew MagarySource : Source: postgradproblems.com
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I've always gone with Kafka's model of establishing the world from the first line, as in Kafka's famous line from Metamorphosis, "Gregor Samsa woke up from uneasy dreams to find himself transformed into a gigantic insect" (or beetle or cockroach, depending on the translation). I have to have that first line before I can go further.
-- Laurie FoosSource : Source: therumpus.net
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It began as this desire to do this science fiction movie about perhaps one of the last insects left that nobody's done anything on, which is the cockroach - and truly one of the most frightening insects.
-- Michael O'Donoghue -
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Art has been hijacked by nonartists. It's been taken over by bookkeeping. The whole thing is so corrupt. But I suppose that's okay. For artists, everything is grist for the mill. Artists are like cockroaches; we can't be stamped out.
-- Elaine de Kooning