quotes about Insects
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In summer the empire of insects spreads.
-- Adam ZagajewskiSource : "In Valleys" by Adam Zagajewski, www.newyorker.com. May 2, 2011.
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I love insects. They are amazing.
-- Andrea ArnoldSource : "Andrea Arnold in Brontë Country". Interview with Durga Chew-Bose, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 5, 2012.
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I've become a much more serious young insect.
-- Andrew DentonSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Flies are the price we pay for summer.
-- Ann ZwingerSource : Ann Zwinger (1970). “Beyond the Aspen Grove”, p.213, Big Earth Publishing
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We've got a good inspection system in Arizona managing products that come from other parts of the county that could carry insects that could become problematic.
-- Carl E. Olson -
She was afraid of all that and so much more, but what terrified her most was inside of her, an insect of unnatural intelligence who’d been living in her brain her entire life, playing with it, clicking across it, wrenching loose its cables on a whim.
-- Dennis Lehane -
I hated the words. Each one was like a big live insect in my mouth.
-- Glen Duncan -
I have a sort of a fetish for insects, clockwork, monsters, dark places, and unborn things
-- Guillermo del Toro -
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Politics /n/: from 'poly ticks', short for 'many small bloodsucking insects'.
-- Henry Spencer -
I think we are just insects, we live a bit and then die and that’s the lot. There’s no mercy in things. There’s not even a Great Beyond. There’s nothing.
-- John Fowles -
If all insects disappeared, all life on earth would perish. If all humans disappeared, all life on earth would flourish.
-- Jonas Salk -
Maybe we can comprehend a flower or an insect, but we can never comprehend ourselves. Even less can we expect to comprehend the universe.
-- Jostein Gaarder -
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Even with insects - some can sing, some can't.
-- Kobayashi IssaSource : Kobayashi Issa, “Even With Insects”
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Don't weep, insects -- Lovers, stars themselves, Must part.
-- Kobayashi IssaSource : Issa Kobayashi (1991). “The dumpling field: haiku of Issa”, Swallow Press
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In my youth, I spent my time investigating insects.
-- Maria Sibylla Merian -
An insect is more complex than a star..and is a far greater challenge to understand.
-- Martin ReesSource : "Our Cosmic Patch". Interview with Helen Matsos, www.astrobio.net. January 3, 2005.
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None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and Vertue.
-- Mary Astell -
What a tourist terms a plague of insects, the fly fisher calls a great hatch.
-- Patrick F. McManus -
My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Art is long, and critics are the insects of a day.
-- Randall Jarrell -
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I think the future of food is in insects.
-- Shailene Woodley -
Tourists moved over the piazza like drugged insects on a painted plate ...
-- Shana AlexanderSource : Shana Alexander (1970). “The feminine eye”, McCall Pub. Co
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The mind is the most capricious of insects — flitting, fluttering.
-- Virginia Woolf -
In the temporary illumination of the headlights, the insects were scribbling out messages from God that we couldn't get.
-- Heather O'Neill -
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Insects are my secret fear. That's what terrifies me more than anything - insects.
-- Michael O'Donoghue -
I was really interested in collecting insects.
-- Satoshi TajiriSource : "The Ultimate Game Freak". Time Magazine Interview (Volume 154, No. 20), content.time.com. November 22, 1999.