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football today," the coach said, turning the insect eyes back at Ty so that he could see two dark-haired
— Tim Green
Big giant insect thing holding me several hundred feet in the air? What's there to be nervous about?
— Julie Kagawa
All futurity wears the head of an insect.
— Andrew Joron
I've become a much more serious young insect.
— Andrew Denton
As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.
— Franz Kafka
A slug is always on its own. It is a lonely insect.
— Karl Pilkington
Each particle of matter is an immensity, each leaf a world, each insect an inexplicable compendium.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
The only sensible approach to disease and insect control, I think, is to grow sturdy crops in a healthy environment.
— Masanobu Fukuoka
No rustle came from the trees, no insect buzz or neighbors call ... The woods were silent in their grief.
— Leigh Bardugo
Everything is important. To the smallest insect, even the mouldering tree, the deepest stone in the drift.
— Marlene Van Niekerk
The early fly gets the cadaver
— Tim Downs
I will not be defeated by a bad man and an American stick insect ... instead I choose Chaka Khan ... and vodka ... Bridget Jones
— Helen Fielding
You're hungry.
The beast glared.
STAY OUT OF MY MIND, INSECT. — Jay Kristoff
The beast glared.
STAY OUT OF MY MIND, INSECT. — Jay Kristoff
I hate banana bread. It's too suspicious-looking. I always thought the cooked banana looked like insect legs.
— Elizabeth Berg
I wasn't sad the way a spider isn't an insect.
— Lemony Snicket
An Arabic proverb: One insect is enough to fell a country. A Japanese proverb: Even an insect one-tenth of an inch long has five-tenths of a soul. My
— Jenny Offill
An innocent bird is not innocent from the insect's point of view! Only man can attain the rank of innocence through becoming a peaceful vegetarian!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
A few insect skeletons lay scattered on the narrow sill, shiny and precise and sad as broken jewelry.
— Ed Park
It is ironic to think that man might determine his own future by something so seemingly trivial as the choice of an insect spray.
— Rachel Carson
In handling a stinging insect, move very slowly.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Yes, this man had the persistence of an insect.
— Patrick Modiano
We ought never to sport with pain and distress in any of our amusements, or treat even the meanest insect with wanton cruelty.
— Hugh Blair
Abandon all nations, the planet drifts to random insect doom.
— William S. Burroughs
I dry heaved, forcing myself to try and not chuck up my guts. I had been f**ked by an insect man.
— Mark Alders
Bugs never bug my head. They are amazing. It is the activities of humans which actually bug me all the time.
— Munia Khan
Now did you know if a stick insect laid it's eggs in a jar of Bovril it will give birth to a litter of twiglets.
— Tim Vine
Armitage smiled, a smile that meant as much as the twitch of some insect's antenna.
— William Gibson
For us, a pretty bird is a pretty bird; for an insect, pretty bird is an ugly enemy!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
You ain't got no self-respect,
you feel like an insect
Well don't you worry buddy,
cause here he comes — Nick Cave
you feel like an insect
Well don't you worry buddy,
cause here he comes — Nick Cave
No poetic phantasy
but a biological reality,
a fact: I am an entity
like bird, insect, plant
or sea-plant cell;
I live; I am alive. — Hilda Doolittle
but a biological reality,
a fact: I am an entity
like bird, insect, plant
or sea-plant cell;
I live; I am alive. — Hilda Doolittle
But the eyes that he liked the least were horrible pale bulbous sort of eyes. "Insect eyes," he thought, "not animal eyes, only they are much too big.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
There are no insect eggs in my food." Mrs. White reiterated.
You should use that in your advertising," Nate suggested. — Brandon Mull
You should use that in your advertising," Nate suggested. — Brandon Mull
We don't give a damn to the insects on our Earth, but if we could find even a single insect on Mars, the whole world would cherish it like crazy!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
She took her coat off as if it had only now occurred to her to do so. She emerged from it like an insect sloughing off its skin.
— Haruki Murakami
Recent estimates suggest there are at least two million tropical insect species and perhaps as many as seven million.
— Elizabeth Kolbert
You cannot speak of ocean to a well-frog, the creature of a narrower sphere. You cannot speak of ice to a summer insect, the creature of a season.
— Zhuangzi
A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.
— Samuel Johnson
Oh my god, this is so weird! I'm in space, talking to a giant insect. This is like ... I don't know ... William Burroughs or something!
— Gavin G. Smith
Impertinent wits are a kind of insect which are in everybody's way and plentiful in all countries.
— Jean De La Bruyere
Maybe he's become addicted to living, he thinks, its gentle terror like the rush of insect wings against his face.
— Jennifer Mills
A slug is always on its own. It's a lonely insect.
— Karl Pilkington
Listen to the crickets, she said, nodding sagely as she spoke, understanding everything.
— David Cronenberg
Insect politics, indifferent universe. Bang your head against the wall, but apathy is worse.
— Don Henley
A toothless wolf is less dangerous than a fanged insect.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
WHEN Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from troubled dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous insect.
— Franz Kafka
You know, I'm really starting to hate the insect life around here," he
muttered. "Next time, remind me to bring a can of Off!"
-Puck — Julie Kagawa
muttered. "Next time, remind me to bring a can of Off!"
-Puck — Julie Kagawa
You're next. It's the next thing. Next stop Kilburn Station. The doors fold inwards, urban insect closing its wings.
— Zadie Smith
The jungle looked back at them with a vastness, a breathing moss-and-leaf silence, with a billion diamond and emerald insect eyes.
— Ray Bradbury
Master Chuang Tzu says the spring insect knows nothing of the winter! We can also say suspicion knows nothing of the peace of mind!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Learn from the ants- how a tiny heart is big enough to love, help and care about another living existence.
— Munia Khan
I fear no man, no woman;
flower does not fear
bird, insect nor adder. — Hilda Doolittle
flower does not fear
bird, insect nor adder. — Hilda Doolittle
Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.
— Henry David Thoreau
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
Like an insect larva that repeatedly molts its skin as it develops, Ayako rapidly transformed from a young girl into a fully-grown woman.
— Osamu Tezuka
The insect-youth are on the wing,
Eager to taste the honied spring,
And float amid the liquid noon! — Thomas Gray
Eager to taste the honied spring,
And float amid the liquid noon! — Thomas Gray
No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity
— Edith Wharton
which will enable either a human or an automatic operator to control the insect's movements remotely and to absorb and transmit information.
— Yuval Noah Harari
The spoken word is nothing. It hardly lives longer than an insect! Only the written word is eternal. - Balbulus
— Cornelia Funke
Soon, the nonstop buzzing of the local insect life gives way to something equally annoying. Country music.
— Pittacus Lore
At some point, some insect has had sex with a leaf.
— Karl Pilkington
It's weird how me and that insect are miles apart in terms of lifestyle, yet we both like a biscuit.
— Karl Pilkington
I've just been bitten on the neck by a vampire ... mosquito. Does that mean that when the night comes I will rise and be annoying?
— Vera Nazarian
A dung beetle couple in love constantly proves that you still can be in love living on shit.
— Munia Khan
Insect life was so loud that when you parked the car and got out it sounded as if you had suddenly tuned into a radio frequency from another planet.
— David Samuels
Not enough people know what Lyme disease is and the dangers of being bitten by an insect.
— Gigi Hadid
I was a small insect faced with a formidable male network web in which I might be ensnared but never a part.
— Patricia Cornwell
I may be sick. I may come from a hole in the ground. My best friend may be an insect. But at least I don't live in decent society.
— Jessica Anthony
Truth changes as men change, and when truth becomes stable men will become dead, and the insect and the fire and the flood will become truth.
— Charles Bukowski
Boys and girls, And women, that would groan to see a child Pull off an insect's leg, all read of war, The best amusement for our morning meal.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Saving a species of bird or insect is no different from saving humankind. 'All lives are equal' is the basic tenet of Pan-Species Communism.
— Liu Cixin
Her heart was twitching like a dying insect.
— Robert L. Anderson
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
I've been clinging to this world like a discarded shell of an insect stuck to a branch, about to be blown off forever by a gust of wind.
— Haruki Murakami