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People. You're not crazy if there really are robot insects listening to every word you say."

Someone said, "I fucking told you — Warren Ellis

There are two things that I know for certain guys are good for: pushing swings and killing insects. — Carrie Fisher

Men should stop fighting among themselves and start fighting insects. — Luther Burbank

And all the insects ceased in honor of the moon. — Jack Kerouac

The Colonel says all attorneys should be named for blood sucking insects so we know up front who we are dealing with. — Sheila Turnage

If you had an alien race that looked like insects, then they would build robots to look like themselves, not to look like people. — Kevin J. Anderson

As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. — Franz Kafka

Ants make up two-thirds of the biomass of all the insects. There are millions of species of organisms and we know almost nothing about them. — E. O. Wilson

My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I love all animals. I have a fascination with fish, birds, whales - sentient life - insects, reptiles. — Nicolas Cage

It's time to stop pretending I'm ok with things I'm not ok with like all insects and Foster the People. — Greg Behrendt

Like insects on a rubber sheet, we live in a universe whose true form is hidden from direct view. — Lawrence M. Krauss

We are all mere insects caught in the web that the gods spin for us. — Wilbur Smith

Flies are the price we pay for summer. — Ann Zwinger

I am dying by inches, from not having any body to talk to about insects ... — Charles Darwin

Thus hath the candle sing'd the moth. O these deliberate fools! — William Shakespeare

Maybe "Bible Belt" refers not so much to the popularity of the Good Book in these parts, but to the biblical-plague level of insects. — Paul Jury

God in His wisdom made the fly And then forgot to tell us why. — Ogden Nash

If I could store lightnings in jars, I'd sell them to sick fireflies to light their way. Only they have nothing to pay for it with but life. — Will Advise

Fishing is a sport invented by insects and you are the bait. — P. J. O'Rourke

We should have a definitive total for insects in a little over fifteen thousand years. — Bill Bryson

There are scores of thousands of human insects who are ready at a moment's notice to reveal the Will of God on every possible subject — George Bernard Shaw

Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves the insects are eating each other; violence is a part of life. — Francis Bacon

Be able to recognize the dangerous snakes, spiders, insects, and plants that live in your area of the country. — Marilyn Vos Savant

'Politics' is made up of two words, 'poli,' which is Greek for 'many,' and 'tics,' which are blood-sucking insects. — Gore Vidal

God should worshiped, not avenged. It is absurd for insects like ourselves to think we can avenge God. — Voltaire

In summer the empire of insects spreads. — Adam Zagajewski

Insects sting, not from malice, but because they want to live. It is the same with critics; they desire our blood not our pain. — Friedrich Nietzsche

If all insects disappeared, all life on earth would perish. If all humans disappeared, all life on earth would flourish. — Jonas Salk

The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers it's rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects. — Chanakya

It occurs to me that we crush insects beneath our feet, miracles of creation too, beetles, worms, cockroaches, ants, in their various ways. — J.M. Coetzee

Cats are like insects. They should be left outside to clean up the garbage. — Michael Mewshaw

Is there a polity better ordered, the offices better distributed, and more inviolably observed and maintained, than that of bees? — Michel De Montaigne

An insect is more complex than a star..and is a far greater challenge to understand. — Martin Rees

Human beings ought not to draw in their antennae at every ungentle touch, like supersensitive insects. — E.T.A. Hoffmann

Philosophers often appear to intend to want to get answers about humans that we can't get about insects, and that's too much, yaknow? — Noam Chomsky

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

A dung beetle couple in love constantly proves that you still can be in love living on shit. — Munia Khan

Ambition is a meteor-gleam; Fame a restless airy dream; Pleasures, insects on the wing Round Peace, th' tend rest flow'r of spring. — Robert Burns

All these sounds, the crowing of cocks, the baying of dogs, and the hum of insects at noon, are the evidence of nature's health orsound state. — Henry David Thoreau

The city was a hive from this height, the people and the yellow cabs moving about in the street below like pre-programmed insects. (Dark City Lights) — David Levien

Since I turned the fields back to their natural state, I can't say I've had any really difficult problems with insects or disease. — Masanobu Fukuoka

Those half-learn'd witlings, num'rous in our isle
As half-form'd insects on the banks of Nile — Alexander Pope

Shrimp are the insects of the ocean. They're bottom feeders. So they're delicious, but they're the bugs of the sea. — Baron Vaughn

What a tourist terms a plague of insects, the fly fisher calls a great hatch. — Patrick F. McManus

The blue distance, the mysterious Heavens, the example of birds and insects flying everywhere - are always beckoning Humanity to rise into the air. — Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

Politics /n/: from 'poly ticks', short for 'many small bloodsucking insects'. — Henry Spencer

No sound here but the river lapping hungry at the edge of the forest, the sigh of the wind in the leaves and the rasping drone of insects. — Caitlin R. Kiernan

In the temporary illumination of the headlights, the insects were scribbling out messages from God that we couldn't get. — Heather O'Neill

So important are insects and other land-dwelling arthropods that if all were to disappear, humanity probably could not last more than a few months. — E. O. Wilson

Fate of the worms or insects on earth is 100% better than those who are born as Royals. — Vishal Chipkar

Bugs never bug my head. They are amazing. It is the activities of humans which actually bug me all the time. — Munia Khan

Specialization is for insects. — Robert A. Heinlein

A mighty oak can be felled by even the tiniest of insects when one allows them to continually gnaw at it. (Callie's Mother) — Kinley MacGregor

On his misfit globe he has outlasted the mammoth and the pterodactyl, but he has never got the upper hand of bacteria and the insects. — James Thurber

In handling a stinging insect, move very slowly. — Robert A. Heinlein

...causing her eyes to bulge and her tongue to flick from behind her luscious lips, scaring away insects." - Amok 2015 — Fred Barnett

My 10th Sonata is a sonata of insects. Insects are born from the sun ... they are the sun's kisses. — Alexander Scriabin

The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent. — Isaac Newton

We are all insects. Groping towards something terrible or divine. — Philip K. Dick

True warfare in which large rival armies fight to the death is known only in man and in social insects. — Richard Dawkins

I've always felt that specialization is best left to the insects. — Gregory Benford

Tourists moved over the piazza like drugged insects on a painted plate ... — Shana Alexander

Large flocks of butterflies, all kinds of happy insects, seem to be in a perfect fever of joy and sportive gladness. — John Muir

I hated the words. Each one was like a big live insect in my mouth. — Glen Duncan

Noreen didn't speak, and as the minutes passed she seemed to fade into the rummaging breeze and chatter of insects, as if the night itself were alive. — Jennifer Egan

Things without defense: insects, kittens, small boys. — Paul Fussell

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

Art is long, and critics are the insects of a day. — Randall Jarrell

Insects all business all the time. — David Foster Wallace

A river or stream is a cycle of energy from sun to plants to insects to fish. It is a continuum broken only by humans. — Aldo Leopold

Life is hard for insects. And don't think mice are having any fun either. — Woody Allen

Butterflies are not insects,' Captain John Sterling said soberly. 'They are self-propelled flowers. — Robert A. Heinlein

There's this shop in New York I go to; it has bones and fossils and insects that are like works of art. I have a few on my wall. — Eva Green

Even with insects - some can sing, some can't. — Kobayashi Issa

I'm always very interested in breeding. Raising cacti is breeding. My lotus plant collection is breeding. The insects are breeding. — Takashi Murakami

The heart should have fed upon the truth, as insects on a leaf, till it be tinged with the color, and show its food in every ... minutest fiber. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Primates need good nutrition, to begin with. Not only fruits and plants, but insects as well. — Richard Leakey

It was the hour when gauze-winged insects are born that only live for a day. — Lord Dunsany

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

We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics. — Bill Vaughan

Come the rains and the beerbahutis appeared all over the green. From where do they emerge, so perfect in shape and colour, and where do they go? — Qurratulain Hyder

I felt sorry for her. Insects were easy to love. It's always easier to find a thing and love it without hoping for a reason. — Genevieve Valentine

I do not knowingly kill any living thing - including insects or rodents - and I thank my food for sustaining me. — Joan Jett

Grass is hard and lumpy and damp, and full of dreadful black insects. — Oscar Wilde

Thousands of beautiful women? Yes. Thousands of insects whose only purpose is to lure fish? No. — Colleen Houck

Specialisation is for insects! — Robert A. Heinlein

I have a sort of a fetish for insects, clockwork, monsters, dark places, and unborn things — Guillermo Del Toro

We know of no behavior in ants or any other social insects that can be construed as play. — Bert Holldobler

Winter garden,
the moon thinned to a thread,
insects singing. — Matsuo Basho

Mistake this day as being like any other, and your deaths will go as unmourned as the insects of the field. — A.J. Darkholme

Stories mimic life like certain insects mimic leaves and twigs. — Mary Gaitskill

I never kill insects. If I see ants or spiders in the room, I pick them up and take them outside. Karma is everything. — Holly Valance

O cricket from your cherry cry
No one would ever guess
How quickly you must die. — Matsuo Basho

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

After all, what kind of a life is it that is not pestered by insects? A perfect one, and since life is not perfect, this cannot be life. — Gregory Maguire

I think the future of food is in insects. — Shailene Woodley

Wasps know by knowing.
There is no night, only the time
when insects gather to watch us. — Farrah Field

Leave it to the Americans to use love as a motivational tool while challenging insects to declare whether they are with you or against you. — Taiyo Fujii