Cockroaches Quotes - Page 2

• 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 Kahneman

  Experts, Wrecks, Psychologist

  Daniel Kahneman (2011). “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, p.342, Macmillan

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• It's like a cockroach working up a plan to defeat the shoe on its way down to crush it.

  Rick Yancey

  Crush, Shoes, Way

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.16, Penguin

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• You foul, lying, evil little cockroach!

  J. K. Rowling

  Lying, Evil, Littles

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• Man wants to see nature and evolution as separate from human activities. There is a natural world, and there is man. But man also belongs to the natural world. If he is a ferocious predator, that too is part of evolution. If cod and haddock and other species cannot survive because man kills them, something more adaptable will take their place. 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

  Men, Doe, World

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• Someone once said "The only thing that will be left after a nuclear holocaust is Cher and cockroaches." I think that's funny, because, you know, I am a survivor. If I am anything, that's what I am.

  Cher

  Thinking, Holocaust, Survival

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• A good friend once told me that the problems are like cockroaches. If drawn to light, they'll get scared.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Good Friend, Light, Scared

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• I've found that wherever there is one cockroach in plain sight, many more are lurking behind the corner out of view.

  Harry Markopolos

  Sight, Views, Scandal

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

  Franz Kafka

  Dream, Morning, Bed

  The Metamorphosis ch. 1 (1915) (translation byWilla and Edwin Muir)

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• 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

  Scary, Looks, Aliens

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• I'm horrified of lobsters. And shrimp and lobsters are the cockroaches of the ocean.

  Brooke Burke

  Ocean, Lobster, Shrimp

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• My apartment is infested with koala bears. It's the cutest infestation ever. Way better than cockroaches. When I turn on the light a bunch of koala bears scatter. But I don't want 'em to, you know, I'm like "Hey, hold on, fellas. Let me hold one of you. And feed you a leaf."

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Animal, Light

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• In a difficult business, no sooner is one problem solved than another surfaces - never is there just one cockroach in the kitchen.

  Warren Buffett

  Kitchen, Problem, Surface

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.150, John Wiley & Sons

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• The mystery of human destiny is that we are fated, but that we have the freedom to fulfill or not fulfill our fate: realization of our fated destiny depends on us. While inhuman beings like the cockroach realize the entire cycle without going astray because they make no choices.

  Clarice Lispector

  Fate, Destiny, Choices

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• Sometimes you just can't get rid of a bomb!

  Adam West

  Books And Movies, Bombs, Geek

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• A gazelle runs faster than us; cockroaches are remarkably tolerant of radiation; every being has some superiority; in remembering this, be very humble!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Running, Humble, Gazelles

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• 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

  Cancer, Stronger, Tick

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• Some secrets can't be kept too long. No matter how hard you try to hide them, sooner or later they scurry out from your cupboards, cockroaches on the run.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Running, Long, Secret

  Ellen Hopkins (2014). “Tilt”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• I honestly don't hate asylum seekers - these people are cockroaches and they're doing what cockroaches do because cockroaches can't help what they do, they just do it, like cats miaow and dogs bark.

  Mark Collett

  Dog, Hate, Cat

  "Retrial begins of BNP leaders accused of stirring racial hatred" by Martin Wainwright, www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2006.

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• I've reduced a lot of the stress in my life. I've gotten rid of a lot of things. The light was turned on and a lot of the cockroaches started spinning. I swept them out the door. And sometimes you just have to throw things out because they carry a certain energy.

  Wesley Snipes

  Stress, Light, Doors

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• 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

  Humble, Ambition, Steps

  Don Marquis (2006). “The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel”, p.256, Penguin

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• Email is a 40-year-old technology that is not going away for very good reasons - it's the cockroach of the Internet.

  Jason Hirschhorn

  Technology, Years, Going Away

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• But if we come back, if German men come back, if British men come back, and Japs, and French, and all the other men, all of us talking, writing, painting, making movies of heroes, and cockroaches and foxholes and blood, then future generations will always be doomed to future Hitlers. It's never occurred to boys to have contempt for wars, to point to soldiers' pictures in history books, laughing at them. If German boys had learned to be contemptuous of violence, Hitler would have had to take up knitting to keep his ego warm.

  J. D. Salinger

  War, Book, Hero

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• I used to hit the kitchen lights, cockroaches everywhere.
  Hit the kitchen lights, now it's marble floors everywhere.

  Young Jeezy

  Light, Kitchen, Used

  "Song: 'Thug Motivation 101'". 2005.

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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 you love, and they actually, sincerely believe you, you feel like a cockroach that needs some serious Raid action.

  Randa Abdel-Fattah

  Lying, Believe, Want Something

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• Intelligence is a valuable thing, but it is not usually the key to survival. Sheer fecundity ... usually counts. The intelligent gorilla doesn't do as well as the less intelligent but more-fecund rat, which doesn't do as well as the still-less-intelligent but still-more-fecund cockroach, which doesn't do as well as the minimally-intelligent but maximally-fecund bacterium.

  Isaac Asimov

  Intelligent, Keys, Survival

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