Bugs Quotes - Page 7

• You turn the light on, you get all kinds of bugs.

  Rob Bell

  Light, Kind, Turns

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• There was no discussion between them; it was as if the bugs had worked out this whole scenario long ago. Temp put on a burst of speed for the end of the bridge, and Tick turned to face down the army of rats alone.

  Suzanne Collins

  Army, Long Ago, Bridges

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “Gregor the Overlander Collection:”, p.149, Scholastic Inc.

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• Is there anything sweeter than the touch of another as she pulls a dead bug from your fur?

  Katherine Applegate

  Fur

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• When stones lying warm in the sun were turned over, they exposed the cold, damp earth underneath; and that was where Masako had burrowed deep. There was no trace of warmth in this dark earth, yet for a bug curled up tight in it, it was a peaceful and familiar world.

  Natsuo Kirino

  Lying, Dark, Peaceful

  FaceBook post by Natsuo Kirino from Apr 01, 2017

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• So that makes us robbers of robbers," said Bug, "who pretend to be robbers working for a robber of other robbers.

  Scott Lynch

  Said, Robbers

  Scott Lynch (2006). “The Lies of Locke Lamora”, p.37, Spectra

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• In other words, crew deaths are a feature, not a bug," Cassaway said, dryly.

  John Scalzi

  Said, Crew, Features

  John Scalzi (2012). “Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas”, p.62, Macmillan

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• The one good thing about being kind of shy is that nobody bugs you when you want to be left alone.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Shy, Want, Be Kind

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• If I can fool a bug... I can surely fool a man. People are not as smart as bugs.

  E. B. White

  Smart, Men, People

  1952 Charlotte. Charlotte's Web, ch.10.

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• At first I wasn’t all that tempted by him, but then he killed the spider. Which was a huge point in his favor.” “Absolutely. I love men who kill bugs.” “And then when I was freaking out and couldn’t breathe, he was so…gentle.” Zoe sighed and colored, remembering. “He was holding me, and talking to me in that voice…you know, sort of low and rough around the edges…” “All the Nolans sound like that,” Justine said reflectively. “Like they’ve got a mild case of bronchitis. Totally hot.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Men, Talking, Voice

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• Once a guy stood all day shaking bugs from his hair.

  Philip K. Dick

  Hair, Guy, Shaking

  Philip K. Dick, Pamela Jackson, Jonathan Lethem (2011). “The Exegesis of Philip K Dick”, p.946, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I've got no problem with octopuses. It's bugs and spiders that I don't like. Octopuses are cute, in their own 'nature did a lot of drugs' sort of way." - Becks

  Mira Grant

  Cute, Octopus, Drug

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• The world was so beautiful when regarded like this, without searching, so simply, in such a childlike way. Moons and stas were beautiful, beautiful were bank and stream, forest and rocks, goat and gold-bug, flower and butterfly. So lovely, so delightful to go through the world this way, so like a child, awake, open to what is near, without distrust.

  Hermann Hesse

  Beautiful, Children, Flower

  Hermann Hesse (2007). “Siddhartha”, Fine Communications

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• He was rewarded with a silver-and-red can of soda. He brandished it at the dolphin warriors as if spraying them with bug repellant. "Behold!" Percy shouted. "The god's chosen beverage. Tremble before the horror of Diet Coke!" The dolphin-men began to panic. They were on the edge of retreat. Percy could feel it.

  Rick Riordan

  Warrior, Men, Dolphins

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• That is the earth, he thought. Not a globe thousands of kilometers around, but a forest with a shining lake, a house hidden at the crest of a hill, high in the trees, a grassy slope leading upwards from the water, fish leaping and birds strafing to take the bugs that lived at the border between water and sky. Earth was the constant noise of crickets, and winds, and birds

  Orson Scott Card

  Lakes, Wind, Sky

  Orson Scott Card (2011). “Ender's Game: Ender Series”, p.127, Hachette UK

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• Once the love bug wears off, as it inevitably does, you are shocked to discover that you really didn't know the object of your affections at all. We know this to be so, even as we repeat the same mistake over and over and over.

  Bette Davis

  Mistake, Doe, Affection

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• Nothing, she now knew, could be defined in exclusion, and every bug, pencil, and grass blade was a dictionary in itself, requiring the definitions of all things to fulfill its own.

  Anthony Marra

  Definitions, Exclusion, Blades

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• Like delicate lace, so the threads intertwine, oh, gossamer web of wond'rous design! Such beauty and grace wild nature produces... Ughh, look at that spider suck out that bug's juices!

  Bill Watterson

  Design, Grace, Spiders

  "Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat". Book by Bill Watterson, October 1994.

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• States vote to take away my marriage rights, and even though I don't want to get married, it tends to hurt my feelings. I guess what bugs me is that it was put to a vote in the first place. If you don't want to marry a homosexual, then don't. But what gives you the right to weigh in on your neighbor's options? It's like voting whether or not redheads should be allowed to celebrate Christmas.

  David Sedaris

  Hurt, Rights, Giving

  David Sedaris (2013). “Let's Explore Diabetes With Owls”, p.75, Hachette UK

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• For you, someone kind of quiet and mysterious-" "I'm not mysterious," I interrupted. "You are a little. And sometimes people don't know whether to interpret silence as confidence or fear. They're looking at you like you're a bug so maybe you'll feel like you are one.

  Kiera Cass

  People, Silence, Littles

  Kiera Cass (2015). “The Selection Series 4-Book Collection: The Selection, The Elite, The One, The Heir”, p.49, HarperCollins

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• Sometimes you're the windshield; sometimes you're the bug.

  Mark Knopfler

  Funny, Humorous, Sometimes

  Song: The Bug

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• Your love in a cottage is hungry,
  Your vine is a nest for flies-
  Your milkmaid shocks the Graces,
  And simplicity talks of pies!
  You lie down to your shady slumber
  And wake with a bug in your ear,
  And your damsel that walks in the morning
  Is shod like a mountaineer.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Life, Morning, Lying

  Nathaniel Parker Willis (1850). “Sacred Poems”, p.257

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• Microsoft Products are Generally Bug Free

  Bill Gates

  Microsoft, Products

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• Bugs is who we want to be. Daffy is who we are.

  Chuck Jones

  Want, Who We Are

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• If we're going to improve the environment, the first thing we should do is duck the government. The second thing we should do is quit being moral. Screw the rights of nature. Nature will have rights as soon as it get duties. The minute we see birds, trees, bugs, and squirrels picking up litter, giving money to charity, and keeping an eye on our kids at the park, we'll let them vote.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Kids, Eye, Squirrels

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.201, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Fortunately, the second-to-last bug has just been fixed.

  Raymond Simard

  Interesting, Lasts, Fixed

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