Cockroaches Quotes - Page 3

• It is a natural stronghold for them—they can infest this maze of iron and water like a horde of starving cockroaches, and they’ll be just as hard to anticipate and to kill in such close quarters.” “Wow,” Shane said. “You really know how to drum up team spirit. Did you print up Team Total Fail jerseys, too?” Myrnin gave him an entirely crazy smile. “Would you be surprised if I had?

  Rachel Caine

  Crazy, Team, Iron

  Rachel Caine (2012). “Black Dawn”, p.64, Allison & Busby

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• The cockroach and the bird were both here long before we were. Both could.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Long, Bird

  Joseph Wood Krutch (1995). “The Best Nature Writing of Joseph Wood Krutch”

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• Everything in the universe is everything else. A man is a killer is a saint is a monkey is a cockroach is a goldfish is a whale, and the Devil is just the angel who asked for More.

  Craig Clevenger

  Angel, Men, Whales

  Craig Clevenger (2005). “Dermaphoria: A Novel”, Macadam Cage Pub

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• I’m not a bloody cockroach. What’s all this about? What are you trying to find out?

  Amanda Hocking

  Trying, Bloody

  Amanda Hocking (2014). “Trylle: The Complete Trilogy”, p.541, Pan Macmillan

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• I have a job to pay attention. It is my number one duty as a human being - to earn an experiment in self-government every day by spotlighting cockroaches who violate their oath to the US constitution and wipe their ass with the US Constitution.

  Ted Nugent

  Jobs, Government, Self

  "More Than 10 Questions with Ted Nugent. The Man, His Views, His Music & The New Album ShutUp & Jam". Interview with Mark Capuano, music.allaccess.com. July 23, 2014.

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• You may look back on your life and accept it as good or evil. But it is far, far harder to admit that you have been completely unimportant; that in the great sum of things all a man's endless grapplings are no more significant than the scuttlings of a cockroach. The universe is neither friendly nor hostile. It is merely indifferent. This makes me ecstatic. I have reached a nirvana of negativity. I can look futility in the face and still see promise in the stars.

  Sebastian Horsley

  Stars, Men, Evil

  "Farewell Sebastian Horsley: a true bohemian" by Emily Hill, www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2010.

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• Problems in a company are like cockroaches in the kitchen. You will never find just one

  Warren Buffett

  Kitchen, Problem, Company

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• Artists are like cockroaches; everything is grist for the mill.

  Elaine de Kooning

  Artist, Mills

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• 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

  Doe, Pragmatists, Appeals

  Mark Kurlansky (2011). “Cod”, p.204, Random House

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• Why is not a rat as good as a rabbit? Why should men eat shrimps and neglect cockroaches?

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Rabbits, Shrimp

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and ears”, p.346

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• sexual predators were like cockroaches. For every one you saw, there were twenty more hiding behind the walls.

  Karin Slaughter

  Wall, Twenties, Predator

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• There are three things in this world that will survive a nuclear explosion: Twinkies, cockroaches and Dean Ambroses.

  Dean Ambrose

  Wwe, Three, Nuclear

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• Americans have a lower opinion of Congress than they do of the NFL replacement refs, head lice, traffic jams, cockroaches and even the group to which yours truly belongs - Washington political pundits.

  Juan Williams

  Nfl, Political, Jam

  "The Perils of Political Paralysis". www.realclearpolitics.com. January 14, 2013.

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• I leave the human cockroaches to discuss their heroin and child pornography.

  Alan Moore

  Children, Heroin, Pornography

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• In South Florida, we have industrial cockroaches that have to be equipped with loud warning beepers so you can get out of their way when they back up.

  Dave Barry

  Florida, Warning, Way

  Dave Barry (1994). “The World According to Dave Barry”, Outlet

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• The way I see it,” she began, “your mother’s devoted her whole life to you kids.” She said “you kids” in precisely the same tone I would have used for “you infestation of cockroaches

  Jennifer Weiner

  Mother, Kids, Way

  Jennifer Weiner (2002). “Good in Bed”, p.181, Simon and Schuster

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• One morning as I lay sleeping on the floor, a cockroach crawled over my foot. And I opened my eyes out of this dead sleep - about a 43-year sleep - and in place of all that darkness was a joy that I can't describe.

  Byron Katie

  Morning, Eye, Sleep

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• I've hated cockroaches my entire life.Tweeting jokes about it helps me cope, in a way. I'm not as jumpy killing cave crickets as I used to be. I still jump plenty though.

  Drew Magary

  Caves, Way, Helping

  Source: postgradproblems.com

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• We've never had a giant circulation. And we've always been a magazine for writers and for sophisticated readers. We've never had to run stories that would appeal to a million people. And what you end up with is a kind of tradition that might have staying power - the cockroach after armageddon.

  Lorin Stein

  Running, People, Giants

  Source: therumpus.net

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• At the bottom of the social heap is the black man in the big-city ghetto. He lives night and day with the rats and the cockroaches and drowns himself with alcohol and anesthetizes himself with dope, to try and forget where and what he is. That Negro has given up all hope. He's the hardest one for us to reach, because he's the deepest in the mud. But when you get him, you've got the best kind of Muslim. I look upon myself as a prime example of this category - as graphic an example as you could find of the salvation of the black man.

  Malcolm X

  Ghetto, Night, Dope

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• A cockroach likely has no less brainpower than a butterfly, but we're quicker to deny it consciousness because it's a species we dislike.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Butterfly, Consciousness, Deny

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• Here's the thing: We have plenty of time. These are cockroaches and we want to kill them all. They're just absolute pieces of garbage and we will get them. So why don't we try the air campaign first?

  Eric Bolling

  Air, Trying, Campaigns

  "Can US and its allies destroy ISIS without ground troops?". "The Five", www.foxnews.com. September 15, 2014.

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• When it comes down to it, the reason that science fiction endures is that it is, at its core, an optimistic genre. What it says at the end of the day is that there is a tomorrow, we do go on, we don't extinguish ourselves and leave the planet to the cockroaches.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Optimistic, The End Of The Day, Fiction

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• People die', she says. 'People tear down houses. But furniture, fine, beautiful furniture, it just goes on and on, surviving everything.' She says, 'Armoires are the cockroaches of our culture.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Beautiful, People, House

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• Harry looked at Bellman. He could not help but admire him. The way you admire a cockroach you flush down the toilet and it comes creeping back again and again and in the end it inherits the world.

  Jo Nesbo

  World, Toilets, Way

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