Fleas Quotes - Page 6

Of course, it would help if she could stay focused, but she had the attention span of a sick flea.’ (Sunshine)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Sunshine, Sick, Attention

Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Night Embrace”, p.18, Macmillan

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So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say. But to sacrifice a hair of the head of your vision, a shade of its colour, in deference to some Headmaster with a silver pot in his hand or to some professor with a measuring-rod up his sleeve, is the most abject treachery, and the sacrifice of wealth and chastity which used to be said to be the greatest of human disasters, a mere flea-bite in comparison.

Virginia Woolf

Writing, Sacrifice, Hair

Virginia Woolf, Hermione Lee (2000). “A room of one's own and other essays”

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All she's caught is fleas! She's a medicine cat, not a warrior. She should be helping me, not trying to pretend that her entire history vanished on the day the truth came out.

Erin Hunter

Cat, Warrior, Medicine

Erin Hunter (2009). “Warriors: Omen of the Stars #1: The Fourth Apprentice”, p.29, Harper Collins

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The humanities are like the great old Paris Flea Market where, amidst masses of junk, people with a good eye found cast away treasures...They are like a refugee camp where all the geniuses driven out of their jobs and countries by unfriendly regimes are idling.

Allan Bloom

Country, Jobs, Eye

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...and sank into the profound slumber which comes only to such fortunate folk as are troubled neither with mosquitoes nor fleas nor excessive activity of brain.

Nikolai Gogol

Profound, Brain, Mosquitoes

Nikolai Gogol (2015). “Dead Souls: [Illustrated]”, p.118, eKitap Projesi

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Flea stared at us, "I can't decide what's worse. Losing family members or not having a family member to lose.

Maria V. Snyder

Losing, Members, I Can

Maria V. Snyder (2012). “Touch of Power”, p.155, MIRA

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I have a real low tolerance for parasites, and you're so close to the limit that I'm already reaching for the flea powder.

Linda Howard

Real, Tolerance, Limits

Linda Howard (2012). “Shades Of Twilight”, p.222, Simon and Schuster

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Atticus "What's this religion going to be called?" Oberon "Poochism" A:"and the name of this holy writ I will be typing for you?" O:"The dead flea scrolls: A Sirius Prophecy.

Kevin Hearne

Names, Holy, Sirius

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No. I took this job in self-defense. Quain burns everything. Belen thinks jerky is all we need to survive. Flea's idea of a good meal is something that hasn't been in a garbage can first. And Kerrick poisoned us-' 'Not on purpose,' Kerrick said. 'The meat looked done.

Maria V. Snyder

Jobs, Thinking, Self

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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave; it is merely a loose application of the word. Consider the flea! - incomparably the bravest of all the creatures of God, if ignorance of fear were courage.

Mark Twain

Courage, Ignorance, Brave

Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 12, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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Politicians are always interested in people. Not that this is always a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs.

P. J. O'Rourke

Dog, Freedom, People

P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.58, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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I do honor the very flea of his dog.

Ben Jonson

Dog, Hero, Honor

Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1857). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.114

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Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.

Henry Ward Beecher

Running, Attitude, War

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The kid makes you sick. He looks the part, he walks the part, he is the part. He's six-foot something, fit as a flea, good-looking - he's got to have something wrong with him....Hopefully he's hung like a hamster! That would make us all feel better!

Cristiano Ronaldo

Soccer, Kids, Feel Better

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Nature exists for man no more than she does for monkeys, and is as regardless of his life or pleasure or success as she is of the fleas. Her waves will drown him, her fire burn him, and her earth devour him, her storms and lightning smite him, as if he were only a dog.

John Burroughs

Dog, Nature, Men

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As an example of just how useless these philosophers are for any practice in life there is Socrates himself, the one and only wise man, according to the Delphic Oracle. Whenever he tried to do anything in public he had to break off amid general laughter. While he was philosophizing about clouds and ideas, measuring a flea's foot and marveling at a midge's humming, he learned nothing about the affairs of ordinary life.

Desiderius Erasmus

Life, Wise, Laughter

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I adore vintage clothes. When I go on the road doing auditions for So You Think You Can Dance, I always research the cities we're traveling to so I know where all the best vintage stores are. There are several stores and flea markets I love here in LA. Shareen is amazing with the best edit in town! Golyester is great. I really enjoy the Rose Bowl market. A word of warning: wear layers, comfortable shoes, be prepared to hunt, and fuel yourself with a bucket of cappuccino! Enjoy!

Cat Deeley

Thinking, Vintage, Cities

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When I take on a design project, I have to jet from the bookstore to the hardware shop to the lamp store and back again just to collect a small portion of the many items I need to fill a home. But, when you hit the flea market, they're all right there. From booth to booth, you have the bases covered.

Nate Berkus

Home, Design, Needs

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I jog at the Rose Bowl, and I collect antique and vintage furniture, so I'm there every few weeks for the flea market.

Theo Rossi

Vintage, Rose, Antiques

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'Priced to sell' - just the phrase makes me smile. When a dealer says all the items in his booth are priced to sell, he means he's tagged them as aggressively as he can to get you to buy them. Don't worry, though, I still haggle. You have to. That's the point of a flea market.

Nate Berkus

Mean, Worry, Phrases

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Whether you're going to a museum or a flea market or flipping through a book, always be on the lookout for something special.

Kelly Wearstler

Book, Museums, Special

"Women in Design: Kelly Wearstler". Interview with Mayer Rus, www.elledecor.com. October 18, 2010.

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Win and you are the superior being in all the universe; lose, and may the fleas of a million rodents, infect your every orifice.

David Feherty

Winning, Rodents, May

David Feherty (2013). “Somewhere in Ireland, A Village is Missing an Idiot: A David Feherty Collection”, p.68, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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Some kids spent their allowance going to see 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'; I spent mine on a great-looking lamp I'd found at the flea market and a ceramic bowl from a neighborhood garage sale.

Nate Berkus

Kids, Indiana, Temples

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But in Shimabukuro's hands, as he breaks out experimental jazz, lays down a steady blues train, or shreds on rock anthems, this little jumping flea becomes a melodic monster.

Mother Jones

Jumping, Rocks, Hands

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Insects have their own point of view about civilization a man thinks he amounts to a great deal but to a flea or a mosquito a human being is merely something good to eat.

Don Marquis

Men, Thinking, Civilization

Don Marquis (2013). “The Lives and Times of Archy and Mehitabel”, p.71, Doubleday

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