Roaches Quotes

• I am a journalist and, under the modern journalist's code of Olympian objectivity (and total purity of motive), I am absolved of responsibility. We journalists don't have to step on roaches. All we have to do is turn on the kitchen light and watch the critters scurry.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Responsibility, Light, Objectivity

  P. J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus: A Reader”, p.213, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I'm convinced my cockroaches have military training, I set off a roach bomb - they diffused it.

  Jay London

  Military, Training, Cockroaches

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• Nobody puts Roach in the corner.

  Alexandra Roach

  Corners

  "Alexandra Roach" by Kaleem Aftab, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 28, 2011.

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• Latins for Republicans. It's like roaches for Raid.

  John Leguizamo

  Latin, Republican, Anti Conservative

  "Slim-Fast Trims Whoopi From Ads" by Joel Roberts, www.cbsnews.com. July 15, 2004.

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• Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy.

  Wendell Berry

  Law, Justice, Competition

  Wendell Berry (2003). “The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry”, p.212, Counterpoint

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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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• Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.

  Herb Caen

  Stay Strong, Anger, Night

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Instead, I quietly excused myself and went to the bar, to commune with spirits I know how to relate to.

  Mary Roach

  Bars, Spirit, Hades

  Mary Roach (2010). “Six Feet Over: Adventures in the Afterlife”, p.159, Canongate Books

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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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• We sell our dreams and our potential to escape through that buzz.

  Macklemore

  Dream, Buzz, Sells

  Song: Otherside

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

  Alan Moore

  Children, Cockroaches, Heroin

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• ... the Kindle is a "roach motel" device: its license terms and DRM ensure that books can check in, but they can't check out.

  Cory Doctorow

  Book, Drm, Checks

  Cory Doctorow (2011). “Context”, p.102, Tachyon Publications

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• Of course, like all the informal inhabitants of the University the roaches were a little unusual, but there was something particularly unpleasant about the sound of billions of very small feet hitting the stones in perfect time. Rincewind stepped gingerly over the marching column. The Librarian jumped it. The Luggage, of course, followed them with a noise like someone tapdancing over a bag of crisps.

  Terry Pratchett

  Feet, Perfect, Sound

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• We declare openly that the Arabs have no right to settle on even one centimeter of Eretz Israel.... Force is all they do or ever will understand. We shall use the ultimate force until the Palestinians come crawling to us on all fours ... When we have settled the land, all the Arabs will be able to do will be to scurry around like drugged roaches in a bottle.

  Rafael Eitan

  Israel, Land, Bottles

  New York Times, April 14, 1983.

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• When I joined, they were like "Woah, dude!", because I came right out of that type of playing. But obviously with P. Roach there's more groove. I like doing those slower big fills, but I also like injecting some of that punk rock urgency. But I definitely need to mix it up, because if I was playing all fast fills all the time, it just wouldn't work.

  Tony Palermo

  Rocks, Needs, Punk

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• Microsoft is a big intellectual roach motel. All the big minds go in, and they don't come out.

  Paul Saffo

  Intellectual, Mind, Microsoft

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• This is my dream. I ain't giving up. I see a band like the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and they've had their ups and downs, but they've continued with heart. We look up to that. I see Papa Roach being around for another 15 years. We've always wanted to be a career band.

  Jacoby Shaddix

  Dream, Giving Up, Heart

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• Papa Roach are not just going to take tours just to take tours.

  Tony Palermo

  Papa, Papa Roach

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• Papa Roach is actually a band that's great at playing arenas. Not every band is suited for that environment. But besides the huge energy you guys bring, the songs are very grand and anthemic. "Kick in the Teeth" being an example as a song that's made for huge crowd sing-alongs, not tiny little club shows.

  Tony Palermo

  Song, Guy, Energy

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• I filled in for Papa Roach because we weren't doing much. Unwritten Law had a few more shows booked, but I got the call to fill in again at the end of the year. I was like, "I have to make myself available to these guys."

  Tony Palermo

  Filled In, Years, Law

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• We're striving to stay in the arenas. We [Papa Roach] had just little things that just took our show a step up and were so stoked for that.

  Tony Palermo

  Papa, Littles, Arena

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• For one, [ Freddie Roach] is wasting his time because I don't even read those reports. So that's the first thing. Secondly, I hear about them from other people around me and it doesn't make a difference to me. It seems kind of odd for him to be coming out so much and saying so many different things and every day it's a new thing. But like I said, I don't read them and I don't care about them and it doesn't make a difference come fight night.

  Chris Algieri

  Fighting, Night, Differences

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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• I am not going to change just to promote a fight. My stance is to not go back-and-forth and I am not fighting Freddie [Roach]. That's not the man I have to box with so I am not going to go back-and-forth firing darts at each other.

  Chris Algieri

  Fighting, Men, He Man

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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• At the end [when I speak about] magma under us everywhere, how it's monumentally indifferent to scurrying roaches, recoiled reptiles, and vapid humans alike. You see, you would never hear anything like that in a National Geographic or a PBS movie. This is clearly a transgression when it comes to being politically correct with your commentary.

  Werner Herzog

  Pbs, Vapid, Reptiles

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The universe couldn't care less about us. I say this very clearly in the film [ "Into the Inferno"]: our planet is "indifferent to scurrying roaches, retarded reptiles and vapid humans alike."

  Werner Herzog

  Vapid, Reptiles, Care

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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