Worms Quotes - Page 20

• The situation in this country is like a dog with worms. You bring the dog to the vet to be dewormed, but the vet is Dr. Obama, and he says you can't get the dog dewormed because the worms have a vote. And that's the problem, folks: the worms have a vote.

  Neal Boortz

  Country, Dog, Drs

  "Rush Limbaugh Is Not Alone" by Tom Junod, www.esquire.com. March 8, 2012.

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• Consider the nematode roundworm, the most abundant of all animals. Four out of five animals on Earth are nematode worms — if all solid materials except nematode worms were to be eliminated, you could still see the ghostly outline of most of it in nematode worms.

  E. O. Wilson

  Motivation, Inspiration, Animal

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• There is no greater fan of fly fishing than the worm.

  Patrick F. McManus

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  Patrick F. McManus (1984). “Never Sniff A Gift Fish”, p.157, Macmillan

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• You wouldn't consider all the bipeds you pass on the street human beings simply because they walk upright and carry their young in their bellies nine months! It is obvious how many of them are fish or sheep, worms or angels, how many are ants, how many are bees!

  Hermann Hesse

  Angel, Sheep, Nine

  "Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse".

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• Speaking of dust, ‘out of which we came and to which we shall return,’ do you know that after we are dead our corpses are devoured by different kinds of worms according as we are fat or thin? In fat corpses one species of maggot is found, the rhizophagus, while thin corpses are patronized only by the phora. The latter is evidently the aristocrat, the fastidious gourmet which turns up its nose at a heavy meal of copious breasts and juicy at bellies. Just think, there is no perfect equality, even in the manner in which we feed the worms.

  Joris-Karl Huysmans

  Thinking, Dust, Perfect

  Joris-Karl Huysmans (1972). “L…-bas (Down There).”, p.30, Courier Corporation

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• Modern art must strike out from the old. The new is not revealed to those whose eyes are fastened in worship upon the old…Have you ever seen an inch worm crawl up a leaf or twig, and then clinging to the very end, revolve in the air, feeling for something to reach? That's like me. I am trying to find something out there beyond the place on which I have a footing.

  Albert Pinkham Ryder

  Art, Eye, Air

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• Delusions, errors and lies are like huge, gaudy vessels, the rafters of which are rotten and worm-eaten, and those who embark in them are fated to be shipwrecked.

  Gautama Buddha

  Lying, Errors, Deceit

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• There are three ways of trying to win the young. There is persuasion, there is compulsion, and there is attraction. You can preach at them: that is a hook without a worm. You can say, You must volunteer, and that is of the devil. You can tell them, You are needed. That appeal hardly ever fails.

  Kurt Hahn

  Winning, Volunteer, Trying

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• He lies below, correct in cypress wood, And entertains the most exclusive worms.

  Dorothy Parker

  Lying, Woods, Cypresses

  Dorothy Parker (1944). “Dorothy Parker”

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• When the worms are scarce, what does a hen do? Does she stop scratching? She does not. She scratches all the harder. A lot of businessmen have been showing less sense than a hen since orders became scarce. They have laid off salesmen; they have stopped or reduced their advertising; they have simply resigned themselves to inaction and, of course, to pessimism. If a hen knows enough to scratch all the harder when the worms are scarce, surely businessmen ... ought to have gumption enough to scratch all the harder for business.

  B. C. Forbes

  Perseverance, Order, Gumption

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• The man creates a pseudonym and hides behind it like a worm

  Sylvia Plath

  Honesty, Men, Pseudonyms

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• Buzzards got to eat; same as worms.

  Josey Wales

  Buzzards

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• The struggle inside the cocoon between the defenders of the worm state and the agents of winged possibility is one that I was still living, one that many of us surely experience in times of spiritual emergence. We may find ourselves pounded into mush, hanging upside down from whatever we can cling to — and yet have the possibility and destiny of becoming much, much more.

  Robert Moss

  Spiritual, Struggle, Destiny

  Robert Moss (2014). “The Boy Who Died and Came Back: Adventures of a Dream Archaeologist in the Multiverse”, p.110, New World Library

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• I don't really comment on my personal life because I feel like any comment at all is opening up a whole can of worms. I'd just rather not talk about who I'm dating.

  Josh Hartnett

  Opening Up, Dating, Cans Of Worms

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• Amoeba has her picture in the book, Proud Protozoon!-Yet beware of pride, All she can do is fatten and divide; She cannot even read, or sew, or cook... The Worm can crawl But has no eyes to look. The Jelly-fish can swim But lacks a bride.

  Julian Huxley

  Book, Eye, Pride

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• Prostration is our natural position. A worm-like movement from a spot of sunlight to a spot of shade, and back, is the type of movement that is natural to men.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Men, Relaxation, Laziness

  Wyndham Lewis (1989). “The Essential Wyndham Lewis: An Introduction to His Work”, Andre Deutsch Limited

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• I was in three academic clubs, a huge book worm and the teacher's pet. I was kind of an easy target for bullies.

  Nicole Anderson

  Teacher, Book, Bully

  "Hanging with Mean Girls 2 Nicole Anderson". Interview with Seventeen, www.seventeen.com. January 25, 2011.

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• In Nature there is no dirt, everything is in the right condition; the swamp and the worm, as well as the grass and the bird,-all is there for itself.

  Berthold Auerbach

  Nature, Bird, Swamps

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• We're all worm bait waiting to happen. It's what you do while you wait that matters.

  Kinky Friedman

  Life, Waiting, Bait

  Kinky Friedman (1993). “Kinky Friedman: Three Complete Mysteries : Greenwich Killing Time/a Case of Lone Star/When the Cat's Away”, Outlet

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• Centuries have not worm-eaten the solidity of this ancient furniture of the mind.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Mind, Furniture, Ancient

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• Man is certainly the most disgusting kind of worm that has ever crawled on this stupid ugly planet.

  William C. Brown

  Stupid, Men, Ugly

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• Consider the many special delights a lawn affords: soft mattress for a creeping baby; worm hatchery for a robin; croquet or badminton court; baseball diamond; restful green perspectives leading the eye to a background of flower beds, shrubs, or hedge; green shadows - "This lawn, a carpet all alive/With shadows flung from leaves' - as changing and as spellbinding as the waves of the sea, whether flecked with sunlight under trees of light foliage, like elm and locust, or deep, dark, solid shade, moving slowly as the tide, under maple and oak. This carpet!

  Katharine Sergeant Angell White

  Leadership, Baseball, Baby

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• It is better to go stumbling, and weeping, and crawling like a worm along the way of love, than to give up and choose some other way.

  Hannah Hurnard

  Giving Up, Way, Crawling

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• Light takes the Tree; but who can tell us how?
  The lowly worm climbs up a winding stair;
  I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
  
  Great Nature has another thing to do
  To you and me, so take the lively air,
  And, lovely, learn by going where to go.
  
  This shaking keeps me steady. I should know.
  What falls away is always. And is near.
  I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
  I learn by going where I have to go.

  Theodore Roethke

  Fall, Sleep, Light

  Theodore Roethke (2011). “The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke”, p.165, Anchor

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• I am both a night owl and an early bird. So I am wise and I have worms.

  Steve Carell

  Wise, Night, Bird

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