Insectivores Quotes & Sayings

I find myself subject to the entire range of emotions and reactions that a great book will call forth from its reader. I chuckle, laugh out loud, smile wistfully, cringe, widen my eyes in surprise, and even feel sadness--all from the neatly ordered rows of words and their explanations. All of the human emotions and experiences are right here in this dictionary, just as they would be in any fine work of literature. They just happen to be alphabetized. — Ammon Shea

The two palm worms are brought in separate bowls, still alive, wriggling fiercely in a bath of turpentine-colored fish sauce with a few slivers of chili. The glossy brown heads of the grubs, the larvae of a weevil that infests palm trees, glisten like popcorn seeds; the wriggling abdomens have pale rubbery ridges. The owner of the restaurant, chubby and affable, comes out to instruct Nhat and me: we are to grasp the heads, pull off the fat white bodies with our teeth, and discard the heads, taking care that the larvae do not nip our tongues with their formidable pincers in the process. Biting down on squirming larvae seems barbaric, but my brain is starting to swim due to hunger, and the fish sauce is muskily aromatic. How bad could their fat glistening bodies taste? And am I not a direct descendant of insectivores, albeit roughly 100 million years removed? I — Stephen Le

War with poison and chemicals was not so rare in the ancient world ... An astounding panoply of toxic substances, venomous creatures, poison plants, animals and insects, deleterious environments, virulent pathogens, infectious agents, noxious gases, and combustible chemicals were marshalled to defeat foes - and panoply is an apt term here, because it is the ancient Greek word for 'all weapons. — Adrienne Mayor

God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed - that is the meaning of evolution. — Graham Greene

I am saying to acknowledge the "power within you" that transforms our every thought into experience. — Louise L. Hay

Life is a journey; your body walks with your mind as a single entity towards a particular direction. Death is a journey; your body walks without your mind as thousands of pieces towards thousands of different directions! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I believe that one-product wonders come and go. — Kevin Rollins

Animals behaved with purpose, it seemed. Unlike people. — Barbara Kingsolver

I intend to live in the beauty of past memories for I know them the best. At this moment, the future is unknown so it will be an adventure for me. — Debasish Mridha

Success. Is not the position where you are standing, but which direction you are going. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Of those that are drawn away, each is drawn elsewhere toward another: once more a man and a woman, in a loneliness they are not liable at that time to notice, are tightened together upon a bed: and another family has begun. — James Agee

Lamia was not sure whether she liked Leyla. She was too quiet, too knowing, her eyes were always probing, she felt, and she was clearly a bad influence on Tala, enticing her to museums and libraries when she should be shopping. — Shamim Sarif

The people who really make you angry, control you! — Steven Aitchison

War is horrible no matter what. There's going to be atrocities, there's going to be horrible things that happen in war. — Mike Hoffman

The shortest follies are the best. — Pierre Charron