Parasitized Quotes & Sayings

My patient was one of those singular and unfortunate people who regard their heart ("a hollow, muscular organ," according to the gruesome definition in Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, which Pnin's orphaned bag contained) with a queasy dread, a nervous repulsion, a sick hate, as if it were some strong slimy untouchable monster that one had to be parasitized with, alas. — Vladimir Nabokov

In time i've learned to recognize the pain for what it is and accept it, but i'll never get over it. — Maggi Myers

How could I ask for a better friend? Someone who gives me a backup plan. Instead of someone who makes me the backup plan. — Sarah Mylnowski

In my bands, I don't really walk around telling people what to play, just out of respect really. I mean, if there's something I feel in my gut, I'll bring it up. — Jack White

They belonged to the long and honorable human tradition that had spawned the Luddites, the flat-earthers, various bible-thumping faithies, the scientographers, and the back-earthies, not to mention all the other forms of the true believers that had parasitized human society over the millennia. — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

I'm not a big fan of the high-altitude approach of mega TV ads. — Foster Friess

Please let me assure you, however, that the keen disappointment and regret which I feel in this regard serve only to enhance my profound appreciation of the great honor which you have done me; and my sincere gratitude for your generous action. — Cordell Hull

It is to have a compulsive, repetitive, and nostalgic desire for the archive, an irrepressible desire to return to the origin, a homesickness, a nostalgia for the return to the most archaic place of absolute commencement — Jacques Derrida

How many times do I need to repeat the word for it to join your vocabulary? — Alexandra Bracken