Mosquitoes Quotes - Page 4

• All the time I pray to Buddha I keep on killing mosquitoes.

  Kobayashi Issa

  Praying, Killing, I Pray

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• Don't think of yourself as an intestinal tract and tangle of nerves in the skull, that will not work unless you drink coffee. Think of yourself as incandescent power, illuminated perhaps and forever talked to by God and his messengers.... Think if Tiffany's made a mosquito, how wonderful we would think it was!

  Brenda Ueland

  Coffee, Thinking, Skulls

  Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.137, Simon and Schuster

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• She asked him to come and see her that night. He agreed, in order to get away, knowing that he was incapable of going. But that night, in his burning bed, he understood that he had to go see her, even if he were not capable. He got dressed by feel, listening in the dark to his brother's calm breathing, the dry cough of his father in the next room, the asthma of the hens in the courtyard, the buzz of the mosquitoes, the beating of his heart, and the inordinate bustle of a world that he had not noticed until then, and he went out in the sleeping street.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Brother, Father, Heart

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “One Hundred Years of Solitude”, p.28, Penguin UK

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• There is neither a proportional relationship, nor an inverse one, between a writer’s estimation of a work in progress & its actual quality. The feeling that the work is magnificent, & the feeling that it is abominable, are both mosquitoes to be repelled, ignored, or killed, but not indulged.

  Annie Dillard

  Feelings, Quality, Progress

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• My men have suffered greatly (from boredom), much blood has been shed (by mosquitoes), and I have swung my ax mightily (chopping firewood). Surely we have earned our place in the annals of history—for never has there been so little war in a war.

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  War, Men, Blood

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• We are not created for any grander purpose than the ants that are there or the flies that are hovering around us or the mosquitoes that are sucking our blood.

  U.G. Krishnamurti

  Blood, Purpose, Hovering

  "No Way Out: Conversations With U.G. Krishnamurti". Book edited by J.S.R.L. Narayana Moorty and Anthony Paul Frank Naronha (Chapter 4: You Invent Your Reality), 2002.

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• Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off the track by every nutshell and mosquito's wing that falls on the rails.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fall, Wings, Rivers

  Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.63, Courier Corporation

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• Insects influenced the shape of the Australian house. Some, like the white ant and lthe Lyctus borer, worked quietly and invisibly until a little shower of yellow dust or a sudden collapse indicated their presence. Others, like the mosquito and housefly, were less dangerous and more objectionable. The former type influenced structure in minor ways; the latter affected planning to a major degree.

  Robin Boyd

  Dust, Yellow, White

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• The parasite that causes malaria edges through the cells of the stomach wall of the mosquito and forms a cyst which grows and eventually bursts to release hundreds of sporozoites into the body cavity of the mosquito ... As far as we can tell, the parasite does not harm the mosquito ... It has always seemed to me, though, that these growing cysts ... must at least give the mosquito something corresponding to a stomach-ache.

  Marston Bates

  Wall, Science, Cells

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• I never write a book unless I can't help it. Something has to bother me, like a mosquito, until I have to do something to relieve the itch.

  Gregory Maguire

  Book, Writing, Helping

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• Old muleskinners told how the mules were waiting at the shaft when they arrived each morning. They wanted relief from the heat, deerflies and mosquitoes just like the men.

  Harry Anderson

  Morning, Men, Waiting

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• ....decay and disfavor came together as other parts of the coast were developed, and the canals became weed-clogged ditches breeding mosquitoes, and the hotels were turned into third-rate apartments.

  Edward Bunker

  Weed, Venice, Together

  Edward Bunker (2012). “Little Boy Blue”, p.121, Oldcastle Books

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• The scary thing about the future... there will be tiny cameras everywhere, and they'll be flying around like mosquitoes and drones. That will be bad. Drones are scary. You can't reason with a drone.

  Matt Groening

  Scary, Flying, Cameras

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• If a mosquito has a soul, it is mostly evil. So I don't have too many qualms about putting a mosquito out of its misery. I'm a little more respectful of ants.

  Douglas Hofstadter

  Qualms About, Evil, Soul

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• Well do I remember that dark hot little office in the hospital at Begumpett, with the necessary gleam of light coming in from under the eaves of the veranda. I did not allow the punka to be used because it blew about my dissected mosquitoes, which were partly examined without a cover-glass; and the result was that swarms of flies and of 'eye-flies' - minute little insects which try to get into one's ears and eyelids - tormented me at their pleasure

  Ronald Ross

  Eye, Dark, Science

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• Changing from a player to a coach, I felt like a mosquito in a nudist colony. I didn't know where to begin.

  Pee Wee Reese

  Sports, Player, Nudists

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• Remember what I said about the mosquitoes?" "Which part" asked Maggie. "The scary part, the really scary part, the legitimately terrifying part, or the part that makes suicide sound like an awesome way to spend the evening?

  Mira Grant

  Suicide, Scary, Sound

  Mira Grant (2012). “Blackout: The Newsflesh Trilogy:”, p.41, Hachette UK

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• I do not see how astronomers can help feeling exquisitely insignificant, for every new page of the Book of the Heavens they open reveals to them more and more that the world we are so proud of is to the universe of careening globes as is one mosquito to the winged and hoofed flocks and herds that darken the air and populate the plains and forests of all the earth. If you killed the mosquito would it be missed? Verily, What is Man, that he should be considered of God?

  Mark Twain

  Book, Men, Air

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• Believe that you can make a difference; in fact, you do with every single choice you make. Your money is your power and each time you spend it, it's a vote for something, so make it count. I personally live and work by this African Proverb - If you think you're too small to make a difference, try sleeping in a room with a mosquito.

  Lizzie Borden

  Believe, Sleep, Thinking

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• You can never be an artist if your work comes without effort. That is the problem with modernink from a bottle. You do not have to think. You simply write what is swimming on the top of your brain. And the top is nothing but pond scum, dead leaves, and mosquito spawn.

  Amy Tan

  Education, Reading, Writing

  Amy Tan (2001). “The Bonesetter's Daughter”, p.142, Penguin

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• Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off track by every nutshell and mosquito's wing that falls on the rails. Let us rise early and fast, or break fast, gently and without perturbation; let company come and let company go, let the bells ring and the children cry,-determine to make a day of it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Children, Fall

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.153

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• The mosquitoes here are big enough to rape a chicken.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Enough, Bigs, Chickens

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• Whether one sees the world as God's creation or as a secular mystery that science is on the way to figuring out, there is no denying the beauty and majesty of everything from mountain ranges, deserts, and rain forests to the exquisite details in the design of an ordinary mosquito.

  Robert C. Solomon

  Rain, Mountain Ranges, Design

  Robert C. Solomon (2006). “Spirituality for the Skeptic: The Thoughtful Love of Life”, p.15, Oxford University Press

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• Music as background to me becomes like a mosquito, an insect. In the studio we have big speakers, and to me that's the way music should be listened to. When I listen to music, I want to just listen to music.

  David Lynch

  Want, Way, Should

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• Scientists still know less about what attracts men than they do about what attracts mosquitoes.

  Joyce Brothers

  Men, Scientist, Stills

  Joyce Brothers (1985). “What Evry Wom Know Men”, Ballantine Books

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