Wasps Quotes - Page 2

• Perez Hilton is an irritating wasp in the beautiful rose garden that is my life.

  Lily Allen

  Beautiful, Garden, Rose

  "Does Lily Allen's new website take digs at Cheryl Cole, Beyoncé and Perez Hilton?" by Carl Greenwood, www.mirror.co.uk. April 24, 2014.

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• Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Knowledge, Gnats, Example

  "La Fontaine's Fables" by Jean de La Fontaine, Fables, II, XVI, March 31, 1668.

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• This man is the bee's knees, Arthur, he is the wasp's nipples. He is, I would go so far as to say, the entire set of erogenous zones of every major flying insect of the Western world.

  Douglas Adams

  Men, Flying, World

  Douglas Adams (2009). “So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish”, p.98, Pan Macmillan

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• My family, we're all WASPs.

  R. James Woolsey, Jr.

  My Family

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• Say I feel all sad and self-indulgent, then get stung by a wasp, my misery feels quite abstract and I long just to be in spiritual pain once more - 'damn you tiny assassin, clad in yellow and black, how I crave my former innocence where melancholy was my only trial'.

  Russell Brand

  Spiritual, Pain, Self

  Russell Brand (2010). “Articles of Faith”, p.21, HarperCollins UK

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• 'WASP' is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another word for the same group but who are in the lower social strata, so it's inexplicably tied up with social standing and culture and history in a way that the other hyphenations just are not.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Redneck, Class, Facts

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• My earliest childhood memory is watching the sunlight through a jar of amber full of wasps.

  Amanda Harlech

  Memories, Childhood, Amber

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• The venerable emeritus professors still at Yale when I entered graduate school [in the 1960s] may have been reserved, puritanical WASPs, but they were men of honor who had given their lives to scholarship. Today in the elite schools, honor and ethics are gone.

  Camille Paglia

  School, Men, Yale

  "Vamps and Tramps". Book by Camille Paglia, 1994.

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• Golf is the only opportunity that middle-aged WASPs have to dress up like a pimp.

  Kinky Friedman

  Golf, Opportunity, Pimp

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• Because his basic idea that he got from the study of gall wasps is that everyone's sexuality is unique.

  Bill Condon

  Unique, Ideas, Study

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• I am aware that I am very old now; but I am also aware that I have never been so young as I am now, in spirit, since I was fourteen and entertained Jim Wolf with the wasps. I am only able to perceive that I am old by a mental process; I am altogether unable to feel old in spirit. It is a pity, too, for my lapses from gravity must surely often be a reproach to me. When I am in the company of very young people I always feel that I am one of them, and they probably privately resent it.

  Mark Twain

  Often Is, People, Age

  Mark Twain (2013). “Autobiography of Mark Twain”, p.266, Univ of California Press

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• I here present thee with a hive of bees, laden some with wax, and some with honey. Fear not to approach! there are no wasps, there are no hornets here. If some wanton bee chance to buzz about thine ears, stand thy ground and hold thy hands-there's none will sting thee, if thou strike not first. If any do, she hath honey in her bag will cure thee too.

  Francis Quarles

  Hands, Honey, Buzz

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• Calumny is like the wasp which worries you, and which it is not best to try to get rid of unless you are sure of slaying it; for otherwise it returns to the charge more furious than ever.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Calumny Is, Worry, Trying

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• The raven hatches its young; the fish spew forth their eggs; the slim-waisted wasp transforms, and when a younger brother comes along the elder brother weeps. For too long I have not been able to work in harmony with these changes. So, given that I did not play my part in harmony with others, how could I expect to change people?

  Zhuangzi

  Brother, Play, Eggs

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• I am very scared of wasps; my cousin was stung in the eye once.

  Missy Elliot

  Cousin, Eye, Scared

  "Missy in action". Interview with Ted Kessler, www.theguardian.com. August 5, 2001.

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• Silver nitrate and water in a super soaker," he told her. "My own invention. Ought to be good at twenty feet, kind of like wasp spray." Oh. "You get me the nicest things." "Anybody can get jewelry. Posers

  Rachel Caine

  Feet, Water, Twenties

  Rachel Caine (2010). “The Morganville Vampires:”, p.1806, Penguin

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• A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of decayed syllables.

  Norton Juster

  Smell, Gone, Phantom Tollbooth

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• I'm a girl of extremes. When I love something, I'm like a puppy dog (without all the licking). When I'm cranky, I'm a wasp (like a whole hive of 'em). And when I'm angry, I'm a Mother Bear with a predator after her cubs: Dangerous.

  James Patterson

  Girl, Mother, Dog

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• I'd been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches.

  Harry Mathews

  Easter, Upper East Side, Sides

  "Agent Provocateur: Harry Matthews with Johannah Rogers". The Brooklyn Rail Interview, brooklynrail.org. June 1, 2005.

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• Most people, when they imagine New England, think about old colonial homes, white houses with black shutters, whales, and sexually morbid WASPs with sensible vehicles and polite political opinions. This is incorrect. If you want to get New England right, just imagine a giant mullet in paint-stained pants and a Red Sox hat being pushed into the back of a cruiser after a bar fight.

  Matt Taibbi

  Home, Fighting, Thinking

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• Did he annoy me? Yes, he was like a wasp at a picnic.

  Gary Barlow

  Anger, Picnics, Annoying

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• It was enormously challenging because you want that all-American girl, but you also want the cool WASP, privileged white girl. Usually, women in that package aren't funny.

  Jenji Kohan

  Girl, White, Challenges

  Source: collider.com

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• I have gone into town to buy a few last things we need for the expedition: Peruvian wasp repellent, toothbrushes, canned peaches, and a fireproof canoe. It will take a while to find the peaches, so don't expect me back until dinnertime. Stephano, Gustav's replacement, will arrive today by taxi. Please make him feel welcome. As you know, it is only two days until the expedition, so please work very hard today. Your giddy uncle, Monty

  Daniel Handler

  Uncles, Two, Needs

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• I guess we all feel like underdogs. I remember being a freshman at Brown University and not knowing what a WASP was. We were reading an Edward Albee play, and - it was just a moment of accepting, certainly that I wasn't very worldly, but also that a lot of the plays that I'd been reading, let's say other kinds of family plays, were speaking a foreign language.

  Stephen Karam

  Reading, Play, Knowing

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• I hope the day will come when a wasp-waist and a pair of thin shoulders will not be esteemed beauty: we have had our ideas ruined by trash novels, praising 'fragile forms' and 'delicate beauty,' 'dainty waists,' 'snow-drop faces,' and a lot of other nonsense.

  Julia McNair Wright

  Beauty, Ideas, Snow

  Julia McNair Wright (1879). “The Complete Home: an Encyclopædia of Domestic Life and Affairs: The Household in Its Foundation, Order, Economy ... A Volume of Practical Experiences Popularly Illustrated”

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