Worms Quotes - Page 14

• Born of Black and White, Eaten with worms, I'm a Saint, a Sinner, a Siren of the Word, The Circle knows me, the rest just wanna trip on Grace Juice, Baby Showdown at midnight

  Ted Dekker

  Baby, Black And White, Circles

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• Now I am . . . like anyone with a strong preference for the fly rod, totally indifferent to how large a fish I catch by comparison with other fishermen. So when a fifteen-year-old called Fred, fishing deep in midsummer with a hideous plastic worm, caught a four and a half pounder . . . I naturally felt no resentment beyond wanting to break the kid's thumbs.

  Vance Bourjaily

  Strong, Kids, Years

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• Corporations are "worms in the body politic"

  Thomas Hobbes

  Body, Corporations

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• My kids scotch tape worms to the sidewalk and watch the birds get hernias.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Kids, Scotch, Bird

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• The vessel, though her masts be firm,Beneath her copper bears a worm.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Bears, Copper, Masts

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.148, Penguin

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• ...most of the press were vultures descending on the scene for curious America aplomb. Cameras inside the coffin interviewing worms.

  Jim Morrison

  America, Cameras, Coffins

  Jim Morrison (1971). “The Lords and The New Creatures”, Touchstone

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• When an office begins to look like a family tree, you'll find worms tucked away snug and cheerful in most of the apples.

  George Horace Lorimer

  Apples, Office, Tree

  George Horace Lorimer (2006). “Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-made Merchant to His Son”, p.4, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It was so hot today I saw a robin dipping his worm in Nestea.It was so hot today I saw a pigeon walking in the shadow of Orson Welles.It was so hot today that Burger King was singing, "if you want it your way, cook it yourself.

  Johnny Carson

  Kings, Singing, Shadow

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• When my mouth shall be filled with dust, and the worm shall feed, and feed sweetly upon me, when the ambitious man shall have no satisfaction if the poorest alive tread upon him, nor the poorest receive any contentment in being made equal to princes, for they shall be equal but in dust.

  John Donne

  Men, Dust, Ambitious

  John Donne (2010). “Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions and Death's Duel”, p.176, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Let thy mind still be bent, still plotting, where, And when, and how thy business may be done. Slackness breeds worms; but the sure traveller, Though he alights sometimes still goeth on.

  George Herbert

  Mind, Done, May

  George Herbert (1703). “The temple, sacred poems and private ejaculations. [With] The synagogue”, p.12

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• I like the lad who, when his father thought To clip his morning nap by hackneyed phrase Of vagrant worm by early songster caught, Cried, "Served him right! it's not at all surprising; The worm was punished, sir, for early rising!

  John Godfrey Saxe

  Morning, Father, Naps

  John Godfrey Saxe (1872). “The Poems: Complete in One Volume”, p.134

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• The little and the great are joined in one By God's great force. The wondrous golden sun Is linked unto the glow-worm's tiny spark; The eagle soars to heaven in his flight; And in those realms of space, all bathed in light, Soar none except the eagle and the lark.

  Emma Lazarus

  Space, Light, Eagles

  Emma Lazarus (2002). “Emma Lazarus: Selected Poems and Other Writings”, p.41, Broadview Press

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• I'm afraid to be on this shore a trunk without limbs, and what I most regret is not to have flower, pulp, or clay for the worm of my suffering.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Regret, Flower, Suffering

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• I am a cemetery abhorred by the moon, In which long worms crawl like remorse.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Moon, Long, Cemetery

  Charles Baudelaire, “Spleen (Ii)”

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• Far from New England's blustering shore,New England's worm her hulk shall bore,And sink her in the Indian seas,Twine, wine, and hides, and China teas.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wine, Sea, Tea

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “A Week On The Concord And Merrimack Rivers (Annotated Edition)”, p.121, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I don't want to stir up a can of worms.

  Alan Brazil

  Want, Cans Of Worms

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• Life is short, he thought. Art, or something not life, is long, stretching out endless, like [a] concrete worm. Flat, white, unsmoothed by any passage over or across it.

  Philip K. Dick

  Art, Life Is Short, White

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “The Man in the High Castle”, p.194, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Dirty, Mean, Smell

  The Hobbit ch. 1 (1937)

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• How could you fall in love with a three inch worm?

  Stephenie Meyer

  Falling In Love, Three, Inches

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• You cannot reduce the situation to worm jokes, Will. This is Gabriel and Gideon’s father we’re discussing.” “We’re not just discussing him; we’re chasing him through an ornamental sculpture garden because he’s turned into a worm.

  Cassandra Clare

  Father, Garden, Gideon

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• A forty-foot worm?" Will muttered to Jem as they moved through the Italian garden, their boots - thanks to a pair of Soundless runes - making no noise on the gravel. "Think of the size of the fish we could catch." Jem's lips twitched. "It's not funny, you know." "It is a bit.

  Cassandra Clare

  Garden, Thinking, Italian

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• ...Things happened when you were little. Things you don't remember now, and don't want to. But they need to escape, need to worm their way out of that dark place in your brain where you keep them stashed.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Dark, Brain, Needs

  Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Fallout”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• Yes, Consul. The next time one of our esteemed members turns into a worm and eats another esteemed member, we will inform you immediately.

  Cassandra Clare

  Next, Members, Turns

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.1051, Simon and Schuster

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• E'en Beauty mourns in her decaying bower,
  That Time upon her angel brow should set
  His crooked autograph, and mar the jet
  Of glossy locks. Lo! how her chaplet green,
  The hoar frost and the canker worm destroy.
  Decay's dull film obscures those matchless eyes.

  Isaac McLellan

  Time, Eye, Angel

  Isaac McLellan (1830). “The Fall of the Indian: With Other Poems”, p.25

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• I think that travel comes from some deep urge to see the world, like the urge that brings up a worm in an Irish bog to see the moon when it is full.

  Lord Dunsany

  Travel, Moon, Thinking

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