Worms Quotes - Page 19

• The pool was but a stone's throw from the house, and I arrived there in a few minutes, only to find a boy disturbing the water by dredging it with a worm. Him I lured away with a cake of chocolate. . . . Every day I see the head of the largest trout I ever hooked, but did not land.

  Theodore Gordon

  Boys, Lakes, Sea

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• Prostration is our natural position. A worm-like movement from a spot of sunlight to a spot of shade, and back, is the type of movement that is natural to men.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Men, Relaxation, Laziness

  Wyndham Lewis (1989). “The Essential Wyndham Lewis: An Introduction to His Work”, Andre Deutsch Limited

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• Amoeba has her picture in the book, Proud Protozoon!-Yet beware of pride, All she can do is fatten and divide; She cannot even read, or sew, or cook... The Worm can crawl But has no eyes to look. The Jelly-fish can swim But lacks a bride.

  Julian Huxley

  Book, Eye, Pride

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• We're all worm bait waiting to happen. It's what you do while you wait that matters.

  Kinky Friedman

  Life, Waiting, Bait

  Kinky Friedman (1993). “Kinky Friedman: Three Complete Mysteries : Greenwich Killing Time/a Case of Lone Star/When the Cat's Away”, Outlet

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• It was the day of the worms. That first almost-warm, after-the-rainy-night day in April, when you bolt from your house to find yourself in a world of worms. They were as numerous here in the East End as they had been in the West. The sidewalks, the streets. The very places where they didn't belong. Forlorn, marooned on concrete and asphalt, no place to burrow, April's orphans.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Night, House, Finding Yourself

  Jerry Spinelli (1991). “Maniac Magee”

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• I just like to catch fish, I don't care if it weighs half a pound or 10 pounds. But I can't do a lot of casting. I can work a jig or a worm. But not for long, especially if the big ones are biting. Those big bass will make it hurt after a while.

  Terry Bradshaw

  Hurt, Long, Half

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• When the worms are scarce, what does a hen do? Does she stop scratching? She does not. She scratches all the harder. A lot of businessmen have been showing less sense than a hen since orders became scarce. They have laid off salesmen; they have stopped or reduced their advertising; they have simply resigned themselves to inaction and, of course, to pessimism. If a hen knows enough to scratch all the harder when the worms are scarce, surely businessmen ... ought to have gumption enough to scratch all the harder for business.

  B. C. Forbes

  Perseverance, Order, Gumption

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• That the play is the tragedy, “Man,” And its hero, the Conqueror Worm.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Hero, Men, Play

  Edgar Allan Poe (2014). “Classics Reimagined, Edgar Allan Poe”, p.194, Race Point Publishing

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• I was in three academic clubs, a huge book worm and the teacher's pet. I was kind of an easy target for bullies.

  Nicole Anderson

  Teacher, Book, Bully

  "Hanging with Mean Girls 2 Nicole Anderson". Interview with Seventeen, www.seventeen.com. January 25, 2011.

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• In Nature there is no dirt, everything is in the right condition; the swamp and the worm, as well as the grass and the bird,-all is there for itself.

  Berthold Auerbach

  Nature, Bird, Swamps

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• Centuries have not worm-eaten the solidity of this ancient furniture of the mind.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Mind, Furniture, Ancient

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• Man is certainly the most disgusting kind of worm that has ever crawled on this stupid ugly planet.

  William C. Brown

  Stupid, Men, Ugly

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• Beginning to think is beginning to be undermined. Society has but little connection with such beginnings. The worm is in man's heart. That is where it must be sought. One must follow and understand this fatal game that leads from lucidity in the face of existence to flight from light.

  Albert Camus

  Heart, Men, Thinking

  Albert Camus (1955). “The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays”

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• The struggle inside the cocoon between the defenders of the worm state and the agents of winged possibility is one that I was still living, one that many of us surely experience in times of spiritual emergence. We may find ourselves pounded into mush, hanging upside down from whatever we can cling to — and yet have the possibility and destiny of becoming much, much more.

  Robert Moss

  Spiritual, Struggle, Destiny

  Robert Moss (2014). “The Boy Who Died and Came Back: Adventures of a Dream Archaeologist in the Multiverse”, p.110, New World Library

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• Buzzards got to eat; same as worms.

  Josey Wales

  Buzzards

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• The situation in this country is like a dog with worms. You bring the dog to the vet to be dewormed, but the vet is Dr. Obama, and he says you can't get the dog dewormed because the worms have a vote. And that's the problem, folks: the worms have a vote.

  Neal Boortz

  Country, Dog, Drs

  "Rush Limbaugh Is Not Alone" by Tom Junod, www.esquire.com. March 8, 2012.

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• The man creates a pseudonym and hides behind it like a worm

  Sylvia Plath

  Honesty, Men, Pseudonyms

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• Just as many who were brought up to think of God as a bearded old gentleman sitting on a cloud decided that when they stopped believing in such a being they had therefore stopped believing in God, so many who were taught to think of hell as a literal underground location full of worms and fire...decided that when they stopped believing in that, so they stopped believing in hell. The first group decided that because they couldn't believe in childish images of God, they must be atheists. The second decided that because they couldn't believe in childish images of hell, they must be universalists.

  N. T. Wright

  Atheist, Believe, Thinking

  "Surprised by Hope". Book by N. T. Wright, 2007.

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• He lies below, correct in cypress wood, And entertains the most exclusive worms.

  Dorothy Parker

  Lying, Woods, Cypresses

  Dorothy Parker (1944). “Dorothy Parker”

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• Modern art must strike out from the old. The new is not revealed to those whose eyes are fastened in worship upon the old…Have you ever seen an inch worm crawl up a leaf or twig, and then clinging to the very end, revolve in the air, feeling for something to reach? That's like me. I am trying to find something out there beyond the place on which I have a footing.

  Albert Pinkham Ryder

  Art, Eye, Air

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• Speaking of dust, ‘out of which we came and to which we shall return,’ do you know that after we are dead our corpses are devoured by different kinds of worms according as we are fat or thin? In fat corpses one species of maggot is found, the rhizophagus, while thin corpses are patronized only by the phora. The latter is evidently the aristocrat, the fastidious gourmet which turns up its nose at a heavy meal of copious breasts and juicy at bellies. Just think, there is no perfect equality, even in the manner in which we feed the worms.

  Joris-Karl Huysmans

  Thinking, Dust, Perfect

  Joris-Karl Huysmans (1972). “L…-bas (Down There).”, p.30, Courier Corporation

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• There is no greater fan of fly fishing than the worm.

  Patrick F. McManus

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  Patrick F. McManus (1984). “Never Sniff A Gift Fish”, p.157, Macmillan

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• Man wasn't made to share the universe with gods. Their ways are not meant for the humble likes of us. But we've decoded some of their secrets regardless. Like worms, we've grabbed on to the talons of eagles and learned some small truths and means of flight. But we can never really fly. We try, and succeed to a certain extent, but the fall is always - will always be - there.

  Darren Shan

  Fall, Humble, Mean

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• Each worm to his taste;
  some prefer to eat nettles.

  Junichiro Tanizaki

  Taste, Nettles

  Junichiro Tanizaki (2011). “Some Prefer Nettles”, p.4, Tuttle Publishing

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• We all stared at the scoreboard in stunned silence. Only Carter was able to get anything out. "That," he told Robert exuberantly, "is how a bird in the hand gets up before the early worm." "That doesn't make any sense," said Roger. Carter pointed at the scoreboard. "Neither does that, but there you have it.

  Richelle Mead

  Hands, Silence, Bird

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