Mosquitoes famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The implied threat of using nuclear weapons to curb guerrillas was as absurd as to talk of using a sledge hammer to ward off a swarm of mosquitoes.
-- B. H. Liddell Hart -
mosquitoes were using my ankles as filling stations.
-- Cornelia Otis Skinner -
People who say that small things don't bother them have never slept in a room with a mosquito.
-- Dennis Rainey -
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 -
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 -
I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.
-- Ian Somerhalder -
We can send people to the Moon; we can see if there's life on Mars - why can't we get $5 [mosquito] nets to 500 million people?
-- Jacqueline Novogratz -
If only Africa had more mosquito nets then every year we could save millions of mosquitoes from dying needlessly of aids
-- Jimmy Carr -
Mosquitoes are the greatest mass murderers on planet Earth.
-- Katherine Applegate -
We scarified a mosquito. I bet that's what did it. It was probably a virgin too.
-- Kelley Armstrong -
I see myself as a roving mosquito, choosing it's target.
-- Kenneth Williams -
All the time I pray to Buddha I keep on killing mosquitoes.
-- Kobayashi Issa -
To me, there is nothing more soothing than the song of a mosquito that cant get through the mesh to bite you.
-- Madison Smartt Bell -
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 -
If Ali says a mosquito can pull a plow, don't ask how. Hitch him up.
-- Muhammad Ali -
A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience.
-- O. Henry -
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 -
A fine city with too many socialists and mosquitoes. At least you can spray the mosquitoes.
-- Ralph Klein -
we have to suffer mosquitoes the size of blackbirds.
-- Rebecca Wells -
Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria.
-- Richard Stallman -
I did my best work in The Mosquito Coast. I know it wasn't such a big hit, but for me it was more meaningful than anything else I'd ever done.
-- River Phoenix -
I'm like a mosquito, I love humidity. I don't sweat.
-- Shakira -
I was nicknamed 'Skeeter' in Little League because I was small and fast, like a mosquito flying across the outfield.
-- Skeet Ulrich -
The marsh, to him who enters it in a receptive mood, holds, besides mosquitoes and stagnation, melody, the mystery of unknown waters, and the sweetness of Nature undisturbed by man.
-- William Beebe -
I continue to handpick the beetles, mosquitoes feast on me, birds eat the mosquitoes, something else eats the birds, and so on up and down the biotic pyramid.
-- William F. Longgood -
[On what bugged him] A fine city with too many socialists and mosquitoes. At least you can spray the mosquitoes.
-- Ralph Klein -
The belief is growing on me that the disease is communicated by the bite of the mosquito. ... She always injects a small quantity of fluid with her bite-what if the parasites get into the system in this manner.
-- Ronald Ross
