Anthill Quotes

#1. After the storm the city lies becalmed. It is a sunny morning, still and cold. Branches litter the streets like broken limbs. People clear away the wreckage. They swarm around like ants whose anthill has been scuffed; how doggedly they rebuild their lives.

Deborah Moggach

#2. One day we found them. They must of been holding a gook convention or something, cause it seem like the same sort of deal as when you step on a anthill and they all come swarming around.

Winston Groom

#3. In her experience every man thought he was a natural dancer, and every one thought he was good in bed. The truth was that most men only knew one dance step - usually the pogo - and between the sheets they were like a monkey in a nature film poking at an anthill with a stick.

Chuck Palahniuk

#4. I say we should stake him to an anthill and throw little pickles at him! (Selena)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#5. You can make your own son or daughter one of a kind if you have the time and will to do so; school can only make them part of a hive, herd or anthill.

John Taylor Gatto

#6. Can a single ant be said to be alive, in any meaningful sense of the word, or does it only have relevance in terms of its anthill?

Margaret Atwood

#7. A lizard, resting in the shade of the anthill, studied Atkinson with interest, tilting its head this way and that. Atkinson studied it in return. A small, dull brown animal, usually it would not catch Atkinson's attention, but under the circumstances it became a thing of beauty.

Martin Marais

#8. If ants had a language they would, no doubt, call their anthill an artifact and describe the brick wall in its neighborhood as a natural object. Nature in fact would be for them all that was not 'ant-made'.

C.S. Lewis

#9. We are anthill men upon an anthill world.

Ray Bradbury

#10. Los Angeles, this anthill, this slag heap, the city where I suffered and grappled with life and was defeated, and where I finally triumphed.

Donald O'Donovan

#11. Somewhere along the way we have gone astray. The human anthill is richer than ever before. We have more wealth and more leisure, and yet we lack something essential, which we find it difficult to describe. We feel less human; somewhere we have lost our mysterious prerogatives.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#12. Ants are more like the parts of an animal than entities on their own. They are mobile cells, circulating through a dense connective tissue of other ants in a matrix of twigs. The circuits are so intimately interwoven that the anthill meets all the essential criteria of an organism.

Lewis Thomas

#13. You stake a guy out on an anthill in the desert - see? He's facing upward, and you put honey all over his balls and pecker, and you cut off his eyelids so he has to stare at the sun till he dies." So it goes.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#14. An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

Ovid

#15. The worst cruelty that can be inflicted on a human being is isolation.

Sukarno

#16. After wasting so much pulp and ink myself, who was I to complain about waste? We live in an advanced capitalist society, after all.

Haruki Murakami

#17. Is it possible to live so defensively that you never get to live at all?

Rachel Naomi Remen

#18. No matter what the role, you're trying to do the impossible - make a living in show business.

Peter Gallagher

#19. Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#20. Number one is that it just scares people! Your hair is standing up on your arms, or at least that there's a few moments when you're jumping. That's what makes it a good horror movie.

Gina Philips

#21. Cleaning is therapy for me. I'm not ashamed of holding the duster or broom.

Amisha Patel