Apple And Worm Quotes

#1. Rabbit underground, rabbit safe and sound.

Richard Adams

#2. Life - No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

E. M. Forster

#3. Envy, like the worm, is always attracted to the fairest apple

Og Mandino

#4. But sadness was familiar; sadness was manageable. It didn't transform her, the way the raging anger did. She could remain herself and still feel this aching grief.

Aprilynne Pike

#5. I work fitfully, in hope rather than in expectation, invent methods which last a week, and fill notebooks with tiny, illegible writing which often defies my own attempts to decipher it.

Anthony Minghella

#6. Why, you mean you didn't get abducted and dragged across country purely to make us a story for us to chew over endlessly?" asked Pip, tossing his shock of tow-colored hair indignantly. "The nerve!

Mercedes Lackey

#7. Know thyself, presume not God to scan;
The proper study of mankind is man.

Alexander Pope

#8. Most books are so well written they barely have any effect on the reader's senses

Steve Aylett

#9. You insinuated yourself into my heart like a worm into an apple, and I am consumed by you.

Seanan McGuire

#10. Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.

Langston Hughes

#11. The nastiness of women [in the 14th century] was generally perceived at the close of life when a man began to worry about hell, and his sexual desire in any case fading.

Barbara Tuchman

#12. Power comes to those who take it.

Sharon Law Tucker

#13. A good novel begins with a small question and ends with a bigger one.

Paula Fox

#14. What was in the bags?" she asked softly.
"Florida mud," he answered. "That was one of two true things I told you.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#15. Doubt is a great worm in a crispy, red apple.

Sally Gardner

#16. The only reality I can possibly know is the world as I perceive it at this moment. The only reality you can possibly know is the world as you see it at this moment. And the only certainty is that those perceived realities are different. There are as many "real worlds" as there are people!

Carl Rogers

#17. I've bought perfectly healthy horses for a couple of hundred dollars just as they were about to be loaded on a slaughterhouse-bound truck.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

#18. But are you not fond of me?" Paris looked up, his eyes full of reproach."Fond of you? Myrina you are my queen. I want you more than I want life itself.

Anne Fortier

#19. It has long been my desire to be a little worm in the fair apple of Progress.

Sherwood Anderson

#20. But I seem to recall that you can rub the outside of an apple until it shines without ever eradicating the worm within.

Lauren Baratz-Logsted

#21. As for me, I would rather be a worm in a wild apple than a son of man. But we are what we are, and we might remember not to hate any person, for all are vicious; And not to be astonished at any evil, all are deserved; And not to fear death; it is the only way to be cleansed.

Robinson Jeffers