Top 100 Bug Quotes
#1. There is a decivilizing bug somewhere at work; unconsciously persons of stern worth, by not resenting and resisting the small indignities of the times, are preparing themselves for the eventual acceptance of what they themselves know they don't want.
E.B. White
#2. Even if it was a song I didn't particularly like, I needed to record it, listen to it and drink it in. I had caught the music bug.
Jamie Jones
#3. But - pardon me if I seem inquisitive - are you not all rather - ahem! rather unusual?" asked the Woggle-Bug, looking from one to another with unconcealed interest. "Not more so than yourself," answered the Scarecrow. "Everything in life is unusual until you get accustomed to it.
L. Frank Baum
#4. The things that bug you the most have the potential to open you the most.
Alan Cohen
#5. Like delicate lace, So the threads intertwine, Oh, gossamer web Of wond'rous design! Such beauty and grace Wild nature produces ... Ughh, look at the spider Suck out that bug's juices!
Bill Watterson
#6. She was torn between the impulse to run and the urge to curl up like a pill bug, close her eyes, tuck her head beneath her arms, and play the game of since-I-can't-see-monsters-monsters-can't-see-me.
Holly Black
#7. I ate a bug once. It was flying around me. I was trying to get it away. It went right in my mouth. It was so gross!
Hilary Duff
#8. Relationships aren't about idealistic love and happily ever after. It's those things that bug [ ... ] us about each other and yet eventually we find ourselves wishing we could go back and do it all over again.
Julie Cross
#9. I was, throughout school, in the theater program. Through elementary school, junior high, high school, and then J.J. Abrams, my closest friend in the world, we were living together. He was writing, and I was trying writing; I wasn't getting paid for it like he was, but I always had the acting bug.
Greg Grunberg
#10. The lightning-bug is brilliant, but he hasn't any mind;
He stumbles through existence with his headlight on behind.
Eugene Fitch Ware
#11. My son had toyed with the idea of writing and trying to write a little bit, so that kind of gave me the bug to write also.
George Strait
#13. The Y2K bug is a genuine technical concern, consuming the energies of many specialists. But the prophecies of doom represent a broader worldview using the bug as a news hook. In this vision, the good society is a stable society, undisrupted by innovation, ambition or outside influences.
Virginia Postrel
#15. When you take on the idea of playing someone like Jimmy Bulger, it's a radically different process because you're going into make-up. The only way you can do it is to come out of make-up looking like the guy. If you don't look like the guy, it's going to bug you, all day.
Johnny Depp
#16. Did that high-and-mighty attitude of yours come attached to you when you were spawned?!
Was it a bug your programmer couldn't fix?!
CLAMP
#17. I was always scared in the amateurs, but the minute I got in the ring it was like another person took over. I become more vicious. In there I love to hurt people. Outside I can't hurt a bug.
Nonito Donaire
#18. I smirk. "That owl is one of your creations?"
Jeb's grin widens. "It was for bug-breath's own good. Dude's ancient ... he needs to stay in shape.
A.G. Howard
#19. Perhaps we are yet to feel the full impact of the Y2K bug but so far it's been quiet.
Michael McGirr
#20. I started writing at the age of seventeen because I had a teacher in high school who said that we had to get something accepted by a national magazine to get an A. The teacher later withdrew that threat, but the writing bug bit me.
Laurence Yep
#21. Wait!"
What?" I lowered my cup hastily, wondering if maybe there was a stray hair, or worse, a newly boiled bug inside my cup.
You got to smell it first. It's the proper way to cup coffee."
Cup coffee?"
Taste it."
What? Are you the coffee police or something?
Justina Chen
#22. Being a disgusting, disease-carrying bug with a brain the size of a pinhead isn't something you deal with easily. It takes time to adjust to the idea.
Rick Yancey
#23. There are plenty of actors who've caught the singing bug and vice versa, but with musical performers, you're constantly a persona - which is something I love about acting: you play a character, you leave and you get to be yourself again.
Freddie Stroma
#24. According to the crazy, bug-eating guys on those survival shows, human beings are the most adaptable creatures on earth- we can get used to just about anything. Doesn't mean it's okay. I mean, who wants to get used to eating grubs and collecting maple leaves for toiler paper? No thanks.
Sarah Ockler
#25. For those that dare to stand up
against those that want to knock you down." The dedication from Worst Case Scenario: Bug Out - Book 2.
G. Allen Mercer
#26. We play your part in order to understand you, but you each seem to play a thousand parts. It makes things difficult for an honest, hard-working bug-eyed monster.
Larry Niven
#27. My mother worshipped at the alter of accessories and I got the bug. She always said, if you have a good, little, simple black dress and you have different accessories, you can have 27 different outfits.
Iris Apfel
#28. Saw a little girl touch a big bug and shout, "I conquered my fear! YES!" and calmly walk away. I was inspired.
Nathan Fillion
#29. TeX has found at least one bug in every Pascal compiler it's been run on, I think, and at least two in every C compiler
Donald Knuth
#30. Being veterinarians, we're not supposed to be afraid of any animals. And I'm afraid of spiders. They creep me out the way they move. They got hair and saliva. That's wrong. A bug shouldn't have hair on it.
Kevin Fitzgerald
#31. I did a year at Leeds, studying English. They basically threw me out, because I was taking too much time off to act. So I transferred to the Open University, because I could do it all online. By that point, I had admitted to myself that I had the acting bug.
Holliday Grainger
#32. I don't have any spiritual anything.You shoot a guy with a gun, he dies. You step on a bug, the bug dies. There is no heaven for me and no hell. And certainly not any Karma.
Henry Rollins
#33. In other words, crew deaths are a feature, not a bug, Cassaway said, dryly.
John Scalzi
#34. Consider well the proportion of things: it is better to be a young June bug than an old bird of paradise.
Mark Twain
#35. With sabre fencing, it's important to have a strong core. I do an exercise called 'the dead bug.' You sit on the round side of a Bosu ball, lean back, extend one arm and the opposite leg, then switch.
Mariel Zagunis
#36. You planted a bug on me?"
"Yes."
"And you don't think that was wrong?"
"I don't care."
Prophet blinked. "Fuck. That's something I'd say.
S.E. Jakes
#37. Zackary Connor's office building was made of glass, endless windows giving the impression of being outside. It was exactly how I liked nature
air conditioned and bug free.
Caroline Hanson
#38. I got bitten by the free software bug in February of 1998 around the time of the Mozilla announcement.
Andy Hertzfeld
#39. My dad was Chinese-American and very conservative when it came to his family's futures. He said if I wanted to have a secure job, I should go into science. So I did what Dad said and went to medical school, but the writing bug never left me.
Tess Gerritsen
#40. I never wanted to be an actress, really. I sort of caught the bug fairly late. So many people are so intrigued with the glamour and celebrity of acting, and a lot of actors start acting when they are 9 or 10 years old - so young. I started when I was about 24.
Bitsie Tulloch
#41. So that makes us robbers of robbers," said Bug, "who pretend to be robbers working for a robber of other robbers.
Scott Lynch
#42. It's American Alternative radio stations that bug me. We're considered Alternative, but don't expect us to be played next to Blink 182 and Offspring. We're hardly of that generation.
Thurston Moore
#43. Anyone can squash a bug but all professors of this world couldn't build one.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#44. In the bacteriology lab, we have culture plates. You put a bug in there and it starts growing and gets bigger and bigger and bigger. And it grows until it finally fills the whole plate. And it crashes and dies.
John Tanton
#45. When people talk about people who are optimistic about gold, they call them 'gold bugs.' A bug is an insect. I don't call equity bugs 'cockroaches.' Do you understand? There is already a negative connotation with the expression of 'gold bug.'
Marc Faber
#46. As for the claim that drone 'pilots' are not engaged in the extinguishing of human life via video games, the military's own term for its drone kills - 'bug splat,' which happens to be the name of a children's video game - and other evidence negates that.
Glenn Greenwald
#47. I worked with my dad for 15 years. I apprenticed under him and decided I wanted to become an architect. So I went to college for it and then the acting bug got me.
Patrick Duffy
#48. the failures are a feature, not a bug.
Al Ramadan
#49. 'A Bug's Life' is a really funny movie and the characters have such different personalities. The movie is happy and then gets really sad and I'm like, W'hoa, I'm feeling this way and this movie is about bugs!'
Booboo Stewart
#50. Mark Twain said, 'The right word is to the nearly right word as lightning is to the lightning bug.' Fill your book with lightning.
Robert Littell
#51. One bit of advice someone gave me - which I haven't yet tried - is that if you go to an area where you might pick up a tummy bug, you should seek out the local probiotic yogurt. Eating it will introduce you to the local gut flora, apparently.
Anthony Head
#52. Bug spray." Mosquitoes never bother me, but apparently they eat Tucker alive if he forgets bug spray. So I wear it for solidarity. "All the kids wear
it," I explain to Mom. "They say the mosquito is the Wyoming state bird.
Cynthia Hand
#53. Jackie patted her on the shoulder, "you know what you need?"
Ash peeked out from between her fingers."Eight hours of rest before tomorrows exam? Bug spray that repels assholes?
Karsten Knight
#54. Mark Twain once put it, "The difference between the right word and the almost-right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug." Power
Saul D. Alinsky
#56. The political bug first bit me was Malcolm Fraser's resignation from the Gorton Government.
George Brandis
#57. Her eyes were luminous gold. I wondered if that was the last color a bug saw when it was trapped in amber - and if the bug thought, wow, that's beautiful, right before it was frozen forever.
Rick Riordan
#58. He had all the self-preservation instincts of a bug near a shiny windshield.
Karen Chance
#59. I'm awful glad I'm not a bug
to go through life without a hug.
Kat McMann
#60. When I was five or six, I asked to sing at a big family party, and ever since I got up there in front of everyone in my suit - it had a blue collar, like in 'Scarface' - I had the bug.
Jencarlos Canela
#61. bug-out bag, or sometimes called a 72-hour bag or go bag, is designed to provide you with the essentials while you evacuate a disaster area. In all likelihood, you will have to evacuate on foot so your bag must be one that can be shouldered. Trying
Vitaly Pedchenko
#62. Part of it is, I think, just to let people know you've got a record out there and that you're still alive requires more work than it used to, because the traditional radio, bug chains of record stores, all of that, that doesn't exist anymore.
Steve Earle
#63. Though he had touched her bared skin - purely to get her attention. Had nothing to do with being drawn to her beauty like a bug to the neon light that would be its death. No,
Jules Barnard
#64. Sam handed back the sword. "When I try to swat a bug, it always flies away. All I do is slap my arm. It stings." That made Jon laugh.
George R R Martin
#65. People look at me and keep walking - but you can tell they know who I am. I want them to bug me. It's gonna be a sad day when they don't.
Schoolboy Q
#66. Decorum
that bug-bear which deters so many from bliss until the opportunity for bliss has forever gone by.
Edgar Allan Poe
#67. K [Kissinger] called from New York all disturbed because he felt someone had been getting to the P [President] on Vietnam ... Henry's concerned that the P's looking for a way to bug out and he thinks that would be a disaster now.
Bob Woodward
#68. What would bug the Taliban more than seeing a gay woman in a suit surrounded by Jews?
Ellen DeGeneres
#69. Critics who attack my wife bug me. It makes me want to pay 'em a visit so I could give 'em a good punch in the nose.
Tim McGraw
#70. I mean People come up and ask for autographs or say hi but they wont bug you.
John Lennon
#72. There was Augustus TwoFeathers McCoy, bug enough for three men, who ate enough for four men and who drank enough for five.
Neil Gaiman
#73. I think maybe miracles are something everybody has to find out about for themselves. Telling them about it doesn't make them believe. It just makes them think you're crazy as a bessie bug.
Jenny Wingfield
#74. I've been a fan of The Rock ever since he first came to wrestling. Every time I went to school, I talked about The Rock. So when I finally got to meet him I couldn't believe it! When he walked through the door, I went bug-eyed! 'I'm standing next to The Rock, man!' He's huge. He's very nice, though.
Khleo
#75. A test that reveals a bug has succeeded, not failed.
Boris Beizer
#76. More than the act of testing, the act of designing tests is one of the best bug preventers known.
Boris Beizer
#77. There's a bug inside you. Growing in you, eating everything you've forced yourself to forget, everything you don't want to think about. Your bug will decide your fate one day. And ... chances are, you will die because of it.
Kouhei Kadono
#78. When you're a solo artist and you have a band on tour you have to pay the band some salary. You don't realise the expenses, the way they add up SO quickly. But thank god I'm not a money person. So it doesn't really bug me at all, I mean it's more comical to me ...
Marnie Stern
#79. All right, it's a beach. I'm just messing with you."
"It would be funnier if we hadn't spent the last two days trying to hunt down the glitch."
"Did you find it?"
"Yes. The software seems to be submitting fake bug reports. Try to be serious."
"Try to not call me 'the software.
Bryce C. Anderson
#80. I got the writing bug in the fourth grade when a poem of mine was published in the school newspaper. Music criticism came a little later, when I was in high school.
Ann Powers
#81. I find it funny how I effortlessly combine existential fear with the wish not to be embarrassed. I often think of poor Gregor Samsa first waking up as a bug. This
John Carpmael
#82. The actual "Root Bug" is the fact that earning opportunities (work) aren't allocated to people (in the mid-term) according to their willingness to spend and invest.
Tuure Parkkinen
#83. Both my parents had strokes. My father had several, but the last one was fatal. It's a horribly disabling bug, a stroke.
Ruth Rendell
#84. Yes, I'm a mouse. Squeak, squeak. Now shoo-shoo back to your little bug friends, said Rirped, picking up a hunk of dried beef. He tore a off a piece with his teeth and noticed Boots hadn't moved. He pulled back his lips to reveal a row of jagged teeth and gave her a sharp hiss.
Suzanne Collins
#85. After a moment or two, a strange awareness shot through me, and I looked up to see Aidan Gray slip into the seat directly across the room, facing me. Great. There went my concentration, especially since he sat there watching me, studying me like some interesting bug under a microscope.
Kristi Cook
#86. The grin on his face wasn't the affable, friendly sort; instead, it was the sociopathic rictus of the irretrievably, bug-fuckeringly insane
Kevin Hearne
#87. And 1.1.81 is officially BugFree(tm), so if you receive any bug-reports on it, you know they are just evil lies.
Linus Torvalds
#88. Your moral education's over." Jean stared up into the sky as the dockside receded and Bug took them out into the canal's heart. "Now you're going to learn a thing or two about war.
Scott Lynch
#89. On the day they dropped the bomb Frank had a tablespoon and a Mason jar. What he was doing was spooning different kinds of bugs into the jar and making them fight ... I can remember other bug fights we staged later on ... They won't fight unless you keep shaking the jar.
Kurt Vonnegut
#90. What happened December 12?" Polyester asks.
I look at the wall, my attention suddenly riveted by a palmetto bug, feelers writhing. I could kill it if I wanted.
He hit me."
The bug slides to the floor.
Alex Flinn
#91. There's nothing really difficult if you only begin - some people contemplate a task until it looms so big, it seems impossible, but I just begin and it gets done somehow. There would be no coral islands if the first bug sat down and began to wonder how the job was to be done.
John Shaw Billings
#92. Perhaps Bug and Tony should have been allies. But any successful structure of domination always gets the weak to reject each other.
William T. Vollmann
#93. I could have picked up a stomach bug or eaten something which didn't agree with me." Wyatt's gaze dropped to my belly and then moved back up to my face to meet mine. "You didn't catch anything except my baby." I
Fiona Davenport
#94. The animated bug has bitten pop culture. It makes me feel happy and free. When you don't act seriously, you can make up your own rules.
Nicki Minaj
#95. What's on the inside, beneath that sugar? Is it a bug? Is it a booger?
Elle Valentine
#96. You have the attention span of a large bug, and yet I don't feel good enough about myself to not date you.
Dov Davidoff
#97. It has long been a bug bear of mine ... it needs to change, very simply.
Lucinda Creighton
#99. Your car should drive itself. It's amazing to me that we let humans drive cars ... It's a bug that cars were invented before computers.
Eric Schmidt
#100. If there were other civilizations out there, why would they ever want to make contact with humanity? If this was how we treated each other, how much kindness could we possibly show to some race of bug-eyed beings from beyond?
Ernest Cline
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