Centipede Quotes

#1. Approaching us through a haze of dust that overhung the road was a long column of men - a slovenly column that marched irregularly and out of step, so that it had the look of a gigantic centipede whose feet hurt.

Kenneth Roberts

#2. I'm not a big fan of spiders, rats, especially if they're like - I got up one morning on a holiday recently, and there was a centipede in the bed that big. I wasn't very happy about that.

Tim Burton

#3. Apparently Matts been busier than a centipede at a toe counting contest.

Joe Teti

#4. Some people come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of centipede
not because they have a hundred feet, but because most people can't count above 14.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

#5. Ushikawa's appearance made him stand out. He did not have the sort of looks suited for stakeouts or tailing people. As much as he might try to lose himself in a crowd, he was inconspicuous as a centipede in a cup of yogurt

Haruki Murakami

#6. The organizational architecture is really that a centipede walks on hundred legs and one or two don't count. So if I lose one or two legs, the process will go on, the organization will go on, the growth will go on.

Mukesh Ambani

#7. I have always been averse to theorizing about the art or craft of biography. Like Disraeli's biographer, Lord Blake, who offers the cautionary analogy of the biographical centipede unsure of her next step because of too much cerebration, I have made it my practice to let the facts find the theory.

David Levering Lewis

#8. They're pretty extreme, but I loved the two 'Human Centipede' films from Tom Six. Those movies are fun because they're well-made. They're crazy and psychotic and perverted and twisted, but they're really well-made.

Bill Moseley

#9. The moment we begin to give a nation the unity and simplicity of an animal, we begin to think wildly. Because every man is a biped, fifty men are not a centipede.

G.K. Chesterton

#10. He gave Gaspode a long, slow stare, which was like challenging a centipede to an arse-kicking contest.

Terry Pratchett

#11. The centipede was happy, quite, Until a toad in fun Said, "Pray, which leg goes after which?" This worked his mind to such a pitch, He lay distracted in a ditch, Considering how to run.

Alan W. Watts

#12. A centipede the size of a Pontiac had once lived in the bottom-right corner of the trunk but had long since moved on once he realized that no one was ever going to bother him, so he could stand up on his hind hundred feet, hiss like a pissed cat, and deliver a deadly bite to a naked foot.

Christopher Moore

#13. What goes click ninety-nine times and clack once? A centipede with a clubfoot.

Anne Frank

#14. If your stature were an illness, it seems that the Centipede dispenses medicine to make you well.

Cheshire Cat

#15. The centipede has rhythm and flow in its hundred legs precisely because it does not have to think about it. Consider this the next time you move the instruments of your art.

Robert Genn

#16. Lucifer, here brought so low that he resembles a giant centipede with countless arms and legs, chained on a fiery grill, exhaling and inhaling sinners.

Dana Facaros

#17. I'm afraid of coaching, of writer's classes, of writer's magazines, of books on how to write. They give me centipede trouble - you know the yarn about the centipede who was asked how he managed all his feet? He tried to answer, stopped to think about it, and was never able to walk another step.

Robert A. Heinlein

#18. They say only love can create, so who the fuck could love up a centipede? He's got more love in him than I got.
Now, killing a centipede makes me feel safer - like, one less.

William S. Burroughs

#19. It's kind of like a Zen thing. Like playing the piano, or being a centipede in Heaven.

Peter Watts

#20. We are dying birds we are sinking ships - the world rocks down against us and we throw out our arms and we throw out our legs like the death kiss of the centipede: but they kindly snap our backs and call our poison politics.

Charles Bukowski

#21. So many knives and forks and spoons were not meant for a human being but for a centipede ...

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#22. I distinctly remember being a fifth-grader and lying in bed at three a.m. thinking, I am the only kid awake in the world. The insomnia feeds the anxiety, the anxiety feeds the insomnia, and my night would become a human centipede of sleeplessness.

Mamrie Hart

#23. He did not have the sort of looks suited for stakeouts or tailing people. As much as he might try to lose himself in a crowd, he was as inconspicuous as a centipede in a coup of yogurt.

Haruki Murakami

#24. One is reminded of the old joke about the centipede who was asked how he managed to coordinate his 100 legs : He started thinking about it and could never walk properly again.

Paul Krugman

#25. That's the problem with this never-ending centipede of lemmings, Beck. You know they're all pussies, each and every one of 'em. They buy these books to get scared because their lives are too easy. How pathetic is that?

Caroline Kepnes

#26. After the shot he collapsed on the bed and lay there inert, but something was stirring in his spine from neck to the tail - and now pieces tore loose in the eggs and then a red, glistening head emerges in reeking yellow slime - and then the whole centipede crawling out quick.

William S. Burroughs

#27. There has been a major shift in how we live in our homes. Everyone knows the kitchen is the soul of the house. It's more of an open-concept approach.

Candice Olson

#28. Power is not found in muscles; power is found in the mind.

Debasish Mridha

#29. It is one thing to believe in witches, and quite another to believe in witch-smellers.

G.K. Chesterton

#30. For me, it's not about breaking big in Hollywood, but having interesting experiences.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

#31. I wish to produce the fruit of my brain for my country's good. A mere dog may fill the earth with the fruit of his body!

Pearl S. Buck

#32. You feel good not because the world is right, but your world is right because you feel good.

Wayne W. Dyer

#33. How I would hate the reputation of being clever at writing but stupid and useless at everything else! I would rather be stupid at both than to choose to employ my good qualities as badly as that.

Michel De Montaigne

#34. You can paint it white and braid its mane, but at the end of the day, you can't turn an ass into a unicorn, no matter how much glitter and flowers you sprinkle on it.

Nicole Williams

#35. I was surrounded by too many people who felt that they had a strong sense of entitlement. That I owed them something.

Curtis Jackson

#36. I'm not the expert on how the Iraqi people think, because I live in America, where it's nice and safe and secure.
George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Sept. 23, 2004

George W. Bush

#37. Me: you know what sucks about love? o.w.g.: what? me: that it's so tied to the truth.

David Levithan

#38. There are myths about kids spending time online - that it is dangerous or making them lazy. But we found that spending time online is essential for young people to pick up the social and technical skills they need to be competent citizens in the digital age.

Mizuko Ito

#39. The bottom line is that it's the NFL, and there's going to be competition wherever you go. That's the way I look at it. I've had competition in high school. I've had competition in college, and that's part of the game. That's part of how you improve as a quarterback.

Scott Tolzien

#40. When we understand every single secret of the universe, there will still be left the eternal mystery of the human heart.

Stephen Fry