Larval Quotes

#1. I wanted only a familiar voice, someone who knew me. Not some earlier, larval version of myself ...

Jennifer Haigh

#2. Only once did Lori glimpse such an entity, supine on a mattress in the corner of its boudoir. It was naked, corpulent and sexless, its sagging body a motley of dark, oily skin and larval eruptions that seeped phosphorescence, soaking its simple bed.

Clive Barker

#3. Is it reasonable to suppose that we can apply a broad-spectrum insecticide to kill the burrowing larval stages of a crop-destroying insect ... without also killing the 'good' insects whose function may be the essential one of breaking down organic matter and maintaining healthy soil?

Rachel Carson

#4. He had pink butterfly ears. The rest of him was still in the larval stage.

Ross Macdonald

#5. In 1948, television was introduced, and millions and millions of people lead larval, low-awareness, warehoused lives mainlining an electronic drug straight into their brains.

Terence McKenna

#6. It was only a dream. It was only a larval poem. -

Margaret Atwood

#7. We should have abided by our larval condition, dispensed with evolution, remained incomplete, delighting in the elemental siesta and calmly consuming ourselves in an embryonic ecstasy.

Emil Cioran

#8. I am engaged in answering that Italian buffoon, Mazotti, whose views upon the larval development of the tropical termites have excited my derision and contempt ...

Arthur Conan Doyle

#9. To be well married you have to a penchant for the intricacies of intimacy and larval change..If the personality is a spider's web, you will want to know every thread ... Pleasures no longer come to you, but there are pickings to be had if you can learn to scavenge for them" ("The Body")

Hanif Kureishi

#10. Imagining birth as the baby experiences it was an entirely new way of looking at it,

Frederick Leboyer

#11. If you are unable to find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?

Dogen

#12. Love is liberating. It opens up a world of possibilities rather than restrictions. It allows us to willingly surrender our egos and replaces them with humility. Love rids us of fear and allows us to dream.

Daliah Husu

#13. Battles I lose none I make crews run
I get fools done, got ten fingers but only use one

Big L

#14. It was as if, in that laugh, they accepted me. They didn't, I knew that, but it was my moment.

C.D. Reiss

#15. The largest business in American handled by a woman is the Money Order Department of the Pittsburgh Post-office; Mary Steel has it in charge.

Lydia Hoyt Farmer

#16. She was already fierce. She required none of this nonsense, and if she'd carried a man's strength and her father's horsewhip these villains would as one be on their knees.

Gordon Dahlquist

#17. The secret of happiness is simple: find out what you truly love to do and then direct all of your energy towards doing it. Once you do this, abundance flows into your life and all your desires are filled with ease and grace. The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari

Robin S. Sharma

#18. It will be foolish not to get your heart broken, even once.
For having a broken heart makes you realize the immense capability it possesses to mend and heal itself and to love far more intensely,with every affixed piece of it that was once broken and torn apart..

Sanhita Baruah

#19. And earth was heaven a little the worse for wear. And heaven was earth, done up again to look like new.

Wilkie Collins

#20. I believe in magic ... There is magic in the creative faculty such as great poets and philosophers conspicuously possess, and equally in the creative chessmaster.

Emanuel Lasker

#21. I will not allow anybody to interfere," said Mrs. Pocket. "I am surprised, Matthew, that you should expose me to the affront of interference.

Charles Dickens

#22. Our father died when we were very young, so our mother raised six kids. We saw the world filtered through her eyes, being a minority woman raising six kids.

Gilbert Hernandez