Poly Ticks Quotes

#1. There ain't no ticks like poly-ticks. Bloodsuckers all.

Davy Crockett

#2. Politics /n/: from 'poly ticks', short for 'many small bloodsucking insects'.

Henry Spencer

#3. The underlying assumption that human nature is basically the same at all times, everywhere, and obeys eternal laws beyond human control, is a conception that only a handful of bold thinkers have dared to question.

Isaiah Berlin

#4. Everyone must feel that he is the supreme arbiter of his own [destiny], that no power on earth shall rise over him, that he is and always shall be sovereign of himself and all relating to his individuality. Then only shall all men realize security of person and property.

Josiah Warren

#5. When I worked on 2001 - which was my first feature film - I was deeply and permanently affected by the notion that a movie could be like a first-person experience.

Douglas Trumbull

#6. Doing stuff never feels as good as you hope it will feel.

John Green

#7. He is inviting you - and me - to come home, to come home to where we belong, to come home to that for which we were created. His arms are stretched out wide to receive us. His heart is enlarged to take us in.

Richard J. Foster

#8. I do not like to state an opinion on a matter unless I know the precise facts.

Albert Einstein

#9. Instead of weeping when a tragedy occurs in a songbird's life, it sings away its grief. I believe we could well follow the pattern of our feathered friends.

William Shakespeare

#10. With passions stilled and one's nature firm, all destinies are in harmony; When the full moon of contemplation is reached you will be pure.

Wu Cheng'en

#11. Poly means more than one, and ticks are bloodsucking parasites.

Kinky Friedman

#12. Baby, we have no choice of what color we're born or who our parents are or whether we're rich or poor. What we do have is some choice over what we make of our lives once we're here.

Mildred D. Taylor

#13. Politics. The word is taken from the Ancient Greek. "Poly" means "many." And ticks are tiny, bloodsucking insects.

Michael Dobbs

#14. Ringo's chuckle got tangled up with a cough. He tossed back a shot, cleared his throat, and said, Politics, from the Latin. Poly, meaning 'many.' Ticks meaning 'bloodsucking little bastards.

Mary Doria Russell