Top 80 Quotes About A Mosquito
#1. This kind of business (murder) required detachment. The trick was to do it almost casually, as you might flick on the radio, or swat a mosquito.
Clive Barker
#2. If a mosquito has a soul, it is mostly evil. So I don't have too many qualms about putting a mosquito out of its misery. I'm a little more respectful of ants.
Douglas Hofstadter
#3. Music as background to me becomes like a mosquito, an insect. In the studio we have big speakers, and to me that's the way music should be listened to. When I listen to music, I want to just listen to music.
David Lynch
#4. The normal sequence is that energy is prompted at the perceptual system, passes into consciousness, and thence to the motor system, where it is discharged by action. (I feel an unpleasant sensation, realize that I have been bitten by a mosquito, raise my hand, and swat the insect.)
Sigmund Freud
#5. A mosquito sings in my ear, and I almost feel grateful for the company. I'm even tempted to sing along. It
Markus Zusak
#6. This morning I'm a mosquito, now you're a flying cart? Arosia
Marc Secchia
#7. Just in front of her lay the Congaree Swamp National Forest. To prove it, a mosquito the size of a kitten landed on her arm and prepared to drill.
Sela Carsen
#8. If Ali says a mosquito can pull a plow, don't ask how. Hitch him up.
Muhammad Ali
#9. If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in the dark with a mosquito!
Wolfgang Reiber
#10. We scarified a mosquito. I bet that's what did it. It was probably a virgin too.
Kelley Armstrong
#11. I punched him nos so lightly in the arm. 'Asshole.'
He was silent for a few minutes, and then he smacked my arm.
'OW!'
'You had a mosquito.'
'No, I didn't.
Michelle Hodkin
#12. We must either rearrange this unstable universe or we must exit from here! If we are not a mosquito or a crocodile, we must either dry out the marsh or exit from it!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#13. Anyone who thinks he's too small to make a difference has never been bit by a mosquito
Jeannette Walls
#14. Daisy offered a mosquito which bit you and gave you yellow fever. 'You turn as yellow as a lemon and then you die,' she said.
Eva Ibbotson
#15. What may look normal to a spider , will look like a chaos to a mosquito.
Reddioui Islam
#16. She was crushed by society like a mosquito fending for its unborn young
Owen Jones
#17. I thought: if I die, I hope I get reincarnated into a mosquito so I can bite that fucker kau-kau.
Zen Cho
#18. A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience.
O. Henry
#19. Worrying about something you can't control has less benefit than a mosquito's existence.
Mark Cortes
#20. Being chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee is like being a mosquito in a nudist colony.
John McCain
#21. People who say that small things don't bother them have never slept in a room with a mosquito.
Dennis Rainey
#22. The world comes at me that way - comes at me in clumps of stuff, sometimes little vignettes and sometimes whole stories. And then the rest is erased by the internal filter that erases things for the same reason you'd forget swatting a mosquito.
Tim O'Brien
#23. Do not use a cannon to kill a mosquito.
Confucius
#24. There was once a Hindu sage, who sat down on the banks of the Ganges and thought for seventy years about the millennium. Just as he arrived at the solution and was putting it into verse, a mosquito stung him and he forgot it again at once.
Don Marquis
#25. Was I altering the 'space-time continuum' or whatever they called it in time travel movies, just by existing right now? Perhaps I'd accidentally kill a mosquito that might have given some famous person a disease that killed them?
J.R. Rain
#26. Anyone who thinks that they are too small to make a difference has never tried to fall asleep with a mosquito in the room.
Christine Todd Whitman
#27. To her lover a beautiful woman is a delight; / To a monk she's a distraction; / To a mosquito, a good meal. It makes the point well: how things seem depends on the lens or filter through which we look at them.
Tara Bennett-Goleman
#28. I never write a book unless I can't help it. Something has to bother me, like a mosquito, until I have to do something to relieve the itch.
Gregory Maguire
#29. Changing from a player to a coach, I felt like a mosquito in a nudist colony. I didn't know where to begin.
Pee Wee Reese
#30. You're like a mosquito that won't die. Back up or I'll swat you down.
Tijan
#31. If you think you're too small to make a difference, you've never been to bed with a mosquito.
Anita Roddick
#32. To me, there is nothing more soothing than the song of a mosquito that can't get through the mesh to bite you.
Madison Smartt Bell
#33. The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito.
Benito Mussolini
#34. Insects have their own point of view about civilization a man thinks he amounts to a great deal but to a flea or a mosquito a human being is merely something good to eat.
Don Marquis
#35. I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit it, you're able to hit it with a couple of short sharp shots ... it's a beautiful thing.
Alexis Arguello
#36. You know the beauty of driving one of these? (Wulf)
No. (Cassandra)
You can swat a Daimon like a mosquito. (Wulf)
Well, since they're both bloodsucking insects, I say go for it. (Cassandra)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#37. Beelzebug n. Satan in the form of a mosquito that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.
Steven Pinker
#38. It was her wedding dress and it had a flare-out bottom, and they had laid her head to foot in it so the dress could spread out, and they had made her a veil out of a mosquito bar so the auger holes in her face wouldn't show.
William Faulkner
#40. So many ideas come to you and you want to try them all, but you can't. You're like a mosquito in a nudist colony, you don't know where to start.
Reggie Jackson
#42. I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.
Ian Somerhalder
#43. People who tell you never to let little things bother you have never tried sleeping in a room with a mosquito.
Katherine Chandler
#44. I'm like a mosquito, I love humidity. I don't sweat.
Shakira
#45. If you don't believe one person can make a difference, you have never been in bed with a mosquito.
Anita Roddick
#46. What you know about Vampires could fit into a mosquito's ass." Eve said. Irritated. "All you know is what you grew up seeing on T.V. You ever actually meet one?
Rachel Caine
#47. Have you ever been bitten by an elephant? How about a mosquito? It's the little things in life that will bite you.
Darren Hardy
#48. Through millions of klicks of vacuum to hit a bull's-eye smaller than a mosquito's asshole.
James S.A. Corey
#49. If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room.
Anita Roddick
#50. If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.
Dalai Lama XIV
#51. I was nicknamed Skeeter in Little League because I was small and fast, like a mosquito flying across the outfield.
Skeet Ulrich
#52. Some have supposed that the mosquito is of a devout turn, and never will partake of a meal without first saying grace. The devotions of some men are but a preface to blood-sucking.
Henry Ward Beecher
#53. For the first time, we have the genetic sequences of all three of the players in the global malaria debacle: the parasite, the anopheles mosquito and the human. It's a very important milestone.
Anthony Fauci
#55. Are you to be an individual, a trespasser in territory none else has had the wit or nerve to explore, or just another troublesome mosquito to be swatted by the authorities?
Tom Robbins
#56. Not a lot of attention has been paid to the Asian tiger mosquito, which is another species which we believe can also transmit Zika virus. It has a much broader range. It's found all the way north into coastal areas of Connecticut, Long Island and the New York metro area.
Laura Harrington
#57. Reality doesn't wait for you to be ready for it. It doesn't go away when you tell it to. It's like a persistent mosquito, determined to suck your blood and leave you with a bumpy itch that you can't stop scratching.
Holly Bourne
#58. Life is a hailstorm of distractions. It's not the monster that stops us but the mosquito.
Robert G. Allen
#59. Often I have been exhausted on trout streams, uncomfortable, wet, cold, briar scarred, sunburned, mosquito bitten, but never, with a fly rod in my hand have I been less than in a place that was less than beautiful.
Charles Kuralt
#60. The scent of growth, quiet and green, hung heavy in the air. I heard everything. I saw everything. I could count the craters on the moon. I could count every mosquito buzz past, bypassing my tender skin out of respect for a fellow bloodsucker.
Molly Harper
#61. I was so nearly happy. There remained only a tiny something, something unexplained and inexplicable that buzzed in my ear when the lights were out, like a malarial mosquito.
Jennie Rooney
#62. I think you're a dangerous, corrupt, lying piece of nine-day-old mosquito shit.
Hugh Laurie
#63. Whether one sees the world as God's creation or as a secular mystery that science is on the way to figuring out, there is no denying the beauty and majesty of everything from mountain ranges, deserts, and rain forests to the exquisite details in the design of an ordinary mosquito.
Robert C. Solomon
#64. There isn't one celebrity I've worked with who doesn't have major doubts about what impact they are having. I am glad when they question the impact, because it shows they are based firmly in the reality that peacemaking isn't the same as changing a streetlight or distributing mosquito nets.
John Prendergast
#65. The mosquito knows full well, small as he is he's a beast of prey. But after all he only takes his bellyful, he doesn't put my blood in the bank.
D.H. Lawrence
#66. The world is so lawful that not even a single mosquito can touch you, as long as you do not interfere. If your interference stops, everything will stop.
Dada Bhagwan
#67. Shreave flicked away the dead mosquito. "Don't these things carry the bird flu too?"
"No Boyd, that would be a bird.
Carl Hiaasen
#68. I've just been bitten on the neck by a vampire ... mosquito. Does that mean that when the night comes I will rise and be annoying?
Vera Nazarian
#69. Take a lesson from the mosquito. She never waits for an opening - she makes one.
Kirk Kirkpatrick
#70. [For the genuine believer] There are moments in life when God's pursuit of us seems like that of a persistent mosquito, constantly buzzing around our heads and causing us pain, and we are utterly powerless to shake him off.
Ian M. Duguid
#71. It is astonishing how much worse one mosquito can be than a swarm. A swarm can be prepared against, but one mosquito takes on a personality - a hatefulness, a sinister quality of the struggle to the death.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#72. A group of scientists wanted to find the most effective mosquito repellents. So they tested 10 different substances, including campout standbys like DEET, as well as a random choice: Victoria's Secret perfume Bombshell. Turns out the perfume is almost as good as DEET.
Annalee Newitz
#73. A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beetle, cockroach, fly, mosquito, flea, bacillus, and microbe.
Ambrose Bierce
#74. Your dreams have to be like a cockroach, they have to be hard to kill and you have to be like that pesky mosquito that doesn't know when to give up.
James Jean-Pierre
#75. Aching familiar in a way that made me wish I was still eight. Eight was before death or divorce or heartbreak. Eight was just eight. Hot dogs and peanut butter, mosquito bites and splinters, bikes and boogie boards. Tangled hair, sunburned shoulders, Judy Blume, in bed by nine thirty.
Jenny Han
#76. You do not have to respond to a tiny annoying mosquito with a large hammer. You know what will happen? You will miss and hurt yourself.
Mary Ashun
#77. Ledoux's face was pebbled with mosquito bites. Forget the Cutter's and that means every needle-nose bug in the woods spare-changing you for blood like cornerboy hustlers spotting a strung-out Kennedy trying to score on Seventh. Like you got plenty to give.
Daniel Woodrell
#78. The belief is growing on me that the disease is communicated by the bite of the mosquito ... She always injects a small quantity of fluid with her bite - what if the parasites get into the system in this manner.
Ronald Ross
#79. Mosquito [ ... ] had asked Ear to marry him, whereupon Ear fell on the floor in uncontrollable laughter. "How much longer do you think you will live?" she asked. "You are already a skeleton." Mosquito went away humiliated, and any time he passed her way he told Ear that he was still alive.
Chinua Achebe
#80. I did my best work in The Mosquito Coast. I know it wasn't such a big hit, but for me it was more meaningful than anything else I'd ever done.
River Phoenix
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