Quotes About Cockroaches

#1. When it comes down to it, the reason that science fiction endures is that it is, at its core, an optimistic genre. What it says at the end of the day is that there is a tomorrow, we do go on, we don't extinguish ourselves and leave the planet to the cockroaches.

J. Michael Straczynski

#2. He had no problem with flies or bugs or beetles, even creepy ones like earwigs and cockroaches...Six legs were fine, but eight were alien and unnatural.

'The same number of legs as four fully-grown serial killers!

A. Ashley Straker

#3. I am informed that 5,000 cockroaches were used in the filming of Joe's Apartment. That depresses me, but not as much as the news that none of them were harmed during the production.

Roger Ebert

#4. Teenagers are fast. They're like cockroaches that way.

Stephen King

#5. Long after the bomb falls and you and your good deeds are gone, cockroaches will still be here, prowling the streets like armored cars.

Tama Janowitz

#6. Someone once said "The only thing that will be left after a nuclear holocaust is Cher and cockroaches." I think that's funny, because, you know, I am a survivor. If I am anything, that's what I am.

Cher

#7. Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To heck with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages.

Kurt Vonnegut

#8. 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

#9. At the end of time, all that will be left is cockroaches and Texans.

Sharon Bayliss

#10. Crayola makes all kinds of crazy colors. You know. Burnt umber. Burnt sienna. Blanched almond. Baby-shit yellow. And so on, and so forth. I'm just saying, cockroaches Have their own color. It's distinct. Crayola should get on that. The kids'll love it.

Chuck Wendig

#11. Because while our armies are invading other countries, they are staunchly engaged in carrying out their own private, inexplicable war on all the cockroaches in the world.

Paulo Coelho

#12. There are three things in this world that will survive a nuclear explosion: Twinkies, cockroaches and Dean Ambroses.

Dean Ambrose

#13. It occurs to me that we crush insects beneath our feet, miracles of creation too, beetles, worms, cockroaches, ants, in their various ways.

J.M. Coetzee

#14. Rape, cockroaches... are still a real nightmare.

Deyth Banger

#15. Hemorrhoids. Cockroaches. Anal warts. Lonely nights. Smoking's ravages. AIDS. All the ads promised relief from these things, but where was the relief from these ads?

George Dawes Green

#16. We lived in Yorkville, which is located on the East End of Manhattan. It's further east than Hell's Kitchen, and back then it was the kind of place where the roaches and cockroaches were big enough to carry away small children.

Bob Cousy

#17. Toronto's already ass-deep in cockroaches and conservatives; what's one more lower life-form?

Tanya Huff

#18. I swear to God, after the zombie apocalypse the only thing left on the planet will be cockroaches and Moose," I told Mom one night after she managed to back into a light pole at the restaurant and drive away with not even a dent in the bumper.
Mom shushed me at the time. "He'll hear you!

Katie Klein

#19. I'm horrified of lobsters. And shrimp and lobsters are the cockroaches of the ocean.

Brooke Burke

#20. Adolescents are like cockroaches: They come out the minute you leave town, crawl the walls, feed indiscriminately, reproduce alarmingly unless drugged, and will certainly outlast you.

Gail Sheehy

#21. Like a lightning bug ... Like a lightning bug? ... Yes, just like a night lightning bug; because there are day lightning bugs too - even if nobody has ever seen one, I know there are some, and I know the day lightning bugs are the cockroaches that since they can't light up, people kill them.

Reinaldo Arenas

#22. I try to catch flies in cups and put them outside. After I wrote 'The Underland Chronicles' ... well, once you start naming cockroaches, you lose your edge.

Suzanne Collins

#23. Apparently, moving back home was just like joining Facebook, when middle-aged boyfriends came crawling out of the woodwork like cockroaches, suggesting drinks, putting out their nasty feelers for potential affairs.

Liane Moriarty

#24. she also had a little dog that ran round yapping. One of those Mexican cockroaches that you could drown in a teacup.

Leif G.W. Persson

#25. I owned a 1972 Plymouth Valiant that we bought for $125. It was infested with cockroaches and geckos - it was its own little ecosystem.

Aaron Eckhart

#26. I've reduced a lot of the stress in my life. I've gotten rid of a lot of things. The light was turned on and a lot of the cockroaches started spinning. I swept them out the door. And sometimes you just have to throw things out because they carry a certain energy.

Wesley Snipes

#27. In South Florida, we have industrial cockroaches that have to be equipped with loud warning beepers so you can get out of their way when they back up.

Dave Barry

#28. People die', she says. 'People tear down houses. But furniture, fine, beautiful furniture, it just goes on and on, surviving everything.' She says, 'Armoires are the cockroaches of our culture.

Chuck Palahniuk

#29. Turning on the lights doesn't make cockroaches appear; the light merely reveals their presence. Similarly, college does not cause anyone to become an unbeliever; college merely reveals that a person was never a genuine believer to begin with.

Todd Friel

#30. If the cockroaches survive and we don't, what does that say about human intelligence?

Marty Rubin

#31. I've hated cockroaches my entire life.Tweeting jokes about it helps me cope, in a way. I'm not as jumpy killing cave crickets as I used to be. I still jump plenty though.

Drew Magary

#32. That cocky ass piece of shit is stronger than steel. After a nuclear blast, there'd be cockroaches, and there'd be Turner motherfucking Campbell.

C.M. Stunich

#33. What people don't understand about deer is that they're vermin. They're giant, furry cockroaches. They invade a space, reproduce like hell, and eat everything in sight.

J. Ryan Stradal

#34. My apartment is infested with koala bears. It's the cutest infestation ever. Way better than cockroaches. When I turn on the light a bunch of koala bears scatter. But I don't want 'em to, you know, I'm like "Hey, hold on, fellas. Let me hold one of you. And feed you a leaf."

Mitch Hedberg

#35. That year the Ribeiro's daffodils seeded early and they seeded cockroaches. Now, ecologically speaking, even a cockroach has its place
but these suckers bit. That didn't sound Earth-authentic to me. Not that I care, mind you, all I ask is useful. I wasn't betting on that either.

Janet Kagan

#36. You don't live in luxury! You are relegated to sleep in the little store room behind the kitchen with the cockroaches and rats and are at the mercy of Mrs. Gupta,' Reena was indignant. 'It's five-star accommodation compared to a mud hut.

Renita D'Silva

#37. All of us have secrets in our lives. We're keepers or keptfrom, players or played. Secrets and cockroaches - that's what will be left at the end of it all.

Maggie Stiefvater

#38. Elephants have a hard time adapting. Cockroaches outlive everything.

Peter Drucker

#39. Sexual predators were like cockroaches. For every one you saw, there were twenty more hiding behind the walls.

Karin Slaughter

#40. The fact that someone lived inside this mess really goes to to say something about the resilience of humans. You're basically cockroaches. Good job.

Donovan Scherer

#41. Violence is never the answer but sometimes, like with cockroaches, it is the only possible response.

Tanya Huff

#42. But, as I have said, the bugs had no interest in getting us ... and no great curiosity or enthusiasm about us as such; from the cowardly cockroaches to the blind stolid ants they wanted only to be left alone to eat and breed and eat and breed, just like us.

William T. Vollmann

#43. Palms are like cockroaches. They were here long before us, and they'll be here long after us. They're the only things standing after a hurricane.

Robert Irwin

#44. The psychologist, Paul Rozin, an expert on disgust, observed that a single cockroach will completely wreck the appeal of a bowl of cherries, but a cherry will do nothing at all for a bowl of cockroaches.

Daniel Kahneman

#45. Americans have a lower opinion of Congress than they do of the NFL replacement refs, head lice, traffic jams, cockroaches and even the group to which yours truly belongs - Washington political pundits.

Juan Williams

#46. We fucked, Ms. Lane. Even cockroaches fuck. They eat each other, too.

Karen Marie Moning

#47. I leave the human cockroaches to discuss their heroin and child pornography.

Alan Moore

#48. A quiet room with cockroaches peeping out like prunes from every corner ...

Nikolai Gogol

#49. When the demons start coming out - that's when you're nearing the light! It's hard for cockroaches to stay put without all the shadows. So in that case, keep on going!

C. JoyBell C.

#50. I jump out of planes, I could be covered in cockroaches, I do all sorts of things, but I just don't like the feel of butterflies' bodies.

Nicole Kidman

#51. A gazelle runs faster than us; cockroaches are remarkably tolerant of radiation; every being has some superiority; in remembering this, be very humble!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#52. Lies are like cockroaches, for every one you discover there are many more that are hidden.

Gary Hopkins

#53. The sound of someone passing by the library entrance made the two of them scatter away, like cockroaches from the light.

A.Z. Green

#54. Misconceptions are like cockroaches: you have no idea where they came from, but they're everywhere - often where you don't expect them - and they're impervious to nuclear weapons.

Alex Reinhart

#55. Some secrets can't be kept too long. No matter how hard you try to hide them, sooner or later they scurry out from your cupboards, cockroaches on the run.

Ellen Hopkins

#56. Art has been hijacked by nonartists. It's been taken over by bookkeeping. The whole thing is so corrupt. But I suppose that's okay. For artists, everything is grist for the mill. Artists are like cockroaches; we can't be stamped out.

Elaine De Kooning

#57. We don't feel like that's a good faith offer, because it seems more like you're just trying to save money on cockroaches.

David Wong

#58. What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises.

Russell Baker

#59. You want to meet your gods, you filthy cockroaches? Tell the evil sods that Molly Templar says hello when you see them.

Stephen Hunt

#60. There are really only two things I'm terrified of: water and cockroaches.

Leslie Hope

#61. I'm convinced my cockroaches have military training, I set off a roach bomb - they diffused it.

Jay London

#62. People, she was discovering, were like cockroaches: If you allowed one in, more were sure to follow.

Stacia Kane

#63. Problems in a company are like cockroaches in the kitchen. You will never find just one

Warren Buffett

#64. Here's the thing: We have plenty of time. These are cockroaches and we want to kill them all. They're just absolute pieces of garbage and we will get them. So why don't we try the air campaign first?

Eric Bolling

#65. The only thing that matters in the end is your own survival. It's what humans and cockroaches are best at.

Susan Ee

#66. It's funny. I thought she'd live through anything."
Charlie said, "Me too. I figured even if there was a nuclear war, it would still leave radioactive cockroaches and your mum.

Neil Gaiman

#67. I used to hit the kitchen lights, cockroaches everywhere/Hit the kitchen lights, now it's marble floors everywhere.

Young Jeezy

#68. I honestly don't hate asylum seekers - THESE PEOPLE ARE COCKROACHES and they're doing what cockroaches do because cockroaches can't help what they do, they just do it, like cats miaow and dogs bark.

Mark Collett

#69. That little punk," Zeus grumbled. "Prometheus armed the cockroaches." Next to him, the goddess Hera said, "Uh, what?" "Nothing," Zeus muttered. He yelled to his guards: "Find Prometheus and get him in here. NOW!

Rick Riordan

#70. Kitchens always attract bugs because there are odors and crumbs. Even if you're clean as can be, bugs will be in your kitchen at some point whether they are ants, beetles, or even cockroaches.

Patty Korman

#71. Cockroaches, Ari. Humans are like cockroaches." Crag nodded his head, his eyes twinkling.

Beverly Ovalle

#72. I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of horses.

Norman Mailer

#73. Why is not a rat as good as a rabbit? Why should men eat shrimps and neglect cockroaches?

Henry Ward Beecher

#74. A good friend once told me that the problems are like cockroaches. If drawn to light, they'll get scared.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#75. A good friend once told me that problems are like cockroaches. If you bring them out into the light, they get scared and leave.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#76. In Europe we felt that our enemies, horrible and deadly as they were, were still people.
...
But out here I soon gathered that the Japanese were looked upon as something subhuman and repulsive; the way some people feel about cockroaches or mice.

Ernie Pyle

#77. Software bugs are like cockroaches; there are probably dozens hiding in difficult to reach places for every one you find and fix.

Donald G. Firesmith

#78. You don't scare a man who sees people as cockroaches.

Toba Beta

#79. Artists are like cockroaches; everything is grist for the mill.

Elaine De Kooning

#80. God, Quinn, you have no idea how permanent I'd like this to be. I'd like us to be Twinkies and cockroaches, death and taxes.

Penny Reid

#81. Being mad at a drug addict for doing what drug addicts do, is like being mad at a shark for doing what sharks do, or being mad at a cockroach for doing what cockroaches do.

Oliver Markus

#82. The way I see it," she began, "your mother's devoted her whole life to you kids." She said "you kids"
in precisely the same tone I would have used for "you infestation of cockroaches

Jennifer Weiner

#83. I live in New York, and the only live animals you see are cockroaches, rats and pigeons, which I admire immensely. When I see an animal that thrives in the garbage, I feel relief; in our urban environment, other animals are dying out.

Isabella Rossellini

#84. Armoires are the cockroaches of our culture." And

Chuck Palahniuk

#85. We all live like cockroaches in the crevices of our imagination.

Raymond Federman

#86. Cockroaches were a problem, too, and to me the people who invented Combat, the little black roach-trapping contraption, are urban folk heroes.

Kim Gordon

#87. I have a job to pay attention. It is my number one duty as a human being - to earn an experiment in self-government every day by spotlighting cockroaches who violate their oath to the US constitution and wipe their ass with the US Constitution

Ted Nugent

#88. Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.

Herb Caen

#89. As every cockroach knows, thriving on poisons is the secret of success.

Mason Cooley

#90. Even a cockroach can be legendary by being killed by a legend.

Munia Khan

#91. One thing that man HAS learned from history, is how to kill (animals) more efficiently.

Diane Van Der Westhuizen

#92. The cockroach and the bird were both here long before we were. Both could.

Joseph Wood Krutch

#93. Sometimes you just can't get rid of a bomb!

Adam West

#94. In a difficult business, no sooner is one problem solved than another surfaces - never is there just one cockroach in the kitchen.

Warren Buffett

#95. I am a survivor. I am like a cockroach, you just can't get rid of me.

Madonna Ciccone

#96. As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.

Franz Kafka

#97. Can you see the beauty in a cockroach?

Wayne Dyer