Quotes About Entomology

#1. I originally envisioned myself doing something with the suffix 'ology' at the end of it, like marine biology or entomology. But after I started to do some acting gigs, I thought it wasn't a bad thing ... I said to myself, 'I might as well keep riding this bus until the wheels fall off.'

Callan McAuliffe

#2. Everything that I've ever been able to accomplish in skating and in life has come out of adversity and perseverance.

Scott Hamilton

#3. I am dying by inches, from not having any body to talk to about insects ...

Charles Darwin

#4. And continued to regard all their absurdities in the most rosy light through the admiring eyes of love.

Marcel Proust

#5. Entomologists use that word 'foul' often when referring to the flavor of a caterpillar. They are rarely more specific than 'foul' or 'tasty.' I expect that is because they are leaving the assessment up to birds, and birds have a very binary approach.

Amy Leach

#6. Meddling with another man's folly is always thankless work.

Rudyard Kipling

#7. Yet, what the phenomenon is and how we think of it are two different things.

Elizabeth F. Howell

#8. Holding on to beliefs limits our experience of life. That doesn't mean that beliefs or ideas or thinking is a problem; the stubborn attitude of having to have things be a particular way, grasping on to our beliefs and thoughts, all these cause the problems.

Pema Chodron

#9. Lessons, however, that enter the soul against its will never grow roots and will never be preserved inside it.

Plato

#10. They're not doing much for themselves. I'm sure they'd rather slip away, relax their fingers and float, but they can't. They're not allowed. Effort is so painful; our knuckles are white, yet we keep clinging. The alternative is suicide- and we are too fearful for that.

Wesley Stace

#11. Don't look so scared.

Jack Nicholson

#12. Virtue became less the harsh and martial self-sacrifice of antiquity and more the modern willingness to get along with others for the sake of peace and prosperity.

Gordon S. Wood