Top 100 Quotes About Flea
#1. A man who attempts to read all the new productions must do as the flea does,
skip.
Samuel Rogers
#2. I think when you get interested in antiques, the most frustrating thing is that books don't have enough photos. When you go to a flea market or garage sale, you see lots of things you've never seen before and you have no idea what the price is going to be or should be.
Judith Miller
#3. The earth has become small, and on it hops the last man, who makes everything small. His race can no more be exterminated than the flea can be. The last man lives the longest.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#4. Sensitivity isn't being wimpy. It's about being so painfully aware that a flea landing on a dog is like a sonic boom.
Jeff Buckley
#5. I collect travel alarm clocks. I was in a flea market in France once, in 1994, and I opened up this beautiful Jaeger-LeCoultre folding eight-day winding clock folded into a beautiful case, and I went, 'Wow, man.' And I've been collecting travel alarm clocks since 1994.
Alec Baldwin
#6. Some kids spent their allowance going to see 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'; I spent mine on a great-looking lamp I'd found at the flea market and a ceramic bowl from a neighborhood garage sale.
Nate Berkus
#7. That woman doesn't have the sense God gave a retarded flea.
Nora Roberts
#8. Atticus "What's this religion going to be called?"
Oberon "Poochism"
A:"and the name of this holy writ I will be typing for you?"
O:"The dead flea scrolls: A Sirius Prophecy.
Kevin Hearne
#9. Damn skippy it's a flea collar. I'm not taking no chances.
Janet Evanovich
#10. I'm never sloppy, and I never wear jeans. I don't work one look in particular, but it's usually retro - I'm a flea-market freak. And detailed - I'm always very done, even at the gym.
Debi Mazar
#11. I bought my Grasshoppers tennis shoes at a flea market in Brooklyn. They are so comfortable to lounge around in on tour.
Wynter Gordon
#12. I know that you are a mere flea! I know that you need only be squashed to be done away with! I know that I have fought this same battle a thousand thousand times before ... but, perhaps this time I can crush you like the insect you are!
Marv Wolfman
#13. You think 24-7 when you're a creative person. And I find pleasure in everything - if I'm in a flea market, I'm there on my downtime, but I'm also there searching for the collection. I don't separate the two.
Francisco Costa
#14. Flea-Market vendors are frozen mid-haggle. Middle-aged women are frozen in the middle of their lives. The gavels of frozen judges are frozen between guilt and innocence. On the ground are the crystals of the frozen first breaths of babies, and those of the last gasps of the dying.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#15. Rome was a flea market of borrowed gods and conquered peoples, a bargain basement on two floors, earth and heaven, a mass of filth convoluted in a triple not as in an intestinal obstruction
Boris Pasternak
#16. Sir, there is no settling the point of precedency between a louse and a flea.
Samuel Johnson
#17. I actually picked up copies of Decline I and II at a flea market once. I walked out without paying.
Penelope Spheeris
#18. It's an addiction. I love clothes. I like to go down Melrose and look in all the windows and I go to different flea markets. I have lots of costumes. You never know when you're going to have to dress up like a milkmaid from the 1600s.
Zooey Deschanel
#19. watch William's beloved sport, but to him televised football was no more interesting, or even narratively intelligible, than a flea circus, so he got up and went to the kitchenette to do the other stations of the Yuletide cross.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#20. I just discovered the Santa Monica flea market, every Sunday. I go weekly. There's a lot of interesting things there.
April Bowlby
#21. The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.
John Adams
#22. Fifty years from now, strangers discovering this album at some parking-lot flea market would glance at us and flip the page, not even interested enough to wonder who we'd been.
Anne Tyler
#23. We are more than the sum of our biochemical functions. Even the tiniest flea is an incredibly complex living creature, with mouth-parts adapted to feeding on the blood of your cat or dog.
Robert Lanza
#24. Whether you're going to a museum or a flea market or flipping through a book, always be on the lookout for something special.
Kelly Wearstler
#25. History will die if not irritated. The only service I can do to my profession is to serve as a flea.
Henry Adams
#26. I do honour the very flea of his dog.
Ben Jonson
#27. I love going to flea markets especially when I am traveling, because I love seeing the stuff of other cultures, handicrafts and things with historical content.
Anna Sui
#28. 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
#29. I used to feel like I was a flea on the back of a Tyrannosaurus Rex. Now I feel I might be a small yapping poodle on the back of a Tyrannosaurus Rex.
Phil Zimmermann
#30. I jog at the Rose Bowl, and I collect antique and vintage furniture, so I'm there every few weeks for the flea market.
Theo Rossi
#31. At a flea market I always head for the junk jewelry table first.
Ethel Merman
#32. I don't intend to be a performing flea any more. I was the dreamweaver, but although I'll be around I don't intend to be running at 20,000 miles an hour trying to prove myself. I don't want to die at 40.
John Lennon
#33. My favorite leather jacket I got for 40 bucks at the Fairfax Flea Market, like, eight years ago. Leather just gets better over time. There's something about a jacket that you have over years and years - just fits like a glove.
Jack Falahee
#34. My favorite things often have a story behind them and are usually handmade or discovered at a flea market.
Amy Sedaris
#35. I love vintage shopping in flea markets, vintage stores and even Ebay.
Chelsea Leyland
#37. I have a real low tolerance for parasites, and you're so close to the limit that I'm already reaching for the flea powder.
Linda Howard
#38. Lucinda," she finally returned most cordially, "if I were to be marooned on a desert island for the remainder of my days and must needs choose between your company and that of an organ-grinder's flea-bitten monkey, I should not hesitate a moment before opting for the latter.
Kasey Michaels
#39. We are so addicted, either to materialism or to transcending material reality, that we don't see God right in front of us, in the beggar, the starving child, the brokenhearted woman; in our friend; in the cat; in the flea. We miss it, and in missing it, we allow the world to be destroyed.
Andrew Harvey
#40. The flea, though he kill none, he does all the harm he can.
John Donne
#41. You want God? Don't look at Scripture, look everywhere, at the planets, the constellations, the universe. Look at a bug, a flea. Look at the manifold wonders of creation, including the Nazis. That's the kind of God you're dealing with.
E.L. Doctorow
#43. But in Shimabukuro's hands, as he breaks out experimental jazz, lays down a steady blues train, or shreds on rock anthems, this little jumping flea becomes a melodic monster.
Mother Jones
#44. Namaste, Prince of Naga-loka. I'm grateful. You're a fine fellow." He stuck out his tongue and grinned wickedly. "For a royal wriggler."
"Namaste, O flea-ridden tree-climber," Shesha replied, with a fond glint in his eyes. "May your life be as long as you insolence is great.
Lloyd Alexander
#45. There's no meaning. What's the meaning of the universe? What's the meaning of a flea? It's just there. We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it's all about.
Joseph Campbell
#46. I have an unusual hobby: I collect pictures of people I don't know. It started when I was a kid growing up in South Florida, the land of junk stores, garage sales, and flea markets, as a kind of coping mechanism.
Ransom Riggs
#47. Fair old time for her to get into this state. She was fit as a flea when we
Anonymous
#48. The other week I wrote a piece on a photograph I got at a flea market, and I got about 70 hits. I think a lot of people must be interested in flea markets.
Stephen Vincent Benet
#49. We always feel pretty creative as far as writing songs. We write them together; we just get in a room, or on occasion in Flea's garage. We just sort of improvise, like jazz musicians.
Chad Smith
#50. I used to collect frames. I've been collecting accessories since I was 11-years-old, creeping around flea markets and sales and everything. Whenever I saw unusual eyeglass frames, I bought them.
Iris Apfel
#51. I do honor the very flea of his dog.
Ben Jonson
#52. I don't like shopping, so I'll look online. I like going to the flea market at the Rose Bowl every once in a while. I like the same stores, Opening Ceremony and APC.
Gia Coppola
#53. I give nightly praise to my Maker that I never cast a ballot to bring that lazy, disreputable, ill-tempered beast into what was once my home. I'm glad that I had the courage to go on record as opposing that illegitimate, shameless flea-bag that now shares my bed and board. You abstainer, you!
Frank B. Gilbreth Jr.
#54. I cannot raise my worth too high; Of what vast consequence am I! "Not of the importance you suppose," Replies a Flea upon his nose; "Be humble, learn thyself to scan; Know, pride was never made for man.
John Gay
#55. watching the tiny bubbles flea-jump out the top of her glass
Lauren Groff
#56. My mother used to take me to flea markets in my stroller, and I would just rummage through the piles. You've got to dig through the overstuffed racks that everyone else just walks by. It's the only way to find the cool stuff.
Lily Collins
#57. If England has any dignity left in the way of literature, she will forget for ever the pitiful antics of English Literature's performing flea.
Sean O'Casey
#58. A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beetle, cockroach, fly, mosquito, flea, bacillus, and microbe.
Ambrose Bierce
#59. A king there was once reigning, Who had a goodly flea, Him loved he without feigning, As his own son were he!
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#60. I don't micromanage, but I do care deeply about every product we make. Every one goes through me, and I try most of our products before they go to market, including our John Paul Pet flea and tick shampoo. If I don't like it, it's not coming out.
John Paul DeJoria
#61. I literally in the New York flea market - just when I was despairing of ever having a great serendipitous find - found a 1926 Chanel.
Hamish Bowles
#62. So, let me guess. You want me to give you flea baths?" They all wagged their tails excitedly at the idea.
Jody Morse
#63. The foursome settled down in Kate's living room, which was furnished academically, i.e., from flea markets and yard sales.
Anonymous
#64. I sting like a butterfly and punch like a flea.
Si Robertson
#65. The Intruder was plaguing him like a flea - both physically and mentally. He
K.M. Shea
#66. Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.
Henry Ward Beecher
#67. I like the clothes, too. I should shop flea markets more often."
He laughed at that. "You'd look good in anything, even rags.
B. J. Daniels
#68. Every dog has a few flea's, but you, you're just crawling with them."
~Thomas
Christina Mobley
#69. The proportionality of what has happened to America because of unemployment and housing makes everything else look like a flea on a dog's ass.
Dylan Ratigan
#70. My father had the bug. Ever since I can remember walking, he was waking me up at 5 in the morning to go to flea markets. As a kid, I couldn't really stand it, but as I grew up, I became that guy, and when I have kids, I am going to be doing the same thing.
Dustin Yellin
#71. A fly and a flea in a flue (3 beats)
Were imprisoned, so what could they do? (3 beats)
Said the fly, "Let us flee!" (2 beats)
"Let us fly!" said the flea, (2 beats)
So they fled through a flaw in the flue. (3 beats)
Trudi Hammel Garland
#72. There were some initial instruments I had when I was young and made some trade-offs. Maybe a guitar I bought in a flea market. They weren't the greatest guitar but they would be cool to still have them. Other than that, not as a professional.
John Petrucci
#74. When I find something at a flea market or an antique store, it feels more special and I'm more inclined to want to wear it.
Erin Wasson
#75. Get off me, you lard-ass, halitosis, flea-infested horror-movie reject! (Alexion)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#77. When I go to a country, I go to flea markets, antique stores. I am always looking for something.
Ursula Andress
#78. I have a few friends that I think would go to bat for me no matter what. Flea is definitely one of them. Guy Oseary is one of them.
Anthony Kiedis
#79. I have a weak spot for late '60s-early '70s yippie paperbacks and protest manifestos. I find them at flea markets or online. One of my favorites is 'Right On,' a compendium of student protests made into this 95-cent paperback with the most amazing graphics.
Doug Aitken
#80. We do things on an exchange basis in the music business - it keeps the wheels turning. That's how I can get people like Slash, Flea and Kris Kristofferson on my album. Collaboration should be done through trades rather than charging each other a fortune.
Ronnie Wood
#81. My mother is very like William Blake, she has visions and dreams and she cannot always distinguish a flea's head from a king. Luckily she can't paint.
Jeanette Winterson
#82. I went to the flea market in the morning and charged tourists money to take pictures of me. I looked pretty wild, with hair down to my waist, Indian robes, a floor-length fur coat. There must be lots of photos of me out there.
Wolfgang Beltracchi
#83. I've withdrawn many times. Part of me is a monk, and part a performing flea! The fear in the music business is that you don't exist if you're not at Xenon with Andy Warhol.
John Lennon
#84. A blind, anemic, weak-kneed flea on crutches would have a greater chance of defeating a herd of a thousand wild stampeding elephants, than the enemy has of defeating God.
Ray Comfort
#85. Flea stared at us, I can't decide what's worse. Losing family members or not having a family member to lose.
Maria V. Snyder
#86. If they'd been dogs, they would have all been in the yard eating grass and trying to yak up whatever was making them feel so lousy. Not a bone gnawed, not a ball chased-all tails went unwagged. Oh, life is a fast cat, a short leash, a flea in that place where you just can't scratch.
Christopher Moore
#87. The creator had nothing to do with her rescue." "Yeah, he should have cried, thank the Flea!" Quain said. "Ooh, I like. We should use it all the time," Loren added. They tried out variations of it as they headed inside with Flea trotting behind them. "Guess
Maria V. Snyder
#88. We had left the flea market - collecting Malena from a stall that sold live birds, where she'd purchased a box of pigeons which she had proceeded to suck dry in the car -
Seanan McGuire
#89. She smiled sweetly. "I bet you jack off with your pinkie stuck up in the air, don't you?"
His smirking lips twitched, faint and quick as a flea sneezing. "Picture it however you like.
Cara McKenna
#90. Ho' law an' Civ'lize ain't always the same, nay, see Kona got Kona law but they ain't got one flea o' Civ'lize.
David Mitchell
#91. The humanities are like the great old Paris Flea Market where, amidst masses of junk, people with a good eye found cast away treasures ... They are like a refugee camp where all the geniuses driven out of their jobs and countries by unfriendly regimes are idling.
Allan Bloom
#92. I love clothes! I shop everywhere, but I like Urban Outfitters, Forever 21, Nordstrom, and Neiman Marcus. It's a wide range. I'm from California, and I love the Pasadena Flea Market.
Keke Palmer
#93. It sucked me first, and now sucks thee,
And in this flea our two bloods mingled be;
John Donne
#94. During my military service, I performed a sketch in which I played a flea called Max. So when critics kept misspelling my name, I decided to change it and thought, 'Ah! Max!'
Max Von Sydow
#95. Flea brain, got a hole in her head. If she wasn't good looking, she'd be better off dead.
Gene Vincent
#96. If you have fame, you never feel that you have fame, if you have the brains of a flea. Because fame is something that's over back of you. It ain't ahead ... Not ahead at all. I mean, if you've done it that's great, but "what are you going to do now?" is the only thing that matters.
Katharine Hepburn
#97. You may as well say, 'That's a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.
William Tecumseh Sherman
#98. It is a cliche that human beings are fascinated by size
mountain peaks, high buildings, and whales. We are also amazed by miniatures
a flea on a mouse, a flea on a trapeze, the Last Supper carved on the head of a pin.
Rosamond Purcell
#99. So, naturalists observe, a flea; Hath smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller fleas to bite 'em, And so proceed ad infinitum.
Jonathan Swift
#100. 'Priced to sell' - just the phrase makes me smile. When a dealer says all the items in his booth are priced to sell, he means he's tagged them as aggressively as he can to get you to buy them. Don't worry, though, I still haggle. You have to. That's the point of a flea market.
Nate Berkus
