Quotes About Mantis

#1. Don't you know about the praying mantis that waved its arms angrily in front of an approaching carriage, unaware that they were incapable of stopping it? Such was the high opinion it had of its talents.

Zhuangzi

#2. If you like pray like a praying mantis or fast like a faxing machine, if you have no faith, you are just wasting your time and energy.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#3. It extols death with the luminescent brilliance of a dying star. It is Genghis Khan bathed in sherbet ice cream. The mantis shrimp is the harbinger of blood-soaked rainbows.

The Oatmeal

#4. At the moment, he kinda knew how the male praying mantis felt when he
was approaching Ms. Mantis, knowing the sex was going to be great but he was going to gethis head bitten off.
Ah, well. Some things were worth losing your head.

Linda Howard

#5. thin and elegant as a mantis

William Gibson

#6. I imagine the life of an atheistic praying mantis to be rather torturous.

Brian Celio

#7. It unsettles the women as they have dropped their disguise and are now giant praying mantis with blonde and auburn wigs, lipstick smeared on those deadly pincher-like insect jaws.

Irvine Welsh

#8. I told my girlfriend that a praying mantis female eats its mate after copulation. She didn't take the hint.

James Floyd

#9. Think of me as the praying mantis of the supernatural world.
Aren't those the bugs that bite the heads off the males? Link looked skeptical.
Yes. Then they eat them

Kami Garcia

#10. I feel like you're trying to convince me that we don't need condoms, but fuck that. If you impregnate me, I'm going to devour " you like a praying mantis." I pin Zeph against the wall and kiss her hard, because her threatening to kill or mutilate me is always so hot.

Gisele Walko

#11. A bit like a preying mantis that doesn't prey - a non-preying mantis if you like.

Douglas Adams

#12. I've watched goldfish make babies, and ants execute earwigs. I've seen a fly deliver live young while having its head eaten by a mantis. And I had a golden retriever behave like one.

N.D. Wilson

#13. A net set up to catch fish may snare a duck; a mantis hunting an insect may itself be set upon by a sparrow. Machinations are hidden within machinations; changes arise beyond changes. So how can wit and cleverness be relied upon?

Zicheng Hong

#14. A black widow loves her mate then kills him. A praying mantis loves her mate then eats him. Women love my dad, but he's too big to eat.

Christopher Titus

#15. Ava is like a praying mantis on crack. She will not only chew off his head after she has sex with him, she will have sex with his headless body afterwards and then light it on fire.

Tara Sivec

#16. Even the mantis has stopped praying

Dean Cavanagh

#17. I am like a praying mantis, after I have sex with a guy I will rip their heads off.

JWoww

#18. He was as nervous as a praying mantis at an atheists' picnic ...

Tom Robbins

#19. I hadn't gone to one dance in my entire high school
career. I was six foot tall and a hundred and twenty
pounds. When I danced, I looked like a praying mantis
on fire.

Justin Halpern

#20. Said the condor to the preying mantis, we're gonna lose this place just like we lost Atlantis.

Neil Young

#21. Beijing was such a different city. There were so few cars, I could walk in the middle of the road. In the summer, the streetlamps attracted swirling bugs. I loved those bugs: crickets, praying mantis, all kinds of beetles. I also have a vivid memory of dazzling sunlight coming out of the sky.

Ma Jun

#22. A large praying mantis was performing ablutions on the springy stem of the kid's cowlick. The gunslinger snorted laughter-the first in gods knew how long-and set the fire and went after water.

Stephen King

#23. I do destroy men on a weekly basis. It's like a hobby. I'm like a praying mantis.

Kesha

#24. Then slowly, as his erratic shape approached the next guttering aura he would begin by degrees to become a silhouette, until immediately before the candle he would for a moment appear like an inky scarecrow, a mantis of pitch-black cardboard worked with strings.

Mervyn Peake

#25. There was no way we were going to let this band hobble around on three legs. We chose the route that every professional actor, athlete and musician should do - leave the legend intact and bow out at the top.

Tommy Lee

#26. To the elitist hedonist, life is the avoidance of boredom and routine.

Timothy Leary

#27. It's just something I've always done. In South Texas, the first guitar you get is a Mexican guitar. And the first one I got, the first thing I did was take it apart.

Guy Clark

#28. I was a moral coward, and he was not losing his life and desires through fear - which the majority of us do.

Theodore Dreiser

#29. Did you know that pottery can be repaired with gold?" Kami asked. "Then it's meant to be stronger than before, and more beautiful. Which is awesome, though it seems expensive."
Her grandmother had nodded. "Makes sense to me," she said. "Why be broken when you can be gold?

Sarah Rees Brennan

#30. I've always had individual friends, but I didn't find the people I wanted to learn from as an adult until my midtwenties.

Sheila Heti

#31. Life's the adventure. You don't have to drop your bundle and go bush. It's about being brave within the context that you're in.

Robyn Davidson

#32. a dead branch can not produce flowers

Mariam