Top 100 Quotes About Mosquitoes

#1. One night I was meditating in such perfect stillness that two mosquitoes came and sat on each of my cheekbones and stayed there a long time without biting and then went away.

Jack Kerouac

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#2. The marsh, to him who enters it in a receptive mood, holds, besides mosquitoes and stagnation, melody, the mystery of unknown waters, and the sweetness of Nature undisturbed by man.

William Beebe

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#3. Mosquitoes remind us that we are not as high up on the food chain as we think.

Tom Wilson

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#4. The tool that's most associated with the recent progress against malaria is the long-lasting bed net. Bed nets are a fantastic innovation. But we can do even better. We can invent new ways to control the mosquitoes that carry the malaria parasite.

Bill Gates

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#5. 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

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#6. I lit a thin green candle to make you jealous of me, but the room just filled up with mosquitoes.

Leonard Cohen

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#7. I find myself wishing that I could work that magic for her. That I could bring the smile back to her face. But I slap at those thoughts as if they were mosquitoes. What am I doing, caring so much about my best friend's love? I deny my feelings for her because they shouldn't exist.

Amy Plum

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#8. All the time I pray to Buddha I keep on killing mosquitoes.

Kobayashi Issa

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#9. Malaria-hosting mosquitoes will not wait politely during their most active evening feeding hours for people to go to bed under mosquito nets.

T.K. Naliaka

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#10. We are bombarded with reasons to stay inside: we're afraid of mosquitoes because of West Nile and grass because of pesticides and sun because of cancer and sunscreen because of vitamin-D deficiency.

Nancy Gibbs

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#11. Nor am I greatly moved by jocular inquiries such as, 'Where will you put all the mosquitoes?'
a question to be answered on its own level by pointing out that, if the worst came to worst, a heaven for mosquitoes and a hell for men could very conveniently be combined.

C.S. Lewis

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#12. Most of my memories of Texas are of mosquitoes, watermelons, crickets, and my brother teasing me.

Robin Wright

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#13. were rabid, foaming bats blindly cleaving the air around his head. And it seemed that every few steps he would run straight into a twister of mosquitoes. Though he had been paid a large amount of cash up front, he was seriously considering increasing his daily fee on this one.

David Baldacci

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#14. I wrote 'Airborn' after completing three books about bats. I loved my bats, but what a treat it was to write about humans again. They could eat food other than midges and mosquitoes, they wore clothing, they slept in beds - all this struck me as wonderfully novel.

Kenneth Oppel

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#15. I came face-to-face with a gorilla which was quite good, but it was a 10-hour trek in bad weather, up hills, covered in mud, with mosquitoes everywhere and when we got there the gorilla's just sat there doing nowt.

Karl Pilkington

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#16. Mosquitoes were using my ankles as filling stations.

Cornelia Otis Skinner

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#17. I like Miami in the winter: there's no humidity, no bugs, no mosquitoes. You go out and wear your jacket, and you're all good!

Prince Royce

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#18. And sank into the profound slumber which comes only to such
fortunate folk as are troubled neither with mosquitoes nor fleas nor excessive activity of brain.

Nikolai Gogol

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#19. A fine city with too many socialists and mosquitoes. At least you can spray the mosquitoes.

Ralph Klein

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#20. The mosquito is the state bird of New Jersey.

Andy Warhol

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#21. Remember what I said about the mosquitoes?" "Which part" asked Maggie. "The scary part, the really scary part, the legitimately terrifying part, or the part that makes suicide sound like an awesome way to spend the evening?

Mira Grant

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#22. How to spell Aedes aegypti,the world's one-stop, viral-disease-transmitting mosquito: T-R-O-U-B-L-E.

T.K. Naliaka

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#23. Like letting spiders live because they eat mosquitoes,
Clary thought. So they're good enough to let live, good enough to make your food for you, good enough to flirt with-but not really good enough? I mean, not as good as people.

Cassandra Clare

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#24. But however secure and well-regulated civilized life may become, bacteria, Protozoa, viruses, infected fleas, lice, ticks, mosquitoes, and bedbugs will always lurk in the shadows ready to pounce when neglect, poverty, famine, or war lets down the defenses.

Hans Zinsser

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#25. Considering their impact, you might expect mosquitoes to get more attention than they do. Sharks kill fewer than a dozen people every year, and in the U.S. they get a week dedicated to them on TV every year.

Bill Gates

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#26. Scientists still know less about what attracts men than they do about what attracts mosquitoes.

Joyce Brothers

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#27. You will probably be eaten by either wild boar, coyotes, or at the very least these fucking annoying pterodactyl mosquitoes.

T.M. Frazier

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#28. Mosquitoes are the greatest mass murderers on planet Earth.

Katherine Applegate

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#29. T nightfall, at
the oppressive moment of transition, a storm of carnivorous mosquitoes rose
out of the swamps, and a tender breath of human shit, warm and sad, stirred
the certainty of death in the depths of one's soul.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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#30. It's very freaky in Chicago.There's something in the water there, I don't know what it is. But the actual word Chicago means, in the Indian language, garlic. It was just garlic and mosquitoes there.And that is the roughest city on the planet, and I been to every place in the world.

Quincy Jones

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#31. The implied threat of using nuclear weapons to curb guerrillas was as absurd as to talk of using a sledge hammer to ward off a swarm of mosquitoes.

B.H. Liddell Hart

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#32. It was not feasible to lose time in making careful surveys or extensive preliminary studies of possible control methods; learn how to get rid of Anopheles gambiae by actually getting rid of Anopheles gambiae.

Fred Lowe Soper

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#33. Dory mentally added another grand to the tally sheet for this job as a heat tax. And then another for the mosquitoes. And what the hell, a third for the freaking smell,

Karen Chance

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#34. In my reality all the mosquitoes are vampires and all fireflies are dragons.

Munia Khan

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#35. Be persistent like a mosquito, at the end you will get your bite

Bangambiki Habyarimana

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#36. The mosquitoes. Tearing at him, clouds of them, the awful, ripping, thick masses of the small monsters trying to bleed him dry.

Gary Paulsen

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#37. Socialism is, among other things, the political habitat of low self-esteem, incompetence, self-loathing, and a willingness to steal - or have stolen for you what you are unable or unwilling to work for. Socialism is a philosophy fit only for slugs, leaches, and mosquitoes.

L. Neil Smith

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#38. Some morbidity in me attracts mosquitoes

Robert Lowell

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#39. Small back yard until the sun went down and the early mosquitoes came out to play. I was

Karina Halle

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#40. We living beings, right down to crickets, ants, mosquitoes , and flies, all possess life that is without beginning or end.

Gautama Buddha

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#41. In Massachusetts and Vermont, there had been plenty of mosquitoes, but in New Hampshire, they had reinforcements.

Jennifer Pharr Davis

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#42. It's lovely having grass and trees and flowers(Of course, at times, mosquitoes are a pest).Yes, life is life out here in Rangely Towers(Of course Some People like the city best)!

Arthur Guiterman

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#43. If you think about it, every single species is endangered. Homo sapiens at the front of the line, mosquitoes and lawyers at the back.

Henry Rollins

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#44. In Calumet a thousand ornate streetlamps stood in a swamp, where they did nothing but ignite the fog and summon auras of mosquitoes.

Erik Larson

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#45. Such is the blessing of this republic. We are not confronted by one czar of the size of an elephant, but by a hundred thousand czars, as small as mosquitoes, but equally disagreeable and annoying.

Various

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#46. The view, as I have said, is charming; but in the day you must keep the lattice-blinds close shut, or the sun would drive you mad; and when the sun goes down you must shut up all the windows, or the mosquitoes would tempt you to commit suicide. So

Charles Dickens

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#47. Most of the pollution in the water already is dead animal and plant matter and building debris, ... good stagnant nursery for mosquitoes.

James Wright

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#48. This morning, you have a choice. You can lay in the dark replaying the awful events of the week, or you can turn the light on and read God's Word-His truth-which is the best thing to do when lies are swarming and painful thoughts are attacking like a bunch of bloodthirsty mosquitoes.

Lysa TerKeurst

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#49. The mosquitoes here are big enough to rape a chicken.

Elizabeth Gilbert

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#50. 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

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#51. the most blood thirsty animals in the Artic are not wolves, but the insatiable mosquitoes.

Farley Mowat

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#52. Become a worry-slapper. Treat frets like mosquitoes. Do you procrastinate when a bloodsucking bug lights on your skin? 'I'll take care of it in a moment.' Of course you don't! You give the critter the slap it deserves. Be equally decisive with anxiety.

Max Lucado

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#53. Man, they got mosquitoes 'round this place big enough to rape a chicken.

Elizabeth Gilbert

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#54. At the moment, the 4 percent of us in this country produce a quarter of the world's carbon dioxide - once you look at maps of rising sea levels and spreading mosquitoes, you realize that we've probably never figured out a way to hate our neighbors around the world much more effectively.

Bill McKibben

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#55. Mosquitoes, how wonderful! No one puts them in cages or makes pets out of them.

Marty Rubin

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#56. If you allow mosquitoes to disturb your sound sleep, you shall never be able to wake up healthy and sound enough to kill an Elephant

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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#57. I always befriended animals and have said many a good word for them. Even to the least-loved mosquitoes I gave many a meal, and told them to go in peace.

John Muir

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#58. Gossip is the social mosquito.

Myrtle Reed

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#59. This part of Alabama is swampy, with mosquitoes that could murder a buffalo, given half a chance, not to mention dangerous flying roaches and a posse of local rats big enough to haul a wagon train from here to Timbuctoo.

Truman Capote

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#60. By the time he went to work for James J. Hill in 1889, he had survived Mexican fevers, Indian attack, Upper Michigan mosquitoes, and Canadian blizzards. He had been treed by wolves on one occasion; he

David McCullough

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#61. In my soaked condition, it was freezing cold. It felt wonderful, and I had visions of ice-coated mosquitoes falling off my raincoat. Uttering little gaspy screams.

Donald Harstad

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#62. I've heard a sip of gin will make you immune to mosquitoes and other pests.

Ottessa Moshfegh

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#63. Old muleskinners told how the mules were waiting at the shaft when they arrived each morning. They wanted relief from the heat, deerflies and mosquitoes just like the men.

Harry Anderson

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#64. You have mosquitoes. I have the Press.

Prince Philip

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#65. Except for the lack of enormous insects, suffocating humidity, malaria victims groaning in death throes, poisonous vipers as thick as mosquitoes, and rabid jungle cats madly devouring their own feet, you would have sworn you were in the Amazon rainforest.

Dean Koontz

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#66. If only Africa had more mosquito nets then every year we could save millions of mosquitoes from dying needlessly of aids

Jimmy Carr

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#67. The greatest mercy, I have often thought, of the Mediterranean coast lies in its mosquitoes. Did we not suffer from their unwelcome attention, we could not bear our holidays to end.

Winifred Holtby

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#68. If Ali says a mosquito can pull a plow, don't ask how. Hitch him up.

Muhammad Ali

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#69. If we walk in the woods, we must feed mosquitoes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#70. Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria.

Richard Stallman

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#71. Bug spray." Mosquitoes never bother me, but apparently they eat Tucker alive if he forgets bug spray. So I wear it for solidarity. "All the kids wear
it," I explain to Mom. "They say the mosquito is the Wyoming state bird.

Cynthia Hand

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#72. I continue to handpick the beetles, mosquitoes feast on me, birds eat the mosquitoes, something else eats the birds, and so on up and down the biotic pyramid.

William F. Longgood

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#73. Mosquitoes bite you as if they are in some kind of love with you.

M.F. Moonzajer

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#74. The mosquitoes were a formidable enemy, coming in thick clouds so dense as to be almost palpable, obscuring each man's vision of those near him. The insects buzzed and whined around them, clinging to every part of their bodies, getting into ears and nose and mouth.

Michael Crichton

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#75. An itchy feeling began to work its way through my body, as though a thousand mosquitoes were circulating through my blood, biting me from the inside, making me want to scream, jump, squirm.
I ran.

Lauren Oliver

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#76. That night the mosquitoes ate us up. I had bites all over my body. Back home I thought mosquitoes never bit black people. Not as much as they bit white people, anyway. Maybe Vietnamese mosquitoes just bit blacks and whites and didn't bite Asians.

Walter Dean Myers

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#77. Incredibly, just one mosquito species, Aedes aegypti is responsible for the spread of four known different deadly viral diseases to human beings, yet this mosquito has been allowed to infest densely-populated urban centers.

T.K. Naliaka

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#78. If we do not accomplish it in time, what has begun with a monkey may not end with a monkey. Next even a swarm of mosquitoes may decide to challenge your authority.

R.K. Narayan

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#79. Life is a hailstorm of distractions. It's not the monster that stops us but the mosquito.

Robert G. Allen

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#80. Mosquitoes can ruin the hunt for big game.

David Allen

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#81. Killing is a culturally loaded term, for most of us inextricably tied up with some version of a command that begins, "Thou shalt not." Every faith has it. And for all but perhaps the Jainists of India, that command is absolutely conditional. We know it does not refer to mosquitoes.

Barbara Kingsolver

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#82. Dragonflies kill their prey in the air and eat it on the wing. They feed on aerial plankton, which consists of any sort of small living thing that happens to be aloft - mosquitoes, midges, moths, flies, ballooning spiders.

Richard Preston

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#83. The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#84. Decay and disfavor came together as other parts of the coast were developed, and the canals became weed-clogged ditches breeding mosquitoes, and the hotels were turned into third-rate apartments.

Edward Bunker

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#85. She was crushed by society like a mosquito fending for its unborn young

Owen Jones

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#86. I noticed, as I had done before, that there was a lull among the mosquitoes about midnight, and that they began again in the morning. Nature is thus merciful. But apparently they need rest as well as we.

Henry David Thoreau

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#87. In her own experience she's learned that happiness and sadness find their own level no matter what's biting you, mosquitoes or meatskins.

Alden Bell

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#88. Being chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee is like being a mosquito in a nudist colony.

John McCain

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#89. all is dead
but for the mosquitoes
singing
their blood song

Thabo Jijana

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#90. People who say that small things don't bother them have never slept in a room with a mosquito.

Dennis Rainey

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#91. From the front Rdar announces, "Don't you go talking bad about GoFast bars. Do you want me to stop this car?"
"Whenever I eat a GoFast bar," Ben says, "I'm always like, 'So this is what blood tastes like to mosquitoes.

John Green

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#92. Your scare tactics are useless on me, Thane. My people have needs of their own, and they don't include being locked up in an underground cavern by a bunch of overgrown mosquitoes.

Suzannah Daniels

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#93. The scary thing about the future ... there will be tiny cameras everywhere, and they'll be flying around like mosquitoes and drones. That will be bad. Drones are scary. You can't reason with a drone.

Matt Groening

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#94. When lies are swarming and attacking me like a bunch of bloodthirsty mosquitoes, the best thing I can do is open God's Word and immerse myself in His truth. Lies flee in the presence of truth.

Lysa TerKeurst

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#95. We have to suffer mosquitoes the size of blackbirds.

Rebecca Wells

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#96. My men have suffered greatly (from boredom), much blood has been shed (by mosquitoes), and I have swung my ax mightily (chopping firewood). Surely we have earned our place in the annals of history - for never has there been so little war in a war.

Seth Grahame-Smith

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#97. As with mosquitoes, horseflies, and most bloodsucking parasites, Kenneth Starr was spawned in stagnant water.

James Carville

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#98. The skeleton was as happy as a madman whose straightjacket had been taken off. He felt liberated at being able to walk without flesh. The mosquitoes didn't bite him anymore. He didn't have to have his hair cut. He was neither hungry nor thirsty, hot nor cold. He was far from the lizard of love.

Leonora Carrington

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#99. We stepped carefully, so softly, over thorny plants. The dust had turned to mud, splattering our shoes, socks, and legs. By the time we reached the boat, our clothes were clinging to our flesh and stained with the bloody remains of mosquitoes.

Mia Kirshner

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#100. We are not created for any grander purpose than the ants that are there or the flies that are hovering around us or the mosquitoes that are sucking our blood.

U.G. Krishnamurti

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