Quotes About Praying 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. 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

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

Brian Celio

#5. 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

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

James Floyd

#7. 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

#8. 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

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

Kesha

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

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

Tom Robbins

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

JWoww

#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. 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

#17. On the one hand, I want to go off and live in the desert with my dog and sculpt things out of adobe.

Tom Ford

#18. When power is exercised exclusively at the centre, the result is rigidity of rules and alienation of the people subject to those rules.

Charles Kennedy

#19. Even the mantis has stopped praying

Dean Cavanagh

#20. But these people _announced_ their madness ... they flaunted their insanity, they weren't half mad and half not, curled around a door frame. They were properly mad in the Shakespearean sense, talking sense when you least expected it.

Zadie Smith

#21. The people in New York - their humor is on a level that goes, uh, very deep, you know?

Elaine Stritch

#22. For any character, male or female, I think it's important to have ... it's cliche to say a flawed character, but to really think about the good and the bad and make sure that both are present, and it doesn't just become a glossed over icon of perfection.

Jane Jensen

#23. I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die.

Mary Roberts Rinehart