Worm Quotes - page 2

The idea of Curious Yellow, of surrender to a higher cause, seems to appeal to a certain small subset of humanity. These people manipulate the worm, customizing its payload to establish quisling dictatorships in its shadow, and the horrors these gauleiters invent in its service are far worse than the crude but direct tactics the original worm used. (Charles Stross)
And striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Speakers' nerves affect them in various ways. Some tremble, some become frenzied. I lose all confidence, and suffer from a leaden oppression that makes me wonder why I ever agreed to speak at all; the Tomb and the Conqueror Worm seem preferable to delivering the stupid and piffling speech I have so carefully prepared. View quote
Robertson Davies
Slothful, feeble, pretentious, pedantic, elitist - these are some of the epithets that eventually become associated with the absent minded scholar, the poor sighted reader, the book worm, the nerd. View quote
Alberto Manguel
Is it sin, which makes the worm a chrysalis, and the chrysalis a butterfly, and the butterfly dust? View quote
Max Müller
In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm. View quote
Alan Perlis
Language became a colorless and as indistinct as the business suit which is now worm by everyone, by the scholar, by the businessman, by the professional killer. Being accustomed to a dry and dreary norm and sees in it an obvious sign of arrogance and aggression; viewing authority with almost religious awe he gets into a frenzy when he sees someone pluck the beard of his favorite prophet. View quote
Paul Karl Feyerabend
However, he who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards that he gets stepped on. View quote
Immanuel Kant
True Love in this differs from gold and clay, That to divide is not to take away. Love is like understanding, that grows bright, Gazing on many truths; 'tis like thy light, Imagination! which from earth and sky, And from the depths of human phantasy, As from a thousand prisms and mirrors, fills The Universe with glorious beams, and kills Error, the worm, with many a sun-like arrow Of its reverberated lightning. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Life is short. Art, or something not life, is long, stretching out endless, like concrete worm. Flat, white, unsmoothed by any passage over or across it. Here I stand. But no longer. View quote
Philip K. Dick
Never regret trusting someone. It proves you have a heart. But if he turns out to be a lying worm... I'm not going to waste my time crying. Because I am way too fabulous for that. (Jude Watson)
I don't even have moderately big breasticles. They just look like - well, nevermind what they look like. At least they stay strapped down when I worm into a sports bra. View quote
Lilith Saintcrow
In neurotics, worm phobias are usually found as well as snake phobias. View quote
Karl Abraham
The early bird catches the worm. View quote
William Camden
Life is dear to every living thing; the worm that crawls upon the ground will struggle for it. View quote
Solomon Northup
The message is not so much that the worms will inherit the Earth, but that all things play a role in nature, even the lowly worm. View quote
Gary Larson
What you will be looking for is a day that closes above the prior day's high and most likely 'breaks' out to the upside to close above a trading range. This is the twitching worm that causes the public to leap before they look. View quote
Larry R. Williams
It is a good rule never to see or talk to the man whose words have wrung your heart, or helped it, just as it is wise not to look down too closely at the luminous glow which sometimes shines on your path on a summer night, if you would not see the ugly worm below. View quote
Rebecca Harding Davis
The comparison here implied between the actions of one of the higher animals and of one so low in the scale as an earth-worm, may appear far-fetched; for we thus attribute to the worm attention and some mental power, nevertheless I can see no reason to doubt the justice of the comparison. View quote
Charles Darwin
When a worm is suddenly illuminated and dashes like a rabbit into its burrow-to use the expression employed by a friend-we are at first led to look at the action as a reflex one. View quote
Charles Darwin
Everything the Almighty Creator has instituted on our globe occurs in such a wonderful order, that no thing subsists without the support of something else: The Globe itself, with all its Stones, Ore, and Gravel, is nourished and sustained by the Elements: Plants, Trees, Herbs, Grasses, and Mosses grow out of the Globe, and Animals eventually grow out of the plants. All of these are finally transformed back into their primary substances, the Earth feeding the Plant, the Plant the Worm, the Worm the Bird, and often the Bird the Beast of Prey; Then finally the Beast of Prey is consumed the Bird of Prey, the Bird of Prey by the Worm, the Worm by the Herb, the Herb by the Earth: Man indeed, who turns everything to his needs, is often consumed by the Beast, the Bird, or the Fish which preys on him, by the Worm or the Earth. It is thus that everything circulates. (Carl Linnaeus)
Light takes the Tree; but who can tell us how? The lowly worm climbs up a winding stair; I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. View quote
Theodore Roethke
At the establishment of our constitutions, the judiciary bodies were supposed to be the most helpless and harmless members of the government. Experience, however, soon showed in what way they were to become the most dangerous; that the insufficiency of the means provided for their removal gave them a freehold and irresponsibility in office; that their decisions, seeming to concern individual suitors only, pass silent and unheeded by the public at large; that these decisions, nevertheless, become law by precedent, sapping, by little and little, the foundations of the constitution, and working its change by construction, before any one has perceived that that invisible and helpless worm has been busily employed in consuming its substance. In truth, man is not made to be trusted for life, if secured against all liability to account. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
I say to myself that her small hands are no more worm, and that I would never again carry them soft to my front. View quote
Albert Cohen
The early bird catches the worm. But I have never been one for worms. I am not sure what the late bird catches, but I will feast with him today. Probably porridge. View quote
Don Miller (author)