Fleas Quotes

At a flea market I always head for the junk jewelry table first.

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.

I sting like a butterfly and punch like a flea.

When you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas.

To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.

We're living in primate heaven. We're warm, dry, we're not hungry, we don't have fleas and ticks and infections. So why are we so miserable?

On the neck of a giraffe a flea begins to believe in immortality.

When I go to a country, I go to flea markets, antique stores. I am always looking for something.

The flea, though he kill none, he does all the harm he can.

Sensitivity isn't about being wimpy. It's about being so painfully aware that a flea landing on a dog is like a sonic boom

I actually picked up copies of Decline I and II at a flea market once. I walked out without paying.

Through three cheese trees three free fleas flew. While these fleas flew, freezy breeze blew. Freezy breeze made these three trees freeze. Freezy trees made these trees' cheese freeze. That's what made these three free fleas sneeze.

Oh, why can't we break away from all this, just you and I, and lodge with my fleas in the hills? I mean flee to my lodge in the hills.

Arguing whether or not a God exists is like fleas arguing whether or not the dog exists. Arguing over the correct name for God is like fleas arguing over the name of the dog. And arguing over whose notion of God is correct is like fleas arguing over who owns the dog.

I'm pretty much a thrift shop gal. Flea markets on Sundays.

I always like my trailer or hotel room to have fresh flowers or pillows I find at a local flea market - anything to personalize the environment.

If you go long enough without a bath, even the fleas will let you alone.

My favorite things often have a story behind them and are usually handmade or discovered at a flea market.

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.

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.

I wouldn't hurt a flea. I'd finger a spider though.

But was there ever dog that praised his fleas?

I even worry about reflective flea collars. Oh, sure, drivers can see them glow in the dark, but so can the fleas.

The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism; it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens.

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.

History will die if not irritated. The only service I can do to my profession is to serve as a flea.

A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.

It's a good thing for a dog to have fleas; keeps his mind off being a dog.

The only thing holding you back is you. Commit to developing the mindset of a winner, set your goals and chase them down. Remember, a dog in the hunt ain't got no fleas!

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.

A reasonable amount of fleas is good for a dog; it keeps him from brooding over being a dog.

Flea and Anthony are into funk, like old school Meters and stuff like that.

Fleas can be taught nearly anything a congressman can.

I am a dog that loves my fleas.

Haste is good only in catching fleas.

Sir, there is no settling the point of precedency between a louse and a flea.

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.

First draw dog, then fleas. First paint apple, then worm holes.

'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.

That woman doesn't have the sense God gave a retarded flea.

He wore sweatpants and a T-shirt and had stopped in the middle of the hall, furiously scratching one bare forearm. "Fleas?" I said.

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.

When I take on a design project, I have to jet from the bookstore to the hardware shop to the lamp store and back again just to collect a small portion of the many items I need to fill a home. But, when you hit the flea market, they're all right there. From booth to booth, you have the bases covered.

A nation has honor precisely as it has fleas - on this or that body. The statesman who talks of honor - unless he means something else, quite different - is a rogue.

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.

I'm on the verge of a total breakdown. Sciatica. Taxes. Cars. Fleas, possibly. It's an absurd existence.

You cannot flea a stone.

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.

I don't trust happiness. I turn it over as if it were a glass at a flea market or a rug at a souk, looking for chipped rims or loose threads.

My father and I did work for a while at the flea market and there really are rows of Afghans working there, some of whom I am related to.