2.
I have a sort of a fetish for insects, clockwork, monsters, dark places, and unborn things
Guillermo del Toro
3.
Ants make up two-thirds of the biomass of all the insects. There are millions of species of organisms and we know almost nothing about them.
E. O. Wilson
4.
If all insects disappeared, all life on earth would perish. If all humans disappeared, all life on earth would flourish.
Jonas Salk
7.
I think we are just insects, we live a bit and then die and that’s the lot. There’s no mercy in things. There’s not even a Great Beyond. There’s nothing.
John Fowles
11.
None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and Vertue.
Mary Astell
12.
I do not knowingly kill any living thing - including insects or rodents - and I thank my food for sustaining me.
Joan Jett
13.
What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?
Emile M. Cioran
14.
Don't weep, insects -- Lovers, stars themselves, Must part.
Kobayashi Issa
15.
What a tourist terms a plague of insects, the fly fisher calls a great hatch.
Patrick F. McManus
19.
In the temporary illumination of the headlights, the insects were scribbling out messages from God that we couldn't get.
Heather O'Neill
20.
It was the hour when gauze-winged insects are born that only live for a day.
Lord Dunsany
22.
An insect is more complex than a star..and is a far greater challenge to understand.
Martin Rees
23.
Insects are my secret fear. That's what terrifies me more than anything - insects.
Michael O'Donoghue
24.
Is there a polity better ordered, the offices better distributed, and more inviolably observed and maintained, than that of bees?
Michel de Montaigne
25.
We've got a good inspection system in Arizona managing products that come from other parts of the county that could carry insects that could become problematic.
Carl E. Olson
26.
O cricket from your cherry cry
No one would ever guess
How quickly you must die.
Matsuo Basho
27.
Human beings ought not to draw in their antennae at every ungentle touch, like supersensitive insects.
E. T. A. Hoffmann
31.
The spoken word is nothing. It hardly lives longer than an insect! Only the written word is eternal. - Balbulus
Cornelia Funke
33.
Tourists moved over the piazza like drugged insects on a painted plate.
Shana Alexander
34.
Maybe we can comprehend a flower or an insect, but we can never comprehend ourselves. Even less can we expect to comprehend the universe.
Jostein Gaarder
35.
I hated the words. Each one was like a big live insect in my mouth.
Glen Duncan
36.
You know the beauty of driving one of these? (Wulf) No. (Cassandra) You can swat a Daimon like a mosquito. (Wulf) Well, since they’re both bloodsucking insects, I say go for it. (Cassandra)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
37.
It's time to stop pretending I'm ok with things I'm not ok with like all insects and Foster the People.
Greg Behrendt
38.
Grass is hard and lumpy and damp, and full of dreadful black insects.
Oscar Wilde
41.
She was afraid of all that and so much more, but what terrified her most was inside of her, an insect of unnatural intelligence who’d been living in her brain her entire life, playing with it, clicking across it, wrenching loose its cables on a whim.
Dennis Lehane
43.
There are scores of thousands of human insects who are ready at a moment's notice to reveal the Will of God on every possible subject
George Bernard Shaw
45.
Specialization is for insects... The race of man? He's a whole other creature.
Robert A. Heinlein