#ants

The perfect gadget would somehow allow me to fly. Isn't that what everybody wants? It would also cook a damn good microwave pizza. So while in flight you had something to eat - an in-flight meal. Where would I go? Well, nowadays, it would probably just take me to work a lot quicker. ↗

— John Krasinski

#also #cook #damn #eat #everybody

A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#discard #grown-up #his #ideals #learns

I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#each #hear #i #other #public

I don't smack him around. I don't yell at him. And if he wants to go to the park in his pajamas, I don't care. ↗

— Peter Krause

#care #go #him #his #i

I don't get recognised in London or at home either - very seldom anyway. Either that or I look so crazy no one wants to come up to me. ↗

— Alison Krauss

#come #crazy #either #get #home

Race in this country is still the elephant in the room that no one wants to discuss. ↗

— Lenny Kravitz

#discuss #elephant #race #room #still

What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants. ↗

— Joseph Wood Krutch

#knows #man #wants #war

We must consider the distinctive characters and the general nature of plants from the point of view of their morphology , their behavior under external conditions, their mode of generation, and the whole course of their life. ↗

— Theophrastus

#characters #conditions #consider #course #distinctive

I won't compare ants and people, but ants give us a useful model of how single members of a community can become so organized that they end up resembling, in effect, one big collective brain. Our own exploding population and communication technology are leading us that way. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#become #big #brain #collective #communication

Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labour, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#ants #armies #beings #capture #ceaselessly