#cockroach

What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises. ↗

— Russell Baker

#calls #closets #cockroaches #couple #grow

I've reduced a lot of the stress in my life. I've gotten rid of a lot of things. The light was turned on and a lot of the cockroaches started spinning. I swept them out the door. And sometimes you just have to throw things out because they carry a certain energy. ↗

— Wesley Snipes

#carry #certain #cockroaches #door #energy

Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most. ↗

— Joseph Wood Krutch

#although #bird #both #cockroach #get

He assaulted the man with a psychic wave. "You are a cockroach." In his inebraited state, Cody had no resistance at all to a vampire mind control. He fell to the floor and scurried around the foyer on all fours. "I am a cockroach" he muttered in a squeaky voice. "Hmm, about time you figured that one out," Fidelia steped back as he brushed against her long skirt. ↗

— Kerrelyn Sparks

#ex #mind-control #vampire #love

Long after the bomb falls and you and your good deeds are gone, cockroaches will still be here, prowling the streets like armored cars. ↗

— Tama Janowitz

#armored #bomb #cars #cockroaches #deeds

Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything. ↗

— Herb Caen

#all night #anything #cockroaches #eat #night

It began as this desire to do this science fiction movie about perhaps one of the last insects left that nobody's done anything on, which is the cockroach - and truly one of the most frightening insects. ↗

— Michael O'Donoghue

#anything #began #cockroach #desire #done

As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#first-sentence #insects #transformation #dreams