#cockroaches

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

Your self-esteem is a notch below Kafka. ↗

— Woody Allen

#cockroaches #self-esteem #absurd

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

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

— Herb Caen

#all night #anything #cockroaches #eat #night

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

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

I'm horrified of lobsters. And shrimp and lobsters are the cockroaches of the ocean. ↗

— Brooke Burke

#horrified #i #lobsters #ocean #shrimp

I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of horses. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#cats #cockroaches #horses #hostile #i

What scares me? Oh, now that's a big question. I don't know what scares me - cockroaches, nuclear apocalypse. Fear is an interesting thing. It has a place in all of our lives. I try to be as fearless as possible. I don't always succeed, but I like to think I try. ↗

— Zachary Quinto

#apocalypse #big #big question #cockroaches #fear

I'm convinced my cockroaches have military training, I set off a roach bomb - they diffused it. ↗

— Jay London

#cockroaches #convinced #diffused #i #military