Best Centipedes Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“There was a terrible disparity between the speed at which he was moving and the quiet immobility of that line, but he insisted. So as not to go. To stay behind. To overflow, take root in what would stay here. A centipede can, cut into pieces. Each part can walk by itself. Still more, each leg flexes, lying alone on the floor. There was a screaming sound in each ear, and the difference between the two pitches was so narrow that the vibration was like running his fingernail along the edge of a new dime. In front of his eyes clusters of round spots were being born; they were the little spots that result when a photographic cut in a newspaper is enlarged many times. Lighter agglomerations, darker masses, small regions of uninhabited space here and there. Each spot slowly took on a third dimension. He tried to recoil from the expanding globules of matter. Did he cry out? Could he move? The thin distance between the two high screams became narrower, they were almost one; now the difference was the edge of a razor blade, poised against the tips of each finger. The fingers were to be sliced longitudinally.”

Fever Hallucination Centipedes Fever Dreams

Book:The Sheltering Sky

Source: The Sheltering Sky

“I'm afraid of coaching, of writer's classes, of writer's magazines, of books on how to write. They give me centipede trouble - you know the yarn about the centipede who was asked how he managed all his feet? He tried to answer, stopped to think about it, and was never able to walk another step.”

Thinking Knows Giving Writing Book Able Language Answers Walks Steps Class Trouble Feet Give Me Magazines Coaching Yarn Centipedes

Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“The centipede has rhythm and flow in its hundred legs precisely because it does not have to think about it. Consider this the next time you move the instruments of your art.”

Thinking Doe Art Moving Next Hundred Flow Instruments Legs Rhythm Next Time Centipedes

Author:Robert Genn

“I was sorry to see the News of the World go down, I think it was a great campaigning newspaper. Who can forget the News of the World's high profile campaign against child sex offenders which led to News of the World readers burning down the home of a paediatrician, throwing rocks at a pedalo, stamping on a centipede.”

“I'm not a big fan of spiders, rats, especially if they're like - I got up one morning on a holiday recently, and there was a centipede in the bed that big. I wasn't very happy about that.”

Ifs Bigs Morning Fans Bed Holiday Rats Very Happy Spiders Centipedes

Author:Tim Burton

“It wont be long now it wont be long man is making deserts of the earth it wont be long now before man will have used it up so that nothing but ants and centipedes and scorpions can find a living on it.”

Men Long Earth Used Desert Ants Living On Scorpions Centipedes

Book:The lives and times of Archy and Mehitabel

Source: The lives and times of Archy and Mehitabel

“If your stature were an illness, it seems that the Centipede dispenses medicine to make you well.”

Ifs Wells Seems Medicine Illness Stature Centipedes

Author:Cheshire Cat

“I don't go into hysterics or anything, but I look around for something to smash it with. I used to live out in the country when I first moved here, and there were a lot of centipedes in the house, and I set out to kill them all. A program of genocide. I'd wake up in the middle of the night, and I'd know there's a centipede in this room. And there always was. And I couldn't go to sleep until I killed it.”

Knows Firsts Looks Country Used Night House Sleep Rooms Middle Program Wake Up Moved Genocide Here And There Going To Sleep Middle Of The Night Centipedes

Book:Esquire: The Magazine for Men

Source: Esquire: The Magazine for Men

“I knowed a man in Paphlagonia who'd swallow a live snake every morning, when he got up. He used to say, he was certain of one thing, that nothing worse would happen to him all day. 'Course they made him eat a bowlful of hairy centipedes before they hung him, so maybe that claim was a bit presumptive.”

Men Made Happens Used Certain Courses Bits Morning One Thing Claims Every Morning Hung Snakes Centipedes

Book:Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess's Stardust: Being a Romance Within the Realms of Faerie

Source: Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess's Stardust: Being a Romance Within the Realms of Faerie

“the more i live, the more i realize what strange creatures human beings are. some of them might just as well have a hundred legs, like a centipede, or six, like a lobster. the human consistency and dignity one has been led to expect from one's fellow-man seem actually non-existent. one doubts if they exist to any startling degree even in oneself.”

Source: Stop What You’re Doing and Read…Banned Books: Lady Chatterley's Lover & Moll Flanders

“Some people come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of centipede -- not because they have a hundred feet, but because most people can't count above 14.”

People Way Inspirational Certain Names Feet Genius Hundred Insects Centipedes

Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

“Albert and I would spend hours and hours looking at them. Cleo had this big magnifying glass on his desk, and we'd find centipedes and grasshoppers and beetles and potato bugs, ants . . . and put them in a jar and look at them. They have the sweetest little faces and the cutest expressions. After we'd looked at them all we wanted to, we'd put them in the yard and let them go on about their business.”

Looks Littles Bigs Wanted Faces Hours Expression Goes On Glasses Desks Yards Bugs Potatoes Ants Sweetest Jars Magnifying Beetles Grasshoppers Magnifying Glass Cutest Centipedes

Author:Fannie Flagg

“What gives a wriggle And makes you giggle When you eat'em? Whose weensy little feet Make my heart really beat? Why, it's those little creepy crawlies That make me feel so jolly. For the darling centipede My favorite buggy feed I always want some more. That's the insect I adore More than beetles, more than crickets, Which at times gives me the hiccups. I crave only to feed On a juicy centipede And I shall be happy forevermore." -Soren”

Want Giving Feels Heart Littles Feet My Heart Beats Give Me My Favorite Ems Adore Cricket Insects Crave Darling Creepy Giggle Jolly Juicy Beetles Hiccups Centipedes

Author:Kathryn Lasky

“The organizational architecture is really that a centipede walks on hundred legs and one or two don't count. So if I lose one or two legs, the process will go on, the organization will go on, the growth will go on.”

Ifs Two Process Growth Change Loses Walks Goes On Ambition Hundred Organization Legs Architecture Partnership Organizational Business Growth Centipedes

Author:Mukesh Ambani

“Apparently Matts been busier than a centipede at a toe counting contest.”

Survival Toes Contests Counting Busier Centipedes

Author:Joe Teti

“Now what sort of man or woman or monster would stroke a centipede I have ever seen? And here is my good big centipede! If such a man exists, I say kill him without more ado. He is a traitor to the human race.”

Ifs Men Humans Bigs Race Monsters Human Race Strokes Insects Traitor Centipedes

Book:The Western Lands

Source: The Western Lands