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  • 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)

  • From the front Rdar announces, "Don't you go talking bad about GoFast bars. Do you want me to stop this car?" "Whenever I eat a GoFast bar," Ben says, "I'm always like, 'So this is what blood tastes like to mosquitoes.

    Blood   Talking   Car  
    John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.255, A&C Black
  • If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito.

    "Bloody Wonderful: Goodbye, Anita Roddick" by Brooke Shelby Biggs, www.motherjones.com. September 11, 2007.
  • I did my best work in The Mosquito Coast. I know it wasn't such a big hit, but for me it was more meaningful than anything else I'd ever done.

  • in stillness, I watched myselfget eaten by mosquitoes... the itch was maddening at first but eventually it just melded into a general burning feeling and i rode that heat to a mld euphoria. I allowed the pain to lose its specific associations and become pure sensation... and that eventually lifted me out of myself and into meditation.

  • If Ali says a mosquito can pull a plow, don't ask how. Hitch him up.

    FaceBook post by Muhammad Ali from Apr 04, 2014
  • We don’t like to think of ourselves as prey—it is a lessening thought—but the truth is that in our arrogance and so-called knowledge we forget that we are not unique. We are part of nature as much as other animals, and some animals—sharks, fever-bearing mosquitoes, wolves and bear, to name but a few—perceive us as a food source, a meat supply, and simply did not get the memo about how humans are superior. It can be shocking, humbling, painful, very edifying and sometimes downright fatal to run into such an animal.

    Running   Animal   Unique  
    Gary Paulsen (2003). “Brian's Hunt”, p.65, Wendy Lamb Books
  • I was nicknamed 'Skeeter' in Little League because I was small and fast, like a mosquito flying across the outfield.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • The marsh, to him who enters it in a receptive mood, holds, besides mosquitoes and stagnation, melody, the mystery of unknown waters, and the sweetness of Nature undisturbed by man.

    Men   Rivers   Water  
    William Beebe (1927). “The Log of the Sun”, p.139, Lulu.com
  • The mosquitoes here are big enough to rape a chicken.

  • There is neither a proportional relationship, nor an inverse one, between a writer’s estimation of a work in progress & its actual quality. The feeling that the work is magnificent, & the feeling that it is abominable, are both mosquitoes to be repelled, ignored, or killed, but not indulged.

  • It's lovely having grass and trees and flowers(Of course, at times, mosquitoes are a pest).Yes, life is life out here in Rangely Towers(Of course Some People like the city best)!

    Flower   Cities   People  
    Arthur Guiterman, “Our Suburb”
  • ...and sank into the profound slumber which comes only to such fortunate folk as are troubled neither with mosquitoes nor fleas nor excessive activity of brain.

    Nikolai Gogol (2015). “Dead Souls: [Illustrated]”, p.118, eKitap Projesi
  • To me, there is nothing more soothing than the song of a mosquito that cant get through the mesh to bite you.

    Song   Mosquitoes   Mesh  
  • Aching familiar in a way that made me wish I was still eight. Eight was before death or divorce or heartbreak. Eight was just eight. Hot dogs and peanut butter, mosquito bites and splinters, bikes and boogie boards. Tangled hair, sunburned shoulders, Judy Blume, in bed by nine thirty.

    Dog   Divorce   Eight  
  • Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off track by every nutshell and mosquito's wing that falls on the rails. Let us rise early and fast, or break fast, gently and without perturbation; let company come and let company go, let the bells ring and the children cry,-determine to make a day of it.

    Life   Children   Fall  
    Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.153
  • If a mosquito has a soul, it is mostly evil. So I don't have too many qualms about putting a mosquito out of its misery. I'm a little more respectful of ants.

  • Places like Hilton Head, with water adjacency and nice climates, are in high demand, and land values are insane. In the case of Hilton Head, which was developed in 1970 on what had been a mosquito- and alligator-infested swampy barrier island, land value has leaped from nearly zero to now unaffordable.

    Zero   Nice   Islands  
    "The Too-Big House" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. June 21, 2011.
  • Become a worry-slapper. Treat frets like mosquitoes. Do you procrastinate when a bloodsucking bug lights on your skin? 'I'll take care of it in a moment.' Of course you don't! You give the critter the slap it deserves. Be equally decisive with anxiety.

    Light   Giving   Worry  
    Max Lucado (2012). “Fearless: Imagine Your Life Without Fear”, p.49, Thomas Nelson Inc
  • Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off the track by every nutshell and mosquito's wing that falls on the rails.

    Fall   Wings   Rivers  
    Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.63, Courier Corporation
  • The Spider is an ode to my mother. She was my best friend. Like a spider, my mother was a weaver. . . Like spiders, my mother was very clever. Spiders are friendly presences that eat mosquitoes. We know that mosquitoes spread diseases and are therefore unwanted. So, spiders are helpful and protective, just like my mother.

    "Giant spider takes up residence at Tate", www.theguardian.com. October 3, 2007.
  • The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.

  • Anyone who thinks he's too small to make a difference has never been bit by a mosquito

    Jeannette Walls (2010). “Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel”, p.246, Simon and Schuster
  • We scarified a mosquito. I bet that's what did it. It was probably a virgin too.

    Kelley Armstrong (2009). “Broken”, p.84, Seal Books
  • we have to suffer mosquitoes the size of blackbirds.

  • I'm like a mosquito, I love humidity. I don't sweat.

  • At the moment, the 4 percent of us in this country produce a quarter of the world's carbon dioxide - once you look at maps of rising sea levels and spreading mosquitoes, you realize that we've probably never figured out a way to hate our neighbors around the world much more effectively.

    Country   Hate   Sea  
  • [On what bugged him] A fine city with too many socialists and mosquitoes. At least you can spray the mosquitoes.

    Ralph Klein's remarks of Edmonton (1990), as quoted in "Welcome to Ralph's World: 10 of Ralph Klein's most colourful quotes" by Andrea Janus, www.ctvnews.ca. March 29, 2013.
  • In the South Pacific, because of their size, mosquitoes are required to file flight plans.

  • I think this spring as the mosquito populations start to increase, we should be especially cautious about locations where we've had locally-transmitted Dengue virus. The same mosquito species that transmits Zika also transmits Dengue. It's confined primarily to Florida, South Florida, along the Gulf states and Southern Texas with a few small populations in Arizona and California.

    "Attention Turns To Repelling Mosquitoes That Carry Zika, Dengue". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. February 2, 2016.
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