Famous quotes containing the words parasitic, worm, intestinal, prevention and/or control:
“Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.”
—Kenneth Tynan (19271980)
“A worm tells summer better than the clock,
The slugs a living calendar of days;
What shall it tell me if a timeless insect
Says the world wears away?”
—Dylan Thomas (19141953)
“Dont think of yourself as an intestinal tract and tangle of nerves in the skull, that will not work unless you drink coffee. Think of yourself as incandescent power, illuminated perhaps and forever talked to by God and his messengers.... Think if Tiffanys made a mosquito, how wonderful we would think it was!”
—Brenda Ueland (18911985)
“... if this world were anything near what it should be there would be no more need of a Book Week than there would be a of a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.”
—Dorothy Parker (18931967)
“I am the center of the world, but the control panel seems to be somewhere else.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)