Quotes About Pest

You don't want to be outside during blackfly season.

The Central Indian Trifakirs, though something of a pest, were quite harmless. They always appeared in threes, of course, and made a practice of handing out muddle-headed philosophical tracts.

A few Cobras in your home will soon clear it of Rats and Mice. Of course, you will still have the Cobras.

We must not forget that chemical warfare will sooner or later bring in its wake bacteriological warfare, pest propagation, typhus and other serious diseases.

You kill a cockroach, Pete. You don't domesticate him.

Oh, how I vainly wished to the bearded man in the sky that I was Neapolitan. Why? So I could bring in a fine Neapolitan pest control to help with Queensberry's problem before it gets out of hand.

mousetrap n. rodent elimination device

Memory (...) should be treated like a pest; while old solutions retained in memory provide stability and some degree of predictability in an uncertain world, that stability - often called tradition or the way things have always been - can also stifle flexibility. The world remains uncertain no matter what we do to protect ourselves from it; we must always be prepared to leap outside of retained solutions to new enactments.

I'm not afraid of cockroaches.

Rat. A curse, an insult, a word totally without light.

Don't knock the power of a pest," Leif said. "Persistance and stubborness can be useful in many situations.

If you must get rid of a roach, use mechanical control.

I am the only pest in this room!

PIGEON DROPPINGS

In New York, the European starling—now a ubiquitous avian pest from Alaska to Mexico—was introduced because someone thought the city would be more cultured if Central Park were home to each bird mentioned in Shakespeare.

Do the Sanguinati have trouble with mosquitoes?" "You mean, do the big bloodsuckers get pestered by the little bloodsuckers?" Judging by my attorney's laughter, if I failed to turn The Jumble into a viable business, I could always get a job as a stand-up comedian in a vampire bar.

New molecular methods that add or modify genes can protect plants from diseases and pests and improve crops in ways that are both more environmentally benign and beyond the capability of older methods.

It is astonishing how much worse one mosquito can be than a swarm. A swarm can be prepared against, but one mosquito takes on a personality—a hatefulness, a sinister quality of the struggle to the death.

If Washington expected relief from Hamilton badgering him for an appointment, he soon learned otherwise. Hamilton was fully prepared to become a pest.

Every town has someone who is a royal pain in the ass.

Golly, he's just a pest and your worst best friend, Who mend and rip space-time fabric like polyester blend.

People have no tolerance. They think all bugs are bad. It's the American way. If you don't like something, kill it.

For the genuine materialist there is no fundamental, but only a gradual, an "evolutionary" difference, between man and a pest, a noxious insect

Recently, I have come to assume that any call to my landline is from a telemarketer or an automated call from Terminex, letting me know that our regularly scheduled pest-extermination service will occur on its regular schedule. So I usually ignore my home phone.