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Quotes About Infested

Nervous? Why, Lieutenant Boyle, whatever for? We're just about to leave on a six-hundred-mile trip through enemy infested waters, with a big, fat low-pressure system just sitting over us, dumping buckets of rain and churning up waves taller that houses, in order to land you alone in Nazi-occupied Norway, just south of the Arctic Circle, and leave you there. Why should you be nervous?
~ James R Benn
The King was one of the first to bring up the question. 'He hopes,' wrote his private secretary Sir Arthur Bigge, on 5 January 1911 'that these outrages by foreigners will lead you to consider whether the Aliens Act could not be amended so as to prevent London from being infested with men and women whose presence would not be tolerated in any other country.
~ Randolph S. Churchill
The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power.
~ Ted Nugent
Everybody was circling around Robert, trying to get to the door while avoiding the infested, oozing mess and-holy shit is this song bad. It was like the singer was stabbing my ear with a dagger made of dried turds.
~ David Wong
Swear toads infested every damp patch, cursing like sailors.
~ Eoin Colfer
Only an island as lackadaisical as this would allow itself to be infested by such troupes of casual and impertinent goats.
~ Louis de Bernieres
I hate rodents. I mean, the House of Commons is completely infested. I will stand on a chair if I see one of the things.
~ Liz Truss
Williamson, writing in 1810, tells us that the passes were so infested with tigers that the roads were almost impassible. 'Day after day, for nearly a fortnight, some of the dak people were carried off at one or other of these passes.' In
~ Ruskin Bond
You've infested the whole ship with your medieval madness." Dust smiled. "Not mine. Conn's. The Captain's word is Law.
~ Elizabeth Bear
It's an obscenity, the final degradation, that you have been infested by the spoor of such fragile parasites.
~ Elizabeth Bear
This town is infested with squirrels, have you noticed?" "I'd rather say it's rich with squirrels.
~ Elizabeth Mckenzie
Was there no limit to the suffering of human beings? The world was infested with these enclaves of savagery that awaited him in Putumayo. How many? Hundreds, thousands, millions? Could the hydra be defeated? Its head was cut off in one place and reappeared in another, bloodier and more horrifying.
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
Los Zapatos, which means the shoes ... was a small village not far from the ocean. It was fairly free of tourists. There was no good road, no ocean view ... and no historical points of interest. Also, the local cantina was infested with cockroaches and the only whore was a fifty-year-old grandmother.
~ Stephen King
If you lower your head to within a foot or two of an infested corpse (and this I truly don't recommend), you can hear them feeding. Arpad pinpoints the sound: "Rice Krispies." Ron frowns. Ron used to like Rice Krispies.
~ Mary Roach
They live like rice, too, pressed together: a moist, solid entity. If you lower your head to within a foot or two of an infested corpse (and this I truly don't recommend), you can hear them feeding. Arpad pinpoints the sound: "Rice Krispies." Ron frowns. Ron used to like Rice Krispies.
~ Mary Roach
She's never know because now the store was infested with cheerleaders.
~ Susan Wiggs
A Terrestrial Paradise, an Amazon Island, abounding in gold and certainly 'infested with many griffins.
~ Carey McWilliams
You always hear a headline like this, 'Man Killed By Shark', you never hear it from the other perspective, 'Man Swims in Shark Infested Waters, Forgets He's Shark Food'.
~ Gary Larson
Excuses are merely the cherry topping of an E.coli-infested sundae.
~ Gena Showalter
Belgium always seems to get invaded, fall prey to meteorites or get infested by alien fungus or something . . .
~ Genevieve Cogman
But mankind is a dead tree, covered with fine brilliant galls of people.[..]And if it is so, why is it? she asked, hostile.They were rousing each other to a fine passion of opposition. Why, why are people all balls of bitter dust?Because they won't fall off the tree when they're ripe.They hang on to their old positions when the position is over-past, till they become infested with little worms and dry-rot.
~ D.H. Lawrence
There is the medical definition of the word "lousy," meaning "infested with lice," and this definition of "lousy" has not appeared in my work at all, although as Count Olaf's hygiene gets worse and worse I may find occasion to use it.
~ Lemony Snicket
What is unusual about Earth is that language, literally, has become alive. It has infested matter. It is replicating and defining and building itself. And it is in us.
~ Terence McKenna
A culture cannot lie down with dogs and not become utterly infested with fleas. The dogs, in this case, are the mongrel media and the corporate overlords who have grown fat on manufactured controversy and fear mongering.
~ Steven Weber