Quotes About Scorpion
Like a child at bedtime who insists she's not tired, Celia's provocation was all unproductive, almost self-negating. Sometimes I thought this was just her scorpion nature, but other times it seemed to me that she had settled on this pose purposefully, out of some dimly perceived, horribly misplaced idea that the job of an artist was to hide her light under the darkest bushel possible and wait for a dedicated acolyte to be drawn to it like a clairvoyant moth.
~ Rachel Pastan
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Poverty is a scorpion; it stings the poor and it also stings the men with high conscience who feel sad about the poverty; the rest is immune to it!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
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His conscience, like a sunburnt scorpion, was stinging itself to death.
~ Edward St. Aubyn
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My name is Zia Rashid." She tilted her head as if listening. Right on cue, the entire building rumbled. Dust sprinkled from the ceiling, and the slithering sounds of scorpion doubled in volume behind us. "And right now," Zia continued, sounding a bit disappointed, "I must save your miserable lives.
~ Rick Riordan
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Mark my words, nothing smells worse than burned scorpion.
~ Rick Riordan
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Surrounded by the flames of jealousy, the jealous one winds up, like the scorpion, turning the poisoned sting against himself.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
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I'd be a fool to trust him completely. He was who he was, after all. A scorpion with a treacherous nature." Excerpt From: The Sinner
~ Amanda Stevens
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He's dangerous, he's beautiful, and he loves the heat, like me - that's why I had a scorpion tattooed on my leg in 1999 after my fifth jersey.
~ Richard Virenque
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In the famous temple sculptures of Khajuraho, one finds beautiful women disrobing themselves on the excuse that a scorpion is climbing up their thighs.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
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It is the scorpion's nature to sting. Just because he has no opportunity doesn't mean that he cannot.
~ Libba Bray
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Your fragile mind can't have forgotten the terrifying technothriller series known 'Scorpion'. Because it features the worst hacking scenes ever broadcast in any medium.
~ Annalee Newitz
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But one thinks, also, of the parable of the scorpion and the frog. The scorpion acts according to its nature even when it is suicidal to do so. Additionally, or by way of confirmation, he is of brazen character, this fellow.
~ Salman Rushdie
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Back then, these journeys all seemed as random as the stars in the sky; only now can he see the zodiac turning above his life. Here, rising, comes the Scorpion.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
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It was July. Crazy hot and dry. It hadn't rained in, like, sixty days. Drought hot. Scorpion hot. Vultures flying circles in the sky hot.
~ Sherman Alexie
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Projecting planning as coincidence requires great skills or a scorpion!
~ Ashima
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The place of poison in a snake is the tooth, in a fly the head, in a scorpion the tail but the wicked has poison in his entire body.
~ B.K. Chaturvedi
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Actors get to go to these amazing worlds. In 'Terminator,' I was a cyborg with feelings; in 'Avatar,' I lived for 15 months on a fantastical planet, and in 'Clash of the Titans,' I get to fight a scorpion the size of a dump truck. It's a bizarre job, but you explore yourself.
~ Sam Worthington
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Any nod on serious hallucinogens can become sagelike, and suddenly the group resembles some Bedouin tribe weary with ancient desert wisdom looking down on the scorpion-stung interloper whose tongue is slowly swelling his throat shut.
~ Mary Karr
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What color was the scorpion? I remembered the question Henenu had asked me years ago. The answer was vital: brown scorpions didn't have the power to kill humans, but white ones did. 'Brown.' He summoned up a wobbly smile. 'Not very big, either. I shouldn't be carrying on like this. You'll think I'm a child.' 'Not many children know the kind of words you were using,' I replied dryly.
~ Esther Friesner
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I think making a pretense of civility toward Eric Alterman is like making a pretense of civility to a scorpion.
~ John Podhoretz
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Gelmek istemiyor gece.. Ne sen gelebiliyorsun o yüzden Ne de ben gidebiliyorum. Ama ben gideceÄŸim. Akrepten bir güneÅŸ ÅŸaka??m? yese de... Ama sen geleceksin. Dilin tuzlu yaÄŸmurlarca yak?lm?? olsa da...
~ Federico Garcia Lorca
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The waves wash in, warm and salty, leaving your eyebrows white and the edge of your cheekbone. Your ear aches. You are lonely. On the underside of a satin leaf, hot with shade, a scorpion sleeps. And one Sunday I will be shot brushing my teeth. I am a native of this island.
~ Frank O'Hara
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I always go to yoga - I do core fusion and Vinyasa. My favorite poses are variations on the handstand and the scorpion. You have to use your whole body, it's physically and mentally challenging.
~ Jamie Anderson
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It was said that [Vetinari] would tolerate absolutely anything apart from anything that threatened the city*... [Footnote] And mime artists. It was a strange aversion, but there you are. Anyone in baggy trousers and a white face who tried to ply their art anywhere within Ankh's crumbling walls would very quickly find themselves in a a scorpion pit, on one wall of which was painted the advice: Learn The Words.
~ Terry Pratchett
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