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Quotes About Scorpions

Scorpions like holes. We had to put our arms in the holes to dig out the smelting residues. We always performed critter checks before an excavation, but one morning, I put an arm in and felt a sharp pierce. When I brought my hand out, it was red and already swelling.
~ Sarah Parcak
O that I were a man, or that I had powerTo execute my apprehended wishes!I would whip some with scorpions.
~ John Webster, The White Devil
The mind of guilt is full of scorpions.
~ William Shakespeare
Inui's insane laughter filled the sanctuary. The ceiling peeled off and shards of stained glass danced through the air. They turned into dead rats, German dictionaries, wineglasses, fountain pens, scorpions, cats' heads, syringes, and a motley jumble of other objects that filled the space, flying around madly, swirling like a whirlwind, surging like a raging sea.
~ Yasutaka Tsutsui
Jerusalem is a golden bowl full of scorpions.
~ Laurie R. King
I always shot scorpions with the .22 pistol.
~ Ernest Hemingway
By contrast, no one in Alphinland ever demanded a blowjob. But then, no one in Alphinland had a toilet either. Toilets weren't necessary. Why waste time on that kind of routine bodily function when there were giant scorpions invading the castle?
~ Margaret Atwood
He flipped the channel to another view of the scorpions swarming over a road downtown toward people who were screaming and running to get away from them.' "Welcome to the apocalypse. Ain't she pretty?" – Sundown
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
I have snakes, three sharks, moray eels, piranhas, five scorpions and a bird spider. All of them are predators. They are dangerous but it's cool to have strong and powerful pets.
~ Tracy Morgan
You scorpions do more to keep law and order in the city than anyone else. Only the good and the pure in heart dare go out on the street after dark.
~ Samuel R. Delany
Where most people looked forward to the weekend to go out and yie one on, my idea of a good time was to figure out a Scorpions song
~ Warren DeMartini
O that I were a man, or that I had power To execute my apprehended wishes! I would whip some with scorpions.
~ John Webster
The Grasshopper mouse is carnivorous, immune to venom, eats scorpions, and howls like a wolf to claim its territory
~ Scott Matthews
From the world of darkness I did loose demons and devils in the power of scorpions to torment.
~ Charles Manson
Albert Ken-rich Fisher's 1900 "Summary of the Contents of 255 Stomachs of the Screech Owl" made me feel tired and sad, though also vaguely festive, owing to the author's "Twelve Days of Christmas"–style presentation: "91 stomachs contained mice … 100 stomachs contained insects … 9 stomachs contained crawfish … 2 stomachs contained scorpions …" Droppings provided a kinder, less taxing alternative.
~ Mary Roach
Yes, ma'am, I like raspberry cake, only I like it better with no poison or scorpions in it.
~ Frances Hardinge
I've tried, in 'Bloodmoney,' to tell a story that gets at the crazy relationship between the ISI and the CIA, these absolutely fascinating, often mutually destructive two scorpions in a bottle kind of relationship that they have.
~ David Ignatius
People from Durango are called alacranes — scorpions — because there are so many of the scurrying around.
~ Nancy Farmer
The second-most abundant biopolymer on the planet is called chitin, and some 100 million tons of it are produced every year by organisms such as shrimps, crabs, scorpions, and butterflies. We thought if we could tune its properties, we could generate structures that are multifunctional out of a single part.
~ Neri Oxman
We have a saying in my culture. Dios no le diá, alas a los alacranes: God did not give wings to scorpions. No. They seem a little scary at first, but look how small they are, how bitter and ugly. They just have to crawl around in everybody else's mierda, waiting for the chance to sting someone. Pobrecita... don't it just suck to be a bottom feeder? Don't it just?
~ Kim Green
Dorne has danced with dragons before," he said. "I would sooner sleep with scorpions.
~ George R.R. Martin
From the world of darkness I did loose demons and devils in the power of scorpions to torment.
~ Charles Manson
I used to have 30 different species of tarantulas, as well as two Australian scorpions that are considered the deadliest in the world. If stung by one, a person would die in 30 minutes. But when I had kids I had to get rid of them, of course. Those were intense!
~ Jonathan Davis
And the king answered them roughly; and king Rehoboam forsook the counsel of the old men, And answered them after the advice of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add thereto: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
~ Bible