Quotes About Repellent

There was no romance about the mosquitos, however.

I'm paranoid about mosquitoes.

All of them giggled and swaggered in that happy ascendancy, repellent in any land, of teens on their turf.

Bugs have always loved me.

I love anchovies in sauces, but on their own, they're repellent: their lurid pink bodies spook me out.

There's something about the way of playing a repellent character, that if you can play him with a certain amount of charm, you can get away with a lot.

As a genre, the noir of post-World War II was based on characters who were weak or repellent, bound to let down us and themselves.

Ah, well … at last I realized that God would never ask of me that which I know to be psychologically impossible; that the love which He asked was in my will and not meant to be felt as emotion. No. Not at all. He was asking that I act with love; that I do unto others; and that I should do it unto those who repelled me, I believe, was a greater act of love than any other.

at last I realised that God would never ask of me that which I know to be psychologically impossible; that the love which He asked was in my will and not meant to be felt as emotion at all. Not at all. He was asking that I act with love; that I do unto others; and that I should do it unto those who repelled me, I believe, was a greater act of love than any other.

This is it?" I asked. "This is going to keep away an uber-powerful dream entity? It looks like a prop from The Blair Witch Project ." "It can't force her away," he said. "Nothing can. But it might make her think twice. It's more of...a repellent." "Like citronella?" He rolled his eyes. "Yes, like citronella.

In some cities, you can find smoked cigarette butts in sparrow nests, which effectively function as a parasite repellent. Butts from smoked cigarettes retain large amounts of nicotine and other toxic substances, including traces of pesticides that repel all kinds of harmful creepy crawlies—an apparently ingenious new use of materials.

entre más obviamente persigas a una persona, más probable es que la ahuyentes. Demasiada atención puede ser interesante un rato, pero pronto se vuelve empalagosa, y al final es claustrofóbica y alarmante. Indica debilidad y necesidad, una combinación poco seductora.

Mass-Observation diarist Olivia Cockett also found it repellent. "It shouldn't be allowed," she insisted. "It makes play and sport of agonies, not to help people bear them, but to pander to the basest, crudest, most-to-be-wiped-out feelings of cruel violence.

The odor of citronella is not offensive to people. It smells like gun oil. But the bugs do hate it.

The very power of evil is that it is not recognizable to us most of the time. It is not repellent at all. It does not attack, it seduces.

tea tree oil—a natural oil derived from a tree, as mosquitos hate the smell and are completing repelled. Chances are they will steer far, far away from you.

IT was the most horrible, the most repellent thing she had ever seen, far more nauseating then anything she had ever imagined with her consious mind, or that had ever tormented her in her most terrible nightmares.

The most important thing is to illicit some reaction, good or bad. If some people are repellent to me, so be it. If some people are attracted to me, great. At the end, that's the object of entertainment - you want to provoke a reaction.

It's always easy to get people to condemn threats to free speech when the speech being threatened is speech that they like. It's much more difficult to induce support for free speech rights when the speech being punished is speech they find repellent.

Why is it that animals instantly recognize the human beings who find them most repellent, and immediately focus all their attention on those poor unfortunates?

A lot of reality TV is repellent, but that doesn't diminish the qualities of some of the people who take part. There are decent people in there who have no alternatives.

Some of my acting heroes have built careers on playing characters who do horrendous things - they're repellent and lovable. They're not likable, but they're lovable. I think Christine is one of those characters.

The answer to the mystery is of course obvious but, because it is repellent to the prevailing cast of modern thinking, it is seldom considered. Egyptian civilization was not a 'development', it was a legacy.

It's worth being clear - you know, I think that the ideas that somebody like Richard Spencer endorses and that other members of the self-identified white nationalist groups endorse - those ideas really are repellent to most people.