Quotes of: Cockroach Keyword

Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.

Herb Caen

I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of horses.

Norman Mailer

Wasn’t allowed to have pets. I killed my pet cockroach when it crawled into my ear.

Snatched

Lies are like cockroaches, for every one you discover there are many more that are hidden.

Gary Hopkins

Jim Garrison: About as subtle as a cockroach crawlin' across a white rug!

JFK

Hermione: You! You foul loathsome evil little cockroach!

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

If the cockroaches survive and we don't, what does that say about human intelligence?

Marty Rubin

Barbossa: Strike your colors, ya bloomin' cockroaches.

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

I'm convinced my cockroaches have military training, I set off a roach bomb - they diffused it.

Jay London

Frankie Taglialucci: This guy a friend of yours? Carlito: Yeah, he's a friend of mine. Frankie Taglialucci: He's a fucking cockroach.

Carlito's Way

You don't scare a man who sees people as cockroaches.

Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza

The only thing that matters in the end is your own survival. It's what humans and cockroaches are best at.

World After

Palms are like cockroaches. They were here long before us, and they'll be here long after us. They're the only things standing after a hurricane.

Robert Irwin

What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises.

Russell Baker

Long after the bomb falls and you and your good deeds are gone, cockroaches will still be here, prowling the streets like armored cars.

Tama Janowitz

A cockroach likely has no less brainpower than a butterfly, but we're quicker to deny it consciousness because it's a species we dislike.

Jeffrey Kluger

Frankie: [referring to Dave] This guy a friend of yours? Carlito: Yeah, he's a friend of mine. Frankie: He's a FUCKING cockroach.

Carlito's Way

Fat Charlie had had no real liking for the police, but until now, he had still managed to cling to a fundamental trust in the natural order of things, a conviction that there was some kind of power--a Victorian might have thought of it as Providence-...

Anansi Boys

All of us have secrets in our lives. We’re keepers or keptfrom, players or played. Secrets and cockroaches — that’s what will be left at the end of it all.

The Dream Thieves

Even in dying, a Thennanin ship was reputed to be not worth putting out of its misery. In battle they were slow, unmaneuverable—and as hard to disable permanently as a cockroach.

Startide Rising

L. Ron Bumquist: A dope fiend refers to the reefer butt as a roach, because, it resembles a cockroach.

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas