Quotes of: Parasitic Keyword

Bilbo Baggins: [Bilbo interrupts as he's about to eat Gloin] Uh... not... not that one, he... he's infected! William Troll: You what? Bilbo Baggins: Yeah he's got worms in his... tubes. Tom Troll: Ooh! [Tom throws down Gloin in disgust] Bilbo Baggins...

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Oin: Ive got parasites as big as my arm. Kili: Mine are the biggest parasites. I've got huge parasites.

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

A parasite cannot live alone.

Namibian

Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

Harry S Truman

People who dismiss the unemployed and dependent as ‘parasites’ fail to understand economics and parasitism. A successful parasite is one that is not recognized by its host, one that can make its host work for it without appearing as a burden. Suc...

Jason Read

From Lankaster to Lorenz, scientists have gotten it wrong. Parasites are complex, highly adapted creatures that are at the heart of the story of life. If there hadn't been such high walls dividing scientists who study life - the zoologists, the immun...

Parasite Rex: Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures

Without pride, man becomes a parasite – and there are already too many parasites.

From the Horse’s Mouth

Ugarte: Rick, think of all the poor devils who can't meet Renault's price. I get it for them for half. Is that so... parasitic? Rick: I don't mind a parasite. I object to a cut-rate one.

Casablanca

But if they're so successful, why haven't parasites taken over the world? The answer is simple: they have. We just haven't noticed. That's because successful parasites don't kill us; they become part of us, making us perform all the work to keep them...

Daemon

To say ‘I love you’ one must first know how to say the ‘I.’ The meaning of the ‘I’ is an independent, self-sufficient entity that does not exist for the sake of any other person. A person who exists only for the sake of his loved one is n...

Ayn Rand

Henryk Szpilman: What's the matter with you all, huh? You lost your sense of humor? Wladyslaw Szpilman: That's not funny. Henryk Szpilman: Well, you know what's funny? You're funny, with that ridiculous tie. Wladyslaw Szpilman: [getting angry] What'r...

The Pianist

We humans are the greatest of earth's parasites.

Martin H. Fischer

Noise is a parasite. Anything noisy is poorly designed.

Raymond Loewy

There are more than 200,000 people in Maputo who are nothing more than parasites.

Samora Machel

We kind of have an ingrained, parasitic society. We kind of think it's okay to eat your neighbor.

Mark Pellegrino

Inevitably, malaria parasites developed resistance to commonly used drugs, and mosquito vectors became insecticide-resistant.

Anthony Fauci

Pregnancy is not a disease. The child in the womb is neither a tumor nor a parasite to be destroyed.

Chris Smith

Oin: I've got parasites the size of me arm!

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Government! Three fourths parasitic and the other fourth Stupid fumbling.

Stranger in a Strange Land

Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites; for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior.

William Shenstone

The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.

J. B. Priestley