Quotes of: Parasitic Keyword

The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Thought, like any parasite, cannot exist without a compliant host.

Bernard Beckett

There’s this anomaly that happens sometimes with twins. It occurs in the womb when the fetuses are growing too closely to each other. The stronger twin develops normally, while the weaker twin crumples and is encased by the body of the stronger twi...

Sever

...on opening the incubator I experienced one of those rare moments of intense emotion which reward the research worker for all his pains: at first glance I saw that the broth culture, which the night before had been very turbid was perfectly clear: ...

Félix d'Herelle

Abuse is a parasite that feeds off hate and shame, growing in size and strength with silence.

Accuse

Yet the evil still increased, and, like the parasite of barnacles on a ship, if it did not destroy the structure, it obstructed its fair, comfortable progress in the path of life.

William Banting

We need to take a leaf out of nature's book. Any species that clones itself will eventually be attacked by a parasite, leading to an inevitable population crash.

Daniel Suarez

Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.

William S. Burroughs

There’s nothing cruel about a vampire or a parasite, she said.

All Those Vanished Engines

I don't want to write about real things, I would rather write about an uncontrollable parasitic twin.

Mary Sage Nguyen

I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.

Charles Darwin

The malaria parasite has been killing children and sapping the strength of whole populations for tens of thousands of years. It is impossible to calculate the harm malaria has done to the world.

Bill Gates

When I’d confronted him, he’d left me and, like a parasite finding a fresh host, moved in with her.

Arabelle's Shadows

The Arum are nothing more than what a human would call a parasite. They are not worth the filthy floor you lie upon.

Obsession

The biggest problems were to do with... well, to get that successful when you're so young, it attracts hangers-on, parasites, people who want to feed off you.

Mike Oldfield

I wouldn't describe that 'position' as 'parasitic.' I'd describe that experience as 'edifying.' I don't merely write from a critical intellectual distance. I actually live around here.

Bruce Sterling

I'll bet you a six-pack of Coors that pretty soon, people will be discovering Cretaceous parasites inside Cretaceous bones. The possibility of looking into epidemiology and pathology is pretty cool.

Robert T. Bakker

For the first time, we have the genetic sequences of all three of the players in the global malaria debacle: the parasite, the anopheles mosquito and the human. It's a very important milestone.

Anthony Fauci

It is not really our country so much is the problem, it's sort of the parasitic relationship that Canada, and France, and other countries have towards us.

Bob Corker

Shy and proud men are more liable than any others to fall into the hands of parasites and creatures of low character. For in the intimacies which are formed by shy men, they do not choose, but are chosen.

Henry Taylor

We are seeds as well as parasites to the earth. We can either give or take, depending on our perception of growth.

Zephyr McIntyre