I like to play kind of the girls-that-eat-worms kind of character.
Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.
The message is not so much that the worms will inherit the Earth, but that all things play a role in nature, even the lowly worm.
Great collections of books are subject to certain accidents besides the damp, the worms, and the rats; one not less common is that of the borrowers, not to say a word of the purloiners
In the test tube, I can make any DNA I want, recombining it from monkeys, worms, anywhere. So I can explore new rules of breeding with molecules.
Corporations are may lesser commonwealths in the bowels of a greater, like worms in the entrails of a natural man.
Let me be dressed as I will, yet flies worms and flowers exceed me still.
In prayer we call ourselves 'worms of the dust', but it is only on a sort of tacit understanding that the remark shall not be taken at par.
BODY-SNATCHER, n. A robber of grave-worms. One who supplies the young physicians with that with which the old physicians have supplied the undertaker.
Deception, machination and mendacity lie at the core of human intelligence, like worms coiled at the core of a apple
Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.
Here and there are worms, evidence of the fertility of the soil, caught by the sun, half dead; flexible and pink, like lips.
It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms.
The process of unleashing worms on organic waste such as food scraps and grass clippings is known as 'vermicomposting.' Amateur horticulturists and hippies have been doing it on a small scale for decades.
Sir, you have tasted two whole worms; you have hissed all my mystery lectures and been caught fighting a liar in the quad; you will leave by the next town drain.
When an office begins to look like a family tree, you'll find worms tucked away snug and cheerful in most of the apples.
It is an apple full of worms compared to an apple that's fresh and delicious.
Light, Life and Love are like three glow-worms at thy feet: the whole universe of stars, the dewdrops on the grass whereon thou walkest!
Such a structure would also raise a number of problems: first of all, which Timorese to pay compensation to? It would open a can of worms in terms of who was really a victim and who was not.
I must say one thing about southern down-home brewed coffee with chicory. If you have worms, you'll never have them again.
I try and eat really healthy when I'm home, but I certainly don't eat worms and snakes.
I cannot but think that he who finds a certain proportion of pain and evil inseparably woven up in the life of the very worms, will bear his own share with more courage and submission.
When I'm out and people ask me what I do for a living, the worst thing you can say is, 'I'm a singer.' It opens up a can of worms.
What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one is food for worms.
I mean what good does it do anyone to kill themselves working, because the worms will get you in the end.
But the words she spoke of Mrs Harris, lambs could not forgive ... nor worms forget.
I am both a night owl and an early bird. So I am wise and I have worms.
Nature is a perfect example of the harmony between the beautiful and the brutal. You turn over a pretty rock and there are worms writhing underneath.
Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright, But looked to near, have neither heat nor light.
From a common-sense standpoint, you're probably on the right road. The problem is, you're opening a can of worms you might not be able to shut. That might cause more problems than it solves.
...most of the press were vultures descending on the scene for curious America aplomb. Cameras inside the coffin interviewing worms.
From as young as I can remember, I always wanted to be a singer... My mum taught me 'Going Down the Garden to Eat Worms' for a competition when I was about 4.
All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told: Many a man his life hath sold But my outside to behold: Gilded tombs do worms enfold.
Wars, invented and organized by the highest available consciousnesses (do the worms go to war? do the fish? do the paramecia?), are the planet's chief source and cause of torment.
Our rages, daughters of despair, creep and squirm like worms. Prayer is the only form of revolt which remains upright.
But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms.
I think bears and worms aren't very similar... until you think of gummy.
He smiles a lot. But I think there might be worms inside him making him smile.
I believe that time destroys everything. You can take one beautiful apple, red. After a while, it becomes shrivelled and full of worms, just like what happens to us.
Whenever your preparations for the sea are poor; the sea worms its way in and finds the problems.
The tulip and the butterfly
Appear in gayer coats than I:
Let me be dressed fine as I will,
Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still.
The truth is, we [women] live like bats, or owls, labor like beasts, and die like worms.
We’re beings toward death, we’re … two-legged, linguistically-conscious creatures born between urine and feces whose body will one day be the culinary delight of terrestrial worms.
As children, we dug for worms or we used crawdads for bait. We caught catfish, or crappies, a delicous fish.
Worms have played a more important part in the history of the world than humans would at first suppose.
I am explicitly not opening the giant can of worms that is the ongoing current discussion of patent, copyright, and trademark reform.
Frogs will eat red-flannel worms fed to them by biologists; this proves a great deal about both parties concerned.
Beware of too much good staying in your hand. It will fast corrupt and worm worms. Pay it away quickly in some sort.
Pedestrian's rights - because we live in California, I've got to address this issue. I don't know where on the fence I am about that. I suppose if I'm walking, I'm all for it, but if I'm driving, that's a whole other can of worms.
We see that there are two worms that eat the fabric of the Church, weakening Her. Rivalry and vainglory go against this harmony, this agreement.
I believe that time destroys everything. You can take one beautiful apple, red. After a while, it becomes shrivelled and full of worms, just like what happens to us
They had to call and call And pick the worms off me like sticky pearls.
I don't say that bodies like flint, which are commonly called inanimate, have perceptions and appetition; rather they have something of that sort in them, as worms are in cheese.
Like Marxism, Thatcherism is, in fact, riddled with contradictions. Mrs. Thatcher, on the other hand, is free of doubt; she is the label on the can of worms.
Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, of straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.
I'm not a big fan of spiders and snakes and worms and stuff like that, but they don't really creep me out.
Do ye not comprehend that we are worms born to bring forth the angelic butterfly that flieth unto judgment without screen?
As companies move to web-based computing they get a lot more servers, which are difficult to manage and control. All kinds of problems can arise - security, quality and worms.
I'm sure I've been a toad, one time or another. With bats, weasels, worms...I rejoice in the kinship. Even the caterpillar I can love, and the various vermin.
No matter where; of comfort no man speak: Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth
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