Cockroaches Quotes

There are three things in this world that will survive a nuclear explosion: Twinkies, cockroaches and Dean Ambroses.

I used to hit the kitchen lights, cockroaches everywhere. Hit the kitchen lights, now it's marble floors everywhere.

Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.

I'm horrified of lobsters. And shrimp and lobsters are the cockroaches of the ocean.

Man wants to see nature and evolution as separate from human activities. There is a natural world, and there is man. But man also belongs to the natural world. If he is a ferocious predator, that too is part of evolution. If cod and haddock and other species cannot survive because man kills them, something more adaptable will take their place. Nature, the ultimate pragmatist, doggedly searches for something that works. But as the cockroach demonstrates, what works best in nature does not always appeal to us.

The psychologist, Paul Rozin, an expert on disgust, observed that a single cockroach will completely wreck the appeal of a bowl of cherries, but a cherry will do nothing at all for a bowl of cockroaches.

As every cockroach knows, thriving on poisons is the secret of success.

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

It began as this desire to do this science fiction movie about perhaps one of the last insects left that nobody's done anything on, which is the cockroach - and truly one of the most frightening insects.

Sometimes you just can't get rid of a bomb!

Can you see the beauty in a cockroach?

A cockroach can’t defeat a dinosaur. But the cockroach is better at one thing, and it has ensured its survival through the ages: Adaptation. One could adapt to the environment and the other one couldn’t.

The Alien is gross, scary. There is something in a human being that looks at them and sees it as a cockroach. You can never feel nurturing towards the cockroach.

personally my ambition is to get my time as a cockroach shortened for good behavior and be promoted to a revenue officer it is not much of a step up but i am humble

Elephants have a hard time adapting. Cockroaches outlive everything.

Art has been hijacked by nonartists. It's been taken over by bookkeeping. The whole thing is so corrupt. But I suppose that's okay. For artists, everything is grist for the mill. Artists are like cockroaches; we can't be stamped out.

There is seldom just one cockroach in the kitchen. You know, you turn on the light and, all of sudden, they all start scurrying around.

I jump out of planes, I could be covered in cockroaches, I do all sorts of things, but I just don't like the feel of butterflies' bodies.

You cannot disgrace a disgraceful man; you cannot make a shameless man feel ashamed; you cannot make a cockroach a cockroach, because it is already a cockroach!

Cancer is like a cockroach. It just comes back stronger. I'm tearing apart the immune system of the cockroach and seeing how it ticks. I've opened up my own pathology center.

I am a survivor. I am like a cockroach, you just can't get rid of me.

I've found that wherever there is one cockroach in plain sight, many more are lurking behind the corner out of view.

Problems in a company are like cockroaches in the kitchen. You will never find just one

You foul, lying, evil little cockroach!

Artists are like cockroaches; everything is grist for the mill.