Karl Pilkington Quotes

Ants in the house seem to be, not intruders, but the owners.

Do ants get headaches?

Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect will not walk with his head hindmost, when what you need to know is the play of inward stimulus that sends him hither and thither in a network of possible paths?

I don't only write about English literature; I also write about chaos theory and... ants. I can understand ants.

When you see a fly flitting around your hair or your potato salad, you might see an annoyance. But in my lab, you really see a marvelous machine: arguably the most sophisticated flying device on the planet.

For many years in my laboratory and other laboratories around the world, we've been studying fly behaviors in little flight simulators. You can tether a fly to a little stick. You can measure the aerodynamic forces it's creating. You can let the fly play a little video game by letting it fly around in a visual display.

Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.

From each according to his faculties; to each according to his needs.

Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.

From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

Ants are a curious race

I kinda always wanted to be an ant.

I don't hire anybody not brighter than I am. If they're not brighter than I am, I don't need them.

We're all ants. I'm a glittery little ant.

I got an ant farm; them fellas didn't grow sh*t.

For example, the tiny ant, a creature of great industry, drags with its mouth whatever it can, and adds it to the heap which she is piling up, not unaware nor careless of the future.

Oh, ants, my sisters, good old honeydew-seekers! From close up you are sticky and shiny and gristly; and your nymphs have parasitic red mites stuck to them. You are too intent upon your chewing and gathering to listen to me, but I tell you that despite my warm feelings I really do not like you, and I cannot feel sorry for you in any way because there are too many of you and you are not cute at all. You eat too much of my forests; you are a rebellious tribe, and I will destroy you; I will poison your nests with sweet-smelling traps.

I keep my feet on the ground, keep dedicated, keep focused, underestimate nobody and obviously you need the ability, talent and everything else that goes with it.

I just really like ants, and I really like science. I was interested and curious about the quantum world and the physics behind how it all works.

Not all ants use violence to dominate their world, some use more subtle methods.

Disability need not be an obstacle to success.

Destroying something, any idiot can do. Creating needs intelligence.

No living being is held by anything so strongly as its own needs.

I wonder what ants do on rainy days?

The leftist is anti-individualistic... He is not the sort of person who has an inner sense of confidence in his own ability to solve his own problems and satisfy his own needs.