Edward Burnett Tylor Quotes

You don't hate the mosquito; you just want it out of your face.

To me, there is nothing more soothing than the song of a mosquito that can't get through the mesh to bite you.

My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant.

Anyone who thinks that they are too small to make a difference has never tried to fall asleep with a mosquito in the room.

Once a guy stood all day shaking bugs from his hair.

One thing worse than self-hatred is chiggers.

I hate bugs.

I wish that person outside would stop coughing.

A horsefly can't do a horse much real damage, but it can drive it wild anyhow.

Hey! Leave the door open will ya? The flies haven't been out all day.

The flea, though he kill none, he does all the harm he can.

Don't put a lump of rock under my elbow again!

They're a damn nuisance - I've got one in my bathroom and every time I run my bath the steam sets it off.

Did he annoy me? Yes, he was like a wasp at a picnic.

It was scary how much she sounded like me sometimes. Maybe that's why she totally got on my nerves

Feels like a midget is hanging from my necklace

A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience.

Critics are like horse-flies which hinder the horses in their plowing of the soil. The horse works, all its muscles drawn tight like the strings on a double-bass, and a fly settles on his flanks and tickles and buzzes. And what does the fly buzz about? It scarcely knows itself; simply because it is restless and wants to proclaim: 'Look, I too am living on the earth. See, I can buzz, too, buzz about anything.'

The man irritated her just like a rash.

Of all bores, the worst is the sparkling bore.

I don't know if there is actually more rain here in England, or if it was just that the rain seemed to be so deliberately annoying. Every drop hit the window with a peevish "Am I bothering you? Does this make you cold and wet? Oh, sorry.

A scab'd horse cannot abide the comb.

You know, almost everyone is an irritant to me. I think people have forgotten what the word 'public' means. 'Public' means you're going to be irritated. It's a natural consequence of leaving one's home. You go outside, and there are people who are irritating. I'll be standing on the sidewalk, and someone berates me for smoking. I look at the person and think, but what about your shoes? How can you wear shoes like that and have the confidence to accost someone like me?

I need noise and interruptions and irritation: irritation and discomfort are a great starter. The loneliness of doing it any other way would kill me.

Oh, lighten up, Clark. I'm the one having scalding hot air directed at my genitals.