Insects Quotes

"The make-up people had to re-dye it every day to keep it pale. I mean, I am blonde really, I do not want there to be any doubt about that! It is just a bit more mousey than in the movie." -on staying consistent, top & bottom, for the nude scenes in "Angels And Insects"

I`m not much of an animal person. I`ve got two dogs but I was never really into bugs and things. Last year in school, we dissected some animals but I felt queasy. I`m not really into biology. But going out to Galapagos and playing a part where you`re interested in insects and stuff is quite fun to do because it is something different.

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.

It`s very easy to make insects move. Because they do move mechanically without the rippling of flesh as you mentioned. They move more like real tinker toys and you can make models of them quite easily.

Insects are my secret fear. That`s what terrifies me more than anything - insects.

I`ve always found insects exciting.

(Phenomena (1985)) was inspired by something I heard about insects being used to solve crimes, and because insects have always fascinated me I began to make a story around this idea. You know, it`s a terrible thing, but there are many insects that are disappearing. Becoming extinct. But most people only want to kill them. You know, insects have souls, too; they`re telepathic . . . amazing. People want to save the whales and dolphins, but nobody wants to save the insects. I`m a vegetarian, because I don`t want to kill things to eat.

While the use of pesticides has resulted in a wide range of benefits to control weeds, insects and other pests, including increased food production and reduction of insect-borne disease, their use also raises questions about possible effects on the environment, including water quality.

The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.

A refuge is supposed to prevent what? The genes from flowing out of sight? This refuge idea won`t stop insects from moving across boundaries. That`s absurd.

When we seed millions of acres of land with these plants, what happens to foraging birds, to insects, to microbes, to the other animals, when they come in contact and digest plants that are producing materials ranging from plastics to vaccines to pharmaceutical products?

Primates need good nutrition, to begin with. Not only fruits and plants, but insects as well.

Water keeps hogs cool during the summer months, and the hogs use mud to help protect their skin from insects. Hogs root to eat, and rooting in muddy areas is much easier than rooting in dry areas.

If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.