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I brought the Beetle to life with a roar. Well. Not really a roar. A Volkswagen Bug doesn't roar. But it sort of growled... -- Jim Butcher
If I had a Volkswagon Beetle. I'd paint the front to resemble Glenn Langdon in War Of The Colossal Beast. Why? Two words: The Ladies. -- Dana Gould
I took Beetle home thinking that after the Korean War was over, I would have to take him out of the Army. I thought, well, what am I going to do with him? -- Mort Walker
When the war was over and the guys were back to shaving every day, the editor thought the Beetle Bailey strips were hurting their disciplinary efforts to get the guys back to routine. -- Mort Walker
In its heyday, the car was an expression of technical flair and design genius: the original Mini, the Beetle, the 2CV, and the Fiat 500 were all, in their various ways, inspired incarnations of functionality. -- Martin Jacques
I slammed the doors open a little harder than I needed to, stalked out to the Blue Beetle, and drove away with all the raging power the ancient four-cylinder engine should muster. Behold the angry wizard puttputt-putting away. -- Jim Butcher
Better watch out said a second voice from somewhere under the Beetle. Don't park those two kraut cars too close together; it's springtime, and they might decide to mate. then Charlie'll be stuck with a garage full of little orange safety cones -- Mercedes Lackey
The Cinquecento was an engine of motivation at Fiat. It refurbished the image of the entire company. It's a symbol for the company, but it's more than that. It's a global Italian symbol, as Mini is a global British symbol and the Beetle is a global German symbol. -- Lapo Elkann
For Tim Burton's birthday I gave him a rainbow beetle. He loved it! -- Eva Green
I invent words you think you've heard - spray hopper or swag beetle. -- Jim Crace
Worm or beetle - drought or tempest - on a farmer's land may fall, Each is loaded full o' ruin, but a mortgage beats 'em all. -- Will Carleton
I had a great time investigating the pigments of different mutant fruit flies by following experimental protocols published in Scientific American, and I also remember making my own beetle collection when it was still acceptable to make such collections. -- Paul Nurse
In the sago palms, you'll often find sago beetles which are about the size of your little finger. The Karowai put those on the fire until they're crispy and eat them. They taste a little bit like creamy snails. But compared to sago, the sago beetle is really pretty good. -- Tim Cahill
When I was ten years old, I saw a big, fat beetle get squished. I don't recall the circumstances, but that's not important. It's the result that stuck with me. The beetle's thick, viscous insides so closely resembled a crushed blueberry that, to this day, I can't eat raw blueberries without feeling nauseous. -- Jeremy Robinson
Maybe the bar is low, but most of the strips that are 50, 60, 70 years old that are on their second or third generation of artists, the humor is pretty bland. There are others by people that were raised on 'Family Guy' or 'South Park' that are edgier. Mine's not as edgy as those, but it's edgier than 'Beetle Bailey.' -- Stephan Pastis
I found a little beetle, so that beetle was his name -- A. A. Milne
Our faculties are more fitted to recognize the wonderful structure of a beetle than a Universe. -- Charles Darwin
O'er folded blooms On swirls of musk, The beetle booms adown the glooms And bumps along the dusk. -- James Whitcomb Riley
We've both got into the blue beetle. He got into the red door, I got into the white one. -- Jim Butcher
Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beetle, cockroach, fly, mosquito, flea, bacillus, and microbe. -- Ambrose Bierce
I have my own views about Nature's methods, though I feel that it is rather like a beetle giving his -- Arthur Conan Doyle
I know when I was a kid I ate a beetle. I ate a beetle because I thought it was licorice. -- Karl Pilkington
He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom. -- P. G. Wodehouse
We have not yet encountered any god who is as merciful as a man who flicks a beetle over on its feet. -- Annie Dillard
Without guilt / What is a man? An animal, isn't he? / A wolf forgiven at his meat, / A beetle innocent in his copulation. -- Archibald MacLeish
In the description of night in Macbeth, the beetle and the bat detract from the general idea of darkness - inspissated gloom. -- Samuel Johnson
I discovered that I never really used Helvetica but I like to look at it. I like the VW beetle, too, although I've never driven one. -- Stefan Sagmeister
The greatest threat facing American today - next to voter fraud, the Western Pinebark beetle, and the memory foam mattress - is the national news media. -- Stephen Colbert
Perdiccas threatened to put him to death unless he came to him, "That's nothing wonderful," Diogenes said, "for a beetle or a tarantula would do the same. -- Diogenes
When a blind beetle crawls over the surface of the globe, he doesn't realize that the track he has covered is curved. I was lucky enough to have spotted it. -- Albert Einstein
Even the blackest of them all, the crow, Renders good service as your man-at-arms, Crushing the beetle in his coat of mail. And crying havoc on the slug and snail. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Sometimes I feel like a beetle crawling through a fusion power plant. I can feel a certain amount, see a certain amount, but I sure as hell don't understand everything. -- Greg Bear
In a purely technical sense, each species of higher organism-beetle, moss, and so forth, is richer in information than a Caravaggio painting, Mozart symphony, or any other great work of art. -- E. O. Wilson
SCARABAEUS, n. The sacred beetle of the ancient Egyptians, allied to our familiar "tumble-bug." It was supposed to symbolize immortality, the fact that God knew why giving it its peculiar sanctity. -- Ambrose Bierce
It may be argued that to know one kind of beetle is to know them all. But a species is not like a molecule in a cloud of molecules-it is a unique population. -- E. O. Wilson
There has been a great difficulty in getting anything into the heads of this generation. It has been like splitting hemlock knots with a corn-dodger for a wedge and a pumpkin for a beetle. -- Sam Smith
When beetles fight these battles in a bottle with their paddles and the bottle's on a poodle and the poodle's eating noodles... ...they call this a muddle puddle tweetle poodle beetle noodle bottle paddle battle. -- Dr. Seuss

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