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Bureaucracy is like a fungus that contaminates everything. -- Jaime Lerner
I'm like a fungus; you can't get rid of me. -- Adam Baldwin
The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference. -- Fred Allen
Lion's mane may be our first 'smart' mushroom. It is a safe, edible fungus that appears to confer cognitive benefits on our aging population. -- Paul Stamets
At the time my dog had a fungus on her chest that wouldn't heal and resisted treatment. I made an ointment with our product and it cleared up in two days. She lived to 17 years. -- William Standish Knowles
Marriage is a custom brought about by women who then proceed to live off men and destroy them, completely enveloping the man in a destructive cocoon or eating him away like a poisonous fungus on a tree. -- Richard Harris
It's the little details I love. How to fletch your arrows with owl feathers, because owls fly silently, so maybe your arrows will, too. How to carry fire in a piece of smouldering fungus wrapped in birchbark. These are the things which help a world come alive. -- Michelle Paver
I change my socks often, because I had bad bouts of athlete's foot fungus infections as a kid. I may be able to change socks less frequently and not get the fungus. But, I'd rather not run the test to determine just how infrequently I could change socks. I don't feel superstitious about it. -- Bill Nye
Even as global warming increases the frequency of El Nino and the Atlantic event, their effects are being amplified by the annual loss of an area of rain forest the size of New Jersey. Less rain falls, and the water runs into the rivers instead of being sucked up by the fungus filaments and tree roots. -- Alex Shoumatoff
I collect spores, molds, and fungus -- Harold Ramis
A critic is to an author as a fungus to an oak. -- Edward Abbey
The wrecks of slavery are fast growing a fungus crop of sentiment. -- William Dean Howells
A sickly little smile grew and died on his mouth like a fungus. -- China Mieville
I had always believed government was not a fungus: It could survive in sunshine. -- Patricia Schroeder
[Eric:] "I'm hoping that the more you see me, the more I'll grow on you." [Sookie:] "Like a fungus? -- Charlaine Harris
I wouldn't say hate, exactly. You're kind of like fungus, Gwen. After a while, you just start growing on people. -- Jennifer Estep
The love for material things grows like a fungus in the soul and destroys the loveliness of the human heart utterly. -- Caryll Houselander
Did life treat everyone so wantonly, ripping the good things to pieces while letting bad things fester and grow like fungus -- Rohinton Mistry
Truth grew in my mind like a fungus, and though I tried to sleep it out, there was no resisting the epiphanies. -- Donald Miller
A truly good book is something as wildly natural and primitive, mysterious and marvelous, ambrosial and fertile as a fungus or a lichen. -- Henry David Thoreau
Lions mane may be our first smart mushroom. It is a safe, edible fungus that appears to confer cognitive benefits on our aging population. -- Paul Stamets
The average vice-president is a form of executive fungus that attaches itself to a desk. On a boat this growth would be called a barnacle. -- Fred Allen
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Sometimes I worry I'm not going to be the best parent because if my baby gets a skin fungus I might sell him at a garage sale. -- Sara Quin
So soon as prudence has begun to grow up in the brain, like a dismal fungus, it finds its first expression in a paralysis of generous acts. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
Not being ambitious of martyrdom, even in the cause of gastronomical enterprise, especially if the instrument is to be a contemptible, rank-smelling fungus, I never eat or cook mushrooms. -- Mary Virginia Terhune
A peculiar fact about termite-tapeworm-fungus-moss art is that it goes always forward, eating its own boundaries, and, likely as not, leaves nothing in its path other than the signs of eager, industrious, unkempt activity. -- Manny Farber

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