A pest is a person who can talk like an encyclopedia, and does. Votes: 3
You are a pest, by the very nature of that camera in your hand. Votes: 3
The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest. Votes: 3
What is commonly called a pest is nature's way of bringing back into balance an imbalance that man has created. Votes: 3
The pest of society is egotists. Votes: 2
How we love sequestering, where no pests are pestering. Votes: 2
Too many bugs and leeches and spiders and spiderwebs. Please spray the wilderness to rid the area of these pests. Votes: 2
Agricultural science is largely a race between the emergence of new pests and the emergence of new techniques for their control. Votes: 2
Genetically modified foods are really just better crops. They're more nutritious. They're more resistant to drought, pests, and that sort of thing. Votes: 2
As an integral part of the Department of Agriculture, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service monitors our Nation's agriculture to protect against agricultural pests and diseases. Votes: 2
When you come, please be so kind as to check your neuroses and psychoses at the gate... Fans and other obnoxious pests would do well to maintain silence. Votes: 2
Herein lies our problem. If we level that much land to grow rice and whatever, then no other animal could live there except for some insect pest species. Which is very unfortunate. Votes: 2
The worthless and offensive members of society, whose existence is a social pest, invariably think themselves the most ill-used people alive, and never get over their astonishment at the ingratitude and selfishness of their contemporaries. Votes: 2
One woman is a pest and two women is a team, but three women or more is a coalition. If you can bring a lot of people together as a coalition, you can get a lot changed. Votes: 2
Oh, how I vainly wished to the bearded man in the sky that I was Neapolitan. Why? So I could bring in a fine Neapolitan pest control to help with Queensberry's problem before it gets out of hand. Votes: 2
I think I'd like to be remembered as someone who beat the odds through just plain determination. ... that I persevered. Because I think that being somewhat of a pest to life, constantly plaguing and pursuing, will bring results. Votes: 2
House guests (I don't care who they are, how much I like them, or how long it's been since I last saw them) are pests, much like roaches and mice. But there are differences. You can trap roaches and mice. And they don't want you to drive them to Disneyland. Votes: 2
Before I would view Rob Reiner as this really annoying pest. Every time he'd come on TV or talking about smoking, I found my blood pressure go up. I just met-really met Rob for the first time last week and told him how much I admire him. He's done more than anyone else in the industry. Votes: 2
Most of the time pests and disease are just nature's way of telling the farmer he's doing something wrong. Votes: 1
The pest, in a sense, is a very superior being to us: he knows where to find us and how--usually in the bath or in sexual intercourse or asleep. Votes: 1
Socialism, Communism, clandestine societies, Bible societies... pests of this sort must be destroyed by all means. Votes: 0
I don't have too many pests. My concept is this: I manage myself, and there's nothing wrong with people having managers. Votes: 0
The biggest pests are the people who use altruism as an alibi. What they passionately wish is to make themselves important. Votes: 0
Pesticide is meant to deal with pests as passion is to deal with unnecessary loss of interest! Passion kills the ghosts of "I can't". Votes: 0
And when Hugh would grow progressively Gandhi on me, I'd remind him that these were pests---disease carriers who feasted upon the dead and then came indoors to dance upon our silverware. Votes: 0
New molecular methods that add or modify genes can protect plants from diseases and pests and improve crops in ways that are both more environmentally benign and beyond the capability of older methods. Votes: 0
Despite a tenfold increase in the use of pesticides between 1947 and 1974 (in the US), crop losses due to pests have...remained at an estimated 33%. Losses due to insects alone have nearly doubled, ...from 7% in the 1942-1951 period to about 13% in 1974.