Ama Ata Aidoo
Ama Ata Aidoo

People are worms, and even the God who created them is immensely bored with their antics.

Andy Kindler
Andy Kindler

I can open up any can of worms and get people upset.

Bear Grylls
Bear Grylls

I try and eat really healthy when I'm home, but I certainly don't eat worms and snakes.

Brian Eno
Brian Eno

Well, there are some things that I just can't get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while. Sometimes they're of my own creation, as well - and they're just as annoying. It's not only other people's ear worms that bug me, it's my own, as well.

Christiaan Barnard
Christiaan Barnard

It is infinitely better to transplant a heart than to bury it to be devoured by worms.

Curtis Stone
Curtis Stone

I thought I'd love to be a gardener because I grew up with a vegetable garden and I love being close to the Earth and growing things. At my home in L.A., I have a great garden and I grow all kinds of things. I even have a worm farm! The worms help create organic compost out of kitchen scraps.

Cynthia Kenyon
Cynthia Kenyon

There are lots of different strategies that an animal can use to survive. What a worm does is try to convert food into worms as soon as possible. In three days a single worm produces 300 progeny. So why put your resources into developing if you can make a brand-new worm in no time at all?

Cynthia Kenyon
Cynthia Kenyon

If the aging process is controlled in a similar way in worms and humans, then we can use what we learn about worms to speed our study of higher organisms.

Cynthia Kenyon
Cynthia Kenyon

With worms you can just change genes at random and see if you can find a mutant that does what you want it to do.

Cynthia Kenyon
Cynthia Kenyon

In the early '90s, we discovered mutations that could double the normal life span of worms.