Gnat Quotes
18 quotes by 15 authors
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Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They…
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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In the vast cosmical changes, the universal life comes and goes in unknown quantities ... sowing an animalcule here, crumbling a star there, oscillating and…
— Victor Hugo
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There is a reference in Aristotle to a gnat produced by larvae engendered in the slime of vinegar. This must have been Drosophila.
— Alfred Sturtevant
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Guitar playing, as currently understood, has more to do with sports than it does to do with music. It's an Olympic challenge type of situation.…
— Frank Zappa
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Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.
— Jean de La Fontaine
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As well might a gnat seek to drink in the ocean, as a finite creature to comprehend the Eternal God. A God whom we could…
— Charles Spurgeon
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You could see the flames and the outer skin of the spacecraft glowing; and burning, baseball size chunks flying off behind us. It was an…
— William Anders
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By his machines man can dive and remain under water like a shark; can fly like a hawk in the air; can see atoms like…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If every gnat that flies were an archangel, all that could but tell me that there is a God; and the poorest worm that creeps…
— John Donne
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I think we have the attention span of a gnat. You know, with cell phones and Twitter.
— Jeff Daniels
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'What's the use of their having names the Gnat said, 'if they won't answer to them?' 'No use to them,' said Alice; 'but it's useful…
— Lewis Carroll
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People are not to be driven and you can put into a gnat’s eye all the souls of the children of men that are driven…
— Brigham Young
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Crawling at your feet,' said the Gnat (Alice drew her feet back in some alarm), `you may observe a Bread-and-Butterfly. Its wings are thin slices…
— Lewis Carroll
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There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is…
— C.S. Lewis
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There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations--these are mortal, and their life is to ours…
— C.S. Lewis
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Im sorry, did that hurt? I thought that there was a gnat on your cheek.
— Superman
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Thanks for your nice little note, though I am sorry to hear you find Through the Looking Glass so uninteresting. You see I have done…
— Lewis Carroll
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So you can walk on water? You are no better than a twig floating on a puddle. You can fly through the air? You are…
— Ritu Ghatourey
Who Wrote These Gnat Quotes
15 authors contributed a total of 18 Gnat Quotes as follows: