Gnats Quotes

32 quotes by 28 authors

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
And what's romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything As You Like It, where rain never wets your jacket and gnats never… — D. H. Lawrence
I am entitled to say, if I like, that awareness exists in all the individual creatures on the planet-worms, sea urchins, gnats, whales, subhuman primates,… — Lewis Thomas
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
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
Television is a triumph of equipment over people, and the minds that control it are so small that you could put them in a gnat's… — Fred Allen
You and I and everyone else have the attention span of gnats. And that means that saying or doing anything once simply doesn't work. — Gene Simmons
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
Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast. — Jean de La Fontaine
Other people write about the bling and the booty. I write about the pus and the gnats. To me, that's beautiful. — Vic Chesnutt
Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats. — Victor Hugo
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
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
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
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
I think we have the attention span of a gnat. You know, with cell phones and Twitter. — Jeff Daniels
'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
Surely all God's people, however serious or savage, great or small, like to play. Whales and elephants, dancing, humming gnats, and invisibly small mischievous microbes-… — John Muir
People are not to be driven and you can put into a gnatâ€™s eye all the souls of the children of men that are driven… — Brigham Young
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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