Gnats Quotes
32 quotes by 28 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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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
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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
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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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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
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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
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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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Other people write about the bling and the booty. I write about the pus and the gnats. To me, that's beautiful.
— Vic Chesnutt
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Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats.
— Victor Hugo
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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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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
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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
Who Wrote These Gnats Quotes
28 authors contributed a total of 32 Gnats Quotes, led by these top contributors: