Swarms Quotes

32 quotes by 27 authors

Lots of ambitious work by young artists ends up in a dumpster after its warehouse debut. So an unknown artist's big glass vitrine holding a… — Charles Saatchi
On Sunday mornings, as the dawn burned into day, swarms of gulls descended on the uncollected trash, hovering and dropping in the cold clear light. — Edward Conlon
One of the amusements of idleness is reading without fatigue of close attention; and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to… — Samuel Johnson
Politicians, real-estate agents, used-car salesmen, and advertising copy-writers are expected to stretch facts in self-serving directions, but scientists who falsify their results are regarded by… — Martin Gardner
Teenagers travel in droves, packs, swarms. ... To the librarian, they're a gaggle of geese. To the cook, they're a scourge of locusts. To department… — Bernice Fitz-Gibbon
...[We] must stop these swarms of Jews who are trading, bartering and robbing. — William Tecumseh Sherman
He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance. — Thomas Jefferson
The legends of fieldwork locate all important sites deep in inaccessible jungles inhabited by fierce beasts and restless natives, and surrounded by miasmas of putrefaction… — Stephen Jay Gould
Wherever we see the Word of God purely preached and heard, there a church of God exists, even if it swarms with many faults. — John Calvin
Generally speaking, there is more wit than talent in the world. Society swarms with witty people who lack talent. — Antoine Rivarol
It is reported from the famous worshiper Rabi'ah al-Adawiyya (radiAllahu anha) that she said: "I have never heard the adhaan except that I remember the… — Rabia Basri
Summer is a prodigal of joy. The grass Swarms with delighted insects as I pass, And crowds of grasshoppers at every stride Jump out all… — John Clare
Man beholds the earth, and it is breathing like a great lung; whenever it exhales, delightful life swarms from all its pores and reaches out… — Peter Wessel Zapffe
To me, every hour of the light and dark is a miracle, every inch of space is a miracle, every square yard of the surface… — Walt Whitman
Well do I remember that dark hot little office in the hospital at Begumpett, with the necessary gleam of light coming in from under the… — Ronald Ross
Working-girls, in pairs and groups and swarms, loitered by these windows, choosing their future boudoirs from some resplendent display which included even a man's silk… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Every place swarms with commentaries; of authors there is great scarcity. — Michel de Montaigne
When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people… — Charles Lamb
Raw in the fields the rude militia swarms, Mouth without hands; maintained at vast expense, In peace a charge, in war a weak defence. — John Dryden
I found so many Jews and speculators here trading in cotton, and secessionists had become so open in refusing anything but gold, that I have… — William Tecumseh Sherman

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