John Gay Quotes
In beauty faults conspicuous grow;The smallest speck is seen on snow.
John Gay
Quotes to Explore
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I had an interest in Scandinavian countries because I'd never seen snow.
Hannah Kent
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A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.
Carl Reiner
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Economies are embedded inside ecosystems. Companies dependent on tourism, for example, are affected by low rainfall - there's less snow for skiers, and forest fires are more intense.
Paolo Bacigalupi
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The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
Lao Tzu
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Everyone's like, 'Oh, you must live in L.A., the glamorous life,' and I really don't. I'm in a small house, in Pittsburgh, in the snow.
Maddie Ziegler
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I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
Mae West
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So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending!
J. R. R. Tolkien
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My mother and my sister are big Jon Snow fans.
Carice van Houten
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I drive a lot in the summertime, but after that, I don't drive if there's snow predicted for anywhere in 500 miles.
R. L. Stine
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My husband was in the war of the Crimea. It is terrible the hardships he went through, to be two months without going into a house, under the snow in trenches. And no food to get, maybe a biscuit in the day. And there was enough food there, he said, to feed all Ireland; but bad management, they could not get it.
Lady Gregory
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Any real virtual reality enthusiast can look back at VR science fiction. It's not about playing games... 'The Matrix,' 'Snow Crash,' all this fiction was not about sitting in a room playing video games. It's about being in a parallel digital world that exists alongside our own, communicating with other people, playing with other people.
Palmer Luckey
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I don't rate Heat fans like I rate Knicks fans. We are true basketball fans. No matter what - rain, sleet or snow, or even if we don't make it to the playoffs for 10 years - the Garden stands are still full.
Fat Joe
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I think snow is so evocative and has such a powerful atmosphere.
Kate Bush
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'Snow' is my most popular book in the United States. But in Turkey, it was not as popular as 'My Name is Red,' or even 'The Museum of Innocence,' because the secular leaders didn't want this bourgeois Orhan trying to understand these head-scarf girls.
Orhan Pamuk
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They have horses in 'Snow White?' I am lucky nothing nasty happens to horses in 'Snow White.'
Tarsem Singh
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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.
Warren Buffett
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Each solstice is a domain of experience unto itself. At the Summer Solstice, all is green and growing, potential coming into being, the miracle of manifestation painted large on the canvas of awareness. At the Winter Solstice, the wind is cold, trees are bare and all lies in stillness beneath blankets of snow.
Gary Zukav
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And when his hours are numbered, and the world Is all his own, retiring, as he were not, Leaves, when the sun appears, astonished Art To mimic in slow structures, stone by stone Built in an age, the mad wind's night-work, The frolic architecture of the snow.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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..how the landlord has had my room cleaned by Snow White and the squirrel has whitewashed the walls with his tail signed: - 'Sleepy'.
Piet Mondrian
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Who was I? The stranger was footsteps in the snow a long time ago.
William S. Burroughs
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Over the land freckled with snow half-thawed
The speculating rooks at their nests cawed
And saw from elm tops, delicate as flower of grass,
What we below could not see, Winter pass.
Edward Thomas
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I had three choices: to conform to my own beliefs, which meant death; complete silence, which meant another kind of death; to pay a tribute, a bribe. I chose the third solution by writing The Long Winter.
Ismail Kadare
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Then may we not fairly plead in reply that our true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion, but soars with undimmed and unwearied passion till he grasps the essential nature of things with the mental faculty fitted to do so, that is, with the faculty which is akin to reality, and which approaches and unites with it, and begets intelligence and truth as children, and is only released from travail when it has thus reached knowledge and true life and satisfaction?
Plato
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In beauty faults conspicuous grow;The smallest speck is seen on snow.
John Gay
