John Gay Quotes

By outward show let's not be cheated;An ass should like an ass be treated.

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• I rise in support of the separation of powers as established by our Founding Fathers in the Constitution. The Constitution clearly delegates the power to deal with criminal matters, like the use of drugs, to the States.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • Power
  • Support
  • Constitution

• The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Smile
  • Flower
  • Smiles

• Humor has to surprise us; otherwise, it isn't funny. It's a death knell for a writer to be labeled a humorist because then it's not a surprise anymore.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Death
  • Funny
  • Humor

• When I write for kids, I have to make sure they know what can't happen. They have to know it's a fantasy. But when I write for adults, they have to think it's real. Every detail has to be real or they won't buy it.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Real
  • Kids
  • Think

• I think I've played a lesbian about five times. The first one was with Helen Baxendale in a drama called 'The Investigator,' about the conditions lesbians had to live under in the army in Britain, which was based on a true story.

  

  Laura Fraser
  • Live
  • True
  • Think

• Anniversaries are like birthdays: occasions to celebrate and to think ahead, usually among friends with whom one shares not only the past but also the future.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Friends
  • Future
  • Past

• My dad was in the Army, so what was happening internationally and nationally was always important to my family.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Important
  • Family
  • Dad

• What I think a doctor should do is prevent disease, by any means necessary.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Think
  • Disease
  • Doctor

• I love listening to songs that are from the heart and that touch the heart. So, love is the preferred theme for most of the songs that I sing.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Listening

• People complain that cities don't have fresh, sustainable food, but it's just not true.

  

  Dan Barber
  • People
  • True
  • Food

• I burn very easily, so if I forget sunscreen, I will be a tomato by the end of the day. I'm very big on sunscreen and hats. I grew up in Florida, and I love the beach, and I think it's healthy to get a little bit of color.

  

  Candice Accola
  • Love
  • Think
  • End

• A successful artist of any kind has to work so hard that she is justified in refusing to lay down her sceptre until she is placed on the bier.

  

  Edith Evans
  • Work
  • She
  • Artist

• Especially on 'Taken,' 'Taken' was not a big success the day of its release. It was released in France first, and it didn't do bad, but not as good as it did in the U.S.

  

  Olivier Megaton
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Success

• I think some people have a rare ability to focus. As a player, Earl Thomas has it. When he was at practice or in a game, he was always on; he was right there.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • People
  • Game
  • Focus

• Before I even knew what that half of my family did, I was interested in performing. I remember being seven years old and up on a stage and loving it. I've always adored it. Not just acting, but the whole process of writing and directing movies, everything that has to do with that part of life. Maybe it's in my blood.

  

  Jack Huston
  • Life
  • Up
  • Writing

• I like to write books that I would have liked as a child, that would have got me thinking and imagining beyond the words on the page. In a way, my audience is always how I remember myself as a child.

  

  Garth Nix
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Words

• At Johnny's suggestion I pursued a career in radio that eventually brought me to Los Angeles.

  

  Randy West
  • Career
  • Me
  • Radio

• So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • People
  • Men
  • Together

• I came back when I'd had a taste of other places and realized that I would never feel the same sense of connection to any place other than the Ozarks.

  

  Daniel Woodrell
  • Connection

• In Barnette, we held that a public school student could not be compelled to recite the Pledge; we did not even hint that she could not be compelled to observe respectful silence. . . . Logically, that ought to be the next target for the Court's bulldozer.

  

  Antonin Scalia
  • School
  • She
  • Silence

• We do not use managers, we are the representatives of our athletes, and that is why I am deeply involved in athletics, I follow our athletes careers from start to finish, 100% all the way.

  

  Alberto Juantorena
  • Why

• I would say 'competence' actually might be slightly more important than passion. I understand that it is important to feel strongly about things, but give me a competent dentist over a passionate dentist any day, if only because something about the phrase 'passionate dentist' is deeply unnerving.

  

  Alexandra Petri
  • Important
  • Passion

• The United States and its Gulf allies, some of who are actively funding rebel groups in Syria, should undertake a serious joint review of Jordan's needs and then act together to meet them.

  

  Elliott Abrams
  • Together
  • Serious
  • Rebel

• By outward show let's not be cheated;An ass should like an ass be treated.

  

  John Gay