John Gay Quotes

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• At one time or another, we have all faced the temptation to disconnect by giving someone the silent treatment. After being married to Joel for more than twenty-one years, I have learned that is not the best way to handle a disagreement.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Time
  • Giving
  • Best

• I think you can say anybody uses anything as a gimmick. Is Adele's not having gimmicks her gimmick? It's hard to say, isn't it? Really, I think that everybody has something that people like or that's great about them.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • People
  • Great
  • Think

• On 11 September, I was living in Greenwich Village, New York; my children learned to tell south from north by looking at the World Trade Center.

  

  Yochai Benkler
  • World
  • Children
  • New York

• I used to run away from school to my village. But later, I went to the U.S. for studies and lost touch.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • School
  • Lost
  • Village

• Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.

  

  Ovid
  • Character
  • Study
  • Faithful

• Music should be judged on what you hear, not what you think you might hear.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Music
  • Think
  • You

• Imagine being told that it hadn’t mattered whether the Christians or the Moors got Spain! I can still remember my shock. I got over it fairly quickly, though, because by that time I had learned enough history to know that in the long run it never mattered a damn where any particular race of people planted its collective ass.

  

  Kage Baker
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• Humor - it helps to make the vibe better - it loosens up the vibrations.

  

  Brian Wilson
  • Up

• My presence in California will bring a new, inspiring culinary environment to life, and I'm delighted to share my creative techniques and evolving fresh ideas with the Beverly Hills community.

  

  Jean-Georges Vongerichten
  • Life
  • Community
  • Environment

• Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.

  

  Desiderius Erasmus
  • Mind
  • Giving
  • Running

• Sacrifice counts for a lot in sport. From a young age, I couldn't do the normal things that the boys of my age get to do. Maybe you have a nice car or a nice house, but at times you just want to be a normal guy and you can't.

  

  Mario Balotelli
  • Age
  • Guy
  • House

• Among Muslims, I think there are some who are very good and some hoodlums, like everywhere.

  

  Brigitte Bardot
  • Good

• A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with their money.

  

  Amiri Baraka
  • People
  • Money

• I always liked jazz. And my people liked the old blues, race records and the doo-wop and all that.

  

  Amiri Baraka
  • People

• I love eating shabu-shabu in Japan - a kind of beef hotpot. But if you're talking about authentic, traditional food, then Italian cooking is one of the best in the world.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • World
  • Food
  • Cooking

• I tend to take things personally. But I can only take so much, and then I jump back. I have strong survival skills.

  

  Christina Hendricks
  • Strong
  • Jump
  • Survival

• The richest inheritance any child can have is a stable, loving, disciplined family life.

  

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan
  • Life
  • Family

• The integrated automotive group of Volkswagen and Porsche is a certainty.

  

  Martin Winterkorn

• I must be free... free to do what I like, say what I like, write what I like, within the limits prescribed for me by my own sense of what is seemly and fitting.

  

  Thomas Edward Brown
  • Writing
  • Free
  • Limits

• In professional wrestling, I think that they want you to be bigger than life. It's almost like an over-acting type thing - whereas on the big screen, you're 35 feet and they've got a close-up of you to put it on the screen in the movie house. At 35 feet, it's more subtlety than the overboard drama that we do in pro wrestling.

  

  Kevin Nash
  • Life
  • Up
  • Movie

• Learn to differentiate between what is truly important and what can be dealt with at another time.

  

  Mia Hamm
  • Important

• Always have a plan and believe in it. I tell my coaches not to compromise. Nothing good happens by accident. There must be a plan for everything and the plan will prevent you from overlooking little things. By having that plan, you'll be secure and self-doubts will never become a factor.

  

  Chuck Knox
  • Believe
  • Coaches
  • Accident

• History repeats itself again, I guess. The rate of innovation is so high in our industry that if you don't innovate at that speed you can be replaced pretty quickly. The user interface on the iPhone, with all due respect for what this invention was all about, is now five years old.

  

  Thorsten Heins
  • Innovation
  • Speed
  • Invention

• We only part to meet again.

  

  John Gay