John Gay Quotes

O Polly, you might have toyed and kissed, by keeping men off, you keep them on.

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• I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.

  

  Adam Goldberg
  • Me
  • Known
  • Sure

• We have to set our own agenda, we have to set our own standards, we have to be very strong about what we want, we have to be very strong about our passion and if it's not right for you, you shouldn't do it just because you're advised by so-called geniuses.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • Want
  • Strong
  • Passion

• Beginning with the No Child Left Behind law and continuing today with Race to the Top, the federal emphasis on standardized assessments has become so excessive that it has modified state and district behavior in troubling ways.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Today
  • Law
  • Beginning

• I want to stop transforming and just start being.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • Want
  • Stop
  • Start

• I didn't want to be a number. I didn't want to be an object.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Want
  • Number
  • Object

• I will say this: I think 'Big Brother' is the biggest snooze known to mankind.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Think
  • Brother
  • Think Big

• When a 300-pound person like me is playing, I'm supposed to drink at least a gallon of water a day.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Day
  • Water
  • Person

• I'm convinced the fall of Aleppo will not end the war.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • War
  • Fall
  • End

• Twenty percent of students in Israel's schools are haredim; another 20% are retired; another 20% are Arab. I have no problem with any of them.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Problem
  • Students
  • Israel

• I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to be interfaced with things that challenge them. To challenge its audience and not just deliver things that they know, even though some of those things are wonderful.

  

  Wayne McGregor
  • People
  • Thinking
  • House

• I can still put down some pretty nasty stuff on paper, which is what I enjoy doing.

  

  W. P. Kinsella
  • Pretty
  • Enjoy
  • Doing

• Bikes and planes aren't about going fast or having fun; they're toys, but serious ones.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Fun
  • Serious
  • Having Fun

• My life has become a reality show. When I am home, people are climbing trees with cameras. I feel that my personal space is being encroached upon. I will try and protect it as much as I can.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • People
  • Life
  • Home

• We're not going to make Evolution or any of our other products depend on Mono anytime in the near future.

  

  Nat Friedman
  • Future
  • Evolution
  • Depend

• Of course, in the United States, which at the time was a very young country, there were also class distinctions. They weren't as pronounced, but they quickly evolved as well.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Time
  • Country
  • Young

• TV news has largely given Trump editorial control.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Control
  • Trump
  • News

• Growth doesn't hurt. This is what I've learned. In the end, it doesn't hurt. It hurts while it's happening. But in the end, you know, for life, for parenting, and for the arts, it's not a bad - not a bad thing to try for.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Hurt

• My dear Miss Glory, Robots are not people. They are mechanically more perfect than we are, they have an astounding intellectual capacity, but they have no soul.

  

  Karel Capek
  • People
  • Soul
  • Perfect

• The idea that you earn things - that you earn respect, that you earn income, responsibility, the vote, punishment... these ideas are anathema to the liberal mind.

  

  Dennis Prager
  • Mind
  • Respect
  • Responsibility

• I was introduced to Mr. Davy, who has rooms adjoining mine (in the Royal Institution); he is a very agreeable and intelligent young man, and we have interesting conversation in an evening; the principal failing in his character as a philosopher is that he does not smoke.

  

  John Dalton
  • Men
  • Character
  • Science

• 16 Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn't.

  

  Alan Perlis

• After something crystallizes, I can write ferociously and write novels in six months, which in the past would have taken me two years.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Writing
  • Past
  • Taken

• O Polly, you might have toyed and kissed, by keeping men off, you keep them on.

  

  John Gay
  • Men