John Gay Quotes

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• Learning in a face-to-face human community, as humans have evolved to do over hundreds of thousands of years, may always be the ideal - especially in an endeavor that is as relationship-driven as business.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • May
  • Business
  • Community

• I think my numbers speak for themselves.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Think
  • Speak
  • Numbers

• I do not believe in any legacy. The past is dead and gone.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Believe
  • Past
  • Legacy

• You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Mother
  • You
  • Know

• There are a lot of bad films out there. There's a lot of bad architecture out there, and I think sometimes it takes a lot of time to begin to see what's really good. And I think what the test seems to be is, what really sticks with you. And what really becomes a part of your life.

  

  Nathaniel Kahn
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• Pneumonia is a disease that often flies under the radar of not just the public but even the global health community. It kills more children under 5 years old every year than AIDS, malaria, and measles combined.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Children
  • Community
  • Health

• I'm not really interested in promoting 'Olive' as a series about depression or mental illness.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Depression
  • Mental Illness

• Every time a blast happens, people ask, 'But why would someone do this?' Weirdly, it hasn't been answered well anywhere - neither in fiction nor non-fiction.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • People
  • Time
  • Why

• It was lucky for me. It wasn't lucky for the nine people that got killed and the 20 that were injured.

  

  Barney Ross
  • People
  • Me
  • Lucky

• You need to train your brain to be positive.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Brain
  • Positive
  • Train

• If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Good
  • Faith
  • Religion

• If you are a great news organization, you can't have the best obtainable version of the truth if your vision and your scale is reduced to a fraction of its former self.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • Great
  • Truth
  • Best

• I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Believe
  • Writing
  • Help

• It is not known, now, for what length of time the Tuatha de Danaan had the sway over Ireland, and it is likely it was a long time they had it, but they were put from it at last.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Time
  • Long
  • Now

• No characters in 'Stay Close,' including the leads, are black and white. I want them to be grey. I think that makes for a much more interesting reading experience, something that will stay with you a little bit longer.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Experience
  • Black
  • Interesting

• Indy, I have lots of great memories from there, and probably the part of me that doesn't feel quite as longing for it is that there is still a chance that I could do it again. It's not gone.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Great
  • Chance
  • Memories

• I didn't mean to live in Portland. It was kind of an accident - I mean, the equivalent of my car breaking down there and me being like, 'Well... I guess this is what I'm doing. I just can't find a better alternate.'

  

  Sir Isaac Brock KB
  • Live
  • Car
  • Better

• Considered subjectively, philosophy always begins in the middle, like an epic poem.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Like
  • Always
  • Philosophy

• It's not easy trying to navigate your internal world in the public eye.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • World
  • Trying
  • Eye

• The bestseller charts, a sure indicator of public taste, tell us with relentless frequency that Marian Keyes or Jeffrey Archer is a better author, by some dizzying six-figure sum, both in numbers of copies and money, than, say, J. M. Coetzee or Patrick White. Are they right?

  

  Neel Mukherjee
  • Money
  • Author
  • Archer

• Once you know trans people, all you wanna do is protect them. They're not out to hurt anybody. They are trying to live.

  

  Amy Landecker
  • People
  • Live
  • Trying

• Books never pall on me. They discourse with us, they take counsel with us, and are united to us by a certain living chatty familiarity. And not only does each book inspire the sense that it belongs to its readers, but it also suggests the name of others, and one begets the desire of the other.

  

  Petrarch
  • Book
  • Sense
  • Inspire

• No author ever spar'd a brother.

  

  John Gay
  • Brother
  • Author