John Gay Quotes

The fly that sips treacle is lost in the sweets.

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• I don't like the blame game, though.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Game
  • Like
  • Blame

• I really enjoy comedy. It's a real challenge.

  

  Ted Levine
  • Real
  • Comedy
  • Challenge

• I don't ever take anything for granted.

  

  Kate Mara
  • Anything
  • Ever
  • Granted

• The more you are getting older, you lose a little something. Of course there is another advantage, because of your long experience you can use it.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Long
  • Experience
  • Getting Older

• I am autobiographical in the way a dream transforms experience and emotions all the time.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Dream

• I was never offended that people underestimated me because of my appearance or that they thought I was pretty and discouraged me from fighting because they didn't want me to risk hurting my looks.

  

  Laila Ali
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Fighting

• I think the films we see, the Hollywood films, which are basically entertainment, will still be there, but they'll be in a totally different category. People won't take them seriously. They'll kind of end up the way comic books have. A side view of things.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• I shop at a lot of vintage stores because the prices are amazing, and I love the idea that there's a history behind the piece I'm wearing.

  

  Gabrielle Anwar
  • History
  • Amazing
  • Idea

• There is no better high than discovery.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • High
  • Better
  • Discovery

• Bombino's a super modest guy, very nice. His whole crew is a bunch of characters and he's definitely the Grand Poobah. I don't think the other guys are that much younger than him, but he definitely feels like the wise man; you just sort of get that sense when you're around him. He doesn't say that much but he's humble and well-respected.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Guy
  • Man
  • Nice

• I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Think
  • Me
  • Light

• Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Important
  • Trying
  • Style

• Like, I'll wear a bright sweater with pants that are a more classic color.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Color
  • Classic
  • Sweater

• A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
  • Good
  • Cutting
  • Nothing

• It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Writer
  • Very
  • Gentleman

• I love my life and my mistakes and my triumphs - all of it.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Life
  • Mistakes
  • Triumphs

• I was always pretty decent at fast stick work or doing stuff that seems impressive that's not really; I was pretty tasteful and had good ideas musically. But I had a terrible sense of tempo, which is like being a blind painter.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Good
  • Work
  • Pretty

• I'm, like, everybody's friend. I'm one of those dudes. I can be friends with anybody. Any race of person, any personality, I can kind of deal with them. I accept different types of people.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • People
  • Different
  • Friends

• We love a growing private sector that allows people freedom of choice, to choose their health plan, to choose their doctor, to choose their hospital.

  

  John Fleming
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Growing

• Poor Jenny, bright as a penny!Her equal would be hard to find.She lost one dad and mother,A sister and a brother-But she would make up her mind.

  

  Ira Gershwin
  • Up
  • Mind
  • She

• I lost my parents when I was fairly young.

  

  Craig T. Nelson
  • Parents
  • Lost

• Having dealt with a lot of real firefighters, I know there are a lot of guys who, for lack of a better term, become addicted to the grief because it has kept them connected to these guys that they felt responsible for having lost.

  

  Denis Leary
  • Real
  • Lost
  • Grief

• I cannot take you out and say you are separate from the whole. If someone says to me, "Well, how do I find my life purpose?" I first say, "You've never lost your life purpose." Number two, I say, "Have no judgments about your life. No expectations. Give up the need to know what happens tomorrow. Just be fully present and appreciate all that is in your life right now."

  

  Caroline Myss
  • Lost
  • Needs
  • Firsts

• The fly that sips treacle is lost in the sweets.

  

  John Gay
  • Lost
  • Fly