John Gay Quotes
The fly that sips treacle is lost in the sweets.
John Gay
Quotes to Explore
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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
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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
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There is no better high than discovery.
E. O. Wilson
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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
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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
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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
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If you want the truth, I'll tell you the truth. Listen to the secret sound, the real sound, which is inside you.
Kabir
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An English journalist called Michael Viney told me when I was 25, that I would write well if I cared a lot what I was writing about. That worked. I went home that day and wrote about parents not understanding their children as well as we teachers did, and it was published the very next week.
Maeve Binchy
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The opener is always very difficult every single year. It Really doesn't matter whom you play. The opener is difficult because you've got more time to prepare for one game than you do any game the rest of the year because you've got all spring, all summer to prepare for this opponent.
Dabo Swinney
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Some players, you say at the end of the game, maybe it'd be a higher percentage. But he hasn't shown he makes that shot at the end of the game.
Phil Jackson
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Right after I graduated, my girlfriend, who I had been going out with for five years, dumped me, and my grandmother died.
Mike Gordon
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The fly that sips treacle is lost in the sweets.
John Gay