Gulls famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

In fact, to gull a fool seems to me an exploit worthy of a witty man.
-- Giacomo Casanova

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By fools, knaves fatten; by bigots, priests are well clothed; every knave finds a gull.
-- Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

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The mathematics clearly called for a set of underlying elementary objects-at that time we needed three types of them-elementary objects that could be combined three at a time in different ways to make all the heavy particles we knew. ... I needed a name for them and called them quarks, after the taunting cry of the gulls, "Three quarks for Muster mark," from Finnegan's Wake by the Irish writer James Joyce.
-- Murray Gell-Mann

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The gull sees farthest who flies highest
-- Richard Bach

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For most gulls it was not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight.
-- Richard Bach

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The gulls who scorn perfection for the sake of travel go nowhere, slowly. Those who put aside travel for the sake of perfection go anywhere, instantly.
-- Richard Bach

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One sparrow is worth a thousand gulls, When it sings. The gull sits on chimney-tops. He mocks the guinea, challenges The crow, inciting various modes. The sparrow requites one, without intent.
-- Wallace Stevens

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The size of the halls doesn't matter to me too much
I'm quite interested in the absolute roots of narrative, why we tell stories at all: where the monsters come from.
The treachery of demons is nothing compared to the betrayal of an angel.
There is a new bill in the Senate that is upsetting a lot of people. This bill would give the President the power to shut off the Internet. Al Gore is strongly opposed to it. Not because he invented the Internet. Because he did. But because he just signed up for Match.com.
I thought we had reached an understanding, the institution of marriage and I. Weddings are like the triathalon of female friendship: the Shower, the Bachelorette Party, and the Main Event. It's the Iron Woman and most people never make it through. They fall of their bikes and choke on ocean water.
The Philippines is in a strategic position. It is both East and West, right and left, rich and poor. We are neither here nor there.
[T]he strike is inherently dangerous to the rich, and to the corporations who have brought this country to her knees, because it is the only defense the ordinary citizen has.
To win the Kentucky Derby is the goal of every trainer, every hot-walker, every backside person. They may be just rubbing on a horse, or hot-walking a horse, but they wonder if they could win the Kentucky Derby.
Any time I have seen someone accomplishing something magnificent, they have been a monomaniac with a mission. A single-minded individual with a passion.
Teaching is too strong a word for whatever it was I did at Northeastern University