My definition of modernism took a while to develop.
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BETTY JAMIE CHUNG It took a while to adjust.
ANNE HAFELI Money is not my definition of success; inspiring people is the definition of success.
KANYE WEST It took a while to get into it. It's going to take a while to get out of it.
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CAROL LEIFER I'd sell my grandmother for a bit of definition.
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ALKALINE TRIO It took me a while to find myself.
WARIS AHLUWALIA To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
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JACK STANTON My definition of success is control.
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ED SHEERAN The wedding took place in Vermont, where they have legalized gay civil unions, and I married a woman...
CRAIG FERGUSON How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
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JOHN CROWE RANSOM French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism.
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PETER GAY Every historian has informally an anthropology, without ever using the word.
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PETER GAY Modernism may be seen as an attempt to reconstruct the world in the absence of God.
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ROSS GAY Thirteen years I took on this last book.
GAY TALESE Yes there is a little group of soccer aficionados, but I am not one of them.
GAY TALESE Restaurants are a wonderful escape for me. And are for a lot of people.
GAY TALESE I could come up with 50 stories that I am thinking about.
GAY TALESE The reporter wrote with the hope that he would get a by-line in the Times, a testimony to his being ...
GAY TALESE For example, many colleges in their writing programs teach some of my work.
GAY TALESE Even after they had stopped modeling for Playboy and had settled down with other men to raise famili...
GAY TALESE News, if unreported, has no impact. It might as well have not happened at all.
GAY TALESE I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
GAY TALESE Better that you should take the chance of trying something that is close to your heart, you think is...
GAY TALESE But money, wife, is the true Fuller's Earth for reputations, there is not a spot or a stain but what...
JOHN GAY Can you support the expense of a husband, hussy, in gaming, drinking and whoring? Have you money eno...
JOHN GAY Do you think your mother and I should have lived comfortably so long together, if ever we had been m...
JOHN GAY How many saucy airs we meet,
From Temple Bar to Aldgate street!
JOHN GAY Who hath not heard the rich complain
Of surfeits, and corporeal pain?
He barr'd from every use...
JOHN GAY What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But...
JOHN GAY Learning by study must be won;
'Twas ne'er entail'd from son to son.
JOHN GAY A man should be religious, not superstitious.
JOHN GAY Who friendship with a knave hath made,
Is judg'd a partner in the trade.
JOHN GAY In every age and clime we see,
Two of a trade can ne'er agree.
JOHN GAY The real problem is what to do with the problem-solvers after the problems are solved.
GAY TALESE O Polly, you might have toyed and kissed, by keeping men off, you keep them on.
JOHN GAY Sure men were born to lie, and women to believe them!
JOHN GAY I must have women -- there is nothing unbends the mind like them.
JOHN GAY The beauty of the human mind is that any decision that is made can be unmade.
GAY HENDRICKS A fox may steal your hens, Sir, a whore your health and pence, Sir, your daughter rob your chest, Si...
JOHN GAY Fill it up. I take as large draughts of liquor as I did of love. I hate a flincher in either.
JOHN GAY Lions, wolves, and vultures don't live together in herds, droves or flocks. Of all animals of prey, ...
JOHN GAY Gamesters and highwaymen are generally very good to their whores, but they are very devils to their ...
JOHN GAY As we free our breath (through diaphragmatic breathing) we relax our emotions and let go our body te...
GAY HENDRICKS Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.
JOHN GAY How the mother is to be pitied who hath handsome daughters! Locks, bolts, bars, and lectures of mora...
JOHN GAY Through all the employments of life each neighbor abuses his brother; whore and rogue they call husb...
JOHN GAY The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits.
JOHN GAY There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self.
JOHN GAY Shadow owes its birth to light.
JOHN GAY Of all mechanics, of all servile handycrafts-men, a gamester is the vilest. But yet, as many of the ...
JOHN GAY We only part to meet again.
JOHN GAY Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose.
JOHN GAY But his kiss was so sweet, and so closely he pressed, that I languished and pined till I granted the...
JOHN GAY Cowards are cruel, but the brave Love mercy, and delight to save.
JOHN GAY A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a cont...
JOHN GAY Cowards are cruel, but the brave
Love mercy, and delight to save.
JOHN GAY With thee conversing I forget the way.
JOHN GAY I never, with important air,
In conversation overbear.
. . . .
My tongue within my lips ...
JOHN GAY What happiness the rural maid attends,
In cheerful labour while each day she spends!
She grate...
JOHN GAY How bless'd, how envied, were our life,
Could we but scape the poulterer's knife!
But man, cur...
JOHN GAY There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self
JOHN GAY Fair is the kingcup that in meadow blows,
Fair is the daisy that beside her grows.
JOHN GAY The brave
Love mercy, and delight to save.
JOHN GAY The rising blushes, which her cheek o'er-spread,
Are opening roses in the lily's bed.
JOHN GAY The careful insect 'midst his works I view,
Now from the flowers exhaust the fragrant dew,
Wit...
JOHN GAY Reproachful speech from either side
The want of argument supplied;
They rail, reviled; as ofte...
JOHN GAY Excuse me, then! you know my heart;
But dearest friends, alas! must part.
JOHN GAY A justice with grave justices shall sit;
He praise their wisdom, they admire his wit.
JOHN GAY A lost good name is ne'er retriev'd.
JOHN GAY What boots it on the lineal tree to trace
Through many a branch the founders of our race.
JOHN GAY If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the
wind for revealing them to the tree...
JOHN GAY So comes a reck'ning when the banquet's o'er,
The dreadful reckn'ning, and men smile no more.
JOHN GAY For he as studious--of his ease.
JOHN GAY Studious of elegance and ease.
JOHN GAY Brother, brother; we are both in the wrong.
JOHN GAY When rogues like these (a sparrow cries)
To honours and employments rise,
I court no favor, as...
JOHN GAY In other men we faults may spy,
And blame the mote that dims their eye;
Each little speck and ...
JOHN GAY Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it.
JOHN GAY Impartially their talents scan,
Just education forms the man.
- John Gay,
JOHN GAY Cowards are cruel, but the brave
Love mercy, and delight to save.
JOHN GAY Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise.
For envy is a kind of praise.
JOHN GAY Envy's a sharper spur than pay:
No author ever spar'd a brother;
Wits are gamecocks to one ano...
JOHN GAY I would rather be a bad feminist than no feminist at all.
ROXANE GAY One of the many things I have always loved about writing, not to be confused with publishing, is tha...
ROXANE GAY People go to restaurants for so many different reasons. To court a girl, to make some deal. Maybe to...
GAY TALESE Most open letters undoubtedly come from a good place, rising out of genuine outrage or concern or ca...
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ROXANE GAY I think the world is ambivalent about feminism. So I can't blame college students. I think they&...
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ROXANE GAY The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits.
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ROXANE GAY Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.
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TYSON GAY It's an amusing idea to some, this feminism thing - this audacious notion that women should be a...
ROXANE GAY We bear witness to the worst of human brutality, retweet what we have witnessed, and then we move on...
ROXANE GAY I am failing as a woman. I am failing as a feminist. To freely accept the feminist label would not b...
ROXANE GAY It would be easy to assume that the open letter is a symptom of the Internet age. Such is not the ca...
ROXANE GAY I hate the man who builds his name
On ruins of another's fame.
JOHN GAY All too often, when we see injustices, both great and small, we think, That's terrible, but we do no...
ROXANE GAY That Raven on yon left-hand oak
(Curse on his ill-betiding croak)
Bodes me no good.
JOHN GAY I want to find that defining moment that you're satisfied and you've done what you want to d...
TYSON GAY The Park Avenue of poodles and polished brass; it is cab country, tip-town, glassville, a window-wa...
GAY TALESE A little girl and her father were walking along in the evening. She was fascinated by the stars, and...
FRANCIS GAY I cut an imposing figure. I am large, and I'm tall, and I have tattoos. I am actually really qui...
ROXANE GAY I am totally down with disagreement. I don't like Haterade, but disagreement is wonderful. When ...
ROXANE GAY It's disheartening that people think that Donald Sterling is the outlier and that he's the e...
ROXANE GAY When I drive to work, I listen to thuggish rap at a very loud volume, even though the lyrics are deg...
ROXANE GAY Now Cynthia, named fair regent of the night.
JOHN GAY Benjamin Hardlysee decided to point it out to me.
DAVID GAY All in the Downs are fleet was moor'd.
JOHN GAY Lash'd into Latin by the tingling rod.
JOHN GAY My new straw hat that's trimly lin'd with green,
Let Peggy wear.
JOHN GAY Over the hills and far away.
JOHN GAY To frame the little animal, provide
All the gay hues that wait on female pride:
Let Nature gui...
JOHN GAY The coquets of both sexes are self-lovers, and that is a love no other whatever can dispossess.
JOHN GAY The fly that sips treacle is lost in the sweets.
JOHN GAY "I cannot raise my worth too high;
Of what vast consequence am I!"
"Not of the importance you ...
JOHN GAY Of all the fools that pride can boast,
A Coxcomb claims distinction most.
JOHN GAY No retreat. No retreat. They must conquer or die who've no retreat.
JOHN GAY An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.
JOHN GAY Let firm, well hammer'd soles protect thy feet
Through freezing snows, and rains, and soaking slee...
JOHN GAY Thus shadow owes its birth to light.
JOHN GAY My tongue within my lips I rein:
For who talks much must talk in vain.
JOHN GAY Variety's the source of joy below,
From whence still fresh-revolving pleasures flow,
In books ...
JOHN GAY From wine what sudden friendship springs?
JOHN GAY Why is the hearse with scutcheons blazon'd round,
And with the nodding plume of ostrich crown'd?
...
JOHN GAY Good housewives all the winter's rage despise,
Defended by the riding-hood's disguise;
Or, und...
JOHN GAY Adieu! she cries; and waved her lily hand.
JOHN GAY I want to take the time to think through how I feel and why I feel. I don't want to feign expert...
ROXANE GAY I think one of the most important things we can do as feminists is acknowledge that, even though we ...
ROXANE GAY You can't control the fact that you are born a white man or born into wealth. When people say, &...
ROXANE GAY We all have our vanities. The retouching magazines like 'Vogue' do is the professional versi...
ROXANE GAY I was in love with the idea of love, so I created elaborate fictions for my relationships - fictions...
ROXANE GAY Everyone else thinks I'm a nonfiction writer. I think it's because my nonfiction is easier t...
ROXANE GAY I recognize that I'm human, and the older I get, the more I realize how fallible I am, how falli...
ROXANE GAY Lions, wolves, and vultures don't live together in herds, droves or flocks. Of all animals of pr...
JOHN GAY I have known beaches, but I have no particular fondness for them. I don't like sand in my crevic...
ROXANE GAY A lot of ink is given over to mythologizing female friendships as curious, fragile relationships tha...
ROXANE GAY [When rescue teams arrived on the scene, they could not determine Patrick’s location. The truck ha...
DOUG GAY Give me, kind Heaven, a private station,
A mind serene for contemplation:
Title and profit I r...
JOHN GAY Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have
while working.
JOHN GAY In every rank, or great or small,
'Tis industry supports us all.
JOHN GAY I hate the man who builds his name on the ruins of another's fame.
JOHN GAY Life is a jest; and all things show it.
I thought so once; but now I know it.
JOHN GAY "Is there no hope?" the sick man said,
The silent doctor shook his head,
And took his leave wi...
JOHN GAY The expansive anarchy of the Internet continues to lull us into believing that, because we can see s...
ROXANE GAY For celebrities, privacy is utterly nonexistent. You are asked intrusive questions about your person...
ROXANE GAY A few words of gratitude and encouragement do bring out the best in other people.
FRANCIS GAY I played football in high school, I played baseball when I was younger, things like that, but I thin...
TYSON GAY We have to believe that we can hold different points of view without labeling each other bad feminis...
ROXANE GAY We have cellphones and smartphones and iDevices and laptops and the ability to be perpetually connec...
ROXANE GAY We are looking into it. There was something that did transpire out there.
DOUG GAY We came in and wanted to pound the ball at em. They (Colt players) talked a lot all week. I just let...
FRANK GAY You'd have an instant decade-long waiting line.
JOHN GAY Feminism is just an idea. It's a philosophy. It's about the equality of women in all realms....
ROXANE GAY It's so hard to write about countries like Haiti because there's truths behind the mispercep...
ROXANE GAY I was a shy girl, but when I read, I was adventurous. Books made me bolder.
ROXANE GAY Internet outrage can seem mindless, but it rarely is. To make that assumption is dismissive. There...
ROXANE GAY Do like other widows - buy yourself weeds, and be cheerful.
JOHN GAY Fools may our scorn, not envy raise, for envy is a kind of praise
JOHN GAY The charge is prepared; the lawyers are met, / The judges all ranged (a terrible show!).
JOHN GAY By ignorance is pride increased; Those most assume who know the least
JOHN GAY (The bill) doesn't fix the system, it just focuses on enforcement.
JOHN GAY Praising all alike, is praising none
JOHN GAY I felt good if they ran the 1-3-1 against the offense we're using. Then we went out there and didn't...
JOHN GAY No one likes employer sanctions,
JOHN GAY What will not luxury taste? Earth, sea, and air,
Are daily ransack'd for the bill of fare.
Bl...
JOHN GAY When if or chance or hunger's powerful sway
Directs the roving trout this fatal way,
He greedi...
JOHN GAY By outward show let's not be cheated;
An ass should like an ass be treated.
JOHN GAY Originality provokes originality.
JOHN GAY A woman scorn'd is pitiless as fate,
For then the dread of shame adds stings to hate.
JOHN GAY 'While there is life, there's hope,' he cried; 'Then why such haste?' so groaned and died
JOHN GAY To cheat a man is nothing; but the woman must have fine parts, indeed, who cheats a woman
JOHN GAY 'Tis woman that seduces all mankind, / By her we first were taught the wheedling arts.
JOHN GAY When we risk no contradiction, it prompts the tongue to deal in fiction
JOHN GAY We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect...
JOHN GAY We only part to meet again. / Change, as ye list, ye winds; my heart shall be / The faithful compass...
JOHN GAY We are frustrated with the broken immigration system. It doesn't match the economic reality.
JOHN GAY A fox may steal your hens, Sir, a whore your health and pence, Sir, your daughter rob your chest, Si...
JOHN GAY Employers are frustrated because there is so much paperwork and oftentimes you don't know if things ...
JOHN GAY I sipped each flower, / I changed ev'ry hour, / But here ev'ry flower is united.
JOHN GAY Bring me a hundred reeds of decent growth,/ To make a pipe for my capacious mouth.
JOHN GAY Can Love be controlled by advice?
JOHN GAY All in the Downs the fleet was moored, / The streamers waving in the wind, / When black-eyed Susan c...
JOHN GAY One wife is too much for most husbands to hear, / But two at a time there's no mortal can bear.
JOHN GAY If the heart of a man is depressed with cares, the mist is dispelled when a woman appears
JOHN GAY Corruption's not for modern date; It hath been tried in ev'ry state
JOHN GAY Envy's a sharper spur than pay
JOHN GAY What frenzy dictates, jealousy believes
JOHN GAY In beauty, faults conspicuous grow; the smallest speck is seen on snow
JOHN GAY She who has never loved has never lived.
JOHN GAY The luxury of doing good surpasses every other personal enjoyment.
JOHN GAY In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.
JOHN GAY There’s folks you just don’t need. You’re better off without em. Your life is just a little be...
WILLIAM GAY It's hard not to feel humorless, as a woman and a feminist, to recognize misogyny in so many forms, ...
ROXANE GAY Perhaps a candle fell over and started a fire. Whether that's intentional or not is to be determined...
DOUG GAY He got kicked several times. He was walking bowlegged for awhile,
DOUG GAY