Fleas Quotes - Page 4

• A man who attempts to read all the new productions must do as the flea does,--skip.

  Samuel Rogers

  Reading, Men, Doe

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• Words move, turning over like tumbling clowns; like certain books and like fleas, they possess activity. All men equally have the right to say, 'This word shall bear this meaning,' and see if they can get it across. It is a sporting game, which all can play, only all cannot win.

  Rose Macaulay

  Moving, Book, Winning

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• Glory, glory, said the Bee, Hallelujah, said the Flea. Praise the Lord, remarked the Wren. At springtime all is born-again.

  Eric Metaxas

  Wrens, Bees, Springtime

  Eric Metaxas (2012). “Wilberforce: Der Mann, der die Sklaverei abschaffte”, p.124, SCM Hänssler im SCM-Verlag

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• I literally in the New York flea market - just when I was despairing of ever having a great serendipitous find - found a 1926 Chanel.

  Hamish Bowles

  New York, Flea Markets, Found

  "A life in Vogue: Hamish Bowles". Interview with Wendy Donahue, www.chicagotribune.com. May 16, 2014.

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• If England has any dignity left in the way of literature, she will forget for ever the pitiful antics of English Literature's performing flea.

  Sean O'Casey

  Literature, Way, England

  Sean O'Casey (1975). “The Letters of Sean O'Casey: 1910-41”, Catholic University of America Press

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• Lawyers are fleas on the hide of human nature.

  Stephen King

  Lawyer, Human Nature, Humans

  Stephen King (2011). “Full Dark, No Stars”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

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• This is what happens when the discourse of publishing, defined and driven by spoken and written language, is talked about in exactly the same vocabulary and syntax as any widgetmaking industry. Books are reformulated as 'product' - like screwdrivers or flea-bombs or soap - and the majority of writers are perceived as typists with bad attitudes.

  Suzette Haden Elgin

  Attitude, Book, Vocabulary

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• First draw dog, then fleas. First paint apple, then worm holes.

  Sergei Bongart

  Dog, Apples, Firsts

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• I have an unusual hobby: I collect pictures of people I don't know. It started when I was a kid growing up in South Florida, the land of junk stores, garage sales, and flea markets, as a kind of coping mechanism.

  Ransom Riggs

  Growing Up, Kids, Florida

  Ransom Riggs (2012). “Talking Pictures: Images and Messages Rescued from the Past”, p.4, Harper Collins

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• The wonder is that the characteristic efficacy to touch and inspire deep creative centers dwells in the smallest nursery fairy tale-as the flavor of the ocean is contained in a droplet or the whole mystery of life within the egg of a flea. For the symbols of mythology are not manufactured; they cannot be ordered, invented, or permanently suppressed. They are spontaneous productions of the psyche, and each bears within it, undamaged, the germ power of its source.

  Joseph Campbell

  Ocean, Eggs, Creative

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.1, New World Library

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• Like tens of millions of Americans, my parents were immigrants. They were poor and did not speak English well. They went to flea markets and sold gifts to make ends meet. Eventually, through hard work, they opened six gift stores in shopping malls. My parents achieved the American dream; they went from being poor to a home and gave my brother and me an amazing education. I wanted to serve the country that gave so much to my family.

  Ted Lieu

  Dream, Country, Brother

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• The cayote is a living, breathing allegory of Want. He is always hungry. He is always poor, out of luck and friendless. The meanest creatures despise him, and even the fleas would desert him for a velocipede.

  Mark Twain

  Breathing, Luck, Desert

  Mark Twain (2009). “Mark Twain’s Book of Animals”, p.59, Univ of California Press

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• The earth has become small, and on it hops the last man, who makes everything small. His race can no more be exterminated than the flea can be. The last man lives the longest.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Race, Earth

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• Some got rabies, some got fleas, some got incurable diseases from this cockamamie business.

  George Harrison

  Rock And Roll, Disease, Rabies

  Song: Cockamamie Business

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• I love vintage shopping in flea markets, vintage stores and even Ebay.

  Chelsea Leyland

  Ebay, Vintage, Shopping

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• Dogs have fleas; people have each other. We are born to die. Life is a continuing tragic comedy. Everything and everyone we love suffers. Anybody who doesn't see that has not grown up and known life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dog, People, Suffering

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• Plant consciousness, insect consciousness, fish consciousness, all are related by one permanent element, which we may call the religious element inherent in all life, even in a flea: the sense of wonder. That is our sixth sense, and it is the natural religious sense.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Religious, Elements, May

  'Hymns in a Man's Life'. Collected in Pheonix II: Uncollected, Unpublished and Other ProseWorks (1968).

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• I like to make books. To me, it's just as great to have some book of mine be in a flea market as it is to have a picture in a museum.

  Jack Pierson

  Book, Museums, Flea Markets

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you have fame, you never feel that you have fame, if you have the brains of a flea. Because fame is something that's over back of you. It ain't ahead.... Not ahead at all. I mean, if you've done it that's great, but "what are you going to do now?" is the only thing that matters.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Mean, Brain, Done

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The proportionality of what has happened to America because of unemployment and housing makes everything else look like a flea on a dog's ass.

  Dylan Ratigan

  Dog, America, Unemployment

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• Let those find fault whose wit's so very small, They've need to show that they can think at all; Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls, must dive below. Fops may have leave to level all they can; As pigmies would be glad to lop a man. Half-wits are fleas; so little and so light, We scarce could know they live, but that they bite.

  John Dryden

  Men, Thinking, Errors

  John Dryden (1870). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden”, p.433

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• I first heard the banjo on the Beverly Hillbillies, and from then on I was banjo-conscious. But I didn't actually get one until my grandfather gave me one, almost by mistake. He knew I was playing a little bit of guitar. He saw a banjo at a flea market and bought it. I took it home with me and just never put it down. I was fifteen.

  Bela Fleck

  Mistake, Home, Guitar

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Jason Oliver C. Smith, a big dumb guy who was tan, died March 30 of lung cancer and old age. He was 13 years old and lived in New Jersey, Pennsylvania. At the time of his death, his license was current and he had had all of his shots. He is survived by two adults, three children, a cat named Daisy who drove him nuts, and his lifelong companion, Pudgy, whose spaying he always regretted, as well as a host of fleas who have gone elsewhere, probably to Pudgy. He will be missed by all, except Daisy. He never bit anyone, which is more than you can say for most of us.

  Anna Quindlen

  Dog, Children, Cancer

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• Governance is complex, difficult, and on the whole, thankless - why ever should the Bright Young Things leave the management of their hotels, newspapers, banks, TV channels and corporations to join, like fleas on a behemoth, the government? Wherein lies the difference between the two worlds?

  Upamanyu Chatterjee

  Lying, Government, Two

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• Sending armies to McClellan is like shoveling fleas across a barnyard, not half of them get there.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Army, Half

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