quotes about Gulls
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In fact, to gull a fool seems to me an exploit worthy of a witty man.
-- Giacomo Casanova -
By fools, knaves fatten; by bigots, priests are well clothed; every knave finds a gull.
-- Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann -
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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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 -
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 -
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