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What's the use of their having names the Gnat said, 'if they won't answer to them?' 'No use to them,' said Alice; 'but it's useful to the people who name them, I suppose. If not, why do things have names at all?' 'I can't say,' the Gnat replied. -- Lewis Carroll
Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast. -- Jean de La Fontaine
I think we have the attention span of a gnat. You know, with cell phones and Twitter. -- Jeff Daniels
We must understand how to hide in darkness in order to escape the gnat-swarms of utterly annoying admirers. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
From the way Denny's shaking his head, he's either got an injured shoulder or a gnat in his eye. -- Jerry Coleman
If you come to any of my live shows, you'll see, it's very frenetic. I have the attention span of a gnat. -- Howie Mandel
Dream of yoking a gnat with an archangel, and then imagine that you can help your Lord in the work of salvation. -- Charles Haddon Spurgeon
There is a reference in Aristotle to a gnat produced by larvae engendered in the slime of vinegar. This must have been Drosophila. -- Alfred Sturtevant
If every gnat that flies were an archangel, all that could but tell me that there is a God; and the poorest worm that creeps tells me that. -- John Donne
With the single exception of Park Lane, every north-south route in London slows traffic to the pace of a wounded gnat with pleurisy struggling with a squaddie's backpack. -- Michael Gove
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There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations--these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. -- C. S. Lewis
Can you walk on water? You have done no better than a straw. Can you fly through the air? You are no better than a gnat. Conquer your heart-then you may become somebody. -- Khwaja Abdullah Ansari
You could see the flames and the outer skin of the spacecraft glowing; and burning, baseball size chunks flying off behind us. It was an eerie feeling, like being a gnat inside a blowtorch flame. -- William Anders

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