Athens is like a sluggish horse, and I am the gadfly trying to sting it into life.
Quotes about gadfly (5 Quotes)
I am a kamikaze gadfly.
Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheep like passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.
Obviously, he had this native intelligence, this sensitivity and this ability to move rapidly through a whole range of material, ... You could just feel him taking stuff in with that gadfly energy, that hummingbird energy, taking a little something from here, there and everywhere, taking a little something from everything.
INDIANAPOLIS -- It's the kind of statement a politically safe Republican facing a perennial gadfly opponent in 2006 can make. We're winning the war in Iraq, ... We've never lost a tactical engagement with the enemy. We've never even lost a platoon.