“We were like a moth right next to the flame. It's like, do any more and you go down. We were so tired. One final lap, and then have a rest.”

— Meg White

Perry, Andrew (2004). "The White Stripes uncut" http://observer.guardian.co.uk/omm/story/0,,1349947,00.html ObserverGuardian.co.uk (access June 6, 2006)
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American musician 1974

Anya Seton book Dragonwyck

Source: Dragonwyck

“We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.”

Cesare Pavese (1908–1950) Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator

This Business of Living (1935-1950)

“We are sick and tired of it and we are going to make the change whether they like it or not … We are not going to let them get away any more.”

Greta Thunberg (2003) Swedish climate change activist

2021, Response to COP26 (November 2021)
Source: Quoted in “‘You can shove your climate crisis up your arse’: Greta Thunberg sings at Cop26 – video” https://www.theguardian.com/environment/video/2021/nov/02/you-can-shove-your-climate-crisis-up-your-arse-greta-thunberg-sings-at-cop26-video, The Guardian (2 November 2021)

“I need you like - like light. You're light, all right - like a flame to a moth. I told you once that you shouldn't mess with forbidden things - I should have taken my own advice.”

L.J. Smith The Forbidden Game

Source: The Forbidden Game

“We were tired of writing music that sounded like everybody else, and we were stuck in this rut for so long of just trying to emulate our favorite bands. We're just going to write stuff that feels good, sounds good. And if other people don't like it, oh well. Then we remembered Bert from just playing shows with his band. So we gave him a call and he happened to not be in any bands. The timing was like perfect.”

Bert McCracken (1982) American musician

Branden Steineckert, former drummer for The Used, on recruiting McCracken to the band, reported in Alan Sculley (July 4, 2003) "Getting used to reality", The Columbian, p. F9.
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“…You and a lot of others like you wanted nothing more than a job and a bit of a salary just to keep the body and soul together. Instead of that you were doing, nothing and the rest of us who were making a dollar, well, we were paying for that. We paid to keep you doing nothing. In Canada, here, it got so the two-thirds of the population kept the other third idle!”

Gabrielle Roy book The Tin Flute

Source: The Tin Flute (1945), P.148

“Supermodels, like we once were, don't exist any more.”

Claudia Schiffer (1970) German model

Supermodels don't exist anymore, says Claudia Schiffer, Reuters, 2007-09-13, http://web.archive.org/web/20071111235424/http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22366938-2,00.html?from=public_rss, 2007-11-11 http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22366938-2,00.html?from=public_rss,

“Developers are drawn to complexity like moths to a flame often with the same result.”

Neal Ford

“Like a moth to a flame
Burned by the fire.
My love is blind
Can't you see my desire?”

Janet Jackson (1966) singer from the United States

That's the Way Love Goes
janet. (1993)

“As to politics, we were like the rest of the country people in England; that is to say, we neither knew nor thought any thing about the matter.”

William Cobbett (1763–1835) English pamphleteer, farmer and journalist

Source: Life and Adventures of Peter Porcupine (1796), P. 21.

“We were like a moth right next to the flame. It's like, do any more and you go down. We were so tired. One final lap, and then have a rest.”

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