Edward Storer (1880–1944) British writer
'Essay on Imagism' (appended to 'Mirrors of Illusion', Sisley, London) 1909
“I think what holds a poem like this together for me, if it’s held together, is largely meter; this one is in iambic pentameter and iambic pentameter whatever else it is, can be a very good glue. It is a very good way to hold things together. It’s like 4:4 you know.”
WPFW-FM inteview with Grace Cavalieri 1995/96 season
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Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist
Dorothy Parker: Complete Broadway, 1918–1923 (2014) https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25758762M/Dorothy_Parker_Complete_Broadway_1918-1923, Chapter 2: 1919
Orson Welles (1915–1985) American actor, director, writer and producer
Keith Baxter interviewed by Geoff Andrew for the British Film Institute (on the only piece of direction Welles ever gave him) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qON_f32HQDk
“Trust is the glue that holds everything together.”
Stephen R. Covey book First Things First
Source: First Things First (1994), p. 243 <!-- Originally added as a paraphrase : The moment of making choice is the moment of truth! -->
Context: Trust is the glue that holds everything together. It creates the environment in which all of the other elements — win-win stewardship agreements, self-directing individuals and teams, aligned structures and systems, and accountability — can flourish.
“sometimes we need all the glue we can get, just to hold ourselves together.”
Cecelia Ahern book Thanks for the Memories
Source: Thanks for the Memories
Gerald Ford (1913–2006) American politician, 38th President of the United States (in office from 1974 to 1977)
Ford is known to have used the words "truth is the glue that holds government together" several times prior to this.
1970s, First Presidential address (1974)
Context: I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our Government but civilization itself. That bond, though strained, is unbroken at home and abroad. In all my public and private acts as your President, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end.
“The Hebrew language… is the only glue which holds together our scattered bones.”
Isaac Leib Peretz (1852–1915) Yiddish language author and playwright
Bildung, 1890. Alle Verk, xii. 14.
Context: The Hebrew language... is the only glue which holds together our scattered bones. It also holds together the rings in the chain of time.... It binds us to those who built pyramids, to those who shed their blood on the ramparts of Jerusalem, and to those who, at the burning stakes, cried Shema Yisrael!
