Leonardo da Vinci Quotes
Oysters open completely when the moon is full; and when the crab sees one it throws a piece of stone or seaweed into it and the oyster cannot close again so that it serves the crab for meat. Such is the fate of him who opens his mouth too much and thereby puts himself at the mercy of the listener.
Quotes to Explore
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When I was nine years old, my family lost our home, and the six of us moved into my grandparents' converted garage.
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I really don't think anything I do is a mistake. It could be if I didn't learn from it.
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Playing the priest on 'Oz' was a fantastic experience. I was very lucky.
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The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
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The constant variety is the most interesting part of my job.
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Religion is induced insanity.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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'Ender's Game' has fabulous opportunities for spectacle, where appropriate, but there's also a tremendous central character. It's a balance.
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The fact that we're living in a country where 90 percent of the people want further gun laws - to maybe somehow put a dent in some of this insanity that's happening - and yet there's no further legislation taking place, it's very frustrating and upsetting.
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I was out on the golf course, a guy came riding out in a golf cart and said, Did you know that Elvis died? And I just said, Well, there you go. It was like I had kinda been expecting it.
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We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma.
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People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.
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If Republicans want to be seen as more compassionate, they should continue to stand proudly for the sanctify of life and marriage. And they should do so without apologizing.
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As writers, we can't predict who might come along who might find our offerings valuable.
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It's not every day people fly you to New York for auditions.
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If you had a really good - battery, it wouldn't matter that the sun goes down at night and the wind stops blowing sometimes. But at the moment, battery technology is nowhere near good enough to use at utility scale.
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America must be a light to the world, not just a missile.
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Technical knowledge has now become an integral aspect of the Iranian psyche.
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A newspaperman said, 'You have to have a team in New York.' I replied, 'Who says you have to have a team in New York?' What came out in the papers was a headline that said, Giles Says, 'Who needs New York?' I confess that quote bothered me, and there seemed to be no way to dispose of it. It was repeated again and again.
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Basically, I tend to see the world differently to other people, and I write books and stories to alter the imagination of people so that they also see the world in a different way.
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We can transform the government and the economy, as well as democracy, in Malaysia.
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History has shown that Big Government expands quickest in the immediate aftermath of a crisis - real or manufactured.
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A brief short story may require only a few paragraphs after the climax. On the other hand, in his massive novel 'The World According to Garp,' John Irving's denouement consisted of 10 separate sections, each devoted to an individual character's fate and each almost a story in itself.
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Oysters open completely when the moon is full; and when the crab sees one it throws a piece of stone or seaweed into it and the oyster cannot close again so that it serves the crab for meat. Such is the fate of him who opens his mouth too much and thereby puts himself at the mercy of the listener.
