Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: September 15, 1613 - March 17, 1680

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I don't know, I find that honestly, the stand-up thing in some ways is a little bit of a cliche to carry around, because people don't consider stand-ups really actors.

Jim Gaffigan

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When you start forcing things, that's when you get hurt.

John John Florence

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To be quite honest, the joyful relief of the publication of my book was short-lived.

Amanda Knox

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It's been an old saw in science fiction for a long time, since 'Frankenstein,' that we're going to create life that's going to turn on us.

Ronald D. Moore

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I think HTML5 is one area where Mozilla has done very poorly at actually communicating what we have done.

Mitchell Baker

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You could have written the biggest hit song, and all eyes are looking to you to write another one. It's not a thankless job; it's just an endless job.

LP

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The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.

Ludwig von Mises

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How do I let go of Maplewood? It's like Shangri-la. It's so culturally diverse, and all my children are adopted - a transracial family. And we're not the freaks. Everybody flies their freak flag high in Maplewood!

Christine Ebersole

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We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands out most vividly defined in the very foreground of the sound plane. Less important words create a series of deeper planes.

Constantin Stanislavski

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McCarthy's prose in 'Blood Meridian' comes blazing from the Book of Revelation.

Clive Sinclair

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I have a huge costume section in my closet - wigs, mustaches, the whole thing. Halloween's my favorite holiday, so I have a lot of weird stuff.

Clark Duke

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Why is it not just as likely that there were as many small general nearly at first as now, and as great a disproportion in the number of their species?

Asa Gray

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