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Miguel de Cervantes Quote: 'A closed mouth catches no flies. ...'

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Try to keep your mind open to possibilities and your mouth closed on matters that you don't know about. Limit your 'always' and your 'nevers.'
Amy Poehler
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Time flies never to be recalled.


Virgil
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I kill flies, I eat meat, you know, whatever.


Ethan Hawke
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As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.


William Shakespeare
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Two years work wasted, I have been breeding those flies for all that time and I've got nothing out of it.
Thomas Hunt Morgan
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Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it, not hard enough and it flies away.
Tommy Lasorda
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For the speedy reader paragraphs become a country the eye flies over looking for landmarks, reference points, airports, restrooms, passages of sex.
William H. Gass
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When one door is closed, don't you know, another is open.


Bob Marley
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I got a big mouth.


Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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One man's observation is another man's closed book or flight of fancy.


Willard Van Orman Quine
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I learned that if you're going to be a troublemaker, you don't want a ton of witnesses, because there's inevitable fallout from living like you're in 'Lord of the Flies.'
Natasha Lyonne
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When TV came in, it closed a lot of theatres. Even the 'ice' shows melted away.


Kenny Baker
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I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.
Voltaire
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So, Japan as a country has lost its vigor; it feels very much closed in for various reasons.


Naoto Kan
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I reckon I closed down at least two films companies, one of which was in Ealing in the mid 1950s.


Nigel Kneale
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So for a long time I closed my eyes to the possibility of America having a white voice.


Robert Plant
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One argument goes that recessions are good for female artists because when money flies out the window, women are allowed in the house. The other claims that when money ebbs, so do prospects for women.
Jerry Saltz
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I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining table.


Patrick White
It's almost like you see too much, because when it happens for real, everything flies at you so fast, you never get a sense of the ice and where everyone is at that one moment.
Steve Yzerman
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Every book for me is a chapter in the long book which will finally be closed on the day of my death.


Peter Ackroyd
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