Giant squid aren't rare. Based on the number of beaks that have been found in the stomachs of sperm whales, it's thought that there are actually millions of them in the ocean, and yet, we haven't seen them.
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Related There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh. BARBARA PARK Racism is a sign of ignorance, in my opinion. It's people who haven't been anywhere, haven... TYSON FURY There doesn't seem to be a religion in 'Game of Thrones' that's totally peaceful... ... CARICE VAN HOUTEN Entertainers are there to entertain. They aren't there to teach your children the lessons that y... WENTWORTH MILLER There are hundreds of thousands of words that aren't in any print dictionary today... because th... ERIN MCKEAN There's a saying in my business that there are two kinds of coaches - those who have been fired ... BOBBY BOWDEN Things that are unique and rare will cost a lot of money. Houses in East Hampton and Malibu will cos... JOHN SKIPPER There's no such thing as 'facts of life'. Only standing theories that haven't been d... SIMON TRAVAGLIA Mystique is rare now, isn't it? There aren't that many enigmas in this modern world. BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill ROLAND SMITH You can't have friendships that aren't based on realness. CHELSEA HANDLER I always thought it would be funny to have the Parents Television Council write an episode of 'F... SETH MACFARLANE I don't have them down here asking me what my urban agenda is. I don't find them really doin... MAXINE WATERS You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's ... STEVE MARTIN There are physical bodies, physical worlds that astronauts could visit, that we haven't found ye... CARRIE NUGENT We've only explored about five percent of our ocean. There are great discoveries yet to be made ... EDITH WIDDER My favorite crypted is definitely Yeti because it's once removed. It's not as popular as Big... RHYS DARBY You cannot drive a system that's going to be aiming at preventing illness if everyone is not in ... MEHMET OZ There's a lot of movies that aren't all about Christmas, or where Christmas isn't the fo... ROBERT OSBORNE We've seen more reform in the last year than we've seen in decades, and we haven't spent... ARNE DUNCAN Some white people are privileged, some aren't. Some black people are, some aren't. It's ... TUCKER CARLSON There is some humour in 'Family Values.' I don't want everyone to think it's not goi... WENDY COPE But above and beyond there's still one name left over, And that is the name that you never will... T.S. ELIOT It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON There aren't that many things left that haven't already been done, especially with music. I&... JACK WHITE There's an easygoing nature that comes with a perspective of things that aren't as important... MARGUERITE MOREAU We thought we'd name the magazine for the number of bridges within Edmonton's city limits. W... LYNN COADY There's lots of things that can't make it in the world that are worth making. There are lots... DANA SPIOTTA All of us have a romantic streak in us. That's why we are fallible, aren't we? KAPIL SIBAL People actually aren't moving on from companies much more quickly than in the past, but there... KATHRYN MINSHEW We still haven't seen any cars take advantage of the electric powertrain in terms of how you pro... HENRIK FISKER I think it's a very dangerous game to play when you assume that just because someone's an en... WENTWORTH MILLER We've only explored about 5% of our ocean. There are great discoveries yet to be made down there... EDITH WIDDER I haven't been offered a lot of comedy. In theater, I've done quite a bit of comedy or drama... MIREILLE ENOS And I haven't met too many actors along the way that haven't told me how much the show has m... DAVID SELBY It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country - and we haven't seen them ... GORE VIDAL If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day. JOHN ARCHIBALD WHEELER It's funny, oftentimes the really great roles that I enjoy are in classic plays, and there aren&... LAILA ROBINS You don't just have to be influenced by rock, or goth, anymore. It's okay to say, 'My in... GRIMES There are a lot of actors who don't like reality stars 'cause they feel these people aren... NIECY NASH Players aren't quite as mercenary as people make them out to be. Some of them are but some aren&... DAVID GILL I believe there's been a slippery slope of new companies that have formed in the name of on-dema... LEAH BUSQUE The best things that capture your imagination are ones you hadn't thought of before and that are... STEVE WOZNIAK The arts have always been an important ingredient to the health of a nation, but we haven't gott... JAMES EARL JONES Psychopaths are actually, really, really, really rare in our culture, are people who don't... Or... ANNIE PARISSE To me there is nothing that goes against nature. If it seems incomprehensible, it's only because... RICHARD MATHESON We can't feel the rotation of the planet, but in some ways we can because our bodily systems are... JESSA GAMBLE There aren't just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It's our evolut... JAMES LOVELOCK I haven't won a World Cup. There's things that haven't been finished, and I'm not af... ABBY WAMBACH There's not much that I haven't done in my life, but there's lots of things that I'd... ALAN THICKE There's probably a half-dozen movie actors I really like. But a lot of them just aren't that... GRAYDON CARTER The press is just not your friend when it comes to a marriage. That's why we didn't sell the... KATY PERRY I strive to create new opportunities in terms of partnerships and new works being presented and thin... DAMIAN WOETZEL People are always like, 'Oh, 'Jurassic Park' is on...' or 'Oh, 'The River Wi... JOSEPH MAZZELLO I haven't the faintest idea what my royalties are. I haven't the faintest idea how many copi... JOYCE CAROL OATES The giant squid has the biggest eyes of any animal on the planet. It's a visual predator. EDITH WIDDER When I'm in the studio, I'm looking for creativity I haven't matched yet, a feeling I ha... KENDRICK LAMAR When I joined the Communist movement in 1935 it was based upon the belief that mankind's future ... ALBERT MALTZ That's the beauty of creativity. It comes from the ether. I like to think, sometimes, it's l... ALVIN LEE I've been part of founding three companies that have gone public. It doesn't seem like a big... ERIC LEFKOFSKY When I was in college I did a lot of stupid things and I don't want to make an excuse for that. ... MARK ZUCKERBERG There's innovation in Linux. There are some really good technical features that I'm proud of... LINUS TORVALDS Maybe there are people who are gamers who haven't seen movies I have made, or the movies I have ... KEVIN SPACEY I haven't heard anything or seen anything out there that would lead me to believe that all of a ... DANIEL MORGAN The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. CRAIG GROESCHEL And that's why I chose on purpose not to have a death scene. We've seen them in a million mo... CHRISTINE LAHTI The blues is played everywhere. There's no place I've been where they don't have blues o... TAJ MAHAL Well, I haven't really been able to shoot in California for a while. Little movies yeah, but the... JOEL SILVER I've dated girls that aren't, this is gonna sound so horrible, that aren't super smart, ... PARKER YOUNG Young people, our rights and the things we care about, have been taken away because it doesn't r... ELIZA DOOLITTLE People that haven't seen us yet are shocked because they think that Alice Cooper must be a femal... ALICE COOPER Fortunately, our audiences are used to a kind of boredom in the theatre, and if the writer is skillf... GORE VIDAL There's a lot of complacency in philanthropy. People figure organizations are trying to do good,... DUSTIN MOSKOVITZ There are books on our shelves we haven't read and doubtless never will, that each of us has pro... UMBERTO ECO The only thing that I don't like is my kids watching comedy that isn't actually funny. There... STEPHEN COLBERT My wife thinks she's better than me at puzzles. I haven't given in on that one yet. BILL GATES I think the one thing that I've experienced with American films is just that the size tends to b... WILL POULTER There's always a Justin Bieber. Ever since I've been around, there's always been one of ... KID ROCK My dad, as much as I love him, has one of those signs - 'The Isbell's' - on his front do... JASON ISBELL I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ... MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX Even Hubble hasn't found yet the end of this universe, and we don't know that it has any end... BILLY GRAHAM I actually got a part in 'The Love Guru', that Mike Myers film. I heard it's awful. I go... DANIEL TOSH I don't think I've ever seen pie advertised. That's how you know it's good. They adv... ADAM CAROLLA Sharks are beautiful animals, and if you're lucky enough to see lots of them, that means that yo... SYLVIA EARLE The people who truly know me know what I'm like. There have been people who try to say things th... KOBE BRYANT You shouldn't talk about yourself all the time - most of us aren't for sale. Our books are. ... M. J. ROSE I've had every chemo in the alphabet, most of them more than once. Some of them that aren't ... CRAIG SAGER Often in the past, there have been authors that were deeply disappointed in their adaptation, but th... LOIS LOWRY There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I... IRWIN SHAW But it's the particularity of a place, the physical experience of being in a place, that makes i... HARI KUNZRU There are those who believe that power is up above, and they don't notice that it's actually... JOSE MUJICA I don't think, there's no possible way for me, anyway, to play a character that I haven'... TEA LEONI There's a lot of things that are good in Scientology, because I wouldn't have been in it. An... LEAH REMINI I think prime ministers, I actually think Cabinet ministers should be subject to intense scrutiny, I... ALEXANDER DOWNER It seems like the studios are either making giant blockbusters, or really super-small indies. And th... CHRIS EVANS You can go online now and find really thoughtful, in-depth, considered, well-informed communities ar... CHARLES LEADBEATER 'Hairspray' maybe did change people's minds, and that's how you get your political e... JOHN WATERS
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EDITH PEARLMAN I know a lot of single people who are not miserable as society tells them they're supposed to be... EDITH PEARLMAN I always loved to read, and I wanted to be part of the project of literature. My physical longevity ... EDITH PEARLMAN There's no rule I want to break or ever wanted to break - I find the conventional life gratifyin... EDITH PEARLMAN I lived around the corner from Saul Bellow. EDITH PEARLMAN Tony Judt's remarkable 'The Memory Chalet' was written from the prison of mute immobilit... EDITH PEARLMAN In the late 1950s, self-esteem hadn't yet been invented. High schools saw their sole mission as ... EDITH PEARLMAN The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and pr... EDITH PEARLMAN I was quite satisfied with my creative life. I've always had reinforcement from a small but devo... EDITH PEARLMAN I think the computer is a hindrance to good writing because it is so tempting to leave what you'... EDITH PEARLMAN I have a skepticism toward romance. I believe that decency and companionship are, in the long run, m... EDITH PEARLMAN The ordinary experiences of aging alter and clarify your view of past, present, and future. EDITH PEARLMAN I wrote in the cellar for a number of years. I needed a private space, and it had a furnace, so it w... EDITH PEARLMAN I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for the animals - like Lassie. EDITH HEAD I always wear beige, black or white. For one thing I look good in them. For another, when I'm be... EDITH HEAD I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for Lassie. EDITH HEAD With women, there's a basic female instinct of caring deeply about the way they look; women star... EDITH HEAD Every different director has another language - for instance, Hitchcock does not like any bright col... EDITH HEAD Even the most beautiful legs - Marlene Dietrich's, for instance - look better when the kneecap i... EDITH HEAD As women, we all have certain weaknesses. I know one who can't resist pretty shoes but has nothi... EDITH HEAD We don't make glamorous movies today. Everything now is very realistic, artistic - and depressin... EDITH HEAD If you hunger for certain types of clothes, for which you have little use, put yourself on a diet. J... EDITH HEAD You can lead a horse to water and you can even make it drink, but you can't make actresses wear ... EDITH HEAD A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes. EDITH HEAD Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your ... EDITH HEAD There's no such thing as a standard size movie star, or woman for that matter. EDITH HEAD Before you are interviewed for the job you want, try on the complete outfit you intend to wear. EDITH HEAD Some people need sequins, others don't. EDITH HEAD I've dressed thousands of actors, actresses and animals, but whenever I am asked which star is m... EDITH HEAD My motto is that the audience should notice the actors, not the clothes. EDITH HEAD Building a proper wardrobe is like building a home. Indeed, you should think of it like a home, beca... EDITH HEAD You can have anything you want in life if you dress for it. EDITH HEAD What a costume designer does is a cross between magic and camouflage. We create the illusion of chan... EDITH HEAD The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who wil... EDITH HAMILTON To be able to be caught up into the world of thought - that is being educated. EDITH HAMILTON Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without a... EDITH HAMILTON A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day ... EDITH HAMILTON The fullness of life is in the hazards of life. EDITH HAMILTON When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos. EDITH HAMILTON What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give. EDITH EVANS A successful artist of any kind has to work so hard that she is justified in refusing to lay down he... EDITH EVANS I can't imagine going on when there are no more expectations. EDITH EVANS I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You ... EDITH EVANS I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. EDITH CAVELL There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and belo... EDITH WHARTON Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths. EDITH SUMMERSKILL I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of the ame... EDITH WHARTON Set wide the window. Let me drink the day. EDITH WHARTON I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel ... EDITH SITWELL Almost everybody in the neighborhood had troubles, frankly localized and specified; but only the cho... EDITH WHARTON Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a... EDITH SITWELL The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend! EDITH WHARTON The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said, ... EDITH HAMILTON How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be American before (or in contradistinction to... EDITH WHARTON An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French ope... EDITH WHARTON A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show... EDITH HAMILTON It makes sense that there is no sense without God. EDITH SCHAEFFER A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue. EDITH WHARTON When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it does... EDITH WHARTON Mrs. Ballinger is one of the ladies who pursue Culture in bands, as though it were dangerous to meet... EDITH WHARTON When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free... EDITH HAMILTON There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate a... EDITH HAMILTON None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltatio... EDITH HAMILTON I am thankful to have had these ten weeks of quiet to get ready. Now I have had them and have been k... EDITH CAVELL I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love, and abundance. Then, whenever ... EDITH ARMSTRONG There are two ways to spread happiness; either be the light who shines it or be the mirror who refle... EDITH WHARTON My first few weeks in America are always miserable, because the tastes I am cursed with are all of a... EDITH WHARTON Civilization...is a matter of imponderables, of delight in the thins of the mind, of love of beauty,... EDITH HAMILTON Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed. EDITH HAMILTON It is a curious thing that people only ask if you are enjoying
yourself when you aren't. EDITH NESBIT Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active. EDITH HAMILTON The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it. EDITH WHARTON I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and c... EDITH WHARTON After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics ove... EDITH WHARTON My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. EDITH SITWELL The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth. EDITH SITWELL Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heret... EDITH WHARTON Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing wh... EDITH WHARTON How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be ''American'' before (or in contradistinctio... EDITH WHARTON Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with t... EDITH WHARTON In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual... EDITH WHARTON I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance. EDITH SITWELL I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself. EDITH SITWELL Poetry is the deification of reality. EDITH SITWELL My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life. EDITH SITWELL Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that whi... EDITH HAMILTON Couture has copied my things for years, in addition to countless other costume designers, claiming t... EDITH HEAD Peoplehood tends to develop into nationhood if the people achieves a certain maturity. This is analo... EDITH STEIN Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a... EDITH HEAD I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the auth... EDITH WHARTON I think you have to pay for love with bitter tears. EDITH PIAF My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet. EDITH WHARTON The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing. EDITH WHARTON Fashion is a language. Some know it, some learn it, some never will - like an instinct. EDITH HEAD Growing old gracefully used to begin at about 35, but today women prefer to 'stay young grateful... EDITH HEAD There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. EDITH WHARTON Singing is a way of escaping. It's another world. I'm no longer on earth. EDITH PIAF ...though she had not had the strength to shake off the spell that bound her to him she had lost all... EDITH WHARTON Her whole being dilated in an atmosphere of luxury. It was the background she required, the only cli... EDITH WHARTON When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man? EDITH EVANS The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have ... EDITH SITWELL Many women have asked me if it is possible to have a well-built wardrobe on a limited budget. 'M... EDITH HEAD Architecture is undistinguished, sometimes derelict, but occasionally, as in 'Post and Beam,'... EDITH PEARLMAN After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the cri... EDITH WHARTON Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins. EDITH WHARTON When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility,
then Athens ceased to be free... EDITH HAMILTON To be able to be caught up into the world of thought that is being educated. EDITH HAMILTON Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths? EDITH WHARTON As for what concerns our relations with our fellow men, the anguish in our neighbor's soul must ... EDITH STEIN All the stories I write come from someone I've met or some anecdote I've heard. EDITH PEARLMAN An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French ope... EDITH WHARTON All I've done all my life is disobey. EDITH PIAF There are two ways of spreading light: To be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. EDITH WHARTON It spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual... EDITH WHARTON A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes. EDITH HEAD