Top 41 Leclerc Quotes

#1. Only those works which are well-written will pass to posterity: the amount of knowledge, the uniqueness of the facts, even the novelty of the discoveries are no guarantees of immortality ... These things are exterior to a man but style is the man himself.

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon

Leclerc Quotes #11902
#2. Let us suppose, that the Old and New worlds were formerly but one continent, and that, by a violent earthquake, the ancient Atalantis [sic] of Plato was sunk ... The sea would necessarily rush in from all quarters, and form what is now called the Atlantic ocean.

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon

Leclerc Quotes #48286
#3. Style supposes the reunion and the exercise of all the intellectual faculties. The style is the man.

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon

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#4. Truly, Buffon was the father of all thought in natural history in the second half of the 18th century.

Ernst W. Mayr

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#5. Although the works of the Creator may be in themselves all equally perfect, the animal is, as I see it, the most complete work of nature, and man is her masterpiece.

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon

Leclerc Quotes #92540
#6. All the work of the crystallographers serves only to demonstrate that there is only variety everywhere where they suppose uniformity ... that in nature there is nothing absolute, nothing perfectly regular.

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon

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#7. I got my first job when I moved to Los Angeles. I worked at a coffee shop for five years and it was one of the best experiences I ever had. It was a bunch of actors covering shifts for each other and becoming great friends.

Katie Leclerc

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#8. Only well-written works will descend to posterity. Fulness of knowledge, interesting facts, even useful inventions, are no pledge of immortality, for they may be employed by more skilful hands; they are outside the man; the style is the man himself.

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon

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#9. He [man] abuses equally other animals and his own species, the rest of whom live in famine, languish in misery, and work only to satisfy the immoderate appetite and the still more insatiable vanity of this human being who, destroying others by want, destroys himself by excess.

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon

Leclerc Quotes #195913
#10. In Ireland, there are the same fossils, the same shells and the same sea bodies, as appear in America, and some of them are found in no other part of Europe.

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon

Leclerc Quotes #218708
#11. I have been incapable of moving, even a finger or an eye, for at least a year now. I feel relatively certain about this timeframe because I have been watching the crepe myrtle outside the window of the room I am in...

Jason Leclerc

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#12. The human mind cannot create anything. It produces nothing until having been fertilized by experience and meditation; its acquisitions are the germs of its production.

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon

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#13. I have a condition called Menieres disease which is a problem with fluid retention in the inner ear. It has four symptoms: ringing in the ear, pressure in the ear, fluctuating hearing loss, and attacks of vertigo.

Katie Leclerc

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#14. Ignorance produced genera, and science produced, and will continue to produce, proper names; nor of these shall we be afraid to increase the number, whenever we shall have occasion to denote different species.

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon

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#15. The cat is the only animal which accepts the comforts but rejects the bondage of domesticity.

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon

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#16. I worship makeup. The basics are always: Stila shadows, LeClerc powder for my crazy shiny skin, Bobbie brown liner pot, Chanel mascara, and Koh Gen Do for foundation, Nars for colors and sparkles.

Mindy Kaling

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#17. Let us investigate more closely this property common to animal and plant, this power of producing its likeness, this chain of successive existences of individuals, which constitutes the real existence of the species.

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon

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#18. The style is the man himself

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon

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#19. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon

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#20. When I played 'Annie' in the seventh grade, I knew from then on that I wanted to be an actor.

Katie Leclerc

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#21. I was born in San Antonio, TX, but moved to Lakewood, CO in elementary school. Then, I moved to Valley Center, CA in high school.

Katie Leclerc

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#22. In the deaf community, in order to play a role of someone with a hearing loss ... you have to have hearing loss.

Katie Leclerc

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#23. The dog has no ambition, no self-interest, no desire for vengeance, no fear other than that of displeasing.

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon

Leclerc Quotes #840275
#24. Genius is simply patience carried to the extreme.

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon

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#25. In my normal life, I do not speak with an accent. It's harder for people to realize my hearing loss in everyday life.

Katie Leclerc

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#26. To be and to think are one and the same for us.

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon

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#27. Writing well is at one and the same time good thinking, good feeling, and good expression; it is having wit, soul, and taste, all together.

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon

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#28. Style is the essence of man

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon

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#29. To write well is to think well, to feel well, and to render well; it is to possess at once intellect, soul, and taste.

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon

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#30. Before a big acting competition, my dad sent me a note that said, 'Define the moment. Don't let the moment define you.'

Katie Leclerc

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#31. I'm a total nerd. I love comic books and video games and most of all zombies!

Katie Leclerc

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#32. The great workman of nature is time.

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon

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#33. It's really important to be active in your community, whatever community that is ... find allies and find people who you relate to and who make you stronger as a group.

Katie Leclerc

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#34. My junior year, I was in a play at school and five days before opening night, I still didn't know my lines. Opening night was a disaster. I was so embarrassed. The director made me work backstage for the rest of the performance.

Katie Leclerc

Leclerc Quotes #1612089
#35. I am convinced, by repeated observation, that marbles, lime-stones, chalks, marls, clays, sand, and almost all terrestrial substances, wherever situated, are full of shells and other spoils of the ocean.

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon

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#36. The discoveries that one can make with the microscope amount to very little, for one sees with the mind's eye and without the microscope the real existence of all these little beings.

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon

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#37. I wasn't sold on 3-D until it was in my own home. The images jump out at you, even more so than in the theater, because you're in tighter quarters and you're closer to the TV, so it feels like the depth is very dramatic.

Katie Leclerc

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#38. There is nothing good in love but the physical part.

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon

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#39. Outside of the usual bar or nightclub, it's not every day that I get a drink bought for me-at least not by strangers and certainly not on a workday. On that Saturday, in September 2010, it was from three separate individuals.

Jason Leclerc

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#40. The iPad was my first splurge after I got my first paychecks. I paid off the debt, and I now bring the iPad with me to auditions.

Katie Leclerc

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#41. Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience.

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon

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