#closed

Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing. ↗

— Bill Cosby

#every #eye #not sleeping #open #seeing

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt. ↗

— Mark Twain

#closed #doubt #fool #keep #mouth

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#approaches #back #closed #eyes #his

My position is that since the non-secular status of my garden is not recognised by the law; by the world of the public, then the garden can only be private. So, I closed the garden to the public. ↗

— Ian Hamilton Finlay

#garden #i #law #only #position

In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#closed #crime #everybody #final #getting

We have made many glass vessels... with tubes two cubits long. These were filled with mercury, the open end was closed with the finger, and the tubes were then inverted in a vessel where there was mercury. ↗

— Evangelista Torricelli

#end #filled #finger #glass #inverted

Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library. ↗

— Barbara Tuchman

#door #library #me #more #nothing

When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said "Let us pray." We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#africa #bible #came #closed #eyes

I was a big Nancy Drew reader. Nancy figures it out. Case closed. ↗

— Sarah Vowell

#case #closed #drew #figures #i

He can't decide whether to leave his visor half open or half closed. ↗

— Murray Walker

#decide #half #his #leave #open