Pliny the Elder Quotes
It has been observed that the height of a man from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot is equal to the distance between the tips of the middle fingers of the two hands when extended in a straight line.Pliny the Elder
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The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - which is a great shame, but I'd love to make a black-and-white movie one day.
Sam Mendes -
I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.
Walt Disney -
As a kid, I was always a tomboy, playing sport and doing martial arts. And I'm pretty opinionated - I've never been told that I'm a weak person.
Caity Lotz -
I feel like, as a celebrity, I have a responsibility to tell important stories.
Q'orianka Kilcher -
Some kids go walking in the mountains, but I just went to the cinema. So when I told my parents I wanted to be an actor, even though this wasn't normal for Arab kids or anyone in the town, they were sort of expecting it and were very supportive.
Tahar Rahim -
I like 'Ab Fab;' I love the crazy stuff they wear. That's my favourite! I love 'Ab Fab.'
Iggy Azalea
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If you look at 'West Side Story,' a lot of those numbers are actually pretty cutty, but the cuts are always musically motivated.
Damien Chazelle -
As I watched bookstores close, I began to wonder how that felt for the owners. Owning a bookstore was their dream and now they're struggling and seeing those dreams fall apart.
Karen Kingsbury -
Every book has to start with a first chapter, and I think that 'Middle of Nowhere,' 'Mmmbop' and 'Where Is the Love' are good places to start for us. I don't think it's a bad place.
Isaac Hanson Hanson -
I like to think of myself as very loyal, and I love everyone I surround myself with, whether they're friends or girlfriends or whatever.
Taylor Lautner -
Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
H. G. Wells -
I'm just taking one step at a time. I could zigzag one way, but it's not usually on purpose.
Beck
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I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses - fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that's how good we were.
Hannah Murray -
25 years ago, when I started in New York, I had the pleasure to cook for Andy Warhol. At the time, I could have traded art for food - I should have done so, because I could get his work for nothing!
Daniel Boulud -
I try not to punish the audience by making them listen to too much acoustic guitar.
Kaki King -
The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all.
Pablo Casals -
It's interesting sometimes when an audience can empathize with a villain.
Jack Gleeson -
When many different voices send you in different directions, you can't listen to your own.
Ray Stevenson
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Many photographers get involved with the people whom they take pictures of; others prefer being observers, keeping a certain distance.
Laurent Baheux -
Liberty is a choreand a long-distance race, quite solitary, quite exhausting.
Albert Camus -
I remember being infuriated from the top of my head to the tip of my toes the first time a screen was put around Bob Carter and me on a train leaving Washington in the 1940s.
Constance Baker Motley -
Not once in my life have I done theatre. Being on stage is not my thing.
Barun Sobti -
It has been observed that the height of a man from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot is equal to the distance between the tips of the middle fingers of the two hands when extended in a straight line.
Pliny the Elder