Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (Vitruvius) Quotes

It is no secret that the moon has no light of her own, but is, as it were, a mirror, receiving brightness from the influence of the sun.

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

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• I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.

  

  Walter Martin
  • Biblical
  • Context
  • Prophet

• Millions of American families affected by debilitating diseases have new hope today after the U.S. House passed legislation to support potentially life-saving stem cell research.

  

  Nancy Johnson
  • Life
  • American
  • Hope

• The most important thing is to just be good at what you do. You do a good job playing the character, and people will be taken up with your character, not your clothes.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• Women in salsa - women everywhere - we always gotta be defending ourselves.

  

  La India
  • Women
  • Always
  • Gotta

• Personal shoppers in big department stores are seriously under-used.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • Personal
  • Big
  • Seriously

• It's okay to take time for yourself. We give so much of ourselves to others and we need to be fueled both physically and mentally. If we are in balance, it helps us in all our interactions.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Time
  • Balance
  • Yourself

• I don't think men like a bad girl. Well, I haven't had a date in a year so I'm obviously doing something wrong. It's not that my standards are too high, I haven't even been asked out in a year. I have no standards, anyone, please!

  

  Yasmine Bleeth
  • Men
  • Bad
  • High

• I didn't want there to be a computer on stage. When I see people with computers on stage, I think, 'Are you sending e-mail?' That's so corny.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • People
  • Want
  • Computers

• The U.N. did not create Israel. The Jewish state came into being because the tiny Jewish community in what was mandatory Palestine rebelled against foreign imperialist rule. We did not conquer a foreign land.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • Community
  • Israel
  • Conquer

• In 'For Whom the Bell Tolls,' Hemingway cozies up to revolution by romanticizing it (and not only with those execrable love scenes).

  

  Madison Smartt Bell
  • Revolution
  • Scenes
  • Romanticizing

• I'll tell you God's truth: I think that this script that Neil has written - 'Odd Couple Two,' I think, is superior to the original one - to the first one.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • God
  • Truth
  • Think

• When people ask me exactly how much time I spend in each country, I always tell them I have no idea.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • People
  • Time
  • Country

• To be a veiled Muslim woman on screen is a very scary minefield for me.

  

  Yasmine Al Masri
  • Me
  • Woman
  • Scary

• Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • People
  • Great
  • Gratitude

• Tell them the universe is too complicated a toy for a sensibly cautious being to play with.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Universe

• I am not gonna die because I failed as someone else. I am gonna succeed as myself. And I'm gonna stay here and rock the mike until the next Korean-American, fag hag, shit starter, girl comic, trash talker comes up and takes my place!

  

  Margaret Cho
  • Up
  • American
  • Girl

• In France, that let down the barriers more than a hundred years ago, the feeling of antipathy is still strong enough to sustain an anti-Jewish political party.

  

  Franz Boas
  • Political
  • Strong
  • Feeling

• I find the fact that more than 750,000 children still die every year around the world because of severe dehydration due to diarrhea unacceptable.

  

  Chelsea Clinton
  • World
  • Children
  • Die

• Well, I've been in a few car wrecks.

  

  Dave Matthews Dave Matthews Band
  • Car

• Nostalgia is a powerful drug. Under its influence, ordinary songs take on dimensions and powers, like emotional superheroes.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Powerful
  • Emotional
  • Influence

• My music comes from many, many, many places. My emotions, my feelings, my thoughts, and conversations I have with people I know who influence me.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • People
  • Music
  • Thoughts

• We can influence who we will be tomorrow, for tomorrow can only be built on today.

  

  Anne Wilson Schaef
  • Today
  • Influence
  • Tomorrow

• Usually the characters I play are men of few words, who communicate in non-verbal ways.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Men
  • Words
  • Play

• It is no secret that the moon has no light of her own, but is, as it were, a mirror, receiving brightness from the influence of the sun.

  

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
  • Moon
  • Influence
  • Mirrors