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
  • Context
  • Biblical
  • 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

• I think change needs to be egoless. It's not about my leaving my fingerprints or a legacy. It's more important to be part of a process by rolling up your sleeves, being on the ground, initiating projects, starting campaigns - you know, building stuff.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Up
  • Important
  • Change

• 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

• Rap is always evolving. It's easy for the old school to hate the new school, but it's a music that got a little stifled I think, by the Internet a little bit.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Music
  • School
  • Hate

• 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

• You basically only discover a new thing once.

  

  Urs Fischer
  • You
  • New
  • Once

• 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

• Writing music always happened for me in periods when I wasn't under the influence of mind-altering substance.

  

  Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Music
  • Influence
  • Substance

• The spirit of L.A. is untamed wilderness. It's earthquakes and wildfires and oceans and mountain lions and fog. There's great physical beauty.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Great
  • Beauty
  • Mountain

• This is reality, whether you like it or not--all those frivolities of summer, the light and shadow, the living mask of green that trembled over everything, they were lies, and this is what was underneath. This is the truth.

  

  Willa Cather
  • Reality
  • Summer
  • Lying

• Focus on your problem zones, your strength, your energy, your flexibility and all the rest. Maybe your chest is flabby or your hips or waist need toning. Also, you should change your program every thirty days. That's the key.

  

  Jack LaLanne
  • Energy
  • Change
  • Focus

• The proposition, that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties, is not true; they are the worst conceivable; they are no keepers at all; they can neither judge, act, think, or will, as a political body.

  

  John Adams
  • People
  • True
  • Political

• 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