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 -
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 -
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 -
Women in salsa - women everywhere - we always gotta be defending ourselves.
La India -
Personal shoppers in big department stores are seriously under-used.
Kate Reardon -
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
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
To be a veiled Muslim woman on screen is a very scary minefield for me.
Yasmine Al Masri -
Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.
Samuel Johnson
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Tell them the universe is too complicated a toy for a sensibly cautious being to play with.
Larry Niven -
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 -
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 -
Well, I've been in a few car wrecks.
Dave Matthews Dave Matthews Band -
When I got to New York, I immediately ran like a wild child to Central Park to touch the trees. I am like an animal about trees. I must be near them.
Danielle Darrieux -
I didn't feel the need to rebel as a teenager. From age nine to 16, I went to school in Montreux in Switzerland, and it was heaven. I went to England for the Easter holidays, Cyprus for Christmas and summer holidays, and I was delighted to have that independence.
Angela Bowie
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We should go boldly where man has not gone before. Fly by the comets, visit asteroids, visit the moon of Mars. There's a monolith there. A very unusual structure on this potato shaped object that goes around Mars once in seven hours. When people find out about that they're going to say 'Who put that there? Who put that there?' The universe put it there. If you choose, God put it there...
Buzz Aldrin -
But you still have an awesome responsibility, because you are helping to create something which might influence the thinking of millions of people.
Conrad Hall -
Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.
Euripides -
POET If not in a place, where are the People weeping? LIBERAL They creep weeping in the face, not place. POET Is it something with which we may cope The weeping, the creeping, the peepee-ing, the peeping?
Allen Tate -
What a childhood I had. My parents sent me to a child psychiatrist. The kid didn't help me at all.
Jack Roy -
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