Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (Vitruvius) Quotes

The [engineer] should be equipped with knowledge of many branches of study and varied kinds of learning, for it is by his judgement that all work done by the other arts is put to test. This knowledge is the child of practice and theory.

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

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• There's a generation of people who've made their own money and are among the most generous people you would ever meet.

  

  Ian Wace
  • People
  • Money
  • Generation

• For everyday clothes, I love North Face and Rohan, and for smarter options, I like Whistles and Agnes b on Marylebone High Street.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Like
  • Everyday
  • Options

• There's a history where, when women get to a certain age in this industry, the roles become strictly the mother, the wife, or the older single woman. There should be more of a variety because there are so many different paths that humans take, and they should be given a platform to be seen.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Different
  • Women
  • History

• My maternal grandmother, Penelope, was a very big figure in my life. She was a child of the Raj, born in India, a debutante who hobnobbed with royals, then married a Canadian, Bill Aitken, who became MP for Bury St Edmunds.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • Life
  • Child
  • Grandmother

• We are cyborgs already. If you learn to read, it causes permanent changes to the structure of your brain for your entire life.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Life
  • Brain
  • Changes

• The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Real
  • Character
  • Woman

• The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Reality
  • Language
  • Insult

• Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going forward.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Want
  • Sometimes
  • Keep Going

• You just have to take these opportunities when they come along. They're not that frequent; you'll get a really good script, oh, maybe once a year if you're lucky.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Good
  • Year
  • Opportunities

• One problem with age is that patience begins to ebb.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Age
  • Problem
  • Patience

• The consequence of Mr. Bush's and Blair's historic lie that the reason for invading Iraq was weapons of mass destruction, is that everything is being doubted.

  

  Walid Jumblatt
  • Reason
  • Lie
  • Weapons

• Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist but football is only two things - blocking and tackling.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • People
  • Game
  • Football

• Struggle is strengthening. Battling with evil gives us the power to battle evil even more.

  

  Ossie Davis
  • Power
  • Evil
  • Struggle

• That is the most stupid thing yet. I tell you that I could despair of human intelligence when I see what can exist in men’s minds.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Men
  • Stupid

• How few of our young English impressionists knew the difference between a palette and a picture! However, I believe that Walter Sickert did - sly dog!

  

  Aubrey Beardsley
  • Believe
  • Picture
  • English

• A change of season calls for a change of scent that is both energizing and refreshing.

  

  Hannah Bronfman

• I consider fitness, diet, and beauty to be essential to a balanced self.

  

  Hannah Bronfman
  • Fitness

• It's such a psychological and mental game, golf, that the smallest wrong thing at the wrong time can distract you from what you're trying to achieve.

  

  Lee Westwood
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Game

• For me personally, I just try to prove myself in my work. I'm just trying to get better at what I do, and hopefully that will impact women in music, and hopefully the girls in the crowd will see my up there as a bandleader and think, 'Wow, maybe I can do that one day.'

  

  Jenny Lewis
  • Up
  • Work
  • Music

• I really don't care about plot. I really, really don't.

  

  Jeff Nichols

• In the '60s, I thought golf was bourgeois, so I didn't play at all for 20 years.

  

  Jerry Jeff Walker
  • Golf

• I feel pressure, but my emotions just don't show that much in my face.

  

  Inbee Park
  • Feel
  • Pressure
  • Emotions

• Self-consciousness, that's what it is. Always my abiding vice. I keep seeing myself. Me watching myself watching others watch me. How do you lose that? What's the trick?

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Self
  • Vices
  • Tricks

• The [engineer] should be equipped with knowledge of many branches of study and varied kinds of learning, for it is by his judgement that all work done by the other arts is put to test. This knowledge is the child of practice and theory.

  

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
  • Children
  • Practice
  • Should