Aulus Gellius Quotes

Many things happen between the cup and the upper lip.

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• The mutated Marfan gene creates a defective version of fibrillin, a protein that provides structural support for soft tissues like blood vessels. Marfan victims often die young, in fact, after their aortas grow threadbare and rupture.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Support
  • Die
  • Grow

• Fighting forces, particularly ground forces, have to operate on the basis of unit cohesion.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Fighting
  • Ground
  • Cohesion

• I look at myself more as a storyteller than a screenwriter, as pretentious as that may sound, but that's what really attracts me to TED Talks. For me, the really effective ones are being presented by expert storytellers.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Effective
  • Storyteller
  • Expert

• We can search among the unconscious, emotion-laden learning rules for the kind of behavior most directly influenced by genetic evolution.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Learning
  • Search

• I do love gymnastics, but it's such an intense sport and you have to be so committed. It's such a commitment that it's really hard to do anything else other than gymnastics as people progress.

  

  AnnaSophia Robb
  • People
  • Progress
  • Commitment

• I'll keep growing as a player, keep working out, trying to become what I want to become.

  

  Kristaps Porzingis
  • Trying
  • Growing
  • Player

• I feel warm toward my Irish side, but I don't know the country or the people. Hearing a traditional Irish fiddle, I feel very connected to Ireland, but that's a nostalgia many people feel who aren't Irish at all.

  

  Daniel Hope
  • People
  • Country
  • Irish

• I grew up watching the films of 'Carousel' and 'Oklahoma' and 'The Music Man' and 'My Fair Lady' - all the classic musicals of that golden era, The sort of more modern musical theater, or what was modern when I was at a ripe teenage age, I wasn't really listening to that stuff. I was really more raised on the classics.

  

  Jessie Mueller
  • Up
  • Music
  • Age

• And you can't make a mistake when you are reading the Torah, so you have men standing around who will correct you if you are reading it incorrectly.

  

  Jami Gertz
  • Men
  • Reading
  • Mistake

• So much depends on the performance, and here you are also tied up in the emotion the game evokes.

  

  David Gower
  • Up
  • Game

• Mostly, what I watch are reality shows and documentaries.

  

  Chris Lilley
  • Reality

• Women have been writing strong women characters for a long time - hello, Maxine Hong Kingston! - it's just taken mainstream comics a really long while to catch up.

  

  Marjorie Liu
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• Whether you're talking about Chris Christie, or you're talking about Rick Perry or Scott Walker or John Kasich, there's more interesting evolution at the state level than there is in Washington.

  

  Newt Gingrich
  • Interesting

• The health of the planet is at stake, because the cruelty and the waste that accompanies the slaughter of billions of animals each year literally infects us all. We could consume healthy plant-based food produced at almost infinitely less cost. What does that say, really, about us and what we're doing... to animals and to ourselves?

  

  James Cromwell
  • Food
  • Health
  • Plant

• I see a lot of actor-bashing because they are the face of the film. Actors are just following someone else's direction.

  

  Varun Dhawan

• I no longer want to live in an apartment furnished with forklifts and backhoes.

  

  Nicholson Baker
  • Live

• A good jolly is worth what you pay for it.

  

  George Ade
  • Good

• I'm not under the illusion that everything's just going to be hunky-dory work wise forever. I've never been under that illusion. Things could go away tomorrow.

  

  Mel Gibson
  • Work
  • Forever
  • Wise

• An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego.

  

  Alec Guinness
  • Personality
  • Actor
  • Ego

• Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence...we make good products, we induce people to buy them, and then the next year we deliberately introduce something that will make these products old-fashioned, out of date, obsolete.

  

  Brooks Stevens
  • People
  • Economy
  • Introduce

• Revenge is a kind of wild justice.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Justice
  • Revenge

• A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Cup
  • Sandwiches
  • Violin-land

• Many things happen between the cup and the upper lip.

  

  Aulus Gellius
  • Cup
  • Lip