Robert Grosseteste Quotes

The wool of a thousand sheep in good pasture at the least ought to yield fifty marks a year, the wool of two thousand one hundred marks, and so forth, counting by thousands.

Robert Grosseteste

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: statesman
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: 1175 - October 9, 1253

Topics

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We feel a lot of the future of storytelling is going to be in the VR space.

Joe Russo

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People ask me what it was like working with Jim Carrey. Well, I never really saw too much of him. I would talk to him on the set, but I was looking at a Grinch facade. It was his voice and all, but... Jim is amazing to watch in front of the camera. I learned a lot from him. He was also always very nice and generous to me.

Jeremy Howard

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You're only as good as your last collection, which is an enormous pressure.

John Galliano

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I was told that my best-case scenario would likely consist of writing my memoir and then disappearing.

Amanda Knox

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Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.

Stephen Fry

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Discovering witnesses is just as important as catching criminals.

Simon Wiesenthal

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I think if I'd quit years ago, I'd never have known what I was capable of doing.

Tom Petty

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You draw on whatever's relevant to the part you're playing; it makes it more personal.

Robert De Niro

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There is strong mentoring of women in the academy. Corporations appear more willing to resist affirmative action to advance women, and boards and shareholders are more tolerant of this approach.

Ruth J. Simmons

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My dad is a great cricket fan, and I used to play a bit back in Jamaica.

Donovan Bailey

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What is a hero without love for mankind.

Doris Lessing

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I was in advertising for years. That was cushy, you know? It's pretty cushy in a lot of ways, but I hated it.

Augusten Burroughs

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