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Vitruvius Quotes

Perhaps, to the uninformed, it may appear unaccountable that a man should be able to retain in his memory such a variety of learning; but the close alliance with each other, of the different branches of science, will explain the difficulty.

Vitruvius

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: roman

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Learning Science Man Memory Will

I really absolutely loved writing my first book.

Jill Davis

Writing Book Loved First Absolutely

I always do book signings with the same blue pen. That way, if I add a personalised message to a book I've already signed, it'll be in the same colour as my signature.

John Grisham

Blue Book Pen Way Always Colour

People were so keen to get investment. In those days, there was quite significant unemployment in Northern Ireland, and that had been the general pattern in Northern Ireland for many, many years.

John Hume

People Investment Years Days Get

People say, 'Why don't you just paint with paintbrushes?' I say that I feel more connected to my painting using my skin. It's very tribal in a way - savage!

Meredith Ostrom

People Painting Feel You Skin Say

We were never thrown into the situation in the middle of our lives, but grew up doing it. This is all we know, and some people who were thrown into it don't really know what to do or how to react and this is just kind of natural for us.

Mary-Kate Olsen

People Doing Situation Know Kind Up

Writing is what I do. It's what makes me tick.

Michael Robotham

Me Writing Tick Makes

You know, 20 years... the films of television when it started, the literature, radio in communist countries, they're clean as a whistle; there was no violence, no sex, no drugs, nothing.

Milos Forman

Literature Violence You Sex Know

There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so.

Lucian Freud

Truth Strike True More Something

I did about 2000 covers altogether, for all sorts of books - from Shakespeare to James Bond - and I always had the idea that I must give 100%, no matter who the author was.

Dick Bruna

Bond Matter Always Give Must Idea

When you become a wrestler at 35 and your career takes off at 40, nobody believes in you. But there are some people out there who watch how I did it, and I did it through intense work ethic.

Diamond Dallas Page

Work People Work Ethic You Career

I would love to continue to challenge myself by trying different things. Action, Drama, Comedy. I would be grateful to do any and all of it if someone is kind enough to hire me!

Claire Holt

Love Myself Challenge Grateful Me

And also it was a process of, we lifted weights as well, in an effort to train my body to then be able to lift heavier weights when I got in Australia. So that was the first couple of months.

Brandon Routh

Effort Process Body Train Australia