"Age before beauty," said the devil as he threw his grandmother off' the stairs.
"Ahu" are stone platforms on which many moai sit. There are 313 known ahu and 125 of these carry moai. The biggest, Ahu Tongariki is 220 m (720 ft), and had the most (15) and tallest moai.
"All freight lightens," said the skipper, when he threw his wife overboard.
"All science is either physics or stamp collecting."
"Almost a hit," said the boy as he threw the stone at his dog and hit his stepmother's leg.
"Almost" and "About" prevent lying.
"Almost" never killed a fly.
"An egg is an egg," said the beadle, but he took the goose-egg.
"Android" is gender specific.
"Ascension Thursday" is 40 days after Easter and is when Christ was said to have ascended to heaven.
"Away with you, be a peddlar, a knave," says the hangman to his man.
"Bad company," said the thief, as he went to the gallows between the hangman and a monk.
"But" is a fence over which few leap.
"Come and I'll tell you something," tickles the ear.
"Come see me" and "Come live with me" are two different things.
I wish I had a nickel for every song that I've left in the bathroom, written down on a matchbox, or just totally forgotten about.
Happy the man, and happy he alone, he, who can call today his own: he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have liv'd today.
It will take years to bring Iraq the democracy it deserves.
I was always tearing stuff apart to see how it worked.
You have to go to the composer himself, or his heirs, play the work, and get his approval, that, he never did.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative.
I resent that I have to prove that I'm black.
It's totally viable to envisage a million Jews living in Judea and Samaria.
My plans never progressed as far as a clear desire for a family.
It's dangerous to assert oneself.
It's hard to see how anyone could say that this arrangement meets either the letter or the intent of the rules.
Our mothers and fathers want change. They worked all of their lives, but today live in destitution.
I struggle because I love food and sometimes I can't stop eating.
The way I put together images is a reactive art.
