"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.
Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
Look at an infantryman's eyes and you can tell how much war he has seen.
My films are always concerned with family, friendship, honor, and patriotism.
Anytime I play another rookie, there's that extra edge.
There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book.
I think modern television shows, with their intricate plots, are stimulating our minds. This is one reason IQs have been going up.
What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this I have only my own burden to bear.
Every man to his taste.
Belarus is not a superpower, but we pay a lot of attention to sports.
I'm like a three-and-a-half, four-hour-a-night sleeper. It's not enough to function.
It's not just a question of conquering a summit previously unknown, but of tracing, step by step, a new pathway to it.
We are doing politics differently - smart, populist, political movement.
Corruption is the by-product of discretion when there is scope for interpretation of policies.
Sometimes I have these abstract ideas and then lose track of myself.
There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.
