"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 just wanted to sing, to get my voice heard. I knew I had to do everything possible to stay in the industry.
We take five, one-week vacations a year, and those dates are set in stone.
Little things amuse little minds.
It is my greatest wish to teach children what I now believe that writing is not a burden but a joy.
Intelligent decisions may fail you but one's instincts cannot.
The apostolic writings are of three kinds historical, didactic, and prophetic.
In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.
The encore should wrap up the audience's experience of the piece you just played.
What was always interesting about Thomas Harris' books is they were a wonderful hybridization of a crime thriller and a horror movie.
Faith: not *wanting* to know what is true.
We can't always agree on everything.
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
I wish they would let people grow.
I'd love to say fashion faux pas differ from country to country, but they don't.
I'm running a business.
