Gisting Egilsstadir Quotes & Sayings

Dimension stone, flint, rubble, burnt or unburnt brick, use them as you find them. For it is not every neighborhood or particular locality that can have a wall built of burnt brick like that at Babylon , where there was plenty of asphalt to take the place of lime and sand, and yet possibly each may be provided with materials of equal usefulness so that out of them a faultless wall may be built to last forever. — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

The moment Israel could look on a calf of gold, formed by their own hands, and call it a god, they were able to rise up and play and practice all manner of obscenities without reservation. The idol would not rebuke them; it was powerless to convict or to condemn their wanton ways. — James W. Knox

I've worked a lot. I don't like to watch myself. I don't go to the movies unless I have to go to the premiere. — Melanie Griffith

Believe me, it would be a long, long, cold day before I decide to warm up next to Rupert Murdoch. — Irwin Winkler

The man of upright life is obeyed before he speaks. — Confucius