#arte

If you know how many acres you have sown of each kind of corn, inquire how much the acre the soil of that land takes for sowing, and count the number of quarters of seed, and you shall know the return of seed, and what ought to be over. ↗

— Robert Grosseteste

#acres #corn #count #each #how

I started on the downers which were a hell of a lot better than the uppers because I was a nervous wreck. ↗

— Corey Haim

#better #downers #hell #i #lot

The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#chosen #destiny #him #his #inwards

CNN is getting smarter, and you can feel it in the stories, you can feel it in the depth with which they're covered, the kinds of people in terms of guests who are brought on air, the way in which issues are discussed. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

#brought #cnn #covered #depth #discussed

I think we simply all like to project ourselves into somebody else - somebody who is better-looking, richer, smarter. It's comforting. It's escapism, and that, of course, is what the movies are supposed to be all about. Ultimately, I think it's just part of human nature to pretend. ↗

— Richard D. Zanuck

#comforting #course #else #escapism #human

It wasn't easy once I started running 20th Century Fox. There were a lot of eyebrows raised, and it wasn't easy, that transition, because, you know, I had big shoes to fill and I was very young, 27. ↗

— Richard D. Zanuck

#because #big #big shoes #century #easy

A good quartet is like a good conversation among friends interacting to each other's ideas. ↗

— Stan Getz

#conversation #each #friends #good #good conversation

I have a son, Mason, who is disabled - cerebral palsy - and he does not walk independently, sit independently or speak. He uses a talking computer. I started becoming an advocate for him when he was 3 years old. ↗

— Laura San Giacomo

#becoming #cerebral #computer #disabled #does

I've always like roadracing, but you know how it is in a family when you're young. They thought it was a little too dangerous so I started with Trials riding. ↗

— Sete Gibernau

#dangerous #family #how #i #know

My wife and I have been together since 1986. I graduated in '86 and she graduated in '88. We began dating when she was 17. Actually she turned 18 when we started kissing and stuff. ↗

— Cuba Gooding, Jr.

#been #began #dating #graduated #i