“How many pizzas are consumed each year in the United States? How many words have you spoken in your life? How many different peoples names appear in the New York Times each year? How many watermelons would fit inside the U.S. Capital building? What is the volume of all the human blood in the world?” WorldYearsHumansDifferentStatesNamesUnitedUnited StatesBloodNew YorkBuildingFitLogicCertaintyUncertaintyReasoningVolumeDifferent PeoplesConsumedPizzaNew York TimesOntology Author:John Allen Paulos
“Every man among us is more fit to meet the duties and responsibilities of citizenship because of the perils over which, in the past, the nation has triumphed; because of the blood and sweat and tears, the labor and the anguish, through which, in the days that have gone, our forefathers moved on to triumph.” MenPastNationsResponsibilityGoneBloodTearsDutyFitLaborMovedEvery ManTriumphSweatCitizenshipAnguishPerilForefathersMoved OnSweat And TearsBlood And Sweat Author:Theodore Roosevelt
“you can't fit the same religion to every man any mo' than you can the same pair of breeches. The big man takes the big breeches an' the little man takes the small ones, an' it's jest the same with religion. It may be cut after one pattern, but it's might apt to get its shape from the wearer inside. Why, thar ain't any text so peaceable that it ain't drawn blood from somebody.” MenMayLittlesBigsMightCuttingBloodFitShapesPatternsEvery ManPairsJestLittle Man Author:Ellen Glasgow
“Who, in the midst of just provocation to anger, instantly finds the fit word which settles all around him in silence is more than wise or just; he is, were he a beggar, of more than royal blood, he is of celestial descent.” SilenceWiseBloodFitSettlingMidstSilence IsRoyalBeggarCelestialDescentProvocationRoyal Blood Author:Johann Kaspar Lavater
“My name, the McGregor name, my family's motto ... means royal is in my blood. That goes way back. So for [Aldo] to say he is the king and I am the joker, if this was a different time, I would invade his favela on horseback and kill anyone that was not fit to work. But we are in a new time. So I'll whoop his ass in July.” IfsWayMeanDifferentNamesBloodKingsFitMy FamilyAssRoyalMottoJulyDifferent TimesHorsebackFavelas Author:Conor McGregor
“The man who fears war and squats opposing My words for stour, hath no blood of crimson But is fit only to rot in womanish peace” MenWarFearBloodHe ManFitOpposingCrimson Book:New Selected Poems and Translations Source: New Selected Poems and Translations
“It's been very much in the blood since I started imagining films or shooting with 8mm when I was a kid. I made some films and thought about films, but then I went into writing. Becket is something that's definitely on the cards. We have to see where that fits in the schedule, because it's a big picture and I have a lot of writing obligations at the moment. I'm wary of anything with a budget over a certain amount.” WritingMadeMomentsBigsKidsFilmCertainBloodAmountFitObligationCardsShootingBudgetsSchedulesBig Picture Author:William Monahan