A Quote by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

There are two styles of walls "opus reticulatum," now used by everybody and the ancient style called "opus incertum." Of these, the reticulatum looks better, but its construction makes it likely to crack. On the other hand, in the opus incertum, the rubble lying in courses and imbricated, makes a wall which though not beautiful, is stronger.

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

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Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
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81 BC - 15

I didn't know anything about Opus Die except from pop culture, like Dan Brown novels, which I knew wasn't really knowing anything about Opus Die.

Wes Bentley

I won't write a book. I haven't got a magnum opus in me.

Nigel Pearson

Opus Dei is an efficient machine run to achieve world power.

Penny Lernoux

I ignore Hallmark Holidays. And this comes from a guy who has sold a million Opus greeting cards.

Berkeley Breathed

There is no need of words; believe facts. [Lat., Non opus est verbis, credite rebus.]

Ovid

Since 'Mononoke' has such a dramatic story, I played up the drama, emphasizing the power of a magnum opus.

Joe Hisaishi

Boswell, when he speaks of his Life of Johnson, calls it my magnum opus, but it may more properly be called his opera, for it is truly a composition founded on a true story, in which there is a hero with a number of subordinate characters, and an alternate succession of recitative and airs of various tone and effect, all however in delightful animation.

James Boswell

My character in 'Mr. Holland's Opus' was kind of coming of age, learning about a world that was opening up to her.

Jean Louisa Kelly

What I wish is that people would look beyond the tribbles and see I've written some other books that I really would like people to notice. There's 'The Man Who Folded Himself,' there's 'The Martian Child,' which is about my son and the adoption. There's 'The War Against The Chtorr,' which is my magnum opus, my great epic story.

David Gerrold

What I wish is that people would look beyond the tribbles and see I've written some other books that I really would like people to notice. There's The Man Who Folded Himself, there's The Martian Child, which is about my son and the adoption. There's The War Against The Chtorr, which is my magnum opus, my great epic story.

David Gerrold

I like the idea of being a working writer, not of saying that it's going to take me 30 years to write my magnum opus.

Stewart O'Nan

I love Far Niente, Cakebread Chardonnay, and I love Opus One!

Kim Zolciak-Biermann

I've just been writing stuff down as it comes to me. I haven't thought, 'Let me write some major opus here.'

Harvey Pekar

Around the time of the Terran Caesar Augustus, a Martian artist had been composing a work of art. It could have been called a poem, a musical opus, or a philosophical treatise; it was a series of emotions arranged in tragic, logical necessity. Since it could be experienced by a human only in the sense in which a man blind from birth might have a sunset explained to him, it does not matter which category it be assigned.

Robert A. Heinlein

You don't go out and play Beethoven's 'Opus 111' without having rethought about it every time you play.

Daniel Barenboim

I can say that even in the midst of my most cynical comic stripping: Opus shone through with a bit of heart, anchoring the ugly proceedings with a comforting pull of emotion.

Berkeley Breathed

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