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Private First Class William L. Hudson is a fictional character in the 1986 science fiction film Aliens, played by actor Bill Paxton.Hudson is a member of the United States Colonial Marines deployed to the planet LV-426 to investigate the loss of communication with a terraforming colony, only to discover that the colony has been overcome with Xenomorphs.
Then he is a man till he reaches his forty-ninth year, or seven times seven periods. He is a middle aged man till he is fifty-six, or eight times seven years old; and after that he is an old man." Because of such sanctity in the number seven, Philo says, Moses wrote of the creation of the world in seven stages. [ 5 ]
The story is introduced with the epigraph "Ce grand malheur, de ne pouvoir être seul" — a quote taken from The Characters of Man by Jean de La Bruyère. It translates to This great misfortune, of not being able to be alone. This same quotation is used in Poe's earliest tale, "Metzengerstein". [1]
Jim Carrey every great man quote. Family quotes from famous people. 11. “In America, there are two classes of travel—first class and with children.” ... Abigail van buren character quote ...
Never reveal a man's wage, and woman's age; Never speak ill of the dead; Never say die; Never say never [20] Never tell tales out of school; Never too old to learn; Nine tailors make a man, No friends but the mountains [21] No guts, no glory; No man can serve two masters; No man is an island; No names, no pack-drill; No news is good news
Walk down Reader's Digest memory lane with these quotes from famous people throughout the decades. The post 100 of the Best Quotes from Famous People appeared first on Reader's Digest.
"Friends, Romans": Orson Welles' Broadway production of Caesar (1937), a modern-dress production that evoked comparison to contemporary Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears" is the first line of a speech by Mark Antony in the play Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare.
The usage of curved quotation marks (ex. “quote” and ‘quote’) is growing in Portugal, [81] [better source needed] probably due to the omnipresence of the English language and to the corresponding difficulty (or even inability) to enter angular quotation marks on some machines (mobile phones, cash registers, calculators, etc.).