Saint Isidore of Seville ( Spanish: or, Latin: ) ( c. 560 – 4 April 636 ) served as Archbishop of Seville for more than three decades and is considered, as the historian Montalembert put it in an oft-quoted phrase, " the last scholar of the ancient world ".

The oft-quoted phrase " rich beyond the dreams of avarice " is spoken by Mrs. Beverley in the play's second act.

" ( which briefly became an oft-quoted phrase on SportsCenter ) and " Viva Gorditas !," meaning " Long live Gorditas!

" SWs " was shorthand for " Love the show " ( as in the oft-quoted phrase by Steve Wright on his programmes, hence the use of his initials ).

But the occasion produced a memorable and oft-quoted comment by Jem Shaw who ruefully said: " I puts the ball where I likes and he puts it where he likes ".

Another oft-quoted source is the supposed Irish term Comh-Roghna, said to translate as " close pals ", or mutual friends.

vi ) was the origin of the oft-quoted maxim, “ The absent are always in the wrong .” Bergen Evans, in his Dictionary of Quotations, said:

When asked about the oft-quoted character, Cole said:

It is in the Boethius that the oft-quoted sentence occurs: " My will was to live worthily as long as I lived, and after my life to leave to them that should come after, my memory in good works.

A pint of such lager ( e. g., 568 ml at 5. 2 %) contains almost 3 units of alcohol, rather than the oft-quoted 2 units.

* The twelve-volume opus Life by Unspiek, Baron Bodissey is an oft-quoted imaginary work referred to in various novels by Jack Vance.

Before going sober, Chapman jokingly referred to himself as the British actress Betty Marsden, possibly because of Marsden's oft-quoted desire to die with a glass of gin in her hand.

It was on this occasion that Pasteur uttered his oft-quoted remark: "... dans les champs de l ' observation, le hasard ne favorise que les esprits préparés " ( In the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind.

On an oft-quoted take of Parker's signature song, " Now's the Time ", Davis takes a melodic solo, whose unbop-like quality anticipates the " cool jazz " period that would follow.

The following year, he appeared in arguably his most famous and acclaimed role as the eccentric, violent, yet sympathetic anti-hero replicant Roy Batty in Ridley Scott's 1982 science fiction thriller, Blade Runner — in which role Hauer improvised the oft-quoted tears in rain soliloquy.

Berle's program was broadcast in the same time slot as Fulton J. Sheen's religious program for a while, thus leading to Berle's oft-quoted quip, " We both have the same boss – Sky Chief!

Miró's oft-quoted interest in the assassination of painting is derived from a dislike of bourgeois art, which he believed was used as a way to promote propaganda and cultural identity among the wealthy.

In 1842, the English poet Lord Alfred Tennyson, published the oft-quoted lines " Locksley Hall ": For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see / Saw a Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be /... / Till the war-drum throbb'd no longer / and the battle-flags were furled / In the Parliament of man, the Federation of the world.

An oft-quoted case is that of DDT, an example of a widely used ( and maybe misused ) pesticide, which was brought to public attention by Rachel Carson's book, Silent Spring.

An oft-quoted definition of the term is " the number of million times per second a processor can do absolutely nothing.

* Walter Wolfgang-subject of an oft-quoted abuse of Section 44 of the Terrorism Act.

Though his first published essays dealt mainly with literature and theatre, art still held a powerful attraction for Greenberg, so in 1939, he made a sudden name as a visual art writer with possibly his most well-known and oft-quoted essay, " Avant-Garde and Kitsch ", first published in the journal Partisan Review.

" It was during this broadcast that, when asked by Letterman if he knew something more about life and death now, he first offered his oft-quoted insight on dying: " Enjoy every sandwich.

Supporters of product based planning suggest that this overcomes difficulties that arise from assumptions about what to do and how to do it by focusing instead on the goals and objectives of the project-an oft-quoted analogy is that PBS defines where you want to go, the WBS tells you how to get there.

This oft-quoted saying was by no means representative of the official Catholic teaching on indulgences, but rather, more a reflection of Tetzel ’ s capacity to exaggerate.

No stronger proof of his pre-eminence could be given than the oft-quoted saying of Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge that one of John Wilson Croker's ablest speeches was demolished by the simple statement of Lord Althorp that he " had collected some figures which entirely refuted it, but had lost them.

Shankly was noted for his personality and his wit ; as a result, he is oft-quoted.

As an NFL coach, Mora is well known for turning two of the NFL's consistently losing franchises into perennial post-season contenders, his lack of success once he got his teams to the playoffs, and his often impassioned post-game tirades and press conferences, including his oft-quoted " Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda ," " Diddly Poo ," and " Playoffs?

A week after the city fell, General Maude issued the oft-quoted Proclamation of Baghdad, which contained the famous line " our armies do not come into your cities and lands as conquerors or enemies, but as liberators ".

( the only exceptions being the Cod Wars, the Turbot War and Operation Fork — all of which had no casualties ) Jack Levy ( 1988 ) made an oft-quoted assertion that the theory is " as close as anything we have to an empirical law in international relations ".

An oft-quoted though unofficial SCA motto is " The Middle Ages as they should have been ".

An oft-quoted Celtic etymology ( as in the Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names, accepting the view of Padel ( 1985 )) is Cornish * din " fort " ( Celtic * dūn-" fort "

Paxman took the opportunity to dismiss as " inaccurate " the attribution to himself, which was, in fact, Louis Heren, of the oft-quoted " Why is this lying bastard lying to me?

It is oft-quoted – " Nazranis are Hindu in culture, Christian in faith and Syrian in liturgy ".

An oft-quoted poem, it is popularly used to illustrate the dramatic monologue form.

One oft-quoted statistic is that the Ventures outsold The Beatles 2-to-1 in Japan.

Macdonald's oft-quoted description from Scotland's Gift: Golf is as follows:

Ralph Waldo Emerson is credited with the oft-quoted remark in favor of innovation: " Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door.

Guest's most famous poem is the oft-quoted " Home ":

( A similar oft-quoted claim states that von Lettow-Vorbeck also apologized for the " ungentlemanly death " of British hunter Frederick Selous at the hands of one of his snipers, however this claim is not supported by contemporary evidence.

* The twelve-volume opus Life by Unspiek, Baron Bodissey is an oft-quoted imaginary work referred to in various novels by Jack Vance.

Code of Federal Regulations, Title 47, Part 15 ( 47 CFR 15 ) is an oft-quoted part of Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) rules and regulations regarding unlicensed transmissions.

In an oft-quoted tale it is related that he once, at Tower Hill Underground Station via the public address system, regaled commuters with the deadpan announcement, " I used to be somebody.