My girlfriend: sophomore honors student, demigod, and—oh, yeah—head architect for redesigning the palace of the gods on Mount Olympus in her spare… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
The experience of life is very bitter. it is sweet only in imagination. In its reality it is very bitter. He escaped… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
All the fairy tales of Aladdin, or the invisible Gyges, or the talisman that opens kings' palaces, or the enchanted halls underground… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I wanted to work in the arts. My dream come true would be to be an architectural historian and work with the… — Jaye Davidson Copy Share Image
Culture makes the whole world our dwelling place; our palace in which we take our ease and find ourselves at one with… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
The muffled tongue of Big Ben tolled nine by the clock as the cortege left the palace, but on history's clock it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It was a palace, made entirely of gold, sitting on an island of silver snow at the very top of the world.… — Jessica Day George Copy Share Image
Whatever is pure is also simple. It does not keep the eye on itself. The observer forgets the window in the landscape… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
in reference to Persepolis and all palaces, cities and temples of the past: could these wonders have come into being without that… — Ryszard Kapuscinski Copy Share Image
Anyone who has walked through the deserted palaces of Versailles or Vienna realise how much of a part of the life of… — William Rees-Mogg Copy Share Image
A grass blade believes that men build palaces for it to grow in. Grass wedges its way between the closest blocks of… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
It is alarming ... to see Mr Gandhi, a seditious Middle Temple lawyer, now posing as a fakir of a type well-known… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I'll give my jewels for a set of beads, My gorgeous palace for a hermitage, My gay apparel for an almsman's gown,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
…my Lolita remarked: “You know, what’s so dreadful about dying is that you are completely on your own”; and it struck me,… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
We got an expression ride back to the palace of Hades. Nico sent word ahead, thanks to some ghost he summoned out… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
The room was quiet, the others flicking glances at me. I ignored them. After years in Sounis's palaces being eyed with disgust… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
All alternatives are open. Choose to be blissful. And then there are people who can be blissful even when they are imprisoned,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Prostitution in the towns is like the cesspool in the palace; take away the cesspool and the palace will become an unclean… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
The lightsome countenance of a friend giveth such an inward decking to the house where it lodgeth, as proudest palaces have cause… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
What if we never 'get over' certain deaths, or our childhoods? What if the idea that we should have by now, or… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
In 1776, the Americans laid before Europe that noble Declaration, which ought to be hung up in the nursery of every king,… — Henry Thomas Buckle Copy Share Image
The journalist's job is to get the story by breaking into their offices, by bribing, by seducing people, by lying, by anything… — Robert Scheer Copy Share Image
Secrets, silent, stony sit in the dark palaces of both our hearts: secrets weary of their tyranny: tyrants willing to be dethroned. — James Joyce Copy Share Image
It is sparkling light, aromatic plants, a lofty palace, a flowing river, ripe fruit, a beautiful wife and abundant clothing, in an… — Muhammad Copy Share Image
It so happens that the work which is likely to be our most durable monument, and to convey some knowledge of us… — Montgomery Schuyler Copy Share Image
Britain is obviously one of the world powers and they bombed the World Trade Centre, which is a landmark in itself, and… — Robbie Kearns Copy Share Image
Whoever prefers the material comforts of life over intellectual wealth is like the owner of a palace who moves into the servants’… — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
It is best to meet in a cul-de-sac, A palace of velvet With windows of mirrors. There one is safe, There are… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Playing sports has always been my greatest pleasure. I don't smoke, I hardly drink alcohol. Sports helped get me into the presidential… — Evo Morales Copy Share Image
I went to Buckingham Palace and I wanted to take something from there, but there was nothing good to steal, although I… — Konnie Huq Copy Share Image
I confess that I do not see what good it does to fulminate against the English tyranny while the Roman tyranny occupies… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Saloons provide moments of genuine ecstasy - but only if your soul is at peace and the rest of your life bears… — Wilfrid Sheed Copy Share Image
A poem with grandly conceived and executed stanzas, such as one of Keats's odes, should be like an enfilade of rooms in… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
After all, what more does a true genius want? The mind itself is the palace where all the real treasures, the works… — Alex Scarrow Copy Share Image
As a splendid palace deserted by its inmates looks like a ruin, so does a man without character, all his material belongings… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage but He is building a palace. He intends to come &… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Los Angeles has the greatest concentration of surviving movie palaces in the United States, yet most residents have never been inside one… — Leonard Maltin Copy Share Image
Nature provides that a man who slaves all day should spend the hours of the night in a palace full of houris… — Khushwant Singh Copy Share Image
