I sailed on the cold air currents above the rooftops of Paris. I could see the river, the Louvre Museum, the gardens… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Each suburban housewife spends her time presiding over a power plant sufficient to have staffed the palace of a Roman emperor with… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Don't ever ask me again if I hate living anywhere with you and Jasmina. This Rock reminds me of the boy I… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
I have a little gypsy palace here in New York. It's all mirrors, and I have my own garden. It's so secluded… — Neon Hitch Copy Share Image
There is a proper measure in all things, certain limits beyond which and short of which right is not to be found.… — Horace Copy Share Image
On this waterlogged landscape…are scattered palaces and hovels…It is here that the human spirit becomes perfect, and at the same time brutalised,… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Tyrants never perish from tyranny, but always from folly,-when their fantasies have built up a palace for which the earth has no… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
You thought you were going to be made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Thou who didst waken from his summer dreams The blue Mediterranean, where he lay, Lull'd by the coil of his crystalline streams… — Percy Bysshe Shelley 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
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
One person I do feel a little sorry for, though, is the Archbishop of Canterbury, the most important clergyman in Britain and… — Pat Condell Copy Share Image
God Almighty first planted a Garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
One must believe neither the people of the palace, who ordinarily measure the power of the king by the shape of his… — Cardinal Richelieu Copy Share Image
one reason we haven't any national art is because we have too much magnificence. All our capacity for admiration is used up… — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
I met Indira Gandhi in her office in the government palace. The same office that had been her father's - large, cold… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
Look outside the window. Do you see the fence outside the palace? Do you see any guards? This is a country where… — Alexander Lukashenko Copy Share Image
If you want to live, go back to Christ. You are not Christians. Go back to Christ. Go back to him who… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Let every dirty, lousy tramp arm himself with a revolver or a knife, and lay in wait on the steps of the… — Lucy Parsons Copy Share Image
I would not be a rose upon the wall A queen might stop at, near the palace-door, To say to a courtier,… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
Simply naming objectives isn't sufficient for a vision. If I say that I'm going to build a large palace, but I don't… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
Your rat tail is all the fashion now. I prefer a bushy plume, carried straight up. You are Siamese and your ancestors… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
In a simple and a peaceful cottage with a beautiful view, you will not be dreaming about the palaces or the heaven,… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
And he who gives a child a treat Makes joy-bells ring in Heaven's street, And he who gives a child a home… — John Masefield Copy Share Image
All is extremely genteel; and there is almost as much repose as in the golden saloons of the contiguous palaces. At any… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
We have to be focused on not just who is in [Donald's Trump] favor and who is in his good graces and… — Chuck Todd Copy Share Image
I don't see much point in doing things for a pure joke. Every now and then you need a joke, but not… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
But one day we shall be rich, and the next poor. One day we shall dine in a palace and the next… — Katherine Mansfield 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
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
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
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
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
It would be good to see what the Queen gets up to at Buckingham Palace. I bet she spends her whole time… — Amelia Warner Copy Share Image