I wanted to emulate my parents - Mum captained India in basketball, and Dad won a bronze in hockey in 1972 Olympics.… — Leander Paes Copy Share Image
I served two tours of duty in Vietnam. I won the Bronze Star. I won the Purple Heart. — Ron Kovic Copy Share Image
The great unmentionable evil at the center of our culture is monotheism. From a barbaric Bronze Age text known as the Old… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
These guys are just flying through the air and I'm capturing them in the split second and putting it into a work… — Richard MacDonald Copy Share Image
I did bronze survival swimming. I could save people in a bronzey kind of way. — Eddie Izzard Copy Share Image
When the long, varnished buds of beech Point out beyond their reach, And tanned by summer suns Leaves of bright bryony turn… — Andrew Young Copy Share Image
When you have a bunch of comfortable upholstered pieces, a single bronze or brass chair really turns the energy up. — Nate Berkus Copy Share Image
It isnecessary to destroy the pretended nobility, entirely literaryand traditional, of marble and bronze? The sculptor can use twenty different materials, or… — Umberto Boccioni Copy Share Image
I might have preferred iron - but bronze will do. It won't rust. This time I hope, the head will stay on. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Tiles, the best furniture, fabrics, bath fixtures, bronze - just leaf through any design magazine and you immediately understand they're all 'Made… — Lapo Elkann Copy Share Image
I have a bronze statue of myself, naked. I have these really big curls and water comes out of every curl. It's… — Macy Gray Copy Share Image
...opening up a newspaper is the key to looking classy and smart. Never mind the bronze-plated stuff about the role of the… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
Traveling across the United States, it's easy to see why Americans are often thought of as stupid. At the San Diego Zoo,… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
I have never got a grip on when the past begins or where it ends, but if cities map the past with… — Deborah Levy Copy Share Image
Mythologically speaking, if there's anything I hate worse than trios of old ladies, it's bulls. Last summer, I fought the Minotaur on… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Others may fashion more smoothly images of bronze (I for one believe it), evoke living faces from marble, plead causes better, trace… — Virgil Copy Share Image
Presently he rose and approached the case before which she stood. Its glass shelves were crowded with small broken objects —hardly recognisable… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
September 11 was a day of de-Enlightenment. Politics stood revealed as a veritable Walpurgis Night of the irrational. And such old, old… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Ghosts of melodious prophesyings rave Round every spot where trod Apollo's foot; Bronze clarions awake, and faintly bruit, Where long ago a… — John Keats Copy Share Image
Hundreds of years ago, Indian artists created visual images of dancing Shivas in a beautiful series of bronzes. In our time, physicists… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
I got a bronze medal and I can't complain about that, the only African-American to get a medal in the Winter Olympics. — Debi Thomas Copy Share Image
Spring is the fresh green of young corn and the pink blush of blossoms. Autumn contrasts the yellowed foilage with violet hues.… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Putting up a statue to someone who tried to stop a war is not very, um, statuesque. Of course, if you had… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Convince yourself that you are working in clay, not marble, on paper not eternal bronze: Let that first sentence be as stupid… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Gentlemen, if ever a generation will come after us which is so weak and soft-hearted that it doesn't understand our task, then… — Odilo Globocnik Copy Share Image
