I have come to regard the law courts not as a cathedral but rather as a casino. — Richard Ingrams Copy Share Image
There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Large motorway flyovers are the cathedrals of the modern world. — Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn Copy Share Image
The Christian faith is a grand cathedral with divinely pictured windows. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
You can't build a cathedral in a day. A look at the club's history tells you these things take time. — Gerard Houllier Copy Share Image
I always like to play in beautiful cathedrals, when I can somehow get access to do a punk show there. — Phil Elverum Copy Share Image
Cathedrals, luxury liners laden with souls, Holding to the east their hulls of stone. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness. — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
People said making clothes inside out was not proper. I disagreed, because clothes that are inside out are as beautiful as a… — Sonia Rykiel Copy Share Image
Kindness is the color in the cathedral window which woven into beautiful characters shuts out the hideous sights of a world which… — James Leonard Gordon Copy Share Image
I love church buildings, particularly cathedrals, and I like living in spaces that remind me of music or evoke that creative energy. — Laura Mvula Copy Share Image
Italy valued cathedrals while Spain valued explorers. So worldwide, five times as many people speak Spanish than Italian. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
You think my paintings are calm, like windows in some cathedral? You should look again. I'm the most violent of all the… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
We thought of universities as the cathedrals of the modern world. In the middle ages, the cathedral was the center and symbol… — Roger Revelle Copy Share Image
[Rumi] is trying to get us to feel the vastness of our true identity... like the sense you might get walking into… — Coleman Barks Copy Share Image
If the Church is not Making Disciples, then all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible, are a waste of time. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
What is the crowning glory of your civilization... the symbol as clear a statement as the pyramids, the Parthenon, the cathedrals? What… — George Nelson Copy Share Image
The perfume of the flowers and of the bay tree are wafted on high, like incense. The birds sing sweet songs of… — William Wendt Copy Share Image
Five days a week I drive from our home to the Episcopal Cathedral Center of Los Angeles where I have an office,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You can’t bring an unwritten place to life without losing something substantial. Manila is the cradle, the graveyard, the memory. The Mecca,… — Miguel Syjuco Copy Share Image
Religious liberty in a nation is as real as the liberty of its least popular religious minority. Look not to the size… — Paul Blanshard Copy Share Image
You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Grandeur . . . consists in form, and not in size: and to the eye of the philosopher, the curve drawn on… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
If I were to choose the sights, the sounds, the fragrances I most would want to see and hear and smell--among all… — Edwin Way Teale Copy Share Image
The information that was contained in a cathedral was based upon a common culture - a common Christian culture - and the… — Eugene Green Copy Share Image
Every generation has its war. I have just been reminded of mine. It ended in 1989, 43 years after it began, the… — Simon Jenkins Copy Share Image
A parable: A man was examining the construction of a cathedral. He asked a stone mason what he was doing chipping the… — Richard Hamming Copy Share Image
It seems that, after nineteen centuries of extraordinary glorification, the small Host for which so many cathedrals have sprung up, the small… — Francois Mauriac Copy Share Image
The confusion of spirit and body is quite understandable in a culture where spirit is concretized in magnificent skyscrapers, where cathedrals have… — Marion Woodman Copy Share Image
Bertrand Russell said, 'Electricity is not a thing like St. Paul's Cathedral; it is a way in which things behave.' And it's… — Mary Jo Bang Copy Share Image
I have friends who are capable of writing a very rough draft and then going back and embroidering - they're sort of… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
A true leader is one who designs the cathedral and then shares the vision that inspires others to build it. — Jan Carlzon Copy Share Image
“The Christian catacombs represent simplicity and earthiness; the cathedrals, transcendence and wonder.” — Russell Moore Copy Share Image
A cathedral, a wave of a storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image