The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Nature paints not; In oils, but frescoes the great dome of heaven; With sunsets, and the lovely forms of clouds; And flying… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Wait," said Butler. "Just wait, Holly. Artemis has a plan." He squinted through the green dome. "What is your plan, Artemis?" All… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
Filled with rapture, his soul yearned for freedom, space, vastness. Over him the heavenly dome, full of quiet, shining stars, hung boundlessly.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A city where the Capitol Dome, perforated like a kitchen colander, is the symbol of how secrets are kept. — Leslie Ford Copy Share Image
I also hope that with the assistance and expertise of Dome Records, that I will be able to further pierce the UK… — George Duke Copy Share Image
The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity; Himself from God he… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When my dad toured in '91, I think my first gig properly was the Tokyo Dome, 50,000 people indoors. That was pretty… — Dhani Harrison Copy Share Image
You wouldn't want to live a life in which you are loved or approved by all people on Earth or even within… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
Nor need we power or splendour, wide hall or lordly dome; the good, the true, the tender, these form the wealth of… — Sarah Josepha Hale Copy Share Image
With writing and publishing, my only aim is to live in the aesthetic pleasure dome. — Ken Baumann Copy Share Image
The mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets and the faithful our soldiers... — Recep Tayyip Erdogan Copy Share Image
In the later nineteenth century, the tops of skyscrapers often took the shape of domes, surmounted by jaunty gilded lanterns; later came… — Brendan Gill Copy Share Image
Go where he will, the wise man is at home, His hearth the earth, his hall the azure dome. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When we die, as when the scenes have been fixed on to celluloid and the scenery is pulled down and burnt —… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
Architects in urban planning are talking about this but they're not talking about it yet I don't think at that level that… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Moreover, a book is not made of sentences laid end to end, but of sentences built, if an image helps, into arcades… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Just a small-scale cult of personality, maybe raise a geodetic dome out in western Massachusetts and make people wear jumpsuits and give… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
But Justice, though her dome she doe prolong, Yet at the last she will her owne cause right. — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
The honest ratepayer and his healthy family have no doubt often mocked at the dome-like forehead of the philosopher, and laughed over… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
And ultimately, it's good for all of us to have more original programming on the air. Business doesn't drive the creative. So,… — Nina Tassler Copy Share Image
By the way, if I have my own cult of personality with my own geodetic dome in western Massachusetts, I will have… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
Spread outward. Crack the round dome. Break through. Have liberty not as the air within a grave Or down a well. Breathe… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
This City now doth like a garment wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
