Marble Quotes · Page 12

Maid of the luminous grey-eyes, Mistress of honey and marble implacable white thighs and Goddess, chaste daughter of Zeus.

— Hilda Doolittle

I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.

— Auguste Rodin

Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm.

— Alexander Pope

To me, life is like the back nine in golf. Sometimes you play better on the back nine. You may not be…

— Clint Eastwood

Men have marble, women waxen, minds.

— William Shakespeare

One minute I'm standing at Ronnie Scott's getting a standing ovation and the next minute, I'm on a marble slab

— Keith Richards

There's a one-eyed yellow idol to the north of Khatmandu, There's a little marble cross below the town, There's a broken-hearted woman…

— J. Milton Hayes

Lenin is an artist who has worked men, as other artists have worked marble or metals. But men are harder than stone…

— Benito Mussolini

Youth dreams a bliss on this side of death. It dreams a rest, if not more deep, More grateful than this marble…

— Matthew Arnold

Man enjoys living on the edge of his dreams and neglects the real things of the world which are so beautiful. The…

— Auguste Rodin

A strong will deals with the hard facts of life as a sculptor with his marbles, making them facile and yielding to…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

cats will be clean in a pigsty while pigs will be dirty in a marble hall.

— Vicki Baum

[I]n the end this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having reigned such a…

— Elizabeth I

When he at least reached the door the handle had cease to vibrate. Lowering himself suddenly to his knees he placed his…

— Mervyn Peake

Too many people write their blessings in the sand but engrave their sorrows in marble

— Charles Spurgeon

We are each given a block of marble when we begin a lifetime, and the tools to shape it into sculpture. We…

— Richard Bach

All alternatives are open. Choose to be blissful. And then there are people who can be blissful even when they are imprisoned,…

— Rajneesh

In my office, I have a very beautiful marble bust of Seneca. I always have my eye on him when I'm taking…

— Brunello Cucinelli

Celebrity: I picture myself as a marble bust with legs to run everywhere.

— Jean Cocteau

Those who will may raise monuments of marble to perpetuate the fame of heroes. Those who will may build memorial halls to…

— Joshua Chamberlain

The best of artists hath no thought to show which the rough stone in its superfluous shell doth not include; to break…

— Michelangelo

I dreamt that I dwelt in marble halls, With vassals and serfs at my side, And of all who assembled within those…

— Alfred Bunn

The Lord doesn't care at all if we spend our days working in marble halls or stable stalls. He knows where we…

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.

— Augustus

Man's history has been graven on the rock of Egypt, stamped on the brick of Assyria, enshrined in the marble of the…

— Charles Thomas Newton