You may name a bronze statue 'Liberty,' or a painted figure in a city hall 'Commerce,' or a marble form in a… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
In creation myths, a god shapes mud or clay into living form, much like a potter throws a pot or a sculptor… — Stuart Dybek Copy Share Image
When I come to a new city is I combine: I say, well, it's like Barcelona and Edinburgh, though I can't imagine… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Who builds a church to God and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Through my blue fingers, pink grains are falling, haphazard, random, a disorganized stream of silicone that seems pregnant with the possibility of… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Why do people write books that say it's better to be older than to be younger? It's not better. Even if you… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
Economy denotes the the proper management of materials and of site, as well as a thrifty balancing of cost and common sense… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
The best sculptor is the one who can most accurately reproduce in marble the image that he sees before him. The good… — Sterling W Sill Copy Share Image
Extreme torture is mute, and so we sat silent, petrified, like columns of marble buried under the sand of an earthquake. Neither… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As when, O lady mine, With chiselled touch The stone unhewn and cold Becomes a living mould, The more the marble wastes,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every piece of marble has a statue in it waiting to be released by a person of sufficient skill to chip away… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Christians well know that the much-decorated statue of the Church, as it now stands, is not of pure chiseled marble, but of… — Virchand Gandhi Copy Share Image
The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I'm interested in the sculptural experience, glass, marble, colored bricks, stones, wood. There's no stadium out there that approximates it [the Marlins']… — Jeffrey Loria Copy Share Image
The great doctors all got their education off dirt pavements and poverty - not marble floors and foundations. — Martin H. Fischer Copy Share Image
This is it. It's for all the marbles. I'm sitting in the house loading up the pump, I'm loading up the Uzis,… — Kevin Garnett Copy Share Image
I am convinced, by repeated observation, that marbles, lime-stones, chalks, marls, clays, sand, and almost all terrestrial substances, wherever situated, are full… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Copy Share Image
I'm the kind of person who would have liked to have lived at the Plaza. I love crystal chandeliers and gold leaf,… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
There is a big difference between The Merchant of Venice and a photograph of two males of different races in an erotic… — Jesse Helms Copy Share Image
The Arab who built himself a hut with marbles from the temple of Palmyra is more philosophical than all the curators of… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
Professionalism in tennis ... only resulted in making billionaires out of rude children, producing an onslaught of moody defectors, and a lot… — Dan Jenkins Copy Share Image
You must be mistaken," Isabel said, unconcerned by the insult that the words carried. "I assure you i am not. Voluptas is… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
Blessed be Death, that cuts in marble What would have sunk to dust! — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
