Photography has always been a simple medium, compared to painting in oil or chipping at marble. — John Gossage Copy Share Image
Do men who have got all their marbles go swimming in lakes with their clothes on? — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
I laid my face to the smooth face of the marble and howled my loss into the cold salt rain. — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
We are too prone to engrave our trials in marble and write our blessings in sand. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Even when conservatives have all the marbles, they still act as if they're under siege. Now that they are under siege, it… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
There were seventy-five people in the lobby and only a seven-year-old girl was finding out what it felt like to sit on… — Hugh Prather Copy Share Image
Sculpture is not the mere cutting of the form of anything in stone; it is the cutting of the effect of it.… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Man is a marble piece; unlike Michelangelo's masterpieces, man is unconsciously carved and imperfectly shaped by the nature — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If so men's memories not a monument be, None shalt thou have. Warm hearts, and not cold stone, Must mark thy grave,… — John Vance Cheney 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
How do you know it was the blighted pile? Did you recognize Maiwenn’s gift?” “No, but there was a marble bust of… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Literature is the noblest of all the arts. Music dies on the air, or at best exists only as a memory; oratory… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
I often envy my friends who are visual artists. Visual artists have other things to work with. Other media. I envy my… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
“Waiting for clarity is like being a sculptor staring at a piece of marble, waiting for the statue within to cast off… — Steve Pavlina Copy Share Image
I have a 'glamour job' on the Hill. That is, I could not care less about gov or politics, but working for… — Jessica Cutler Copy Share Image
Tell the story, gather the events, repeat them. Pattern is a matter of upkeep. Otherwise the weave relaxes back to threads picked… — Ann-Marie MacDonald Copy Share Image
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
Lenin is an artist who has worked men, as other artists have worked marble or metals. But men are harder than stone… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
Lincoln has been my first love, and as always with first loves, it fixed a standard. So I scaled sunlit heights with… — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
The immortal mind, superior to his fate, amid the outrage of external things, firm as the solid base of this great world,… — Mark Akenside Copy Share Image
There is always, in the fine arts, a physical interface between the artist's esthetic vision and the material result he seeks. The… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Alexandros of Antioch took a block of marble and chiseled away from it everything that was not his masterpiece, the Venus de… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Up and away for life! be fleet!- The frost-king ties my fumbling feet, Sings in my ears, my hands are stones, Curdles… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Constantine, the Emperor, saw something in the religion of Christ's people which awakened his interest, and now we see him uniting religion… — George W Truett Copy Share Image
... not only is life put in new patterns from the air, but it is somehow arrested, frozen into form. (The leaping… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
One of the heavy marble busts that lined the higher shelves had slid free and was falling toward her; she ducked out… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton knows, as I did know, as my women members know - that a woman being elected to a position, it's… — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
I have nothing Of woman in me; now from head to foot I am marble-constant. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has. — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
CLARE: The library is cool and smells like carpet cleaner, although all I can see is marble. — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
