Underneath my stiffened gown Is the softness of a woman bathing in a marble basin — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
My heart is wax molded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My eye-balls are glass, my limbs marble, my face fixed in its marble mask. — Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
“It is better to be a marble in a hut than a brick in a palace.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty. — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
[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 Copy Share Image
Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
History, after all, is a process, not a position, and it is not best written in bronze and marble. It is complex,… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
I've read in many a novel, that unless they've souls that grovel-- Folks prefer in fact a hovel to your dreary marble… — Charles Stuart Calverley Copy Share Image
Deep in the heart of the infinite darkness, a tiny blue marble is spinning through space. Born in the splendor of God's… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
For men use, if they have an evil turn, to write it in marble; and whoso doth us a good turn we… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
I know in London a Welsh hairdresser who has striven so vehemently to abolish his accent that he sounds like a man… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
Without my airplane I am an ordinary man, and a useless one - a trainer without a horse, a sculptor without marble,… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
The Earth reminded us of a Christmas tree ornament hanging in the blackness of space. As we got farther and farther away… — James Irwin Copy Share Image
Niches set back in the walls contained polished marble statues of entwined bodies. Will looked away from them hastily, and then back.… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
(Ravic speaking of a butterfly caught in the Louvre) In the morning it would search for flowers and life and the light… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
The sculptor who deals with form seeks to imprison beauty in a marble statue that will withstand the ravages of time during… — Max Heindel Copy Share Image
I feel closer ties and more intimate bonds with certain characters in books, with certain images I’ve seen in engravings, than with… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
not wholly consciously, but not quite unconsciously, as far as I can remember, I determined to fashion my future as a sculptor… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
If you look at the entrance halls of the skyscrapers of the 1920s and 1930s, they are very welcoming. They are public… — Joseph Rykwert Copy Share Image
The magnificent lobby of the Chrysler Building - faced with rare marbles, aglitter with decorative metalwork, and surmounted by a ceiling painted… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
It is not so much in buying pictures as in being pictures, that you can encourage a noble school. The best patronage… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
It's still a load. If there was balance, the soldier boys would all be dead, and we'd be sitting pretty in the… — Paolo Bacigalupi Copy Share Image
Rome was mud and smoky skies; the rank smell of the Tiber and the exotically spiced cooking fires of a hundred different… — Marion Zimmer Bradley Copy Share Image
As an attorney, I assure you the law isn't a line engraved in marble, immovable and unchangeable through the centuries. Rather the… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The world values the seer above all men, and has always done so. Nay, it values all men in proportion as they… — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image
Those who will may raise monuments of marble to perpetuate the fame of heroes. Those who will may build memorial halls to… — Joshua Chamberlain Copy Share Image
The authour who imitates his predecessors only by furnishing himself with thoughts and elegances out of the same general magazine of literature,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The discussion of the game of marbles seems to have led us into rather deep waters. But in the eyes of children… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor. — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
You find me at work; excuse the dust on my blouse. I sculpt my marble myself. — Camille Claudel Copy Share Image
If a man has done evil in his life, he must not be complimented in marble. — Charles Sumner Copy Share Image
Too many people write their blessings in the sand but engrave their sorrows in marble — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Trying to fill the God-sized hole in our hearts with things other than God is like trying to fill the Grand Canyon… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
He [Caesar Augustus] found a city built of brick; he left it built of marble. [Lat., Urbem lateritiam accepit, mamoream relinquit.] — Suetonius Copy Share Image
The first among mankind will always be those who make something imperishable out of a sheet of paper, a canvas, a piece… — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
What is experience? A poor little hut constructed from the ruins of the palace of gold and marble called our illusions. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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