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
The greatest artist has no conception which a single block of white marble does not potentially contain within its mass, but only… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
The problem is, you can't tell people these things. They'll think you're crazy. And I say to myself: What can I do… — Roberto Arlt Copy Share Image
The work of art is already within the block of marble. I just chop off whatever isn't needed. — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
You must understand what the Parthenon Marbles mean to us. They are our pride. They are our sacrifices. They are our noblest… — Melina Mercouri Copy Share Image
I can remember the lush spring excitement of language in childhood. Sitting in church, rolling it around my mouth like marbles--tabernacle and… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets as Raphael painted pictures, sweep streets as Michelangelo carved marble,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Sometimes I carry a Green Marble SeLr setting spray. It's the one drag queens use. That is bomb. — Jeannie Mai Copy Share Image
Let me just say that, if you ever have the choice of putting your words in powerpoint or having them carved into… — Peter Norvig Copy Share Image
Fill your mouth with marbles and make a speech. Every day reduce the number of marbles in your mouth and make a… — Brooks Hays 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
Two thousand summers have imparted to the monuments of Grecian literature, as to her marbles, only a maturer golden and autumnal tint,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I walked across the polished marble floor and sat on a red velvet lounging couch. I idly wondered how exactly one was… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I consider an human soul without education like marble in the quarry, which shows none of its inherent beauties till the skill… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The top players in every field think differently when all the marbles are on the line. Great performers focus on what they… — John Eliot Copy Share Image
It's like growing lotus flowers. You cannot grow lotus flowers on marble. You have to grow them on the mud. Without mud… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
When I was a child, I loved 'The Marble Faun' by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The reason I liked it was because it had… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Others may fashion more smoothly images of bronze (I for one believe it), evoke living faces from marble, plead causes better, trace… — Virgil Copy Share Image
As polishing expresses the vein in marble, and grain in wood, so music brings out what of heroic lurks anywhere. The hero… — Henry David Thoreau 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
Keeping up the appearance of having all your marbles is hard work, but important. — Sara Gruen Copy Share Image
I think the hardest part of writing is revising. And by that I mean the following: A novelist has to create the… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
The water rose further and dressed Simon's coarse hair with brightness. The line of his cheek silvered and the turn of his… — William Golding Copy Share Image
How is the newcomer to deal with Rome? What is one to make of this marble rubble, this milk of wolves, this… — Shana Alexander Copy Share Image
