The monument of a great man is not of granite or marble or bronze. It consists of his goodness, his deeds, his… — Alfred Armand Montapert Copy Share Image
“She could find no purchase on the older woman’s marble-smooth countenance. There were no cracks to give her a view into her… — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
On the other side of the handrail, the hallway's gray marble floor looks as if we've climbed a stairway through the clouds. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against… — Aldous Huxley 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
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
Book-matched marble is one of the truest ways to showcase the natural beauty of the stone and can become a statement piece… — Jeremiah Brent 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
A grass blade believes that men build palaces for it to grow in. Grass wedges its way between the closest blocks of… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I know all about violence and physical abuse because my first husband used to beat me severely when he got drunk. Once,… — Clare Boothe Luce Copy Share Image
Without the hard little bits of marble which are called 'facts' or 'data' one cannot compose a mosaic; what matters, however, are… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect in attitude… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I can draw pencil lines to show something is moving, but if I'm writing, I struggle with how to write it. The… — Brian Selznick Copy Share Image
How old the world is! I walk between two eternities… What is my fleeting existence in comparison with that decaying rock, that… — Denis Diderot 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
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
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 sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell… — Michelangelo 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
A fool-proof method for sculpting an horse: first, get a huge block of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn't look… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The greatest artist does not have any concept Which a single piece of marble does not itself contain Within its excess, though… — Michelangelo Buonarroti Copy Share Image
Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
By my definition, most art has nothing to do with oil paint or marble. Art is what we're doing when we do… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
[Donald] Trump phenomenon is just marbles with all this toxic stuff, the misogyny, the outright bigotry and so now people are left… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
If someone took the finest marble and knew how to shape it artfully: Prometheus' material was lowly clay, but his statues walked. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The best of artists hath no thought to show which the rough stone in its superfluous shell doth not include; to break… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
The block of marble is not the sculptor, and doesn't see that he's about to become a masterpiece... We're the block of… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Maid of the luminous grey-eyes, Mistress of honey and marble implacable white thighs and Goddess, chaste daughter of Zeus. — Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
Being the first woman speaker and breaking the marble ceiling is pretty important. Now it's time to move on. — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
the wealthy ... live in marble mausoleums surrounded by the suspicions and neuroses that have replaced the medieval moats which once isolated… — Elsa Maxwell Copy Share Image
A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The secret of architectural excellence is to translate the proportions of a dachshund into bricks, mortar and marble. — Christopher Wren Copy Share Image
I dreamt that I dwelt in marble halls, With vassals and serfs at my side, And of all who assembled within those… — Alfred Bunn Copy Share Image
I watch vlogs on YouTube. I watch Jenna Marbles a lot - I think she's really funny - and a lady called… — Maisie Williams Copy Share Image
But soft you, the fair Ophelia: Ope not thy ponderous and marble jaws, But get thee to a nunnery - go! — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I used to play snooker in millionaires' mansions with marble floors and eat at the best places, but that's all over now. — Alex Higgins Copy Share Image
It was just the sort of yatch you'd expect a rock promoter to have. Mirrored ceilings, marble, Jacuzzis and leopard-skin everything, it… — Pamela Anderson Copy Share Image
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