It's like my having to walk down thousands and thousands of white marble stairs...and nothing but a very very blue sky, very… — Edie Sedgwick Copy Share Image
At Halicarnassus, the house of that most potent king Mausolus, though decorated throughout with Proconnesian marble, has walls built of brick which… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
As we got further and further away, it [the Earth] dimished in size. Finally it shrank to the size of a marble,… — James Irwin Copy Share Image
As her sons have seen her: the mother in patriarchy: controlling, erotic, castrating, heart-suffering, guilt-ridden, and guilt-provoking; a marble brow, a huge… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Once you realize that everyone is in the same boat, that everyone is just as insecure and childlike as everyone else, that… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
A man may as well hew marble without tools, or paint without colors or instruments, or build without materials, as perform any… — Joseph Alleine Copy Share Image
“I sometimes wonder if the hand is not more sensitive to the beauties of sculpture than the eye. I should think the… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Schoolboy days are no happier than the days of afterlife, but we look back upon them regretfully because we have forgotten our… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The view of earth is spectacular from space. Most people imagine that when astronauts look out the window of the shuttle they… — Sally Ride Copy Share Image
The lobbies of the new hotels and the Pan American Building exhale a chill as from the unopened Pharaonic tombs... And in… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
An American store is generally a very extensive apartment, handsomely decorated, the roof frequently supported on marble pillars. The owner or clerk… — Isabella Bird Copy Share Image
A man with a full stomach and the respect of his fellows had no business to scold about anything that he might… — Stephen Crane 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
“But Fuchsia might as well have been carved from dark marble. Only her tears moved.” — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
cats will be clean in a pigsty while pigs will be dirty in a marble hall. — Vicki Baum Copy Share Image
Marble flooring is to a Punjabi what a foreign degree is to a Tamilian — Chetan Bhagat Copy Share Image
Blessed be Death, that cuts in marble What would have sunk to dust! — Edna St. Vincent Millay 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
Yes, the work comes out more beautiful from a material that resists the process, verse, marble, onyx, or enamel. — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
The building is a national tragedy - a cross between a concrete candy box and a marble sarcophagus in which the art… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
I wanted to do pretty much a purely boy story, yes. The girls are kind of the bad guys in 'Marble Season',… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People are trying so hard to become famous. Johnny Marbles, he tried to throw a pie in Rupert Murdoch's face. What do… — Andy Kindler 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
Where the statue stood Of Newton, with his prism and silent face, The marble index of a mind forever Voyaging through strange… — William Wordsworth 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
I had taken the photograph from afar (distance being the basic glitch in our relationship), using my Nikon and zoom lens while… — Joan Bauer Copy Share Image
“If we work upon marble, it will perish. If we work upon brass, time will efface it. But if we work upon… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
In testimony of their Respect For The Patriot of incorruptible Integrity, The Soldier of approved Valour The Statesman of consummate Wisdom; Whose… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
German is of stone, limestone, pudding stone, marble, granite even, and so to a considerable degree is English, whereas French is bronze… — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
After all, what was the whole wide world but a place for people to yearn for their heart's impossible desires, for those… — Richard Russo 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