Saw Washington Monument. Phallic. Appalling. A national catastrophe. — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
Bury my body and don't build any monument. Keep my hands out so the people know the one who won the world… — Alexander The Great Copy Share Image
Artists do not need monuments erected for them because their works are their monuments. — Antonio Gaudi Copy Share Image
A broken heart is a monument to a love that will never die; fulfillment is a monument to a love that is… — George Jean Nathan Copy Share Image
We stone our prophets, then build monuments to them after they're gone. — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
The redundant locks, robustious to no purpose, clustering down--vast monument of strength. — John Milton Copy Share Image
People are quick to make monuments of anything they live long enough to control. — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
Friday, August 04, 2006 MONUMENT posted 8:31 AM Silver nitrous girls pointed into occult winds of porn and destiny. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Aristotelian logic is massive and marmoreal, but every monument accumulates graffiti. — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
What earnest worker, with hand and brain for the benefit of his fellowmen, could desire a more pleasing recognition of his usefulness… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
nothing she did or said was quite what she meant but still her life could be called a monument shaped in a… — Carol Shields Copy Share Image
In all my shows, I'm not interested in the iconic shots of the Capitol and the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial.… — David Nevins Copy Share Image
“Chicago—this vicious, stinking zoo, this mean-grinning, Mace-smelling boneyard of a city; an elegant rockpile monument to everything cruel and stupid and corrupt… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Someone who expresses a view that is contrary to the view of the overwhelming majority should be allowed to stand undisturbed as… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
A wise nation preserves its records, gathers up its monuments, decorates the tombes of its illustrious dead, repairs its greatest structures and… — Joseph Howe Copy Share Image
a. Critics: people who make monuments out of books. b. Biographers: people who make books out of monuments. c. Poets: people who… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
The name Peace River itself is the monument of a successful effort on the part of the Company to bring about a… — Ernest Thompson Seton Copy Share Image
“When we gaze at the magnificence of an ancient monument and ascribe its achievement to one man, we are guilty of spiritual… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I was also reminded of one of the unique charms of NYC in the summer: vast piles of rotting garbage piled on… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
I was rather shaken by all the green trees. I always am. It gets me. I don't want to be funny about… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
When we read with attention the poetical and philosophical monuments of the East--above all, those of India, which are beginning to spread… — Victor Cousin Copy Share Image
What we really need the poet's and orator's I help to keep alive in us is not, then, the common and gregarious… — William James Copy Share Image
At one with the power of the American landscape, and renowned for the patient skill and timeless beauty of his work, photographer… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
When I was young I once found a book in a Dutch translation, 'The leaves of Grass'. It was the first time… — Karel Appel Copy Share Image
Egyptian pyramids or obelisks – seemed to be the basis of the great memorials that have kept their significance and dignity across… — Eero Saarinen Copy Share Image
I feel this way about it. World trade means world peace and consequently the World Trade Center buildings in New York ...… — Minoru Yamasaki Copy Share Image
When I remember that dizzy summer, that dull, stupid, lovely, dire summer, it seems that in those days I ate my lunches,… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
