Art is created in a state of delirium. Anyting else is the restoration of monuments. Collectors are artist that do not have… — Gunter Brus Copy Share Image
Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard - both as regards the monuments and… — Benjamin Jowett Copy Share Image
The field of the Geologist's inquiry is the Globe itself, ... [and] it is his study to decipher the monuments of the… — William Buckland Copy Share Image
Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat like patience on a… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
We need to build a beautiful granite and bronze monument in our nation's capital to honor American heroes, unsung American heroes. And… — Bernard Goldberg Copy Share Image
For more than half a century, during which kingdoms and empires have fallen, this Union has stood unshaken. The patriots who formed… — Zachary Taylor Copy Share Image
I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Come let us mock at the great That had such burdens on the mind And toiled so hard and late To leave… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I have wished you dead and myself dead. How could it be otherwise. I have broken into you like a burglar. And… — Alicia Ostriker Copy Share Image
There was movement along the fringe of Chauncey's vision, and he snapped his head to the left. At first glance what appeared… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
One of the glories of doing the book So You Want to Be President? was the shifts in tone, where I was… — David Small Copy Share Image
What excites and interests the looker-on at life, what the romances and the statues celebrate, and the grim civic monuments remind us… — William James Copy Share Image
I hope there will be no effort to put up a shaft or any monument of that sort in memory of me… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
That is no country for old men. The young In one another's arms, birds in the trees - Those dying generations-at their… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Well, that's why I really love Diego Della Valle, because he's crazy. Instead of going out to find a top business school… — Ines de La Fressange Copy Share Image
We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
In all ages the people have honored those who dishonored them. They have worshiped their destroyers; they have canonized the most gigantic… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I knew that I shouldn’t have, but I did it all the same; and there you have my epitaph, or one of… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Man's drive for self-expression, which over the centuries has built his monuments, does not stay within its bounds; the creations which yesterday… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It was a small church. No large cathedral towers overshadowed the purpose of the house of worship. It was a monument to… — Richard W. Kelly Copy Share Image
Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps; And pyramids are pyramids in vales. Each man makes his own stature, builds himself.… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
The centuries-old history and culture of India, majestic architectural monuments and museums of Delhi, Agra and Mumbai have a unique attractive force. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
“I understood monuments now. Some were built of stone and sweat, and others were built of dreams, but they were all made… — Mary E. Pearson Copy Share Image
The events of human life, whether public or private, are so intimately linked to architecture that most observers can reconstruct nations or… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
It was August 28th, 1963, and the greatest civil rights coalition in modern history had descended upon Washington. Hundreds of thousands of… — Yvette Clarke Copy Share Image
Let him who looks for a monument to Washington look around the United States. Your freedom, your independence, your national power, your… — Lajos Kossuth Copy Share Image
The human body has been called the microcosm of the universe, a little world of wonders and a monument of divine wisdom… — A. B. Simpson Copy Share Image
It is probable that a greater number of monuments of the skill and industry of man will, in the course of the… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral. And the advance of man's knowledge is more of a miracle than any… — Jerome Lawrence Copy Share Image
Another hundred years may pass before we understand the true significance of Apollo. Lunar exploration was not the equivalent of an American… — Gene Cernan Copy Share Image
At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version; and this is the great… — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
“I want to make of your life a monument For the days you lingered in sadness With high towers and wide gardens… — Emmanuelle Soni-Dessaigne Copy Share Image
Are you going to be just kind of a walking monument to a job, or are you going to have some kind… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
I think people should look at learning about Native American history the same as visiting Washington, D.C., and seeing the monuments there.… — Chaske Spencer Copy Share Image
I am telling you that the child will not out live the buildings. Do you understand that wheras women may touch the… — Karen Essex Copy Share Image
(A unified) 'Europe' is the result of plans. It is, in fact, a classic utopian project, a monument to the vanity of… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
These ... tables (values of trignometric functions), constructed by means of new techniques based principally on the calculus of differences, are one… — Adrien-Marie Legendre Copy Share Image
A watchful eye must be kept on ourselves lest while we are building ideal monuments of Renown and Bliss here we neglect… — James Madison Copy Share Image
What are the characteristics of today's world so that one may recognize it by them?" It pays pensions and borrows money: credit… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
No place is a place until things that have happened in it are remembered in history, ballads, yarns, legends, or monuments. Fictions… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image