Some people go to Berlin to get more cutting edge; I went and started wearing lederhosen and going to visit baroque palaces. — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
I embrace everybody, but you work everybody and each song at a time to who it is for. I believe that's how… — B.J. The Chicago Kid Copy Share Image
It would be good to see what the Queen gets up to at Buckingham Palace. I bet she spends her whole time… — Amelia Warner Copy Share Image
I have read somewhere that in the Emperor's palace at Byzantium was a tree made of gold and silver, and artificial birds… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
It is we who built these palaces and cities, here in Spain and America and everywhere. We, the workers. We can build… — Buenaventura Durruti Copy Share Image
The Bible goes equally to the cottage of the peasant, and the palace of the king. - It is woven into literature,… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
The great monuments are raised up like dams, pitting the logic of majesty and authority against all the shady elements: it is… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If the king is in the palace, nobody looks at the walls. It is when he is gone, and the house is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The world has become sad because a puppet was once melancholy. The nihilist, that strange martyr who has no faith, who goes… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Are you grown an atheist? Will you turn your body, Which is the goodly palace of the soul, To the soul's slaughter-house?… — John Webster Copy Share Image
Radicalism is as British as tea and cakes, as much a part of our make-up as monarchy and football. It will never… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
“There was the gaudy patch of sunflowers beside the west gate of the palace of the Prince of Ombria, that did nothing… — Patricia A. McKillip Copy Share Image
I will make you brooches and toys for your delight Of bird-song at morning and star-shine at night. I will make a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The window opened in the same direction as the king's, and there, summer-bright and framed by the darkness of the stairwell, was… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I wander thro' each charter'd street, Near where the charter'd Thames does flow, And mark in every face I meet Marks of… — William Blake Copy Share Image
While the Romans languished under the ignominious tyranny of eunuchs and bishops, the praises of Julian were repeated with transport in every… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Quietude, which some men cannot abide because it reveals their inward poverty, is as a palace of cedar to the wise, for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Take the road to contradiction, it'll lead you, I promise, to the palace of wisdom. — Frank Lentricchia Copy Share Image
It is alarming ... to see Mr Gandhi, a seditious Middle Temple lawyer, now posing as a fakir of a type well-known… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I would not be a rose upon the wall A queen might stop at, near the palace-door, To say to a courtier,… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
