“Obelisks don't grow from the soil, and stone men and iron horses are never built without purpose.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We are not on this earth to just stand still & look pretty. The museums already have enough statues.” — Mandy Hale Copy Share Image
Did you know that Mozart had no arms and no legs? I've seen statues of him on people's pianos. — Victor Borge Copy Share Image
It was so cold in New York City today that the Statue of Liberty had her torch under her dress. — David Letterman Copy Share Image
Many have lived on a pedestal who will never have a statue when dead. — Pierre-Jean de Beranger Copy Share Image
The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There's a reason why in New York Harbor we have the Statue of Liberty, not the Statue of Equality. — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Musical compositions, it should be remembered, do not inhabit certain countries, certain museums, like paintings and statues. The Mozart Quintet is not… — Henri Rabaud Copy Share Image
From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt. — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
I did not find Liverpool ugly. Her stately public buildings, broad streets, public squares, and noble statues redeem her from the charge. — M E W Sherwood Copy Share Image
Putting up a statue to someone who tried to stop a war is not very, um, statuesque. Of course, if you had… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Love like a phantoms lights but hold in the heart, it builds like the empty smile adorning a statue with sightless eyes. — Dan Fogelberg Copy Share Image
Here's the thing - I mean, I don't act for statues. I really don't. The great thing about winning an award is… — Kevin Bacon Copy Share Image
I'm fat, but I'm thin inside. Has it ever struck you that there's a thin man inside every fat man, just as… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
History, after all, is a process, not a position, and it is not best written in bronze and marble. It is complex,… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius, throwing the reader of a book, or the… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
It's a beautiful city, and the waterfront area is fantastic. I haven't had time to visit the theatre, but I find it… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I looked at some of the statues of Jesus; they were just stones with no life. When they said that God is… — Cat Stevens Copy Share Image
Every individual, like a statue, develops in his life the laws of harmony, integrity, and freedom; or those of deformity, immorality, and… — Harriot Kezia Hunt Copy Share Image
Things have gotten openly more extreme in the last few years. I was lecturing in Hungary, whose prime minister, Victor Orban, is… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
We all know that men in moderate circumstances can have just as comfortable houses as the richest, just as comfortable clothing, just… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The idea of beauty which man creates for himself imprints itself on his whole attire, crumples or stiffens his dress, rounds off… — Charles Baudelaire 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 am just...wondering, where is the glow of yesteryear? I'm wondering where the heroes went. Gosh, I don't know how long ago… — Tom McCall Copy Share Image
While I've always been critical about this peddling of spiritual materialism, it wasn't until I went to Nepal that I came face-to-face… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
I went to visit Frank Capra, one of my idols, and did a kind of Judd Apatow interview with him. I said,… — David Copperfield Copy Share Image
To Helen Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary,… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
True myths may serve for thousands of years as an inexhaustible source of intellectual speculation, religious joy, ethical inquiry, and artistic renewal.… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“There is a lot of folklore about equestrian statues, especially the ones with riders on them. There is said to be a… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
What deep and worthy love is so, whether of woman or child, or art or music. Our caresses, our tender words, our… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is a shallow criticism that would define poetry as confined to literary productions in rhyme and meter rhythm. The written poem… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The statues of Lenin and Stalin are down, but the fight against their ghosts seems harder. — Octavian Paler Copy Share Image
He once begged alms of a statue, and, when asked why he did so, replied, "To get practice in being refused." — Diogenes Copy Share Image
I've been to every park in every city and not seen a statue to a committee. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Maybe there was something to be said for creepy statues after all.” — Jennifer Estep Copy Share Image
