The written word has taught me to listen to the human voice, much as the great unchanging statues have taught me to… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
Like those statues which must be made larger than "nature" in order that, viewed from below, or from a distance, they may… — Philibert Joseph Roux Copy Share Image
You & I, Love, together we ratify the silence, while the sea destroys its perpetual statues, collapses its towers of wild speed… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
Statues and children frame the Eiffel Tower and its watery image. When the Germans occupied Paris, they housed a beacon light in… — Maynard Owen Williams Copy Share Image
Labor should not be about creating monuments on hills or statues in parks. Labor's monuments and statues are when a young person… — Bill Shorten Copy Share Image
Many religions have attempted to make statues of their gods very large, and the idea, I suppose, is to make us feel… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Entertainers are nothing special. Maybe we have a talent for singing a song, but other people have talents. I wish fans would… — Eddy Arnold Copy Share Image
I sat at the foot of a huge tree, a statue of the night, and tried to make an inventory of all… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
I don't think I'm wrong when I say that the most beautiful objects of the "stone age" were made of skin, fabric,… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
“Because sometimes the Church seems like those posed circus tableaus where the curtain lifts and men, white, zinc-oxide, talcum-powder statues, freeze to… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
If I had written King Lear, I would regret it all my life afterwards. Because that work is so big, that its… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
A life of both sadness and blissfulness is multi-dimensional; it moves in all dimensions together. Watch the statue of Buddha or sometimes… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
It takes courage and intelligence, you know, to do the stages of Yoga right, and to start with this Hatha Yoga… It’s… — Bikram Choudhury Copy Share Image
The creative process lies not in imitating, but in paralleling nature - translating the impulse received from nature into the medium of… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
The view... from my apartment... was the World Trade Center... and now it's gone, they attacked it. This symbol of American ingenuity,… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
Cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labour to make all… — Plotinus Copy Share Image
We are to regard the mind, not as a piece of iron to be laid upon the anvil and hammered into any… — Mark Hopkins Copy Share Image
History without the history of science, to alter slightly an apothegm of Lord Bacon, resembles a statue of Polyphemus without his eye-that… — I. Bernard Cohen Copy Share Image
Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Art is the need to create; but in its essence, immense and universal, it is impatient of working with lame or tied… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If you find your truth you must follow it. You could find it in a paper bag, or in a statue, or… — Buckethead Copy Share Image
Art is craft: all art is always and essentially a work of craft: but in the true work of art, before the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I am thankful for the strong, united response of our university community to the desecration of the James Meredith statue last year,… — James Meredith Copy Share Image
“These statues are not just stone and metal. They are not just innocent remembrances of a benign history. These monuments purposefully celebrate… — Mitch Landrieu Copy Share Image
The Pagan model of religion because, in the Pagan model, there were lots and lots of Gods and Goddesses. They were all… — Rachel Weisz Copy Share Image
I can find no words for what I feel. My consciousness is withdrawn into itself; I hear my heart beating, and my… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Ruth and I don't have a perfect marriage, but we have a great one. How can I say two things that seem… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
A statue of Apollo in a museum does not seem naked, but attach a tie to its neck and it will strike… — Yuri Lotman Copy Share Image
Certainly, it is more reasonable to devote one's life to women than to postage stamps or old snuff-boxes, even to pictures or… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The pigeons are shitting on George M. Cohan. I shoo them off. They fly up and perch on his hat. Cohan would've… — John Lahr Copy Share Image
We have the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast. But in the name of freedom, people have done a lot of… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Certain I am that every author who has written a book with earnest forethought and fondly cherished designs will bear testimony to… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
When people say that L.A. doesn't have a culture, I think it really does: a very old culture, and very specific. There's… — Fred Armisen Copy Share Image
Statues lined the stairs and stood, dotted across the roof. But they had been brutalized by time and the weather. Some were… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
All over France, in every city there stand cathedrals like this one, triumphant monuments of the past. They tower over the homes… — Sonya Levien Copy Share Image
It's blasphemous, don't get distracted by these lottery tickets and statues. It's just fake gold and plastic... We crying for votes but… — Nick Cannon Copy Share Image
Deep patriots don't just sing the song, 'America the Beautiful' and then go home. We actually stick around to defend America’s beauty… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
... knowledge must continually be renewed by ceaseless effort, if it is not to be lost. It resembles a statue of marble… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Man himself is an enigma in motion; his questions never stay asked; whereas the mold, the footprint, and by natural extension, the… — Emile Chartier Copy Share Image
I come from a place where breath, eyes, and memory are one, a place from which you carry your past like a… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
