A fixed idea is like the iron rod which sculptors put in their statues. It impales and sustains. — Hippolyte Taine Copy Share Image
I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other… — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
People who look at Greek statues never say it's a shame because they're not complete. — Giles Duley Copy Share Image
“I just think perfection and lasting through the ages is for Greek statues, not us mere humans.” — Mary E. Pearson Copy Share Image
Confederate statues belong in a historical museum, not in a place of honor. — Bill Nelson Copy Share Image
The Statue of Liberty really is profound, I just wish she'd lighten up a bit. — Dov Davidoff Copy Share Image
A man were better relate himself to a statue or picture than to suffer his thoughts to pass in smother. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
In building a statue, a sculptor doesn't keep adding clay to his subject. Actually, he keeps chiseling away at the nonessentials until… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
Every time one of us starts talking about more effective immigration controls, somebody else throws up the Statue of Liberty, how we're… — Alan K. Simpson Copy Share Image
The Statue of Liberty is meant to be shorthand for a country so unlike its parts that a trip from California to… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
To reflect upon the event horizon is a great deal more awe-inspiring than a burning bush or a wooden statue that weeps… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Spoons and skimmers you can be undistinguishably together; but vases and statues require each a pedestal for itself. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Popular liberty might then have escaped the indelible reproach of decreeing to the same citizens, the hemlock on one day, and statues… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Education without courage is like a wax statue - beautiful to look at but bound to melt at the first touch of… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Every student should know that statues are meant for sitting. If we're to endure their terrible old faces leering at us, the… — Henry H. Neff Copy Share Image
“We even commissioned a smaller pair of these statues for the baggage claim area in the regular lobby. Gives all those Normal… — Daven Anderson Copy Share Image
Harmonious words render ordinary ideas acceptable; less ordinary, pleasant; novel and ingenious ones, delightful. As pictures and statues, and living beauty, too,… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Like the sorcerer of old, the television set casts its magic spell, freezing speech and action and turning the living into silent… — Urie Bronfenbrenner Copy Share Image
For suppose that every tool we had could perform its task, either at our bidding or itself perceiving the need, and if-like… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A lot of women don't like when they're sort of fat, but a fat foot is as beautiful as a skinny foot.… — Christian Louboutin Copy Share Image
For a man to be a man, did he have to be a soldier, or at least prepare himself for war? For… — Carol Gilligan Copy Share Image
Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
I have seen in many places housing which has been developed under government influences, but I have never seen any projects in… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
In our own country, we have seen America pay a terrible price for any form of discrimination, and we have seen us… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
I don't think I will ever be able to really articulate how bizarre it was to hear my name at the Academy… — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
I pray we... come to this darkness so far above light! If only we lacked sight and knowledge so as to see,… — Pope Dionysius Copy Share Image
If we refuse our homage to statues and frigid images, the very counterpart of their dead originals, with which hawks, and mice,… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
Could we bring ourselves to feel what the first spectators of an Egyptian statue, or a Romanesque crucifixion, felt, we would make… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
Bisexuality doubles your chances of a date on a Saturday night. I believe that sex is a beautiful thing between two people.… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
When you begin to read a poem you are entering a foreign country whose laws and language and life are a kind… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
In all places where there is a Summer and a Winter, and where your Gardens of pleasure are sometimes clothed with their… — John Worlidge Copy Share Image
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