the colour of my soul is iron-grey and sad bats wheel about the steeple of my dreams. — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
For acting, darlings, is the world's most perilous trade. Compared with actors, steeple jacks and deep-sea divers lead snug and placid lives. — Tallulah Bankhead Copy Share Image
An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
There is no family in America without a clock, and consequently there is no fair pretext for the usual Sunday medley of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Turning something upside-down elicits a reversal of content and pointing a steeple into the ground directs it to hell as opposed to… — Dennis Oppenheim Copy Share Image
Up up up up up up points the spire of the steeple but god's work isn't done by god it's done by… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
O jest unseen, inscrutable, invisible, As a nose on a man's face, or a weathercock on a steeple. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Many, many steeples would have to be stacked one on top of another to reach from the bottom to the surface of… — Hans Christian Andersen Copy Share Image
[The] whirlwind fife-and-drum of the storm bends the salt marsh grass, disturbs stars in the sky and the star on the steeple;… — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
For a house, somewhere near Los Angeles I found an old church. Very old, no longer used. So we moved the church… — Douglas Sirk Copy Share Image
Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list --… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Princess on the steeple and all the pretty people, they're drinking, thinking that they got it made. Exchanging all kinds of precious… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
I'll tell you how the sun rose, a ribbon at a time. The steeples swam in amethyst, The news like squirrels ran.… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
The amplest knowledge has the largest faith. Ignorance is always incredulous. Tell an English cottager that the belfries of Swedish churches are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
Far out in the ocean, where the water is as blue as the prettiest cornflower, and as clear as crystal, it is… — Hans Christian Andersen Copy Share Image
Dim loneliness came imperceivably into the fields and he turned back. The birds piped oddly; some wind was caressing the higher foliage,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
God is not attracted to mountaintops or church steeples. God is drawn to suffering, and the dark places it surfaces, which is… — Keith Ablow Copy Share Image
Out of the night you burn, Manhattan, In a vesture of gold-- Spun of innumerable arcs, Flaring and multiplying-- Gold at the… — Lola Ridge Copy Share Image
Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
The human mind prefers something which it can recognize to something for which it has no name, and, whereas thousands of persons… — David Fairchild Copy Share Image
A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty and dusty, but as wide as eye Could reach, with here and… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
An artist in my eyes, is someone who can lighten up a dark room. I have never and will never find difference… — Eric Cantona Copy Share Image
Sphere Music - Some sounds seem to reverberate along the plain, and then settle to earth again like dust; such are Noise,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I think Miss Moore was right to cut "The Steeple-Jack" - the poem seems plainer and clearer in its shortened state but… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
who knows if the moon's a balloon,coming out of a keen city in the sky--filled with pretty people? ( and if you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One bright sunny morning in the shadow of the steeple, by the Relief Office, I saw my people - As they stood… — Woody Guthrie Copy Share Image
As to people saying a few idle words about us, we must not mind that, any more than the old church steeple… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
We said goodbye with a highball Then I got as high as a steeple But we were intelligent people No tears, no… — Leo Robin Copy Share Image
I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
The bells they sound on Bredon, And still the steeples hum. "Come all to church, good people"- Oh, noisy bells, be dumb;… — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
While the steeples are loud in their joy, To the tune of the bells' ring-a-ding, Let us chime in a peal, one… — Thomas Hood Copy Share Image
In the crowd of a million people I'll find my valentine, and then I'll climb the highest steeple and tell the world… — Connie Francis Copy Share Image
The Lord takes care of his own, but church trustees still put lightning rods on the steeple. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
Westminster Abbey, the Tower, a steeple, one church, and then another, presented themselves to our view; and we could now plainly distinguish… — Karl Philipp Moritz Copy Share Image
A throng of bearded men in sad-colored garments and gray, steeple-crowned hats, intermixed with women, some wearing hoods, and other bareheaded, was… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The beautiful in life... Some talk of it in poetry, Some grow it from the soil, Some build it in a steeple,… — Bernard Meltzer Copy Share Image
The ideas of people in general are not raised higher than the roofs of the houses. All their interests extend over the… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
When a founder has cast a bell he does not presently fix it in the steeple, but tries it with his hammer,… — Richard Cecil Copy Share Image
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