Portugal is a high hill with a white watch tower on it flying signal flags. It is apparently inhabited by one man… — Richard H. Davis Copy Share Image
“The spiral staircase suddenly narrows, swirls like a stream drying up. Can he still get through up there, or is he going… — Georges Rodenbach Copy Share Image
The collapse of the Tower of Babel is perhaps the central urban myth. It is certainly the most disquieting. In Babylon, the… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
“Opposite is the old bell-tower of a church, all the more moving for being unfinished. What beauty there is in interrupted towers,… — Georges Rodenbach Copy Share Image
I'd much rather be in the world than in some ivory tower somewhere. — Andrew Garfield Copy Share Image
When I started half.com, our three biggest competitors were Borders, Tower Records and Blockbuster Video. — Josh Kopelman Copy Share Image
Determining the value of individual texts has been an ideological scuffle in literary criticism for centuries: but the environmental cost of printing… — Tristram Stuart Copy Share Image
When I was 18, I was halfway up the Eiffel Tower with my friend, Tom, when we decided to stick our heads… — Robert Webb Copy Share Image
Anything that promotes a kernel of science, even though it's exaggerated and hyped by Hollywood, I think is a step forward. We… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
“When the government will not let you submit evidence about the known toxicity of cell phone towers to public planning hearings, you… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
When you have a wife who has been a tower of strength and shown more courage than you dreamed existed - that's… — Lou Gehrig Copy Share Image
“The hands pulled him forward regardless. The hands of the Tower knew no mercy. They were the hands of Gan, the hands… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time in the land of Shinar, God came down to see the city and the tower. People were united… — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
I would rather feel elegant in a low heel than tower above everybody. — Rebecca Root Copy Share Image
Tower Records was a place to meet your friends, your co-workers or a place to meet new friends who shared a common… — Colin Hanks Copy Share Image
“When she was a child, the witch locked her away in a tower that had neither doors nor stairs.” — Marissa Meyer Copy Share Image
The Freedom Tower has a cost overrun. A significant cost overrun. — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
“We would never say to a man, "Be eccentric"; but if he cannot help being so, we would not have him be… — Charles H. Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I am a huge fan of using social media to connect with people because I think there was this 'ivory tower' aspect… — Sarah Lacy Copy Share Image
I spent a large part of my 20s and 30s living in different places, including tower blocks. — Sean Lock Copy Share Image
A man's reputation is like a tower; hard to build, easy to collapse. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
An M.P. once suggested I be put in the Tower of London for saying derogatory things about the royals. There's no First… — Tracey Ullman Copy Share Image
