Towers Quotes · Page 2

I'm the tower of power, too sweet to be sour.

— Randy Savage

For some, bottles of liquor gleam like the towers of Eldorado.

— Mason Cooley

An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open.

— Walter Darby Bannard

Age shakes Athena's tower, but spares gray Marathon.

— Lord Byron

Our problems may tower over us, but God towers over our problems.

— Dillon Burroughs

Great towers take time to construct.

— Herman Melville

From a proud tower in the town, Death looks gigantically down.

— Edgar Allan Poe

I know Duke's magnolia-carpeted campus and gray, gothic towers.

— Mary Katharine Ham

We look down on our scientists if they engage in outside consultation. We implicitly promote the ivory tower.

— Vikram Sarabhai

I do have a regard for the musicality of language that came from BBC sitcoms like 'Fawlty Towers.'

— Russell Brand

Stand up straight and realize who you are, that you tower over your circumstances. You are a child of God. Stand up…

— Maya Angelou

My focus on 9/11 was on the victims - in the towers, in the planes - and all that loss.

— Kiefer Sutherland

The Duke of Clarence . . . a prisoner in the Tower, was secretly put to death and drowned in a barrel of Malmesey wine.

— Robert Fabyan

You have these 'hot towers', tropical storm clouds acting like chimneys to carry heat to the upper atmosphere.

— Peter May

Trinity Park lies directly across from the library, Trinity Church rising like a midieval thought amidst the glass and steel towers.

— Nick Flynn

You live in a tower that soars to heaven and goes unpunished by God.

— Don DeLillo

You'll start talking, and pretty soon we'll all start nodding, and then the next thing you know, I'm hang gliding off the…

— Kathy Reichs

I actually felt calmer and more serene when we got up to the tower that I think I ever have. We had…

— Roseline Filion

Mr. Bernard died on a Monday, at the age of seventy-five, his body wasted. He lay in state for two days in…

— Mordecai Richler

Abstinence from all injustice to other first-rate powers is a greater tower of strength than anything that can be gained by the…

— Thucydides

Lay a beam between these two towers of such width as we need to walk on: there is no philosophical wisdom of…

— Michel de Montaigne

It makes one’s head heavy and giddy, as if one were not looking back down the receding perspectives of time but rather…

— W. G. Sebald

I hope I'm not giving the impression of an ivory tower science, but for me science is an attempt to understand, it's…

— George Coyne

Willows whiten, aspens quiver, little breezes dusk and shiver, thro' the wave that runs forever by the island in the river, flowing…

— Anonymous

From the simplest lyric to the most complex novel and densest drama, literature is asking us to pay attention. Pay attention to…

— Frederick Buechner

Extremes are for us as though they were not, and we are not within their notice. They escape us, or we them.…

— Blaise Pascal

Cities are never random. No matter how chaotic they might seem, everything about them grows out of a need to solve a…

— Neal Shusterman

The Church has ever proved indestructible. Her persecutors have failed to destroy her; in fact, it was during times of persecution that…

— Thomas Aquinas

The Anti-Vivisector does not deny that physiologists must make experiments and even take chances with new methods. He says that they must…

— George Bernard Shaw

“[H]e could see the island of Manhattan off to the left. The towers were jammed together so tightly, he could feel the…

— Tom Wolfe

It would be an endless battle if it were all up to ego because it does not destroy and is not destroyed…

— Agnes Martin

My biggest fear, I think falling from a great height. If I want to keep myself awake at night I imagine I'm…

— Ian Mcewan

You got me stranded on the bungee tower of love.

— Anonymous

Great men stand like solitary towers in the city of God.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A satisfied customer. We should have him stuffed.

— John Cleese

New York: Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey. Pittsburgh: Abandon it.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all.

— Faramir

Britannia needs no bulwarks, No towers along the steep; Her march is o'er the mountain waves, Her home is on the deep.

— Thomas Campbell

I don't like being up high. It took me three days to get to the top of the Eiffel Tower.

— Ray Bradbury

I spent a lot of time in Tower Records. I'm a huge music nerd, and Tower was instrumental to me when I…

— Colin Hanks