Maybe what I admired most about John Steinbeck is that he never mortgaged his 45-acre heart for a suite in an ivory… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Destiny is a tower of cards - nudge one just an inch and everything stacked on top comes crashing down. P116 — Darren Shan Copy Share Image
Pride juggles with her toppling towers, They strike the sun and cease, But the firm feet of humility They grip the ground… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
In mockery I have set A powerful emblem up, And sing it rhyme upon rhyme In mockery of a time Half dead… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
The waterfront without the Ferry Tower would be like a birthday cake without a candle. — Herb Caen Copy Share Image
The university must be retrospective. The gale that gives direction to the vanes on all its towers blows out of antiquity. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
You drive the landscape like a herd of clouds Moving against your horizontal tower Of steadfast speed. All England lies beneath you… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
Societies raise their grandest monuments to what their cultures value most highly. As the tallest buildings in a city noted for tall… — Michael Mandelbaum Copy Share Image
I don't want to become an ivory tower filmmaker. That sounds peculiar, but I want to be a mainstream filmmaker. I want… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
It's a fallacy that writers have to shut themselves up in their ivory towers to write. I have all these interruptions, three… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
See the BEAR of fearsome size! All the WORLD'S within his eyes. TIME grows thin, the past is a riddle; The TOWER… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Even on a personal note, my dressing table downstairs is crowded with things, like a mini landscape. It's a city with buildings… — Tony Curtis Copy Share Image
The upshot of her tirade was that I was the devil's spawn and should be locked up in a tower before I… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
After the First World War, Germany was trying to build a democracy. Then when the Reichstag, the legislature, was burned down in… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Towers in a modern town are a frill and a survival; they seem like the raised hands of the various churches, afraid… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Well, 9/11 made me think about the towers, and the fact that I lived in New York for a long time, while… — Mordicai Gerstein Copy Share Image
I suppose that, for me at least, the biggest difference betweenThe Gunslinger Born and the next two story arcs (The Long Road… — Robin Furth Copy Share Image
I always wish the hotels were like they are in movies and TV shows, where if you're in Paris, right outside your… — Gilbert Gottfried Copy Share Image
In truth, “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close” isn't about Sept. 11. It's about the impulse to drain that day of its specificity… — Manohla Dargis Copy Share Image
That's what torture does: it creates a miasma of unknowing, about as dangerous a situation in wartime as one can imagine. This… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
We were trying to get all of the planes down out of the sky. And we watched as the towers of the… — Dick Cheney Copy Share Image
I was in my office when - on 9/11. I think I had a number of meetings scheduled. I was just getting… — Robert Mueller Copy Share Image
I think my role as a musician is much more reactionary than that of the creative personality type who locks himself in… — Blake Mills Copy Share Image
Nineteen people flew into the towers. It seems hard for me to imagine that we could go to war enough to make… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
The narrow path had opened up suddenly onto the edge of a great black lake. Perched atop a high mountain on the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have a commission to do a piece in a place in California, Oliver Ranch, which has an eight-storey structure called The… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
My lifetime’s memories are what I have brought home from the trip. I will require them for eternity no more than that… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
The tree which needs two arms to span its girth sprang from the tiniest shoot. Yon tower, nine stories high, rose from… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Careful with the accusations of insanity, oh my lady whose home is a tower with windows of brick, all for the sake… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
I have always been absurdly, ridiculously tall. To give you an idea- when we went on school trips to Interesting and Improving… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
What we take to be our strongest tower of delight, only stands at the caprice of the minutest event the falling of… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Gabrielle was insulted and didn't even bother to hide it. 'Oh, and I suppose you think your dad was alone when he… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
Praise be to Nero's Neptune The Titanic sails at dawn And everybody's shouting "Which Side Are You On?" And Ezra Pound and… — Bob Dylan 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
Anything Can Happen is also, incidentally, a poem that arose from teaching. I'd talked about the Horace Ode (I, 34) [on which… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Right after my Twin Towers walk, I was approached by hundreds of people, and I said no to all the offers. I… — Philippe Petit Copy Share Image
Inanimate objects sometimes appear endowed with a strange power of sight. A statue notices, a tower watches, the face of an edifice… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
There is an attraction and a charm inherent in the colossal that is not subject to ordinary theories of art ... The… — Gustave Eiffel Copy Share Image
Donald Trump used undocumented labor to build the Trump Tower. He underpaid undocumented workers, and when they complained, he basically said what… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
![“Anything Can Happen is also, incidentally, a poem that arose from teaching. I'd talked about the Horace Ode (I, 34) [on which the poem is based] in a lecture I gave at Harvard in the fall of 2000 entitled Bright Boltsand remembered it after the Twin Towers attack.” quote by Seamus Heaney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/2e6/seamus-heaney-1711_anything-can-happen_anything-can-happen-is-also-incidentally_181651.jpg)
