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
Louis Armstrong is the master of the jazz solo. He became the beacon, the light in the tower, that helped the rest… — Ellis Marsalis, Jr Copy Share Image
It's about communication, no matter how impossibly hard your art is to understand and how much of an ivory tower or high… — Wayne White Copy Share Image
Statues and children frame the Eiffel Tower and its watery image. When the Germans occupied Paris, they housed a beacon light in… — Maynard Owen Williams Copy Share Image
Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron, Can be retentive to the strength… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Maidens stand still, they are lovely statues and all admire them. Witches do not stand still. I was neither, but better that… — Catherynne M. Valente 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 see top business schools working to bridge this gap [between academic research and business application] by respecting executive education, by having… — Dave Ulrich Copy Share Image
This is going to sound strange, but I really feel I know Roland very well. In Wizard and Glass, I got to… — Robin Furth Copy Share Image
I read numerous books - loads in fact - and, as I always do when recording a historical project, immersed myself into… — Rick Wakeman Copy Share Image
I trust and believe that this College, this seed that we have sown, will grow to shelter and nurture generations who may… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
One of my unsung heroes is Erich Mendelsohn. I met him when I was a student and he was a cranky old… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
Lord, where shall I find you? Your place is lofty and secret. And where shall I not find you? The whole earth… — Judah Halevi Copy Share Image
The most beautiful conception of immortality of which I know, and certainly one that by contrast shows the utter vulgarity of Christian… — Revilo P. Oliver Copy Share Image
A prince, the moment he is crown'd, Inherits every virtue sound, As emblems of the sovereign power, Like other baubles in the… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The reason for the scaffolding on the tower of Saint Germain-des-Près is that a rich American has purchased it and is having… — Cornelia Otis Skinner Copy Share Image
My father was always anxious to give pleasure to his children. Accordingly, he took me one day, as a special treat, to… — James Nasmyth Copy Share Image
I don't know about you, but moderation and restraint is not what I felt when I watched the twin towers crumble to… — Karl Rove Copy Share Image
At the snowy summit of all these things, however, is the fact that you simply cannot go about locking your siblings in… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Until it seems the whole city will be covered with gold pollen shaken from the bell-towers, lilies plundered with the weight of… — Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
Nor aught availed him now to have built in heaven high towers; nor did he scrape by all his engines, but was… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“Jace and I had been like that, two towers, soaring through the sky side by side, looking and feeling indestructible while we… — Natalie Valdes Copy Share Image
I've been to the Leaning Tower of Pisa. It's a tower, and it's leaning. You look at it, but nothing happens, so… — Danny DeVito Copy Share Image
Bulgaria is fascinating. Because it had been a Communist country until the mid-80s, so it had just recently transitioned. And there were… — Joan Cusack Copy Share Image
Yes, I remember the barbed wire and the guard towers and the machine guns, but they became part of my normal landscape.… — George Takei Copy Share Image
Do not give the terrorists, the enemy combatants, the people who blow up folks at weddings, who fly airplanes into the twin… — Lindsey Graham Copy Share Image
This country [the Philippines] is like a pyramid, like a tower. It is made up of millions of stones... . And the… — Ramon Magsaysay Copy Share Image
Everything on 'Sharknado' somehow, for some reason, something went wrong with everything. The days we had the water towers, they weren't working. — Cassie Scerbo Copy Share Image
I think I never passed so sad an hour, Dear friend, as that one at the church to-night. The edifice from basement… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
As ships becalmed at eve, that lay With canvas drooping, side by side, Two towers of sail, at dawn of day Are… — Arthur Hugh Clough Copy Share Image
Grace! It's Christmas for goodness sake! Think about the baby Jesus. Up in that tower letting his hair down, so that the… — Karen Walker Copy Share Image
Sometimes when I'm watching television and something, an image, will come on that has to do with 9/11 or some of these… — Ann Richards Copy Share Image
And London shops on Christmas Eve Are strung with silver bells and flowers As hurrying clerks the City leave To pigeon-haunted classic… — John Betjeman Copy Share Image
No onslaught more fierce was ever seen in the savage world of beasts, where some desperate small creature armed with little teeth,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
(Jace) "Is there anything special you want to see? Paris? Budapest? The Leaning Tower of Pisa?" Only if it falls on Sebastian's… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
As a system of philosophy it is not like the Tower of Babel, so daring its high aim as to seek a… — Adam Sedgwick Copy Share Image
Nigel Farage, even if you don't follow British politics, he's a British politician but you may recognize him from his frequent visits… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
The poetry of art is in beholding the single tower; the poetry of nature in seeing the single tree; the poetry of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image