Palace Quotes

233 Palace quotes by 186 unique authors

Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail. — John Donne
A poem with grandly conceived and executed stanzas, such as one of Keats's odes, should be like an enfilade of rooms in a palace: one… — James Fenton
One trick, known as the journey method or 'memory palace,' is to conjure up a familiar space in the mind's eye, and then populate it… — Joshua Foer
When 'Ice Ice Baby' was selling a million records a day, I bought several properties: a home next to Michael J. Fox in L.A., a… — Vanilla Ice
But I believe above all that I wanted to build the palace of my memory, because my memory is my only homeland. — Anselm Kiefer
My dreams were always small and puny. All I ever needed was a little house with a little picket fence by the sea. Little did… — Imelda Marcos
Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity. — John Milton
Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's… — Fernando Pessoa
I'd rather live in a cave with a view of a palace than live in a palace with a view of a cave. — Karl Pilkington
I've performed in Auburn Hills, at The Palace, so I haven't really been in downtown Detroit, but I've been able to be here, and I… — Jordin Sparks
The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length,… — Henry David Thoreau
When I'm singing I'm always trying to get to the highest point possible. I'd fly to the top of Buckingham Palace to sing to the… — Florence Welch
Once, in my father's bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
He says, you have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else but you canâ€™t… — Frank McCourt
I will make you brooches and toys for your delight Of bird-song at morning and star-shine at night. I will make a palace fit for… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Above us our palace waits, the only one I've ever needed. Its walls are space, its floor is sky, its center everywhere. We rise; the… — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
When evening comes, I return home and go into my study. On the threshold I strip off my muddy, sweaty, workday clothes, and put on… — Niccolo Machiavelli
The muffled tongue of Big Ben tolled nine by the clock as the cortege left the palace, but on history's clock it was sunset, and… — Barbara Tuchman
The palace started as a single vaulted room and grew in proportion to my despair. It began as an exercise to keep my mind from… — Lisa St. Aubin de TerÃ¡n
The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even… — Henry David Thoreau

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