Palaces Quotes

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Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail. — John Donne
Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it. — Alexandre Dumas
Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Once I'd reached the point where I could squirrel away more than 30 digits a minute in memory palaces, I still only sporadically used the… — Joshua Foer
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
In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives. — Henry James
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
Men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed-off wings where he never ventures. — Francois Mauriac
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 see around 100 shows a month, going from Niketown-size palaces where you feel like yelling, to storefronts in Bushwick. Each has to pay the… — Jerry Saltz
If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces. — William Shakespeare
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
While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it… — Henry David Thoreau
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
Some people go to Berlin to get more cutting edge; I went and started wearing lederhosen and going to visit baroque palaces. — Rufus Wainwright

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