Tower Quotes

328 quotes by 284 authors

I don't ascribe to the idea of the ivory tower composer who sits alone in a room composing his masterpieces and then comes down from… — John Zorn
The magnificent lobby of the Chrysler Building - faced with rare marbles, aglitter with decorative metalwork, and surmounted by a ceiling painted with a totemic… — Martin Filler
The skyscraper style first advocated by Louis Sullivan - a tower of strongly vertical character with clear definitions among base, shaft, and crown - has… — Martin Filler
There is no better story in the Old Testament, or perhaps the whole Bible, for depicting the difference between the ladder-defined life and the cross-defined… — Tullian Tchividjian
I should go to Paris and jump off of the Eiffel Tower. If I took the Concorde, I could be dead three hours earlier. — Woody Allen
He stood beneath the white tower, and looked up at it with that mournful expression which his face always carried in repose: for one moment… — Peter Ackroyd
If only it were possible to love without injury â€“ fidelity isnâ€™t enough: I had been faithful to Anne and yet I had injured her.… — Graham Greene
This tower, patched unevenly with black ivy, arose like a mutilated finger from among the fists of knuckled masonry and pointed blasphemously at heaven. At… — Mervyn Peake
The commonest ivory tower is that of the average man, the state of passivity towards experience. — Wystan Hugh Auden
She was a committed romantic and an anarcha-feminist. This was hard for her because it meant she couldn't blow up beautiful buildings. She knew the… — Jeanette Winterson
Iâ€™m going to kill myself. I should go to Paris and jump off the Eiffel Tower. Iâ€™ll be dead. you know, in fact, if I… — Woody Allen
I am circling around God, around the ancient tower, and I have been circling for a thousand years, and I still don't know if I… — Rainer Maria Rilke
There are friends with whom we share neither interests nor any particular experiences, friends with whom we never correspond, whom we seldom meet and then… — Stanislaw Lem
Isabella with her whip and boots and knives would chop anyone who tried to pen her up in a tower into pieces, build a bridge… — Cassandra Clare
So many things were testing his faith. There was the Bible, of course, but the Bible was a book, and so were Bleak House, Treasure… — Joseph Heller
Careful with the accusations of insanity, oh my lady whose home is a tower with windows of brick, all for the sake of some skinny-ankled,… — Shannon Hale
My friends are gone and my hair is grey. I ache in places I used to play. And Iâ€™m crazy for love but Iâ€™m not… — Leonard Cohen
He has come to the most dreadful conclusion a literary man can come to, the conclusion that the ordinary view is the right one. It… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
...It looked very different from the Statue of Liberty, but what did that matter? What was the good of having the statue without the liberty,… — Josephine Baker
Was there no safety? No learning by heart of the ways of the world? No guide, no shelter, but all was miracle, and leaping from… — Virginia Woolf

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