Towering Quotes

62 Towering quotes by 54 unique authors

One of the towering people in this industry said, why don't you go and make a five-year contract with somebody, make yourself several million dollars… — Roone Arledge
At a certain fork in the road of automatization, Europeans chose to have more time, and they work far less than we do and get… — Rebecca Solnit
The swelling and towering omnibuses, the huge trucks and wagons and carriages, the impetuous hansoms and the more sobered four-wheelers, the pony-carts, donkey-carts, hand-carts, and… — William Dean Howells
Around in silent grandeur stood The stately children of the wood; Maple and elm and towering pine Mantled in folds of dark woodbine. — Julia Caroline Dorr
We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in color and fire... — Joseph Priestley
The Transformation of the World is lavishly reinforced with critical apparatus (that, too, must have been a labor of Hercules to translate--I honestly never expected… — Steve Donoghue
Most of my adult life I had this towering contempt for America. — Robert Crumb
I'd rather kill myself than dress like Victoria Beckham in towering heels day after day. — Britt Ekland
Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored. — Abraham Lincoln
Work creates an enormous sense of self and I saw that in my mother. She was an enormous, towering figure to me in the best… — Bruce Springsteen
Men towering high above such political pygmies, men of refinement, of culture, of ability, are jeered into silence as mollycoddles. It is absurd to claim… — Emma Goldman
Dawn came and matters were worse for it. Because now, emerging from the darkness, I could see, what before I had only felt, the great… — Yann Martel
Sitting on the floor, I'd replay the past in my head. Funny, that's all I did, day after day after day for half a year,… — Haruki Murakami
Veil, you see, if I vas to say something portentous like "zer dark eyes of zer mind" back home in Uberwald, zer would be a… — Terry Pratchett
I wasn‘t—" I began. I didn‘t—" He began. How charming," V‘lane cut us off. His voice arrived before he did. "The very portrait of human… — Karen Marie Moning
The years, the months, the days, and the hours have flown by my open window. Here and there an incident, a towering moment, a naked… — Howard Thurman
In my craft or sullen art Exercised in the still night When only the moon rages And the lovers lie abed With all their griefs… — Dylan Thomas
The boy had the towering arrogance only seen in the greatest of artists and all nine-year-old boys. — Neil Gaiman
I grew up in those years when the Old West was passing and the New West was emerging. It was a time when we still… — Hal Borland
But the name Magnus Bane made him think of a towering sort of figure, with huge shoulders and formal purple warlock’s robes, calling down fire… — Cassandra Clare
And somewhere in that crimson-colored never-never land where i pirouetted madly, in a wild and crazy effort to exhaust myself into insensibility, i saw that… — Virginia C. Andrews
But for now, the future, like the past, means nothing. For now, there is only a homestead built of trash and scraps, at the edge… — Lauren Oliver
The smell of the sea swept over the wall and in through the empty window-hole, wide and wild with a million intoxicating secrets. I don't… — Tana French
Dani, Dani, Dani." I flinch. I've never heard anyone say my name so gently. It creeps me all kinds of out. He's towering over me,… — Karen Marie Moning
Man is literally split in two: he has an awareness of his own splendid uniqueness in that he sticks out of nature with a towering… — Ernest Becker

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