Towers Quotes

448 Towers quotes by 353 unique authors

When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper. — Anthony Trollope
I've been spending this last month trying to find four outfits to wear to the different premieres of The Two Towers. It's hard work. — Liv Tyler
Although the French were very friendly and helpful. On one location we were to film at the top of the Eiffel Tower but we couldn't,… — Lalla Ward
Before this distinguished assembly and the world, the bells today proclaim the joyous tidings of the completion of this quietly soaring tower. — Earl Warren
We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of liberty. — Daniel Webster
On the rare occasions when I spend a night in Oxford, the keeping of the hours by the clock towers in New College, and Merton,… — A. N. Wilson
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
I think public intellectuals have a responsibility - to be self-critical on the one hand, to do serious, nuanced work rigorously executed; but to also… — Michael Eric Dyson
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
I miss the comedy of the '70s and '80s, like 'Only Fools And Horses' and 'Fawlty Towers,' so I'm glad I'm put in that category. — Brendan O'Carroll
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 said that when I looked at photographs of the firefighters who went into the Twin Towers, their faces looked to me like Irish faces.… — Colm Toibin
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
Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like… — William Shakespeare
In the world I see you are stalking elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rock feller Center. You'll wear leather clothes… — Chuck Palahniuk
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 – fidelity isn’t enough: I had been faithful to Anne and yet I had injured her.… — Graham Greene
Filled with rapture, his soul yearned for freedom, space, vastness. Over him the heavenly dome, full of quiet, shining stars, hung boundlessly. From the zenith… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
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
I’m going to kill myself. I should go to Paris and jump off the Eiffel Tower. I’ll be dead. you know, in fact, if I… — Woody Allen
Kings built tombs more splendid than the houses of the living and counted the names of their descent dearer than the names of their sons.… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Journey’s end In western lands beneath the Sun The flowers may rise in Spring, The trees may bud, the waters run, The merry finches sing.… — J.R.R. Tolkien

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