Been Quote by Howard Jacobson Download Open image “Most people to whom a statue has been erected are undeserving.” — Howard Jacobson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Been Most People Statue Whom
A statue is always found in every rock. The only way for everyone to realize that it's there is to remove its rough edges… — Armee Taylo Copy Share Image
The statue is then beautiful when it begins to be incomprehensible, when it is passing out of criticism, and can no longer be defined… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead. — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
There is great incongruity in this idea of monuments, since those to whom they are usually dedicated need no such recognition to embalm their… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it… — Randolph Bourne Copy Share Image
In building a statue, a sculptor doesn't keep adding clay to his subject. Actually, he keeps chiseling away at the nonessentials until the truth… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
The thing with sculpture is, 90% of the time, when I pass a piece of sculpture, it's in public or somewhere, and it's just,… — John Lurie Copy Share Image
In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect in attitude and action.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The absence of a monument can, in its own way, be something of a monument also. — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
If you have a statue in the city centre you could go past it every day on your way to school and never even… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is all very well for people with fine arts degrees, but for ordinary people like myself, we want a statue to look like… — Ken Livingstone Copy Share Image
Everything is allowable in literature, but what is not allowable in criticism is objection on the grounds of probability. — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
There's a simple arithmetical logic at work. Build more unaffordable and not always architecturally sympathetic apartments, watch the rents rise, the tarts leave, the… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
The novel is a thing of irony and ambiguity. That's at the heart of 'J', a world that has stopped arguing with itself. We… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
I was a 'reverence for life' man - 'see life steadily and see it whole' - in my days as a lecturer in English… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
How Donald Trump has come so far with so few words - how he even managed to keep up conversationally with all those beauty… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
It is a nonsense to me when people come along and tell me not to be pessimistic; or that culture has always been going… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
For me a Writing Day was an occasion for self-reproach and panic, a time to lament the passing of the years, stare out of… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
That a nation's statuary will reflect beliefs and attitudes that are no longer current or congenial hardly needs arguing. In most instances, it doesn't… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
“Was he a bad man or just a foolish one? He didn't feel bad to himself. As a husband he believed himself to be… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
The young come in many guises: vigorous and passionate, vindictive and mean-spirited. And not every person over 65 is dozing in a retirement home. — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
To a philosopher like Nietzsche, the Jew is culpable not for rejecting Christianity but for inventing it. — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
When I was trying to come up with a stage name, I thought 'Lord' was super rad, but really masculine - ever since I… — Lorde Copy Share Image
I once told someone I could act. They totally bought it. I've been getting away with it ever since. — Akshay Kumar Copy Share Image
Amongst the financial Twitterati, the term 'muppets' has come to describe any client used and abused by some financial predator. I've adopted the term… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
Here's the reality. The image of a white Jesus has been used to justify enslavement, conquest, colonialism, the genocide of indigenous peoples. There are… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
I would have done well as a gypsy child, I think. A circus baby. I coulda played a great street urchin or ragamuffin. Or… — Natasha Lyonne Copy Share Image
A lot of people have been saying 'The 100' reminds them of 'Lord Of The Flies,' 'Lost' and 'Battlestar Galactica,' and all of those… — Marie Avgeropoulos Copy Share Image
I'm a character actor - always have been, always will be - and historically, character actors don't come into their own until later in… — Annie Potts Copy Share Image
Well, I've been politically involved for a really long time. Growing up in the segregated South, it was a very painful experience for me… — Cybill Shepherd Copy Share Image
I've seen guys come along with more ability - they've been faster or bigger or stronger - but they never worked hard to develop… — Steve Largent Copy Share Image
I have always been a big meta guy because I think the way journalism is practiced in Washington, and the way everyone sort of… — Mark Leibovich Copy Share Image
Windmills and solar cells are carbon-free sources of electricity. But they are costly. If you've been investing in those, give it up. That game… — Kenneth Fisher Copy Share Image
