Imperfect Dome Quote by Twyla Tharp

The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.

— Thomas Carlyle

“The vast marble dome of the State House stood out in massive silhouette, its crowning statue haloed fantastically by a break in one of…

— H.P. Lovecraft

“I built and I built— heaven knows I have done that well. Those skyscrapers, full of tenants, floor after floor, and not a single…

— Tom Rachman

“And a church spire sketched on the sky, of sheet metal and open beams, to resemble a church spire”

— William Carlos Williams

“The room was amazing. It was all glass, including the domed roof, and in all directions it offered a view of the Atlantic Ocean…

— Robert B. Parker

“Now I know how Michelangelo felt. Only he ended up with the Sistine Chapel and I got a sooty ceiling in a minor mansion…

— Shelley Noble

“In another country where the buildings don't stop rising until they pinthe clouds to the sky.”

— Sally Gardner

“The skyscrapers of the city had finished scraping all the sky away, and the clouds overhead were exactly the color of concrete and I…

— Michael Montoure

“But one never finds a cathedral, a wave in a storm, a dancer's leap in the air quite as high as one has been…

— Marcel Proust

“There is not much talk about the clouds that are visible up here. No one seems to think it remarkable that somewhere above an…

— Alain de Botton

“Opposite is the old bell-tower of a church, all the more moving for being unfinished. What beauty there is in interrupted towers, which continue…

— Georges Rodenbach

“It was pouring earlier, great sheets of rain, and now the clouds outside the window are crystal tipped, like mountain peaks in the sky,…

— Christina Baker Kline