We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.
I love meeting 'the Odd Man Out' - like fans of 'Baywatch' who regret, as I do, that Tower 12 Productions didn't put nearly as much energy into writing and directing the show as they put into photographing and editing it.
[a mangled robot shambles into the Stark Tower] Bruce Banner: Ultron? Ultron: In the flesh! [several Ultron droids appear]
Dr. Lester: I've been very lonely in my isolated tower of indecipherable speech.
An M.P. once suggested I be put in the Tower of London for saying derogatory things about the royals. There's no First Amendment in my country.
Alderic, Knight of the Order of the City and the Assault, hereditary Guardian of the King's Peace of Mind, a man not unremembered among the makers of myth, pondered so long upon the Gibbelins' hoard that by now he deemed it his. Alas that I should sa...
(Jace) "Is there anything special you want to see? Paris? Budapest? The Leaning Tower of Pisa?" Only if it falls on Sebastian's head, she thought.
The Spirit Tower has its guardian, but unless it understands who its guardian is, it cannot be guarded.
I've met talespinners before, Jake, and they're all cut more or less from the same cloth. They tell tales because they're afraid of life.
It shows a mediocre architect at the top of his game [on the Beetham Tower in Manchester]
There was murder, there was rape, there were unspeakable practices, and all of them were for the good, the bloody good, the bloody myth, for the grail, for the Tower.
The humble were the elect of God. Did not the priests teach so, in their gemmed, kingly robes, from their towering pulpits?
Lying on the ceiling. Refusing to go to school. Not opening up to me. Climbing water towers. "No, she's all right.
The powe if fate is something terrible. It cannot be escaped--not with wealth or by war, not with a tower ir a sea-lashed black ship.
History is the mighty tower of experience, which time has built amidst the endless fields of bygone ages. - Forward
So long as we do not depend on the facts entirely, incomplete knowledge is better than complete ignorance. --Egwene al'Vere
If all the seven stones were laid out before me now, I should shut my eyes and put my hands in my pockets.
Then holding the star aloft and the bright sword advanced, Frodo, hobbit of the Shire, walked steadily down to meet the eyes.
But I spoke hastily. We must not be hasty. I have become too hot. I must cool myself and think; for it is easier to shout than to do it.
For him, the kampung was a place to live and work that was based on a steadfast and intimate relationship between man and nature. The village was a true reflection of life in the tropics.
If you want to know why the towers of American capitalism are crumbling, I recommend reading 'The Creature from Jekyll Island' by G. Edward Griffin.
