Quotes of: Eiffel-tower Keyword

In 1255, Louis IX of France presented an elephant to Henry III of England to add to the menagerie of exotic animals he kept in the Tower of London.

Karen Maitland

I am very sorry to say that I rejoiced when I once more perceived the towers of Windsor behind me.

Karl Philipp Moritz

I was making a film called The White Tower at the foot of Mont Blanc - the one thing I learned from that experience was that it's more difficult to go down a mountain than to go up. A lot of people don't realize that.

Glenn Ford

The skyscraper style first advocated by Louis Sullivan - a tower of strongly vertical character with clear definitions among base, shaft, and crown - has remained remarkably consistent throughout the history of this building type.

Martin Filler

We're living in a teetering tower of babble. A shaky reality of words. A DNA soup for disaster. The natural world destroyed, we're left with this cluttered world of language.

Chuck Palanhiuk

I remember that in Baltimore, where I grew up, we would drive by the radio station and tower of WBAL, and I would try to picture the people inside and what they did there.

Ira Glass

If you gather a lot of stuff, then you write it, write in scenes with dialogue. Somewhere in the middle, rising from all this research like strong metal towers, is your opinions.

Jimmy Breslin

We are benefiting from one thing, and that is the attacks on the twin towers and the pentagon and the American struggle in Iraq. These events swung American public opinion in our favor

Benjamin Netanyahu

Yes, I remember the barbed wire and the guard towers and the machine guns, but they became part of my normal landscape. What would be abnormal in normal times became my normality in camp.

George Takei

I make friends easily. I'm a gregarious guy, I'm open, I'm easy to get to know - I don't lock myself in an ivory tower. So I like people; I enjoy people.

Jerry Weintraub

Bartlett: What about the goon towers? Hilts: That's a chance you're gonna have to take. But they're gonna be watching the compound, not the woods.

The Great Escape

[scene from extended version] Gimli: This new Gandalf is more grumpy than the old one.

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Theoden: I will not risk open war. Aragorn: Open war is upon you whether you would risk it or not.

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Ugluk: What is it? What do you smell? Mauhur: Man flesh. They've picked up our trail.

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

[Pippin seemingly burps in an Entish language, after drinking their beverage] Merry: You just said something... treeish!

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Treebeard: [reacting to Pippin's plan] That doesn't make sense to me. But, then again, you are very small.

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Pippin: And whose side are you on? Treebeard: Side? I am on nobody's side, because nobody is on my side, little Orc.

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Sam: This looks strangely familiar. Frodo: Because we've been here before. We're going in circles!

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Gimli: [out of breath] I'm wasted on cross-country! We Dwarves are natural sprinters, very dangerous over short distances.

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Eomer: [to Aragorn, Gimli and Legolas] Look for your friends, but do not trust to hope. It has forsaken these lands.

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Frodo: [to Faramir] The Ring will not save Gondor. It only has the power to destroy. Please, let me go.

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers