I've tried not to treat Shakespeare as a marble giant.
White paint is my marble.
Life is made up of marble and mud.
Whether I played marbles, whether I played football or slam anything else, I wanted to excel.
Marble is not alike in all countries.
If art made you think, then this was Art. Staring at the ball, made of layers and layers of cloth, I wondered about the glass marble at its heart. What if you wanted to reach that marble? Make sure it was still whole? You'd have to remove the layers....
I was on a walking tour of Oxford colleges once with a group of bored and unimpressable tourists. They yawned at Balliol's quad, T.E. Lawrence's and Churchill's portraits, and the blackboard Einstein wrote his E=mc2 on. Then the tour guide said, 'And...
Actually, writers have no business writing about their own works. They either wax conceited, saying things like: 'My brilliance is possibly most apparent in my dazzling short story, "The Cookiepants Hypotenuse."' Or else they get unbearably cutesy: '...
A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
The Parthenon without the marbles is like a smile with a tooth missing.
And marbled clouds go scudding by The many-steepled London sky.
carve your name on hearts and not on marble.
I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
Marble, I perceive, covers a multitude of sins.
The more the marbles wastes, the more the statue grows.
The secret angels of God are only as alive as the marble angels of Michelangelo!
For me, life is not about gold taps and marble all over the place.
Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.
I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
Let not the rash marble risk garrulous breaches of oblivion's omnipotence, in many words recalling name, renown, events, birthplace. All those glass jewels are best left in the dark. Let not the marble say what men do not. The essentials of the dead ...
