Quotes of: Marbles Keyword

Anne laughed. "I don't want sunbursts or marble halls, I just want you.

Anne of the Island

Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.

Phillips Brooks

The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.

Jean de la Bruyere

Convince yourself that you are working in clay, not marble, on paper not eternal bronze: Let that first sentence be as stupid as it wishes.

Jacques Barzun

Sam Bell: You've been up here too long man. You've lost your marbles.

Moon

Marble flooring is to a Punjabi what a foreign degree is to a Tamilian

2 States: The Story of My Marriage

I saw an angel in the block of marble and I just chiseled until I set him free.

Michelangelo

The only time I've been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979.

Wendell Berry

I have tasted words, I have seen them. Never had her hands reached out in darkness and felt the texture of pure marble, never had her forehead bent forward and, as against a stone altar, felt safety. I am now saved. Her mind could not then so specifi...

HERmione

If you were an animal, what would you be?" I wrote, "A bumblebee trying to fuck a marble.

Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned

The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.

Michelangelo

Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, or is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a trifling extent.

Walden

As when, O lady mine, With chiselled touch The stone unhewn and cold Becomes a living mould, The more the marble wastes, The more the statue grows.

Michelangelo Buonarroti

Keeping up the appearance of having all your marbles is hard work, but important.

Water for Elephants

'Marbles' really took so much and such a thorough effort from me that I was so happy to tie that up and have it feel satisfying.

Ellen Forney

'Really,' thought I, 'we call Baltimore the 'Monumental City' for its two marble columns, and here is Edinburg with one at every street-corner!'

Bayard Taylor

Success is a relative thing―and the victory of a boy at marbles is equal to the victory of an Octavius at Actium when measured by the scale of cosmic infinity.

H.P. Lovecraft

Gracchus: The beating heart of Rome is not the marble of the Senate, it's the sand of the Colosseum. He'll bring them death and they will love him for it.

Gladiator

If there's one thing white men have never had a problem with in this clubby, white marble enclave of Washington, it's getting pulled up the ladder by other men.

Maureen Dowd

I suppose a cycle courier knows better than anyone how a murder on Marble Arch can hold up traffic.

Latest Accessory

The first among mankind will always be those who make something imperishable out of a sheet of paper, a canvas, a piece of marble, or a few sounds

Stello