Quotes of: Towering Keyword

As much as we sometimes roll our eyes at the ivory-tower isolation of universities, they continue to serve as remarkable engines of innovation.

Steven Johnson

I smelled war on the horizon, with more deaths and trouble to come" Bombing of the Twin Towers From Rape of a Nation by Sara Niles

Sara Niles

Not far from our house, and opposite the old church with the golden cross, stood a large building, even larger than the church, and having many towers.

Max Muller

Christopher Reeve understood that... everything begins with hope. His vision of walking again, his belief that he would be able to in his lifetime, towered over his broken body.

Patti Davis

It is proper that noble spirits, equipped with truth and enlightened with the Divine intelligence, should arm themselves against dense ignorance by climbing up to the high rock and tower of contemplation.

Giordano Bruno

You can't imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.

Bob Dylan

A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the base, and it steadily becomes finer as the horizon expands.

William Lyon Phelps

Tower Records was a place to meet your friends, your co-workers or a place to meet new friends who shared a common love of music, literature and all things cultural.

Colin Hanks

If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without ascending it, the work would have been permitted.

Franz Kafka

Mary Fisher lives in a High Tower, on the edge of the sea: she writes a great deal about the nature of love. She tells lies.

Faye Weldon

The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.

Horace

John McCain's choice of Sarah Palin as running mate is the towering example of his poor judgment. Palin's ignorance of public affairs is monumental.

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

I'd rather kill myself than dress like Victoria Beckham in towering heels day after day.

Britt Ekland

I miss the comedy of the '70s and '80s, like 'Only Fools And Horses' and 'Fawlty Towers,' so I'm glad I'm put in that category.

Brendan O'Carroll

Aragorn: [of Boromir] They will look for his coming from the White Tower. But he will not return.

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Gandalf: [to Aragorn] Look to my coming on the first light of the fifth day, at dawn look to the east.

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

[after Legolas has shot and killed a Warg heading toward Gimli] Gimli: But that one counts as mine!

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Gimli: [upon seeing the atmosphere in Edoras] You'll find more cheer in a graveyard.

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Arwen: Go to sleep. Aragorn: I am asleep. This is a dream. Arwen: Then it is a good dream.

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Merry: I think we might have made a mistake leaving the Shire, Pippin.

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Gandalf: The courtesy of your hall is somewhat lessened of late Théoden, King.

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers