Quotes about Tower

I read a lot of short fiction, like Kurt Vonnegut and Raymond Carver and Wells Tower. Votes: 4

I haven't seen the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, the Louvre. I haven't seen anything. I don't really care. Votes: 4

If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted. Votes: 4

Currently, I am overseeing the construction of the new Trump Tower in Chicago. I am involved in meeting with the construction crews, architects and sales teams. I am learning a lot and working with some of the best in the business. Votes: 4

Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: 'It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity. Votes: 4

Official motto of the White House economic team: Those who can, do. Those who can't, fantasize in the classroom, fail in Washington and then return to the Ivy Tower to train the next generation of egghead economic saboteurs. Life is good for left-wing academics. Everyone else pays dearly. Votes: 4

Although the French were very friendly and helpful. On one location we were to film at the top of the Eiffel Tower but we couldn't, as it was so misty with four inches of snow on the ground. We couldn't see a thing but we finally got it done. Votes: 4

I've been to Mar-a-Lago. I'm not going to Trump Tower. Votes: 3

I've been to Mar-a-Lago. I'm not going to Trump Tower. Votes: 3

The Black Tower stands with the Lion of Andor." -Logain Votes: 3

Tower'd cities please us then, And the busy hum of men. Votes: 3

I like the Eiffel Tower in Las Vegas more than the actual one. Votes: 3

The tarot card 'The Tower' seemed a chilling reflection of the events of September 11, 2001. Votes: 3

The waterfront without the Ferry Tower would be like a birthday cake without a candle. Votes: 3

May you find your Tower, Roland, and breach it, and may you climb to the top! Votes: 3

A bottomless pit of violence, a Tower of Babel where all are speakers and no hearers. Votes: 3

When I started half.com, our three biggest competitors were Borders, Tower Records and Blockbuster Video. Votes: 3

I hold to no God," Roland said. "I hold to the Tower, and won't pray to that. Votes: 3

I've always thought Blues Point Tower is one of my best buildings and I stand by that. Votes: 3

I'm learning English at the moment. I can say 'Big Ben', 'Hello Rodney', 'Tower Bridge' and 'Loo'. Votes: 3

you know this means that what we did-what we almost did in Paris-" "Going to the Eiffel Tower? Votes: 3

Just like Trump Tower, he [Donald Trump] must have hired a foreign worker to do his own tweets. Votes: 3

What better day to lay the cornerstone of the Freedom Tower than the day our country declared its independence. Votes: 3

The King is in his Tower, eating bread and honey. The Breakers in the basement, making all the money. Votes: 3

I don't like being up high. It took me three days to get to the top of the Eiffel Tower. Votes: 3

Can you imagine the headlines if I gave someone food poisoning? They'd hang me off Tower Bridge by my ballbag! Votes: 3

You cannot manage an airline from a corner office in Willis Tower. That doesn't work. You've got to manage by walking around. Votes: 3

The Duke of Clarence . . . a prisoner in the Tower, was secretly put to death and drowned in a barrel of Malmesey wine. Votes: 3

When President Chirac gave [President] Bush a souvenir statue of the Eiffel Tower... Bush said 'This is great! A little oil rig!' Votes: 3

During my teenage years as an Islamist recruiter, I moved to live in self-contained communities in the London boroughs of Newham and Tower Hamlets. Votes: 3

I should go to Paris and jump off of the Eiffel Tower. If I took the Concorde, I could be dead three hours earlier. Votes: 3

Protected by a no-fly zone, surrounded by protesters, Trump Tower is buzzing with intensity. The president-elect's family, loyalist advisers and wannabes all jockeying for position. Votes: 3

(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. Votes: 3

I spent a lot of time in Tower Records. I'm a huge music nerd, and Tower was instrumental to me when I was growing up. Votes: 3

We took the elevator back down from the first observation level of the Eiffel Tower and started walking in he direction of the Taj Mahal Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I like musicianship, and it's quite lacking in most modern popular music. You're always safe with old Chicago, the Allman Brothers, Gov't Mule, or Tower of Power. Votes: 3

Tower Records is like a temple to me. I'll stay there for hours. Nobody can shop for records with me. It drives them out of their minds. Votes: 3

[My mother] would have me smothered like the Princes in the Tower if I showed any inclination for being an artist. She thought all artists little better than lunatics. Votes: 3

How will the Tower of Babel be undone? How will we understand each other in Heaven? Will we all speak English or Dutch or Latin? No, we will speak music. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I have a commission to do a piece in a place in California, Oliver Ranch, which has an eight-storey structure called The Tower designed by the visual artist Ann Hamilton. Votes: 3

In order to capture Mid-World for new readers, I had to streamline the original tale [ The Gunslinger Born], but I also had to incorporate scenes from earlier Dark Tower novels. Votes: 3

I've been to the Leaning Tower of Pisa. It's a tower, and it's leaning. You look at it, but nothing happens, so then you look for someplace to get a sandwich. Votes: 3

Throughout Finnegans Wake Joyce specifies the Tower of Babel as the tower of Sleep, that is, the tower of the witless assumption, or what Bacon calls the reign of the Idols. Votes: 3

You'll start talking, and pretty soon we'll all start nodding, and then the next thing you know, I'm hang gliding off the Eiffel Tower at night, being chased by ninja vampires Votes: 3

Donald Trump used undocumented labor to build the Trump Tower. He underpaid undocumented workers, and when they complained, he basically said what a lot of employers do: "You complain, I'll get you deported." Votes: 3

With the advent of Trump Tower Live, the campaign`s new nightly broadcast, streamed over Facebook, rumors are once again, swirling of a potential Trump media empire to be launched after the election. Votes: 3

Who knows when Donald Trump will have a press conference? Maybe he's just going to stay in Trump Tower and issue tweets - you know, gold-plated tweets to the American people. It's scary. Votes: 3

There is no better story in the Old Testament, or perhaps the whole Bible, for depicting the difference between the ladder-defined life and the cross-defined life than that of the Tower of Babel. Votes: 3

Gabrielle was insulted and didn't even bother to hide it. 'Oh, and I suppose you think your dad was alone when he free-climbed the Kyoto Banking Tower on a windy day last September. Votes: 3

My lifetime's memories are what I have brought home from the trip. I will require them for eternity no more than that little souvenir of the Eiffel Tower I brought home from Paris. Votes: 3

I think there's a danger here. Back in the mists of time is another story, the story of the Tower of Babel. If one attempts to get to heaven and grab the holy ... Votes: 3

I've learned a heck of a lot this way [making Dark Tower comics]. I've also learned a lot from the editors at Marvel, who are always an equal part in the creative team. Votes: 3

Merely taking the profits from the hotels and putting those aside is not enough. They need to look at bank loans. They need to look at foreign banks leasing space in the Trump Tower. Votes: 3

Being the most striking manifestation of the art of metal structures by which our engineers have shown in Europe, it [the Eiffel Tower] is one of the most striking of our modern national genius. Votes: 3

Hawai‘i Pacific University's new use of the iconic Aloha Tower Marketplace will continue its historic role of welcoming visitors, and now students, to the heart of Honolulu in a modern, vibrant mixed-use space. Votes: 3

A prince, the moment he is crown'd, Inherits every virtue sound, As emblems of the sovereign power, Like other baubles in the Tower: Is generous, valiant, just, and wise, And so continues till he dies. Votes: 3

TWENTY bridges from Tower to Kew - Wanted to know what the River knew, Twenty Bridges or twenty-two, For they were young, and the Thames was old And this is the tale that River told: Votes: 3

When I started off in England, HMV or Tower Records would come to meetings and be, like, 'We just don't know what this genre is.' I don't really fit in between Rihanna and Beyonce. Votes: 3

If one attempts to achieve deity or to have the holy, he is thrown back; he is refused. His language is taken from him. He can no longer even communicate. That's the Tower of Babel. Votes: 3

I refer of course to the soaring wonder of the age known as the Eiffel Tower. Never in history has a structure been more technologically advanced, materially obsolescent, and gloriously pointless all at the same time. Votes: 3

What [Franz] Kafka says about the Tower of Babel: In the beginning there were actually many languages, and then as a punishment God gave the world a single language. And then they stopped understanding each other. Votes: 3

As a system of philosophy it is not like the Tower of Babel, so daring its high aim as to seek a shelter against God's anger; but it is like a pyramid poised on its apex. Votes: 3

When Larry Wright won the Pulitzer for The Looming Tower we all strutted around for weeks, until some sourpuss among us noted that it was actually Larry, and not the rest of us, who won the prize. Votes: 3

I do believe it is the first time in history that fire has ever melted steel. I do believe that it defies physics for the World Trade Center Tower Seven, building seven, which collapsed in on itself. Votes: 3

Setting the stage for the Tower of Babel, the author says that, while humanity had a mission to reflect God, it had been distracted by its own reflection and was both fascinated and fearful of what it saw. Votes: 3

I don't think that we need to see [Donald Trump] tax returns to verify his financial acumen. I walk into the Trump Tower every day and I'm like, this guy did pretty well for himself before I got here. Votes: 3

If we made an income pyramid out of a child's blocks, with each layer portraying $1,000 of income, the peak would be far higher than the Eiffel Tower, but almost all of us would be within a yard of the ground. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Britain is obviously one of the world powers and they bombed the World Trade Centre, which is a landmark in itself, and over in Britain you've got Buckingham Palace and the Eiffel Tower, which are big buildings, so to speak. Votes: 3

Think it is just a matter of... well look how long it took Shawn Colvin to reach the level that she has. Believe me, that girl has done everything except stand behind the cash register at Tower and take the money. Votes: 3

Mr. Bernard died on a Monday, at the age of seventy-five, his body wasted. He lay in state for two days in the lobby of the Bernard Gursky Tower and, as he failed to rise on the third, he was duly buried. Votes: 3

[I am more than happy to invite my five favorite fictional characters.]Roland Deschain from Stephen King's Dark Tower series. There's a whole world about Roland left to know. I've got questions. He'd have answers. So pour him a glass of wine. Votes: 3

Statues and children frame the Eiffel Tower and its watery image. When the Germans occupied Paris, they housed a beacon light in the Tower to guide their night planes. The victorious United States Army requisitioned this landmark as a radar transmission point. Votes: 3

The foreign press seems obsessed with the Freedom Tower, as if it was the only thing going on here. In fact, we're trying to keep a huge juggling act in balance, with the tower as just one of the many balls in play. Votes: 3

... her taste in music haunted my memory and I had to stop at Tower Records on the Upper West Side to buy ninety dollars' worth of rap CDs but, as expected, I'm at a loss: [...] voices uttering ugly words like digit, pudding, chunk. Votes: 3

I am a member of the Kiowa Gourd Dance Society; I visit sacred places such as Devil's Tower and the Medicine Wheel. These places are important to me, because they've been made sacred by sacrifice, by the investment of blood and experience and story. Votes: 3

Arya lifted her gaze from the dead man and his dead dog. Jaqen H'ghar was leaning up against the side of the Wailing Tower. When he saw her looking, he lifted a hand to his face and laid two fingers casually against his cheek. Votes: 3

Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: 'It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity.' Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Language as the technology of human extension, whose powers of division and separation we know so well, may have been the "Tower of Babel" by which men sought to scale the highest heavens. Today computers hold out the promise of a means of instant tr Votes: 3

In Peter Ackroyd's book 'London: The Biography,' he describes the route of the medieval wall that enclosed the original city. Take the book and follow it from the Tower of London via the Barbican to Ludgate Hill. You experience the real history of London. Votes: 3

Westminster Abbey, the Tower, a steeple, one church, and then another, presented themselves to our view; and we could now plainly distinguish the high round chimneys on the tops of the houses, which yet seemed to us to form an innumerable number of smaller spires, or steeples. Votes: 3

I was in Tower Records in San Francisco a few weeks ago, buying some cassettes, and a couple of people recognized me and ran up with albums, and I just wanted to cover my face and have a seizure or something. I want people to just go away. Votes: 3

The road and the tale have both been long, would you not say so? The trip has been long and the cost has been high... but no great thing was ever attained easily. A long tale, like a tall Tower, must be built a stone at a time. Votes: 3

Once we played for the Princess of Monaco in Paris. We were the biggest ducks ever, wearing rented tuxedos. We trashed the party, took a bunch of girls and champagne in limos underneath the Eiffel Tower, and set up an acoustic show. It was like a Hilary Duff movie. Votes: 3

I knew if we could pull in the Stephen King fans, we'd have a ball game. The point at which I finally became confident of the audience interest was when I showed up at one of the Marvel midnight openings to launch the very first issue of Dark Tower. Votes: 3

I grew up looking at the Sunset Strip, literally. The things that I remember are the Rainbow Room, the Roxy, the Bizarries, Tower, I grew up my whole life going there, Filthy McNasty's and I said, I need these things and now fill it in with other iconic buildings. Votes: 3

I love my sons and I love that they are writers - I also love my daughter, who's a minister and an orchard keeper! - but I wouldn't wish the burden of Mid-World and the Dark Tower on them. I enjoy working with them, though, because we fit together. Votes: 3

The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it's the small things that count. Everyone's so busy waiting in the Waiting Place. If we stopped to remember that there's such a thing as a Purina Tower and a view like this, we'd all be happier. Votes: 3

One may escape from the prisons of experience, ideology or philosophy, but it is impossible to escape from the reality of one's innermost self. Understanding this, I had freed myself from nostalgia, and having done so, what remained was to free myself from the prospect of the future.("The Tower") Votes: 3

Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows. Votes: 2

A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower. Votes: 2

I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward. Votes: 2

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility. Votes: 2

When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper. Votes: 2

When you have a wife who has been a tower of strength and shown more courage than you dreamed existed - that's the finest I know. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Larry wanted us to reposition the tower. We wouldn't, and won't. He's been holding back our fees. We want to get paid. And that's it. It'll get solved and we'll carry on with planning Ground Zero. Votes: 2

Manhattan, one of the most moneyed spots on the planet, also has one of the greatest concentrations of people in its skyscrapers. It's also, of course, the place where every architect wants to build his tower. Votes: 2

There are fully forty towers, which are lofty and well built, the largest of which has fifty steps leading to its main body, and is higher than the tower of the principal tower of the church at Seville. Votes: 2

I am not feeling any better because I cannot stay in bed, having constant cause for walking. They say I leave at night by the window of my tower, hanging from a red umbrella with which I set fire to the forest! Votes: 2

Living in a community with very wounded people, I came to see that I had lived most of my life as a tightrope artist trying to walk on a high, thin cable from one tower to the other, always waiting for the applause when I had not fallen off and broken my leg. Votes: 2

The Panorama' is also the last place anywhere in New York where the World Trade Center still stands, whole, as it stood in the early morning of September 11. I can also see the corner where I saw the first tower fall and howled out loud. Seeing the buildings again here is uplifting, healing. Votes: 2

Rapunzel is a bit more relatable than the other princesses, especially because she doesn't even know that she's a princess until the very end of the movie. I like to think of her as the bohemian Disney princess. She's barefoot and living in a tower. She paints and reads... She's a Renaissance woman. Votes: 2

The magnificent lobby of the Chrysler Building - faced with rare marbles, aglitter with decorative metalwork, and surmounted by a ceiling painted with a totemic image of the tower itself - leads to elevator cabs inlaid with exotic woods in fanciful patterns. The entire route from street to office is invested with ceremony, dignity, and delight. Votes: 2

I always wish the hotels were like they are in movies and TV shows, where if you're in Paris, right outside your window is the Eiffel Tower. In Egypt, the pyramids are right there. In the movies, every hotel has a monument right outside your window. My hotel rooms overlook the garbage dumpster in the back alley. Votes: 2

You show up in Paris, and on the drive from the airport to the hotel you're like, 'This is so cool! I want to see something! I want to go to the Eiffel Tower!' And then you leave the next morning. You think, Oh, I didn't get to do anything. I tell people: I've been just about everywhere, but I've seen nothing. Votes: 2

Dear Chicago, when I wake up in the morning and see your skyline - the terra cotta of the Wrigley Building, the height of the Willis Tower, the shiny sides of my beloved Trump Tower - I know I'm home. I feel a certain energy walking between your spires, but recognize that what makes you special to me is that my roots are here. Votes: 2

You are a tower of God. Votes: 0

May the Lord be your strong tower. Votes: 0

Age shakes Athena's tower, but spares gray Marathon. Votes: 0

Brave men are a city's strongest tower of defence. Votes: 0

The higher the tower, the greater the fall thereof. Votes: 0

You got me stranded on the bungee tower of love. Votes: 0

The tower of power, too sweet to be sour, ohhhh yeahh! Votes: 0

A second plane hit the second tower. America is under attack. Votes: 0

From a proud tower in the town, Death looks gigantically down. Votes: 0

Our problems may tower over us, but God towers over our problems. Votes: 0

Stand up, tall, like a tower... Then I fall just like a domino. Votes: 0

That tower of strength Which stood four-square to all the winds that blew. Votes: 0

Living in a tower, however secure it may feel, is hardly a social attribute. Votes: 0

An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open. Votes: 0

You live in a tower that soars to heaven and goes unpunished by God. Votes: 0

You have to understand, I grew up in the shadow of the Safeco tower. Votes: 0

Stand firm as the tower that never shakes its top whatever wind may blow. Votes: 0

This little girl will guard her tower with the most vicious dragon of all: indifference. Votes: 0

From the shaken tower A flock of bells take flight, And go with the hour. Votes: 0

I will build you a castle with a tower so high it reaches the moon. Votes: 0

I ought to be jealous of the tower. She is more famous than I am. Votes: 0

Jack Aubrey is a tremendous tower of strength and you always want to read about him. Votes: 0

The commonest ivory tower is that of the average man, the state of passivity towards experience. Votes: 0

Another day, another dollar, another war, another tower Went up where the homeless had their home. Votes: 0

Many live in the ivory tower called reality; they never venture on the open sea of thought. Votes: 0

Jan built herself an ivory tower to keep the wolves out; she never dreamed they were already inside. Votes: 0

The tower of success stands on the pillars of vision, action, patience and the character to withstand criticisms. Votes: 0

We look down on our scientists if they engage in outside consultation. We implicitly promote the ivory tower. Votes: 0

The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa - slightly off balance. Votes: 0

The great Emathian conqueror bid spare The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower Went to the ground. Votes: 0

Smooth shapes are very rare in the wild but extremely important in the ivory tower and the factory. Votes: 0

Smooth shapes are very rare in the wild but extremely important in the ivory tower and the factory Votes: 0

My mother was the dearest, sweetest angel. She didn't talk; she sang. She was a tower of strength. Votes: 0

What is a church?—Our honest sexton tells, 'Tis a tall building, with a tower and bells. Votes: 0

We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of liberty. Votes: 0

How I hate you," he said softly. "If hate were stone I could build a tower into the clouds. Votes: 0

Unfortunately the innocent are always involved in any conflict. Always, everywhere, there is some voice crying from a tower. Votes: 0

Strategy should evolve out of the mud of the marketplace, not in the antiseptic environment of an ivory tower. Votes: 0

I know sometimes I can come off like a lonely spinster in a tower. That's not me at all. Votes: 0

I can take about an hour on the tower of power, as long as I gets a little golden shower. Votes: 0

Here a tower shining brightOnce stood gleaming in the nightWhere now There's just the rubble in the holefrom "White City Votes: 0

History is the mighty tower of experience, which time has built amidst the endless fields of bygone ages. - Forward Votes: 0

The old church tower and garden wall Are black with autumn rain And dreary winds foreboding call The darkness down again Votes: 0

Lust is a strong tower of mischief, and hath in it many defenders, as neediness, anger, paleness, discord, love, and longing. Votes: 0

But the power of destiny is something awesome; neither wealth, nor Ares, nor a tower, nor dark-hulled ships might escape it. Votes: 0

Destiny is a tower of cards - nudge one just an inch and everything stacked on top comes crashing down. P116 Votes: 0

Beauty is a fading flower,Truth is but a wizard's tower,Where a solemn death-bell tolls,And a forest round it rolls. Votes: 0

The ivory tower of the artist may be the only stronghold left for human values, cultural treasures, man’s cult of beauty. Votes: 0

The only refuge left to us was the poet's ivory tower, which we climbed, ever higher, to isolate ourselves from the mob. Votes: 0

Before this distinguished assembly and the world, the bells today proclaim the joyous tidings of the completion of this quietly soaring tower. Votes: 0

Inanimate objects sometimes appear endowed with a strange power of sight. A statue notices, a tower watches, the face of an edifice contemplates. Votes: 0

(to Foaly) Captain Short's life is in danger, so push the button before I climb that tower and push it with your face! Votes: 0

Maybe what I admired most about John Steinbeck is that he never mortgaged his 45-acre heart for a suite in an ivory tower. Votes: 0

I pull you from your tower, take away your pain. Show you all the beauty you possess, if you only let yourself believe. Votes: 0

As much as we sometimes roll our eyes at the ivory-tower isolation of universities, they continue to serve as remarkable engines of innovation. Votes: 0

I'm the tower of power, too sweet to be sour. I'm funky like a monkey. Sky's the limit and space is the place! Votes: 0

Stand up straight and realize who you are, that you tower over your circumstances. You are a child of God. Stand up straight. Votes: 0

The great GOD is a tower of refuge to the poor.The great GOD is a tower of refuge to the needy in distress. Votes: 0

I sometimes think about the tower at Pisa as the first particle accelerator, a (nearly) vertical linear accelerator that Galileo used in his studies. Votes: 0

I have a Vision of the Future, chum. The workers flats in fields of soya beans tower up like silver pencils, score on score. Votes: 0

Language evolves and moves on. It is an organic thing. It is not stuck in an ivory tower, hung with expensive works of art. Votes: 0

The lofty pine is most easily brought low by the force of the wind, and the higher the tower the greater the fall thereof. Votes: 0

My own center, my Kingdom Center, which is the highest priced tower in Saudi Arabia, was vacated twice because of terrorist attacks, terrorist threats. Votes: 0

A mother's love is like a tower, Rising far above the crowd, And her smile is like the sunshine, Breaking through a threatening cloud. Votes: 0

My favorite off-camera memory of Jon Stewart is watching him jump from the second level of a tuna tower into the waters off Grand Cayman. Votes: 0

To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing startle the dull Night, From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise. Votes: 0

That's a big part of being a designer now: going out, having dinners, meeting people. Being in an ivory tower, you can feel very removed. Votes: 0

You can put down a bad book; you can avoid listening to bad music; but you cannot miss the ugly tower block opposite your house. Votes: 0

So, there was this beautiful princess. She was locked in a high tower(...)She was stuck up there(...)So the only thing was to jump. Votes: 0

You might be a redneck if you've ever hauled a can of paint to the top of a water tower to defend your sister's honor. Votes: 0

I had to make a confession of faith in stone. That was the beginning of the tower, the house I built for myself at Bollingen. Votes: 0

Things always seem fairer when we look back at them, and it is out of that inaccessible tower of the past that Longing leans and beckons. Votes: 0

Seville is a tower full of fine archers.... Under the arch of the sky, across the clear plain, she shoots the constant arrow of her river. Votes: 0

So, on the eastern summit, clad in gray, morn, like a horseman girt for travel, comes, and from his tower of mist night's watchman hurries down. Votes: 0

Back in Russia we were dirt-poor. Here in the West we are still poor but have risen above the dirt to tower alongside stalks of grass! Votes: 0

Embrace the power of little things and you will build a tower of mighty things. Mighty things are made up varieties of little things put together! Votes: 0

Strapped, noosed, nighing his hour, He stood and counted them and cursed his luck; And then the clock collected in the tower Its strength, and struck. Votes: 0

Stealing swords," Royce muttered mostly to himself. "Okay, let's take a look at this tower. The sooner I see it, the sooner I can start cursing. Votes: 0

A 60-story tower in New York evokes a 70-story tower in Chicago [and] a 60-story tower in New York evokes a 70-story tower directly across the street. Votes: 0

At the entrance to the original tower, there is a stone into which Jung carved some words with his own hand: 'Cold or not, God is present. Votes: 0

See the BEAR of fearsome size! All the WORLD'S within his eyes. TIME grows thin, the past is a riddle; The TOWER awaits you in the middle. Votes: 0

Ambition is to the mind what the cap is to the falcon; it blinds us first, and then compels us to tower by reason of our blindness. Votes: 0

the reason for the scaffolding on the tower of Saint Germain-des-Près is that a rich American has purchased it and is having it crated for shipping ... Votes: 0

I hope I'm not giving the impression of an ivory tower science, but for me science is an attempt to understand, it's an attempt to understand the universe. Votes: 0

It would be as easy for the United States to build a tower to remove the sun, as to remove polygamy, or the Church and Kingdom of God. Votes: 0

I actually felt calmer and more serene when we got up to the tower that I think I ever have. We had literally done everything we could to prepare. Votes: 0

She looked, and a scarlet butterfly flew away from her, away down the length of the tower, and then another, another, an unraveling scarf of butterflies like winged blood. Votes: 0

You can milk a cow the wrong way once and still be a farmer, but vote the wrong way on a water tower and you can be in trouble. Votes: 0

it is either make this thing permanent inside of you or forever just climb draggled up into the conning tower every time for one short glimpse of the horizon. Votes: 0

In Into the Woods, Cinderella runs from her prince, Rapunzel is thrown from a tower for her prince, and Sleeping Beauty just thought she was getting coffee with Bill Cosby. Votes: 0

Careful with the accusations of insanity, oh my lady whose home is a tower with windows of brick, all for the sake of some skinny-ankled, laugh-prone boy of a khan. Votes: 0

This country [the Philippines] is like a pyramid, like a tower. It is made up of millions of stones... . And the foundation stone of this pyramid is the common man. Votes: 0

A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth. Votes: 0

Sta come torre ferma, che non crolla Giammai la cima per soffiar de' venti. Be steadfast as a tower that doth not bend its stately summit to the tempest's shock. Votes: 0

Once we decided to do a tower in New York, it had to say something about our group, reflecting the mix of modernity and creativity in our organization. It's a symbol. Votes: 0

Abstinence from all injustice to other first-rate powers is a greater tower of strength than anything that can be gained by the sacrifice of permanent tranquillity for an apparent temporary advantage. Votes: 0

Denmark is sadly a hellish place if you happen to be a pig, but the brioche and fruits that tower on the table before me have me hastily attaching a feedbag. Votes: 0

Louis Armstrong is the master of the jazz solo. He became the beacon, the light in the tower, that helped the rest of us navigate the tricky waters of jazz improvisation. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The rain was still crashing down, angrily machine-gunning the large windows; it poured through the gutters up in the tower and funneled along the flat roof, sounding like footsteps on the ceiling. Votes: 0

I think I never passed so sad an hour, Dear friend, as that one at the church to-night. The edifice from basement to the tower Was one resplendent blaze of coloured light... Votes: 0

There was a house at the foot of the tower, close to the thunder of the waves breaking against the cliffs, where love was more intense because it seemed like a shipwreck. Votes: 0

And off in the far distance, the gold on the wings of the angel atop the bell tower of San Marco flashed in the sun, bathing the entire city in its glistening benediction. Votes: 0

Cowards are nice, they're interesting, they're gentle, they wouldn't think of shooting down people in a parade from a tower. They want to live, so they can see their kids. They're very brave. Votes: 0

Ludlow....is probably the loveliest town in England with its hill of Georgian houses ascending from the river Teme to the great tower of the cross-shaped church, rising behind a classic market building. Votes: 0

I love her with a love as still As a broad river's peaceful might, Which by high tower and lowly mill, Goes wandering at its own will, And yet does ever flow aright. Votes: 0

Character is both formed and revealed by how one deals with everyday situations as well as extraordinary pressures and temptations. Like a well-made tower, character is built stone by stone, decision by decision. Votes: 0

My father was always anxious to give pleasure to his children. Accordingly, he took me one day, as a special treat, to the top of the grand old tower, to see the chimes played. Votes: 0

I am circling around God, around the ancient tower, and I have been circling for a thousand years, and I still don't know if I am a falcon, or a storm, or a great song." Votes: 0

Are we not madder than those first inhabitants of the plain of Sennar? We know that the distance separating the earth from the sky is infinite, and yet we do not stop building our tower. Votes: 0

Oh, sweet thy current by town and by tower, The green sunny vale and the dark linden bower; Thy waves as they dimple smile back on the plain, And Rhine, ancient river, thou'rt German again! Votes: 0

I am circling around God, around the ancient tower, and I have been circling for a thousand years, and I still don't know if I am a falcon, or a storm, or a great song. Votes: 0

Our Lord never called His people to help build the tower of Babel in the hope of getting a Bible study in the basement. He commanded us to build our own city on a hill. Votes: 0

The artist's life is to be where life is, active life, found in neither ivory tower nor concrete shelter; he must be out listening to everything, looking at everything, and thinking it all out afterward. Votes: 0

You drive the landscape like a herd of clouds Moving against your horizontal tower Of steadfast speed. All England lies beneath you like a woman With limbs ravished By one glance carrying all these eyes. Votes: 0

Ellen Barkin, your upcoming TV show ‘The New Normal’ premiers on September 11th. September 11th, that sounds about right. Every clip I’ve seen feels like I’m watching a third tower collapse. Votes: 0