A Quote by Alexander Smith

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

Alexander Smith

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Alexander Smith
Scottish - Poet
December 31, 1830 - January 5, 1867

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.

Marshall McLuhan

The city Babel is the Ham-like man, who builds this city upon the earth; the tower is his self-chosen god, and divine worship. All reason-taught, from the school of this world, are the master-builders of this tower.

Jakob Bohme

Law is a bottomless pit.

John Arbuthnot

They have no idea what a bottomless pit of misery I am.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

UN goodwill may be a bottomless pit but it's by no means limitless.

John Major

Space is not only high, it's low. It's a bottomless pit.

Sun Ra

Other people have shrubbery in their gardens. You have a bottomless pit.

Cassandra Clare

Law is a Bottomless-Pit, it is a Cormorant, a Harpy, that devours every thing.

John Arbuthnot

I have plenty of vanity in my life. I want to look pretty in the world. But it can be this bottomless pit.

Claire Danes

Work without faith is like an attempt to reach the bottom of a bottomless pit.

Mahatma Gandhi

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.