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Last updated on November 25, 2024.
I had mates who lived in tower blocks and I always hated seeing them, because of the lifts, y'know? My God, so scary.
Socrates was a great walker. They say he was a fiend for exercise. He was absolutely not shut away in some ivory tower somewhere.
You can't just hoard your ideas inside the ivory tower. You have to get them out into the world.
The make-believe world of 'The Black Tower' succeeds by broadcasting larger truths that might otherwise elude us.
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.
The Duke of Clarence . . . a prisoner in the Tower, was secretly put to death and drowned in a barrel of Malmesey wine.
Lust is a strong tower of mischief, and hath in it many defenders, as neediness, anger, paleness, discord, love, and longing.
I read a lot of short fiction, like Kurt Vonnegut and Raymond Carver and Wells Tower.
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.
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.
As much as we sometimes roll our eyes at the ivory-tower isolation of universities, they continue to serve as remarkable engines of innovation.
We look down on our scientists if they engage in outside consultation. We implicitly promote the ivory tower.
Inanimate objects sometimes appear endowed with a strange power of sight. A statue notices, a tower watches, the face of an edifice contemplates.
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.
I want to start a Dunkin' Donuts in Los Angeles. I already have the perfect location picked out. It would be the old Tower Records buildings on Sunset.
Can you imagine the headlines if I gave someone food poisoning? They'd hang me off Tower Bridge by my ballbag!
Maybe what I admired most about John Steinbeck is that he never mortgaged his 45-acre heart for a suite in an ivory tower.
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.
I like 'Stifle Tower,' I like 'Gobzilla.' There's a lot of nicknames that are pretty cool.
Destiny is a tower of cards - nudge one just an inch and everything stacked on top comes crashing down. P116
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.
When the ravens leave the Tower, England shall fall, they say. We want to be there shooting the ravens.
I revel in movies where the monsters tower more over the tiny budgets than the characters they threaten.
I spent a large part of my 20s and 30s living in different places, including tower blocks.
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.
Tower Bridge would make a cool house. I like the idea of living over the river.
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.
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.
I would jump off the Willis Tower, which is the tallest building in Chicago, to support Hillary Clinton.
Trump built Trump Tower using mob concrete, not Bethlehem steel.
When I started half.com, our three biggest competitors were Borders, Tower Records and Blockbuster Video.
Before this distinguished assembly and the world, the bells today proclaim the joyous tidings of the completion of this quietly soaring tower.
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.
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.
Beauty is a fading flower,Truth is but a wizard's tower,Where a solemn death-bell tolls,And a forest round it rolls.
Trump Tower is no ordinary property: It is the jewel in Donald Trump's brass crown.
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.
The only refuge left to us was the poet's ivory tower, which we climbed, ever higher, to isolate ourselves from the mob.
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.
The ivory tower of the artist may be the only stronghold left for human values, cultural treasures, man’s cult of beauty.
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.
The waterfront without the Ferry Tower would be like a birthday cake without a candle.
May you find your Tower, Roland, and breach it, and may you climb to the top!
A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.
I'm learning English at the moment. I can say 'Big Ben', 'Hello Rodney', 'Tower Bridge' and 'Loo'.
Many live in the ivory tower called reality; they never venture on the open sea of thought.
The lofty pine is most easily brought low by the force of the wind, and the higher the tower the greater the fall thereof.
There is this place called the Tower of London and I think if I wrote about any Royal figure as recent as the 20th Century I might end up there!
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.
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!
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.
The old church tower and garden wall Are black with autumn rain And dreary winds foreboding call The darkness down again
Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.
Jan built herself an ivory tower to keep the wolves out; she never dreamed they were already inside.
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.
Smooth shapes are very rare in the wild but extremely important in the ivory tower and the factory.
The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa - slightly off balance.
(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.
Language evolves and moves on. It is an organic thing. It is not stuck in an ivory tower, hung with expensive works of art.
The skylines of Buffalo, New York, and Toronto, Ontario, some 40 miles away, can be seen from the eight observation areas of the Seagram Tower.
