Top 347 Marble Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on December 18, 2024.
The statue lies hid in a block of marble; and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter, and removes the rubbish.
What is experience? A poor little hut constructed from the ruins of the palace of gold and marble called our illusions.
If Michaelangelo made a marble sculpture of a defensive end it would look like Mario Williams.
Really,' thought I, 'we call Baltimore the 'Monumental City' for its two marble columns, and here is Edinburg with one at every street-corner!
The only time I've been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979.
I have nothing
Of woman in me; now from head to foot
I am marble-constant.
Marble statues, engraved with public inscriptions, by which the life and soul return after death to noble leaders.
Books have that strange quality, that being of the frailest and tenderest matter, they outlast brass, iron and marble.
To make a face from marble means to remove from the slab everything that is not the face
The secret angels of God are only as alive as the marble angels of Michelangelo!
Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.
I love my blocks of marble, always piling up in the yard like a flock of sheep.
New York has total depth in every area. Washington has only politics; after that, the second biggest thing is white marble.
Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.
cats will be clean in a pigsty while pigs will be dirty in a marble hall.
For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
There is a big difference between The Merchant of Venice and a photograph of two males of different races in an erotic pose on a marble table top.
I'm the kind of person who would have liked to have lived at the Plaza. I love crystal chandeliers and gold leaf, velvets and mirrors, Oriental rugs and marble.
Where the statue stood Of Newton, with his prism and silent face, The marble index of a mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of thought alone.
Sometimes I carry a Green Marble SeLr setting spray. It's the one drag queens use. That is bomb.
Maid
of the luminous grey-eyes,
Mistress
of honey and marble implacable white thighs
and Goddess,
chaste daughter of Zeus.
Man is a marble piece; unlike Michelangelo's masterpieces, man is unconsciously carved and imperfectly shaped by the nature
My Chevrolet shines like a marble floor. Baby keep it raw, have you modeled before?
What a severe yet master artist old Winter is... No longer the canvas and the pigments, but the marble and the chisel.
The work of art is already within the block of marble. I just chop off whatever isn't needed.
Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
I've read in many a novel, that unless they've souls that grovel-- Folks prefer in fact a hovel to your dreary marble halls.
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.
Yes, the work comes out more beautiful from a material that resists the process, verse, marble, onyx, or enamel.
Although I'm a city boy, I am a rural person at heart - and that comes from school. I'd lived near Marble Arch in London and it was fantastic to be surrounded by fields and trees.
But soft you, the fair Ophelia: Ope not thy ponderous and marble jaws, But get thee to a nunnery - go!
Being the first woman speaker and breaking the marble ceiling is pretty important. Now it's time to move on.
the wealthy ... live in marble mausoleums surrounded by the suspicions and neuroses that have replaced the medieval moats which once isolated so-called aristocrats from reality.
'Really,' thought I, 'we call Baltimore the 'Monumental City' for its two marble columns, and here is Edinburg with one at every street-corner!'
I used to play snooker in millionaires' mansions with marble floors and eat at the best places, but that's all over now.
There were seventy-five people in the lobby and only a seven-year-old girl was finding out what it felt like to sit on the Marble Floor
And when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And asleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me must be heard of, say, I taught thee.
If someone took the finest marble and knew how to shape it artfully: Prometheus' material was lowly clay, but his statues walked.
We are too prone to engrave our trials in marble and write our blessings in sand.
History, after all, is a process, not a position, and it is not best written in bronze and marble. It is complex, plastic and ever-changing; all things that heroic statues are not.
I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
Hardly any of my most memorable meals have been eaten in a restaurant, and definitely none in one of those fancy marble-floored, polished-silver establishments.
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
Who builds a church to God and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name.
CLARE: The library is cool and smells like carpet cleaner, although all I can see is marble.
Photography has always been a simple medium, compared to painting in oil or chipping at marble.
Book-matched marble is one of the truest ways to showcase the natural beauty of the stone and can become a statement piece of art.
I think the hardest part of writing is revising. And by that I mean the following: A novelist has to create the piece of marble and then chip away to find the figure in it.
It is not he who forms idols in gold or marble that makes them gods, but he who kneels before them.
On the other side of the handrail, the hallway's gray marble floor looks as if we've climbed a stairway through the clouds.
The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.
The building is a national tragedy - a cross between a concrete candy box and a marble sarcophagus in which the art of architecture lies buried.
The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material.
I dreamt that I dwelt in marble halls, With vassals and serfs at my side, And of all who assembled within those walls, That I was the hope and the pride.
When my dad was young he shot marbles. When I was young I played Marble Madness on my Nintendo Entertainment System.
You find me at work; excuse the dust on my blouse. I sculpt my marble myself.
The great doctors all got their education off dirt pavements and poverty - not marble floors and foundations.
He that sows his grain upon marble will have many a hungry belly before his harvest.
The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.
I laid my face to the smooth face of the marble and howled my loss into the cold salt rain.
