Top 590 Tower Of Babel Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Every time I look at the Eiffel Tower, it completely blows my mind.

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

'Babel' is about the point of view of others. It literally includes points of views as experienced from the other side. It is not about a hero. It is not about only one country. It is a prism that allows us to see the same reality from different angles.

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

I'm the tower of power, too sweet to be sour.

At first Babel longed for the use of just two words: Yes and No. But he knew that just to utter a single word would be to destroy the delicate fluency of silence.

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

I started in the P.A. world and craft service and storyboard artist, with the eye on the prize of directing. When I was directing second unit on Babel, I ended up casting most of the unknown parts. In these weird circles, I was this guy who found these kids on the streets.

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

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

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

The Lighthouse was then a silvery, misty-looking tower with a yellow eye, that opened suddenly, and softly in the evening. Now— James looked at the Lighthouse. He could see the white-washed rocks; the tower, stark and straight; he could see that it was barred with black and white; he could see windows in it; he could even see washing spread on the rocks to dry. So that was the Lighthouse, was it? No, the other was also the Lighthouse. For nothing was simply one thing. The other Lighthouse was true too.

I think the obligation of a poet is not to be in an ivory tower; it is not to be isolated but to be among people.

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

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

The students often like to talk about movies that they feel are Orientalist like 300 or Babel. They talk a lot about the possibility of U.S. aggression against Iran and the Iranian hostages being held by the U.S. in Iraq.

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

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

I'm tall now, but when I was younger, I used to tower above everyone - I still feel conscious of that.

We, in the ages lying In the buried past of the earth, Built Nineveh with our sighing, And Babel itself with our mirth; And o'erthrew them with prophesying To the old of the new world's worth; For each age is a dream that is dying, Or one that is coming to birth.

The Trump World Tower was home growing up, and it's where my office is.

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

One whom the infernal gods of Hannibal will cause to be reborn, terror of mankind; never more horror nor worse days in the past than will come to the Romans through Babel.

I think it's a great story, the story of Babel. I think anyone can direct it as an analogy for a lot of different situations.

There are the further difficulties of building a population out of a diversity of races, each at a different stage of cultural evolution, some in need of restraint, many in need of protection; everywhere a bewildering Babel of tongues.

Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.

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

The king's name is a tower of strength.

I don't see myself in an ivory tower.

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

The higher the tower, the greater the fall thereof.

You got me stranded on the bungee tower of love.

I'd much rather be in the world than in some ivory tower somewhere.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I live on a big old Dutch barge by Tower Hill on the Thames.

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

Two words guided the making of 'Babel' for me: 'dignity' and 'compassion.' These things are normally forgotten in the making of a lot of films. Normally there is not dignity because the poor and dispossessed in a place like Morocco are portrayed as mere victims, or the Japanese are portrayed as cartoon figures with no humanity.

The Globe will become an automatic sight like the Tower of London and St. Paul's.

The more the linguistic Babel corroded and disorganized parliament, the closer drew the inevitable hour of the disintegration of this Babylonian Empire, and with it the hour of freedom for my German-Austrian people.

Man has been here 32,000 years. That it took a hundred million years to prepare the world for him is proof that that is what it was done for. I suppose it is, I dunno. If The Eiffel Tower were now to represent the world's age, the skin of paint on the pinnacle knob at its summit would represent man's share of that age; and anybody would perceive that the skin was what the tower was built for. I reckon they would, I dunno.

Our lives are full of supposes. Suppose this should happen, or suppose that should happen; what could we do; how could we bear it? But, if we are living in the high tower of the dwelling place of God, all these supposes will drop out of our lives. We shall be quiet from the fear of evil, for no threatenings of evil can penetrate into the high tower of God.

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

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

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

There was a small wooden gazebo built out over the water; Isabelle was sitting in it, staring out across the lake. She looked like a princess in a fairy tale, waiting at the top of her tower for someone to ride up and rescue her. Not that traditional princess behavior was like Isabelle at all. Isabelle with her whip and boots and knives would chop anyone who tried to pen her up in a tower into pieces, build a bridge out of the remains, and walk carelessly to freedom, her hair looking fabulous the entire time.

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

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

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

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

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

We monitor many frequencies. We listen always. Came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. It played us a mighty dub.

It were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible that you might discover the formal principle of its color and odor, as seek to transfuse from one language into another the creations of a poet. The plant must spring again from its seed, or it will bear no flower -- and this is the burthen of the curse of Babel.

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

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

Roger. Clear the tower. I got a pitch and a roll program, and this baby's really going.