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• Most people are on the world, not in it-- having no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them-- undiffused seporate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but seporate.

  John Muir

  Sympathy, People, Touching

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• I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Sports, Golf, Guitar

  Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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• How does one chip off the marble that doesn't belong? ... That comes about through five things: humility, reverence, inspiration, deep purpose, and joy. No great man has ever wise-cracked his way to greatness. Until one learns to lose one's self he cannot find himself. No one can multiply himself by himself. He must first divide himself and give himself to the service of all, thus placing himself within all others through acts of thoughtfulness and service.

  Walter Russell

  Wise, Inspiration, Humility

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• Yes, the work comes out more beautiful from a material that resists the process, verse, marble, onyx, or enamel.

  Theophile Gautier

  Beautiful, Process, Materials

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• As we got further and further away, it [the Earth] dimished in size. Finally it shrank to the size of a marble, the most beautiful you can imagine. That beautiful, warm, living object looked so fragile, so delicate, that if you touched it with a finger it would crumble and fall apart. Seeing this has to change a man.

  James Irwin

  Beautiful, Fall, Men

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• Man is a marble piece; unlike Michelangelo's masterpieces, man is unconsciously carved and imperfectly shaped by the nature

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Nature, Men, Pieces

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• What a severe yet master artist old Winter is... No longer the canvas and the pigments, but the marble and the chisel.

  John Burroughs

  Winter, Artist, Canvas

  John Burroughs, Farida Anna Wiley (1997). “John Burroughs' America: Selections from the Writings of the Naturalist”, p.124, Courier Corporation

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• The secret angels of God are only as alive as the marble angels of Michelangelo!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Angel, Secret, Alive

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• I was 15 years old when I was in this band; we were called Stag. We used to wear spandex pants and no underwear - we looked like marbles smugglers.

  Craig Ferguson

  Years, Underwear, Band

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• I sat, a solitary man, In a crowded London shop, An open book and empty cup On the marble table-top. While on the shop and street I gazed My body of a sudden blazed; And twenty minutes more or less It seemed, so great my happiness, That I was blessed and could bless.

  William Butler Yeats

  Book, Blessed, Men

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.255, Simon and Schuster

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• When an artist is in the strict sense working, he of course takes into account the existing tastes, interests and capacity of his audience. These no less than the language , the marble, the paint, are part of his aw material.; to be used, tamed, sublimated, not ignored or defied. Haughty indifference to them is not genius, it is laziness and incompetence.

  C. S. Lewis

  Artist, Culture, Genius

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• I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand; I saw from out the wave of her structure's rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand: A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying Glory smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble pines, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles.

  Lord Byron

  Land, Bridges, Wings

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.264, Delphi Classics

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• As an attorney, I assure you the law isn't a line engraved in marble, immovable and unchangeable through the centuries. Rather the law is like a string, fixed at both ends but with a great deal of play in it very loose, the line of the law so you can stretch it this way or that, rearrange the arc of it so you are nearly always short of blatant theft or cold-blooded murder safely on the right side. That's a daunting thing to realize but true.

  Dean Koontz

  Law, Play, Lines

  "Watchers". Book by Dean Koontz, 1987.

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• You may name a bronze statue 'Liberty,' or a painted figure in a city hall 'Commerce,' or a marble form in a temple 'Athene' or 'Venus;' but what is really there is only a representation of a single woman.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Cities, Names, Liberty

  George Edward Woodberry (1914). “Two Phases of Criticism, Historical and Aesthetic: Lectures Delivered on the Larwill Foundation of Kenyon College, May Seventh and Eighth, 1913”

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• I found Rome built of bricks; I leave her clothed in marble.

  Suetonius

  Rome, Bricks, Found

  Suetonius (1980). “The twelve Caesars”, Penguin Group USA

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• Two thousand summers have imparted to the monuments of Grecian literature, as to her marbles, only a maturer golden and autumnal tint, for they have carried their own serene and celestial atmosphere into all lands to protect them against the corrosion of time.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Summer, Land, Two

  Henry David Thoreau (2004). “On Reading: From "Walden"”, p.7, Princeton University Press

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• 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.

  Joseph Addison

  Art, Lying, Block

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator”, p.82

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• The greatest artist has no conception which a single block of white marble does not potentially contain within its mass, but only a hand obedient to the mind can penetrate to this image.

  Michelangelo

  Block, Artist, Hands

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• Being happy with less is what makes a great human being, not a big house with marble floors, or everyone knowing who you are.

  Yanni

  Knowing Who You Are, House, Bigs

  Yanni, David Rensin (2003). “Yanni in Words”, Miramax Books

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• 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

  Alfred de Vigny

  Paper, Firsts, Sound

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• People are trying so hard to become famous. Johnny Marbles, he tried to throw a pie in Rupert Murdoch's face. What do I gotta do, give Sumner Redstone a wedgie?

  Andy Kindler

  Pie, People, Giving

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• Men have marble, women waxen, minds.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Mind, Sensibility

  William Shakespeare, Colin Burrow (2002). “The Complete Sonnets and Poems”, p.309, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• 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.

  Michelangelo

  Block, Inspiration, Sculpture

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• Fortunately, when we have all our marbles, we can shift our memories very quickly.

  Michelle Stuart

  Memories, Our Memories

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• For men use, if they have an evil turn, to write it in marble; and whoso doth us a good turn we write it in dust.

  Thomas More

  Writing, Men, Dust

  Thomas More (2005). “The History of King Richard the Third: A Reading Edition”, p.67, Indiana University Press

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