Marble Quotes - Page 5

• 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

  Hugh Prather

  Girl, Years, People

  Hugh Prather (2003). “Standing on My Head: Life Lessons in Contradictions”, Conari Press

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• CLARE: The library is cool and smells like carpet cleaner, although all I can see is marble.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Smell, Library, Carpet

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• O thou who art able to write a Book, which once in the two centuries or oftener there is a man gifted to do, envy not him whom they name City-builder, and inexpressibly pity him whom they name Conqueror or City-burner! Thou too art a Conqueror and Victor; but of the true sort, namely over the Devil: thou too hast built what will outlast all marble and metal, and be a wonder-bringing City of the Mind, a Temple and Seminary and Prophetic Mount, whereto all kindreds of the Earth will pilgrim.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Art, Book, Writing

  Thomas Carlyle, Rodger L. Tarr, Mark Engel (2000). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books”, p.129, Univ of California Press

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• I love my blocks of marble, always piling up in the yard like a flock of sheep.

  Barbara Hepworth

  Block, Sheep, Yards

  Dame Barbara Hepworth (1970). “A Pictorial Autobiography”

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• To say she was attractive would be an understatement. Calling her 'attractive' would be like calling the Taj Mahal a marble grave.

  Unknown

  Taj Mahal, Attractive

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• The monument of a great man is not of granite or marble or bronze. It consists of his goodness, his deeds, his love and his compassion.

  Alfred Armand Montapert

  Love, Men, Compassion

  Alfred Armand Montapert (1982). “Inspiration & motivation”, Prentice Hall Direct

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• A fellow will hack half a year at a block of marble to make something in stone that hardly resembles a man. The value of statuary is owing to its difficulty. You would not value the finest head cut upon a carrot.

  Samuel Johnson

  Block, Cutting, Men

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1824). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., Comprehending an Account of His Studies, and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order: A Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published; the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great Britain, for Near Half a Century During which He Flourished”, p.414

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• Character is not cut in marble - it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.

  George Eliot

  Character, Cutting, Body

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.480, Penguin

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• Who is that blond child laughing as he runs after his colored marbles? [my marbles] It's me And who is the poet writing this poem? That blond child who laughed as he ran after his colored marbles

  Pierre Albert-Birot

  Running, Children, Writing

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• I understand how you could see something in the root of a tree, a crack in the wall, in an eroded stone or pebble. But marble? It comes off in blocks and doesn't evoke any image. It does not inspire.

  Pablo Picasso

  Wall, Block, Roots

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• A grass blade believes that men build palaces for it to grow in. Grass wedges its way between the closest blocks of marble and it brings them down. This power of feeble life which can creep in anywhere is greater than that of the mighty behind their cannons.

  Honore de Balzac

  Block, Believe, Men

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• Christians well know that the much-decorated statue of the Church, as it now stands, is not of pure chiseled marble, but of clay, cemented together by blood and tears and hardened in the fires of hatred and persecution.

  Virchand Gandhi

  Christian, Fire, Blood

  "Christian Missions: A Triangular Debate, Before the Nineteenth Century Club of New York". The Monist Magazine, Volume 5, 1895.

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• Underneath my stiffened gown Is the softness of a woman bathing in a marble basin, A basin in the midst of hedges grown So thick, she cannot see her lover hiding, But she guesses he is near, And the sliding of the water Seems the stroking of a dear Hand upon her.

  Amy Lowell

  Hands, Water, Gowns

  Amy Lowell (2009). “Men, Women and Ghosts”, p.2, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If there is a true measure of a person's soul, if there is a single gauge of real divinity, of how beautifully a fellow human honors this life, has genuine spiritual fire and is full of honest love and compassion, it has to be right there, in the eyes. The Dalai Lama's eyes sparkle and dance with laughter and unbridled love. The Pope's eyes are dark and glazed, bleak as obsidian marbles. Pat Robertson's eyes are rheumy and hollow, like tiny potholes of old wax. Goldman Sachs cretins, well, they don't use their own eyes at all; they just steal someone else's.

  Mark Morford

  Spiritual, Laughter, Real

  "The end of the wicked old Mormons". www.sfgate.com. May 7, 2010.

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• In the center stood a marble alter, where a kid in a toga was doing some sort of ritual in front of a massive golden statue of the big dude himself:Jupiter the sky god, dressed in a silk XXXL purple toga, holding a lightning bolt. "It doesn't look like that," Percy muttered. "What?" Hazel asked. "The master bolt," Percy said. "What are you talking about?" "I-" Percy frowned. For a second, he'd thought he remembered something. Now it was gone. "Nothing, I guess.

  Rick Riordan

  Kids, Talking, Sky

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• Niches set back in the walls contained polished marble statues of entwined bodies. Will looked away from them hastily, and then back. It wasn't as if Magnus seemed to be paying attention to what Will was doing, and he'd honestly never imagined two people could get themselves into a position like that, much less make it look artistic.

  Cassandra Clare

  Wall, Two, People

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.836, Simon and Schuster

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• It isnecessary to destroy the pretended nobility, entirely literaryand traditional, of marble and bronze? The sculptor can use twenty different materials, or even more, in a single work, provided that the plastic emotion requires it.

  Umberto Boccioni

  Twenties, Different, Use

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• Guido the plumber and Michelangelo obtained their marble from the same quarry, but what each saw in the marble made the difference between a nobleman's sink and a brilliant sculpture.

  Rob Kall

  Hope, Differences, Choices

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• I'm interested in the sculptural experience, glass, marble, colored bricks, stones, wood. There's no stadium out there that approximates it [the Marlins'] because it will be so white and with primary colors all around. It sort of looks like a spaceship that just landed, something different, something people can call their own.

  Jeffrey Loria

  Glasses, Color, White

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• The problem is, you can't tell people these things. They'll think you're crazy. And I say to myself: What can I do with this life inside me? I'd like to give it ... to make a present of it ... to go up to people and tell them: You need to be joyful! You know? You have to play at being pirates ... to build cities of marble ... to laugh ... to set off firecrackers

  Roberto Arlt

  Crazy, Thinking, Play

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• A man may as well hew marble without tools, or paint without colors or instruments, or build without materials, as perform any acceptable service without the graces of the Spirit, which are both the materials and instruments in the work.

  Joseph Alleine

  Men, Color, Grace

  Joseph Alleine (1700). “A Sure Guide to Heaven”, p.44, Digital Puritan Press

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• Deep in the heart of the infinite darkness, a tiny blue marble is spinning through space. Born in the splendor of God's holy vision, and sliding away like a tear down his face.

  Johnny Cash

  Heart, Sadness, Blue

  Song: Love Is The Way, Album: Heroes, 1986

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• The discussion of the game of marbles seems to have led us into rather deep waters. But in the eyes of children the history of the game of marbles has quite as much importance as the history of religion or of forms of government. It Is a history, moreover, that is magnificently spontaneous; and it was therefore perhaps not entirely useless to seek to throw light on the child's judgment of moral value by a preliminary study of the social behaviour of children amongst themselves.

  Jean Piaget

  Children, Eye, Deep Water

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• Self-confidence without self-reliance is as useless as a cooking recipe without food. Self-confidence sees the possibilities of the individual; self-reliance realizes them. Self-confidence sees the angel in the unhewn block of marble; self-reliance carves it out for oneself.

  William George Jordan

  Block, Angel, Self Confidence

  William George Jordan (2007). “The Majesty of Calmness”, p.21, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• By my definition, most art has nothing to do with oil paint or marble. Art is what we're doing when we do our best work.

  Seth Godin

  Art, Oil, Definitions

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