Stonehenge Quotes

• Every age has the Stonehenge it deserves -- or desires.

  Jacquetta Hawkes

  Age, Desire, Art History

  "God in the Machine". "Antiquity", Volume 41, Issue 163, p. 174, September 1967.

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• Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world.

  Stephen Gardiner

  Men, Views, Order

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• Perhaps these ancient observatories like Stonehenge perennially impress modern people because modern people have no idea how the Sun, Moon, or stars move. We are too busy watching evening television to care what's going on in the sky.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Stars, Moving, Moon

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• Anyone who has lived through an English winter can see the point of building Stonehenge to make the Sun come back.

  Alison Jolly

  Winter, Science, Sun

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• It is indeed immensely picturesque. I can fancy sitting all a summer's day watching its shadows shorten and lengthen again, and drawing a delicious contrast between the world's duration and the feeble span of individual experience. There is something in Stonehenge almost reassuring; and if you are disposed to feel that life is rather a superficial matter, and that we soon get to the bottom of things, the immemorial gray pillars may serve to remind you of the enormous background of time.

  Henry James

  Summer, Drawing, Shadow

  Henry James (1875). “Transatlantic Sketches”, p.54

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• Since Stonehenge, architects have always been at the cutting edge of technology. And you cant separate technology from the humanistic and spiritual content of a building.

  Norman Foster

  Spiritual, Cutting, Technology

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• There [is] a feeling of recognition, as of meeting an old friend, which comes to us all in the face of great artistic experiences. I had the same experience when I first heard an English folksong, when I first saw Michelangelo's Day and Night, when I suddenly came upon Stonehenge or had my first sight of New York City - the intuition that I had been there already.

  Ralph Vaughan Williams

  New York, Night, Sight

  "R.V.W.: A Biography of Ralph Vaughan Williams". Book by Ursula Vaughan Williams, p. 30, "Musical Autobiography" (1950), 1964.

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• Some archeologists believe that Stonehenge - the mysterious arrangement of enormous elongated stones in England - is actually a crude effort by the Druids to build a computing device.

  Dave Barry

  Believe, Effort, Stones

  Dave Barry (1997). “Dave Barry in Cyberspace”, Ballantine Books

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• All inquiry into antiquity, all curiosity respecting the Pyramids, the excavated cities, Stonehenge, the Ohio Circles, Mexico, Memphis,--is the desire to do away this wild, savage, and preposterous There and Then, and introduce in its place the Here and Now.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Ohio, Cities, Circles

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2006). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems”, p.133, Bantam Classics

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• You can't really dust for vomit.

  Christopher Guest

  Dust, Spinal Tap

  "This Is Spinal Tap". www.imdb.com. 1984.

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• Stonehenge had an aura but it was also just stone. Then in the sixties, it became a great hedonistic, hippie, druid, rock-n-roll party site. There are amazing pictures of people up on the stones going wild and that's the image I recreated for my model of the project: full access to everyone. I even invented a Stonehenge soccer team that uses spaces between the stones as goals.

  Aleksandra Mir

  Soccer, Team, Hippie

  Interview with Christopher Bollen, believermag.com. January 1, 2004.

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• I'm completely uninterested in the origins of Stonehenge. I don't care about the real story behind it or whether it should be saved or not. What I'm interested in is this: in the Victorian era, you could go there as an early cultural tourist and you were given a chisel to chip off a bit of the stones and take it with you. That's what you did in Victorian times.

  Aleksandra Mir

  Real, Care, Stones

  Interview with Christopher Bollen, believermag.com. January 1, 2004.

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• the place (Dogtown, in Gloucester, Massachusetts, fh) is forsaken and majestically lovely as if nature had at last formed one spot where she can live for herself alone.. (it) looked like a cross between Easter Island and Stonehenge - essentially druidic in it appearance, it gives the feeling that an ancient race might turn up at any moment and renew an ageless rite there.

  Marsden Hartley

  Easter, Islands, Race

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• Defensively the Red Sox are a lot like Stonehenge. They are old, they don't move, and no one is certain why they are positioned the way they are.

  Dan Shaughnessy

  Moving, Red, Way

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• The Golden Arches of McDonald's rise, glorious across the landscape, contempo-monolithic, simple in concept as Stonehenge if we could but see it.

  Maureen Howard

  Simple, Mcdonalds, Arches

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• Carnegie Hall is as good as they say it is. It's not like Stonehenge which looks great in books but then you go there and it's a pile of rocks next to a highway. There's actually a highway right next to it, but you don't see that in pictures.

  Bill Burr

  Book, Rocks, Looks

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• George Smiley: [quoting an old letter from Bill Haydon about Jim Prideaux] He has that heavy quiet that commands. He's my other half. Between us we'd make one marvelous man. He asks nothing better than to be in my company or that of my wicked, divine friends, and I'm vastly tickled by the compliment. He's virgin, about eight foot tall, and built by the same firm that did Stonehenge

  John le Carre

  Men, Eight, Feet

  "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy". www.imdb.com. 1979.

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• That sinister Stonehenge of economic man, Rockefeller Center.

  Cyril Connolly

  New York, Men, Economic

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• The Stonehenge proposal got a lot of interesting criticism. One of the best - or worst - said something like, "Go home to Las Vegas." I think this project could possibly be realized at a very late part of my career. Right now, I don't have the authority, the budget, the credibility.

  Aleksandra Mir

  Home, Thinking, Careers

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I haven't been baptised. My dad's not in the church and is not a religious person. My mum is more spiritual - she does Thai-chi and goes to Stonehenge and things like that. I'm proud to be pagan. Finland is not really a religious country. I'm still looking for my god.

  Ville Valo

  Spiritual, Country, Religious

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