Taj Mahal Quotes

• Not a piece of architecture, as other buildings are, but the proud passions of an emperor's love wrought in living stones.

  Edwin Arnold

  Passion, Stones, Pieces

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• The Taj Mahal appears like a perfect pearl on an azure ground. The effect is such I have never experienced from any work of art.

  Unknown

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• There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who have seen the Taj Mahal and love it and those who have not seen the Taj and love it.

  William J. Clinton

  Two, People, And Love

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• The Taj is pinkish in the morning, milky white in the evening and golden when the moon shines.

  Unknown

  Morning, Moon, Shining

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• Taj Mahal was built as a team; without a team, it was a far dream.

  Vinita Kinra

  Dream, Team

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• Did you ever build a castle in the Air? Here is one, brought down to earth and fixed for the wonder of ages.

  Unknown

  Age, Earth, Wonder

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• Now remember, they say if two people go together to visit the Taj Mahal, that means they will always be together. Are you ready for that? Guess I'm stuck with you then.

  Unknown

  Mean, People, Together

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• The Taj Mahal rises above the banks of the river like a solitary tear suspended on the cheek of time.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Rivers, Tears, Rise Above

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• I've just been to the Taj Mahal which I'd never been to and I'm not a very romantic kind of guy but it is the most romantic thing I've ever seen.

  Danny Boyle

  Guy, Most Romantic, Kind

  Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Let the splendor of diamond, pearl and ruby vanish? Only let this one teardrop, this Taj Mahal, glisten spotlessly bright on the cheek of time, forever and ever.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Forever, Rubies, Pearls

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• I was impressed by the Taj Mahal. A good bit of work, well looked after, worth paying money to see.

  Karl Pilkington

  Wells, Impressed, Bits

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• She smelled the way the Taj Mahal looks by moonlight.

  Raymond Chandler

  Looks, Way, Moonlight

  Raymond Chandler (1995). “Later Novels & Other Writings”

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• There are two kinds of people in the world, observers and non-observers.

  John Steinbeck

  Football, Two, People

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• The world believes it was built by love but reading Shah Jahan's own words on the Taj, one could say it was grief that built the Taj Mahal and it was sorrow that saw it through sixteen years till completion.

  Unknown

  Grief, Believe, Reading

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• Taj Mahal was built up by the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan, who wanted his beloved wife to be remembered by one and all, with help of architectural geniuses like Ustad Isa, Isa Mohammad Effendi and Puru of Persia. The result that came across was a fine piece of Mughal architecture, fused with Persian, Islamic, and Indian architectural styles; or is believed so by many.

  Unknown

  Islamic, Wife, Style

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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

  Attractive, Marble

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• The Taj stands on a raised, square platform (186 x 186 feet) with its four corners truncated, forming an unequal octagon. The architectural design uses the interlocking arabesque concept, in which each element stands on its own and perfectly integrates with the main structure.

  Unknown

  Design, Integrating

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• You can slow time down by traveling. That month from Shringar to the Taj Mahal is like a year in my life currently. Really, time is a measure of change, in a vacuum time doesn't exist because nothing's changing. If you can pack your life full of interesting changes you stretch it out. So if you want to live longer, have a really interesting life.

  Christopher Ryan

  Years, Interesting, Want

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• We took the elevator back down from the first observation level of the Eiffel Tower and started walking in he direction of the Taj Mahal

  D. J. MacHale

  Towers, Levels, Firsts

  D.J. MacHale (2009). “Pendragon: The Soldiers of Halla”, p.78, Simon and Schuster

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• I must brave the interior of the most tawdry and literally trumpery tower of them all ... the Trump Taj Mahal. For taking the name of the priceless mausoleum of Agra, one of the beauties and wonders of the world, for that alone Donald Trump should be stripped naked and whipped with scorpions along the boardwalk.- It is as if a giant toad has raped a butterfly.

  Stephen Fry

  Butterfly, Names, Brave

  Stephen Fry, Vanda Vucicevic (2008). “Stephen Fry in America”, Harpercollins Pub Ltd

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• It is a totally different creativity I am talking about. A Taj Mahal... just watching it on a full moon night, and great meditation is bound to arise in you. Or the temples of Khajuraho, Konarak, Puri - just meditating on them and you will be surprised that all your sexuality is transformed into love. They are miracles of creativity. They were not created by pathological people, they were created by those who had attained.

  Rajneesh

  Creativity, Night, Moon

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• We did a two month tour with Taj Mahal that was really healing and cathartic and a good distraction after my brother passed away. Then I knew I wanted to take a year off, and it was really nice to have that chance to fall apart.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Brother, Nice, Fall

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I wouldn't mind spending six months a year having a private jet take me around the world to visit natural and historical landmarks like the Egyptian pyramids, Mount Kilimanjaro or the Taj Mahal.

  Megalyn Echikunwoke

  Egyptian Pyramids, Years, Historical

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Dear Alec and Magnus, How are you? Everything's just fine here. Thanks for you postcard with the picture of the Taj Mahal. It looks nice. Disregard my last few postcards. I see I overdid it. To make it up to you, I'm going to redecorate Magnus's loft for free. -Izzy

  Cassandra Clare

  Nice, Looks, Up To You

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• People hear from Donald Trump that he's such an extraordinary success. They didn't know about Trump airlines and Trump mortgages and Trump vitamin network and Trump steaks and Trump Taj Mahal. They didn't realize a lot of small people have been crushed by Donald Trump's rise to become a very wealthy man, successful financially, but this is a guy who has not been a uniform success.

  Mitt Romney

  Successful, Men, People

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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