Doric Quotes

#1. He touch'd the tender stops of various quills, With eager thought warbling his Doric lay.

John Milton

#2. Washington, D.C., with its wide streets, confounding roundabouts, marble statues, Doric columns, and domes, is supposed to feel like ancient Rome (that is, if the streets of ancient Rome were lined with homeless black people, bomb-sniffing dogs, tour buses, and cherry blossoms).

Paul Beatty

#3. The construction of temples of the Ionic order to Juno , Diana , Father Bacchus, and the other gods of that kind, will be in keeping with the middle position which they hold; for the building of such will be an appropriate combination of the severity of the Doric and the delicacy of the Corinthian .

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

#4. In my book 'The Winter Sea,' set north of Aberdeen, I couldn't just ignore the fact some people there - especially the people in the past - would speak the Doric.

Susanna Kearsley

#5. A French woman is a perfect architect in dress: she never, with Gothic ignorance, mixes the orders; she never tricks out a snobby Doric shape with Corinthian finery; or, to speak without metaphor, she conforms to general fashion only when it happens not to be repugnant to private beauty.

Oliver Goldsmith

#6. Odor of blood when Christ was slain Made all Platonic tolerance vain And vain all Doric discipline.

William Butler Yeats

#7. Mitt Romney has asked Todd Akin to step down. That's too bad. Todd Akin was the guy to lead the Republican Party into the 16th century.

David Letterman

#8. The top of one mountain is the bottom of the next.

Robin S. Sharma

#9. Maintenance is terribly important.

Manolo Blahnik

#10. You can't legislate sobriety.

Robert Zemeckis

#11. You can't kill your way to security and you can't lead by scaring people.

Bruce Springsteen

#12. When you let it get personal, the cost becomes personal too. You're opening your own heart here. You sure you want to do that?"

"I'd do it for free. For the bullshit you are, and have always been."

"Disbelief is easy, Kane. It's faith that takes courage, and character.

Michael Marshall Smith

#13. We are quick to surrender that which we deem as long dead, when God is quick to restore that which He deems as never really having lived.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#14. Poetry today is easier to write but harder to remember.

Stanley Kunitz

#15. Choose, but don't want.

Neale Donald Walsch