Great Cathedrals Quotes

#1. The secret of great cathedrals is that their proportions conform to cosmic laws, 'shaping' people who spend time in them.

Theodor Schwenk

#2. A change in those moments, some switch turned off forever, the end of trust or safety or love, and how do we ever find the switch again?

David Vann

#3. There are only two (major) parties today: The Stupid Party and The Evil Party. Once in a while the two parties get together to do something that is both stupid and evil, and that's called Bipartisanship.

Thomas Woods

#4. A tablet replacing an exercise book is not innovation, it's just a different way to make notes.

Geoff Mulgan

#5. As regards my own 'philosophy,' I continue to be inspired by the music, liturgy and architectural tradition of the Anglican Church in which I was brought up. No one can fail to be uplifted by great cathedrals - such as that at Ely, near my home in Cambridge.

Martin Rees

#6. The great monuments are raised up like dams, pitting the logic of majesty and authority against all the shady elements: it is in the form of cathedrals and palaces that Church and State speak and impose silence on the multitudes.

Georges Bataille

#7. We're all looking for a plan that will work. The current plan is not working, and 21,500 additional troops
it's a snowball in July. It's not going to work.

Arlen Specter

#8. All great cathedrals began their building by the placement of a single stone. The building unit of a great society is the individual.

L. Ron Hubbard

#9. I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals; I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object.

Roland Barthes

#10. The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.

Thomas Carlyle

#11. The way he cares for me - the way he protects me. It's fierce.

Jay McLean

#12. To understand just one life you have to swallow the world ... do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?

Salman Rushdie

#13. Cooking is a craft, I like to think, and a good cook is a craftsman - not an artist. There's nothing wrong with that: the great cathedrals of Europe were built by craftsmen - though not designed by them. Practicing your craft in expert fashion is noble, honorable and satisfying.

Anthony Bourdain

#14. There are two things that I put my focus on. One is the fight against AIDS and finding a cure. The other is human rights.

Judith Light

#15. Not even the most secular among us can fail to be uplifted by Christianity's architectural legacy - the great cathedrals. These immense and glorious buildings were erected in an era of constricted horizons, both in time and in space.

Martin Rees

#16. Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used.

William Shakespeare

#17. I don't worry about the survival of the novel. We're a storytelling species.

Barack Obama

#18. I feel comfortable singing in the great cathedrals of the world because I spent so much time as a child singing in church. And it isn't very different. Of course, nothing looks quite like Notre Dame de Paris.

Jessye Norman

#19. Western cathedrals and abbeys ... through soaring Gothic architecture, [give] us at floor level a sense of belonging within (but unable at the moment to inhabit more than a little of) great spaces of light and beauty, into which, significantly, only our music can penetrate.

N. T. Wright

#20. A politician will do anything to keep his job, even become a patriot.

William Randolph Hearst

#21. When your field is architecture, you go visit the great cathedrals of the world. My field was relationships. I got married many times. I was practicing. I didn't date much; I just would get married. I thought, why waste time?

Barbara De Angelis

#22. True dreams and visions should be as visible to the artist as the phenomena of the objective world.

Oskar Kokoschka

#23. Cathedrals are built with pennies of the faithful. A great opera house also is a spiritual center, a temple of sorts, where many gather together for recreation, education, and inspiration - a blessed trinity worthy of public support.

Eleanor Robson Belmont