Quotes About Chartres Cathedral

#1. I like the thought that what we are to do on this earth is embellish it for its greater beauty, so that oncoming generations can look back to the shapes we leave here and get the same thrill that I get in looking back at theirs - at the Parthenon, at Chartres Cathedral.

Philip Johnson

#2. Seeing that picture, for me, was like Chartres Cathedral.

Henry Moore

#3. Were you ever at the cathedral in Chartres? You walk the labyrinth," he says, "set into the pavement, and it seems there is no sense in it. But if you follow it faithfully it leads you straight to the center. Straight to where you should be.

Hilary Mantel

#4. Almost any age is better than twenty-two.

David Rakoff

#5. Publishers vet books, and they do a good job keeping out the low quality. But they also miss some good quality.

J.A. Konrath

#6. Justice and mercy/ Are human dreams, they do not concern the birds nor the fish nor eternal God.

Robinson Jeffers

#7. I called my mother up when they announced the Nobel Prize, waiting until 7 in the morning. She said, That's nice - and when are you going to see me next?

Steven Chu

#8. Time. In another time. Either before or after. They were not stars,
but fires. They were the souls of birds. They were entries into the
vast fire. They were the eyes of the dead. And in the darkness they
were imprisoned by them.

Peter Ackroyd

#9. Poor Dogger! That's what I thought, even though Daphne told me I should never say that about anyone: "It's not only condescending, it fails to take into account the future," she said.

Alan Bradley

#10. It was my dream
Not its failure that damaged me

Linda Gregg

#11. Marvin Bell always looked very closely at how lines could break, how you could put over one line into the second line. How you could stop the line two or three times within the line: You could make it stop.

Juan Felipe Herrera