Quotes About Christopher Wren

#1. Sir Christopher Wren
Said, "I am going to dine with some men.
If anyone calls
Say I am designing St. Paul's.

E.C. Bentley

#2. Words mean what they're generally believed to mean. When Charles II saw Christopher Wren's St. Paul's Cathedral for the first time, he called it "awful, pompous, and artificial." Meaning roughly: Awesome, majestic, and ingenious.

S.M. Stirling

#3. The market economy needs no apologists and propagandists. It can apply to itself the words of Sir Christopher Wren's epitaph in St. Paul's: 'If you seek his monument, look around.'

Ludwig Von Mises

#4. Sir Christopher Wren's Cathedral

P.L. Travers

#5. My maternal grandmother had what might be described in a school report as a 'lively imagination.' She told us that she was a direct descendant of Sir Christopher Wren.

Jeremy Hardy

#6. When the Great Fire of London destroyed most of the medieval city in 1666, Christopher Wren was invited to design a new one. Within days, he had drawn up an elegant grid of broad boulevards leading to majestic squares, but it came to nothing - the existing landowners wanted things as they had been.

Norman Foster

#7. Si monumentum requiris circumspice
(If you seek his monument, look around.)
[Epitaph on Wren's tomb in St. Paul's Cathedral]

Christopher Wren

#8. The secret of architectural excellence is to translate the proportions of a dachshund into bricks, mortar and marble.

Christopher Wren

#9. Holy shit, Strawberry Shortcake just ran me over.

J. Lynn

#10. You have to be serious about what you do but you mustn't take yourself seriously. That way you'll be happier and ultimately you'll be more successful. You'll be better at what you do.

Stanley Tucci

#11. The revelation that he was merely human, and frightfully so, was beyond my power to forgive.

Jon Krakauer

#12. Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#13. The conductor is a peculiar person. He turns his back on his friends in the audience, shakes a stick at his players in the orchestra, and then wonders why nobody loves him.

Victor Borge

#14. Women are delicate creatures. Fragile. Gentle. Made by God to be sheltered from the harshness of this world..
Morgan MacDonnell

Teresa Medeiros

#15. Measuring yourself against other people's successes is like trying to live their dream, rather than your own. Try

Mac Prichard

#16. A time will come when men will stretch out their eyes. They should see planets like our Earth.

Christopher Wren

#17. From that day the eldest princess quite changed toward Pierre and began knitting a striped scarf for him.

Leo Tolstoy

#18. My walk through the cemetery was an acquaintance with local history.

Christopher S. Wren

#19. Not before night approaches can we savor how miraculous the day, and the blossoms we gather belatedly, have been.

Christopher S. Wren

#20. Variety of uniformities makes complete beauty.

Christopher Wren

#21. The rehearsal process in general is about trusting one another.

George Clooney

#22. I hope to turn my reader into the quiet person in the corner who, even when no one is telling them anything, sees everything.

Damali Ayo

#23. Amateurs try to write in one go; professionals draft and
draft again.

Alastair Fowler

#24. The cat arrived with a bottle of Scotch.

Christopher S. Wren

#25. My politics of optimism and hope still casts its lot with the Democrats - in the optimistic hope that the dying embers of its status as the party of our better angels, one that took risks for social justice, can still be fanned into a flame. But I'm an old man, born in 1969.

Rick Perlstein

#26. As governor, I don't want my fair share. I want more than my fair share.

Terry McAuliffe

#27. I started writing when I was 5 years old. I would dictate stories to my mother, and she would copy them in a scrapbook. If she changed anything to make it, in her opinion, better, I would throw a tantrum.

Tom Robbins

#28. So Nikki came aboard as Jaqueline's spare cat, presumably in case our prime cat, Eliza, goes on vacation, takes industrial action, or requests a personal day.

Christopher S. Wren

#29. In things to be seen at once, much variety makes confusion, another vice of beauty. In things that are not seen at once, and have no respect one to another, great variety is commendable, provided this variety transgress not the rules of optics and geometry.

Christopher Wren

#30. US officials have now approved the first anti-obesity drug for dogs. I'm no a veterinarian, but if your dog is over eating, try putting a little less food in the bowl. Do we really need to give him a pill? Is the dog taking your car keys and driving to McDonalds?

Jay Leno

#31. The problem with being me, thought Isabel, as she walked along George IV Bridge, is that I keep thinking about the problem of being me.

Alexander McCall Smith

#32. Neither need we fear to diminish a miracle by explaining it.

Christopher Wren

#33. He was of opinion that what we now vulgarly call the Gothick, ought properly and truly be named Saracenick Architecture refined by the Christians.

Christopher Wren

#34. Architecture has its political Use; publick Buildings being the Ornament of a Country; it establishes a Nation, draws People and Commerce; makes the People love their native Country, which Passion is the Original of all great Actions in a Common-wealth ... Architecture aims at Eternity.

Christopher Wren