Quotes About Cloisters

#1. Our libraries are not cloisters for an elite. They are for the people, and if they are not used, the fault belongs to those who do not take advantage of their wealth.

Louis L'Amour

#2. despite a conducive environment and comforting faith, there is unease among the rooms' inhabitants, a rising tide of something close to fear. They know that a terrible ghost is abroad in the cloisters of Microsoft. The

Glyn Moody

#3. I feel that I have many real students whom I have not met. Many are in cloisters and they never get out. Others are in prison. But in many cases they practice the teachings much better than those who meet me every day.

Bell Hooks

#4. The scientific community having made a rapid ascent from deep poverty to great affluence, from academe's cloisters to Washington's high councils, still tends to be a bit excitable - not unlike a nouveau riche in a fluctuating market.

Daniel S. Greenberg

#5. Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters - where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.

Erik Erikson

#6. I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

#7. Western music in the Middle Ages was performed in these stone-walled gothic cathedrals, and in architecturally similar monasteries and cloisters.

David Byrne

#8. Cloisters, ancient libraries ... I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.

Alan Bennett

#9. But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloisters pale, And love the high embowed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight; Casting a dim religious light.

John Milton

#10. There's an extra storey between the second and third floors of the Cloisters. (Penny calls it "bonus content.")

Rainbow Rowell

#11. I love rhymes; I love to write a poem about New York and rhyme 'oysters' with 'The Cloisters.' And 'The lady from Knoxville who bought her brassieres by the boxful.' I just feel a sort of small triumph.

Garrison Keillor

#12. I still like me, inside and out. Not in a vain way - I just feel good in my skin.

Sophia Loren

#13. Climate change is, simply, the greatest collective challenge we face as a human family.

Ban Ki-moon

#14. Remember: The paranoid and wary are often the easiest to deceive. Win their trust in one area and you have a smoke screen that blinds their view in another, letting you creep up and level them with a devastating blow.

Robert Greene

#15. Magick happens when you step into who you truly are and embrace that which fulfills your soul.

Dacha Avelin

#16. If we do nothing then Wessex will spread like a plague. There'll be priests everywhere. We seek the future. We stare into its fog and hope to see a landmark that will make sense of fate.

Bernard Cornwell

#17. I'm going to fight again because this wasn't a fight.

Thomas Hearns