Quotes About Gothic Cathedrals

#1. Religious figures, gargoyles, and grotesques, she though, looked fine on Gothic cathedrals, but she'd always spent more time looking at the murals inside the buildings than the carvings outside.
So why did this one seem to have captured all her attention?

Christine Warren

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

David Byrne

#3. Most buildings, whether they're Gothic cathedrals or Romanesque ones, were high tech for their time.

Richard Rogers

#4. 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

#5. These old ballparks are like cathedrals in America. We don't have big old Gothic cathedrals like they do in Europe. But we got baseball parks.

Jimmy Buffett

#6. The best thing about having money is that you can use it to help someone else.

Marty Rubin

#7. No one is as brave, as adventurous or as skillful as D'Artagnan, without at the same time being inclined to be a dreamer.

Alexandre Dumas

#8. In music, on stage and on screen, fairy tales have always been guaranteed moneymakers. It's no wonder then, that in these difficult economic times, there are fairy tales everywhere you turn. From 'Once Upon a Time' and 'Grimm,' to 'Mirror, Mirror' and 'Snow White and the Huntsman.'

Alethea Kontis

#9. A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us and not done by us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#10. The law is like rope ... useful, necessary, strong, but it can be bent and twisted into all kinds of shapes depending on the occasion.

W.P. Kinsella

#11. Well, go on then, Abby; run along and let the nice man compromise you.

Anne Gracie

#12. When energy prices go up, the difficulty of projecting demand also goes up - uncertainty goes up.

Al Gore

#13. True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes ...

Teresa Of Avila

#14. 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

#15. Making or getting money is a kind of game where there are not any rules at all.

William Faulkner