Quotes About Phidias

#1. Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2. Look at your fingers, how the first joint is longer than the second is longer than the end joint. The ratio is Phi, after the sculptor Phidias. The architecture of you.

Chuck Palahniuk

#3. I envy those old Greek bathers, into whose hands were delivered Pericles, and Alcibiades, and the perfect models of Phidias. They had daily before their eyes the highest types of Beauty which the world has ever produced; for of all things that are beautiful, the human body is the crown.

Bayard Taylor

#4. It seems as if nature, in regarding the geologic night behind her, when, in five or six millenniums, she had turned out five or six men, as Homer, Phidias, Menu, and Columbus, was no wise discontented with the result. These samples attested the virtue of the tree.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#5. 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

#6. We are not here to enjoy the things on earth, but to pass them around. The people who do it are the happiest people you know!

George H. W. Bush

#7. The most accomplished way of using books is to serve them as some people do lords; learn their titles and then brag of their acquaintance.

Laurence Sterne

#8. Each particle of matter is an immensity, each leaf a world, each insect an inexplicable compendium.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#9. The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

John Ruskin

#10. When you nurture people and add value to them without expecting anything in return, they feel significant.

John C. Maxwell

#11. Half the world prays they will be given what they deserve, and the other half that they will not.

Rick Yancey

#12. I felt as though I was rushing into a burning building to discover the ideas I needed for my own life.(239)

Leslie Feinberg

#13. I think any film that is based on life or real events you want it to be accurate but what really matters is that it's truthful. That is not always the same thing. You really want to convey the spirit of the enterprise rather than ticking every single factual box.

Lucinda Coxon