Quotes About Pinnacles

#1. It is a naked city. Faith is not pampered, nor hope encouraged; there is no place to lay one's exhaustion: but instead pinnacles skewer it undisguised against vacancy.

William Gaddis

#2. Forbear, you things
That stand upon the pinnacles of state,
To boast your slippery height! when you do fall,
You dash yourselves in pieces, ne'er to rise:
And he that lends you pity, is not wise.

Ben Jonson

#3. Everybody is, I suppose, either Classic or Gothic by nature. Either you feel in your bones that buildings should be rectangular boxes with lids to them, or you are moved to the marrow by walls that climb and branch, and break into a inflorescence of pinnacles.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#4. In Moulin Rouge, Baz Luhrmann takes the most thrilling moments in a movie musical-the seconds before the actors are about to burst into song and dance, when every breath they take is heightened-and makes an entire picture of such pinnacles.

Elvis Mitchell

#5. Our souls are full of Gothic arches, pinnacles, twisted traceries we cannot shake off, and of which Greek minds knew nothing.

Henryk Sienkiewicz

#6. Meanwhile, we have carved out a place for ourselves among the dead; the glittering pinnacles of commerce rise along the skyline, their foundations sunk in a charnel house; and the lost lie forgotten below us as, overhead, we persaude ourselves that we are immortal and carry on the business of life.

Catharine Arnold

#7. I never threw away that paper with my Grammy speech because I haven't hit the pinnacles I plan to reach.

Drake

#8. Woe betide the leaders now perched on their dizzy pinnacles of triumph if they cast away at the conference table what the soldiers had won on a hundred bloodsoaked battlefields.

Winston S. Churchill

#9. There is a special aura about artists who take their visions to the highest pinnacles of success ... I get very excited about the magnitude of the aura I see, when Alan performs.

Bill Aucoin

#10. Calmness of mind helps us reach the pinnacles of success!

Avijeet Das

#11. Deadwood lies at the northern tip of the Black Hills, where the land is ancient and rubbed smooth by time. The Black Hills are more rugged at their southern extremity, where bare granite forms pinnacles and spires.

Clive Sinclair

#12. Socialism would gather all power to
the supreme party and party leaders,
rising like stately pinnacles
above their vast bureaucracies of
civil servants no longer servants, no longer civil.

Winston Churchill

#13. Reservations and cloth napkins are really minor pinnacles in the high sierra of the New York lunch. The zenith, the Mount Whitney of lunches, the noon meal at which all local lines of force converge [is] the Bar Room of the Four Seasons.

Raymond Sokolov

#14. Why, after all, did she do these things? why seek pinnacles and stand drenched in fire? Might it consume her anyhow! Burn her to cinders! Better anything, better brandish one's torch and hurl it to earth than taper and dwindle away ...

Virginia Woolf

#15. Every time I listen back to solos of mine I'll hear something I like and then another phrase that I can't stand. You have to live with what you play. And the recording medium puts that on us. When I play live gigs I don't think so much like that.

John Abercrombie

#16. Costumes are fun. Dress up like a pilot some night and watch as people stare!

Tim Heidecker

#17. It isn't a coincidence that prayer was commanded right after the year of sadness. The prayer was the greatest comfort.

Yasmin

#18. Most importantly, I'd learned how to question and why ("when" had never been an issue: always).

Leslie Anthony

#19. He knew exactly what it was like to lose a child. And that fact wouldn't matter in the least in this circumstance. There could be no commiseration among such people despite the seeming commonality of loss, because it was actually each parent's totally unique hell.

David Baldacci

#20. I couldn't sell air conditioners on a 98-degree day. When I demonstrated them in a showroom, I pushed the wrong button and blew the circuit.

Don Rickles

#21. I am an artisan. I only became an artist when people watch what I do. That is when it becomes art.

Rhys Ifans

#22. True as the needle to the pole, Or as the dial to the sun.

Barton Booth

#23. Grief was the celebration of love, those who could feel real grief were lucky to have loved.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#24. In Los Angeles, it's like they jog for two hours a day and then they think they're morally right. That's when you want to choke people, you know?

Liam Neeson

#25. With great profundity I note the pleasure one gets or takes in pushing wheeled objects, as opposed to the depression involved in pulling them.

Michael Cisco