Quotes About Stonehenge

#1. Carnegie Hall is as good as they say it is. It's not like Stonehenge which looks great in books but then you go there and it's a pile of rocks next to a highway. There's actually a highway right next to it, but you don't see that in pictures.

Bill Burr

#2. By the by, he is a virgin, about eight feet tall, and built by the same firm that did Stonehenge. Do not be alarmed.

John Le Carre

#3. Perhaps these ancient observatories like Stonehenge perennially impress modern people because modern people have no idea how the Sun, Moon, or stars move. We are too busy watching evening television to care what's going on in the sky.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#4. Every age has the Stonehenge it deserves
or desires.

Jacquetta Hawkes

#5. All inquiry into antiquity, all curiosity respecting the Pyramids, the excavated cities, Stonehenge, the Ohio Circles, Mexico, Memphis,
is the desire to do away this wild, savage, and preposterous There and Then, and introduce in its place the Here and Now.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#6. The Golden Arches of McDonald's rise, glorious across the landscape, contempo-monolithic, simple in concept as Stonehenge if we could but see it.

Maureen Howard

#7. That sinister Stonehenge of economic man, Rockefeller Center.

Cyril Connolly

#8. I haven't been baptised. My dad's not in the church and is not a religious person. My mum is more spiritual - she does Thai-chi and goes to Stonehenge and things like that. I'm proud to be pagan. Finland is not really a religious country. I'm still looking for my god.

Ville Valo

#9. Defensively the Red Sox are a lot like Stonehenge. They are old, they don't move, and no one is certain why they are positioned the way they are.

Dan Shaughnessy

#10. At his "World of Physics" Web site, Eric W. Weisstein notes that the fine structure constant continues to fascinate numerologists, who have claimed that connections exist between alpha, the Cheops pyramid, and Stonehenge!

Clifford A. Pickover

#11. Except that, very rarely, when the sun shines on her in the same way the sun's rays light up the inside of Stonehenge once a year, Jack finds Ruthy mesmerising.

Jonathan Dunne

#12. The Stonehenge proposal got a lot of interesting criticism. One of the best - or worst - said something like, "Go home to Las Vegas." I think this project could possibly be realized at a very late part of my career. Right now, I don't have the authority, the budget, the credibility.

Aleksandra Mir

#13. I have a suspicion that when first built, Stonehenge may have glowed blue with St. Elmo's fire during certain times of the year

Steven Magee

#14. Since Stonehenge, architects have always been at the cutting edge of technology. And you can't separate technology from the humanistic and spiritual content of a building.

Norman Foster

#15. Some archeologists believe that Stonehenge - the mysterious arrangement of enormous elongated stones in England - is actually a crude effort by the Druids to build a computing device.

Dave Barry

#16. Anyone who has lived through an English winter can see the point of building Stonehenge to make the Sun come back.

Alison Jolly

#17. I used to think that the great thing about sculpture was that, like Stonehenge, it was something that stood against time in an adamantine way, and was an absolute mass in space. Now I try to use the language of architecture to redescribe the body as a place.

Antony Gormley

#18. This was, however, no straightforward stone circle of the Cumbrian sort, but a collection of trilithons, chambers, altars and monoliths intended to represent the elements and the signs of the zodiac; as if Stonehenge had mated with a Neolithic passage grave and produced offspring.

Ronald Hutton

#19. Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world.

Stephen Gardiner

#20. Then was the monument called "Stonehenge," which stands, as all men know, upon the plain of Salisbury to this very day.

Knowles James Knowles

#21. I collect rocks from all over the world. I have a ring of stones that date to 3500 B.C. It's like a little Stonehenge.

Robert Wilson

#22. When he laughed, Roy's mouth revealed a Stonehenge of ancient teeth.

Allison Pearson

#23. His biases played a large role here, but for Komatsu bias was an important element of truth.

Haruki Murakami

#24. We learn that there are in creation, Beings - perhaps very numerous - both good and evil.

Richard Whatley

#25. You can't really dust for vomit.

Christopher Guest

#26. It took me most of my childhood to realize that traditions have infinite power over us.
-MUKTA

Amita Trasi

#27. What chiefly diverts the men of democracies from lofty ambition is not the scantiness of their fortunes, but the vehemence of the exertions they daily make to improve them.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#28. Roanoke girls never last long around here. In the end, we either run or we die.

Amy Engel

#29. The pyramid that can be constructed on the diameters of earth and moon bears the precise proportions of the Great Pyramid

Bonnie Gaunt

#30. Fuck, she's so fucking stubborn.

Anna Todd

#31. I couldn't use Nest because it doesn't operate with high-end HVAC systems.

Peter Barris

#32. Yeah, I write Urban Fantasy, but its more like Die Hard or Indiana Jones with Fairies, Mummies and a Vampire who uses guns more than his teeth.

Kevin James Breaux

#33. One guy, seeing that I was hungry, insisted on buying me a huge lunch and when I thanked him for his kindness, he simply said, 'Pass it on.' I liked this selfless concept - repay me by rewarding someone else entirely with a generous dollop of goodwill.

Tony Hawks