St Paul S Cathedral Quotes

#1. Simeon Potter notes that when James II first saw St. Paul's Cathedral he called it amusing, awful, and artificial, and meant that it was pleasing to look at, deserving of awe, and full of skillful artifice.

Bill Bryson

#2. The heavy bell of St. Paul's cathedral rang out, announcing the death of another day.

Charles Dickens

#3. Words mean what they're generally believed to mean. When Charles II saw Christopher Wren's St. Paul's Cathedral for the first time, he called it "awful, pompous, and artificial." Meaning roughly: Awesome, majestic, and ingenious.

S.M. Stirling

#4. Si monumentum requiris circumspice
(If you seek his monument, look around.)
[Epitaph on Wren's tomb in St. Paul's Cathedral]

Christopher Wren

#5. Human beings, for some reason or another, like symmetry. You leave a bunch of them next to a jungle for a couple of days and you'll come back to find an ornamental garden. We take stones and turn them into the Taj Mahal or St. Paul's Cathedral.

Mark Forsyth

#6. a willow tree was weeping from the heavy rain, a coy pond nearly overflowing.

Marissa Meyer

#7. The gentle outlast the strong The obscure outlast the obvious Hence, a fish that ventures from deep water is soon snagged by a net A country that reveals its strength is soon conquered by an enemy

Lao-Tzu

#8. Algebraic!
--Finn, Adventure Time

Finn

#9. Some of us have resolved to escape into drunkenness before the sleep takes us.

Neil Gaiman

#10. The atheist suicide bomber is unfaithfully committed to his mission

Dean Cavanagh

#11. Success can create more madness than happiness.

Billy Ocean

#12. Relationships - at least the good ones - are supposed to be built on truth and trust.

Kylie Logan

#13. to you how sorry we at GNZ are for your loss." "The only thing you'll be sorry

Derek Ciccone