Stone Arch Quotes

#1. From the outset my main concern was with the shape and the self-contained nature of discrete things, the curve of banisters on a staircase, the molding of a stone arch over a gateway, the tangled precision of the blades in a tussock of dried grass.

W.G. Sebald

#2. I love hiking in the mountains in Aspen. Breathing the clean, fresh air is great. Plus, it gives me a cardiovascular workout and firms my legs.

Chris Evert

#3. Love, and love alone, is capable of giving you a happier life.

Ludwig Van Beethoven

#4. You read yourself full, you pray yourself hot, and then you turn yourself loose.

Timothy B. Tyson

#5. I will never step foot in the Octagon

Jordan Burroughs

#6. Courage is resistance against rational or irrational fear.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#7. Just out of interest, what did you make of my Finn?
Probably the most beautiful man I've ever seen.

Tabitha McGowan

#8. In an arch each single stone which, if severed from the rest, would be perhaps defenceless is sufficiently secured by the solidity and entireness of the whole fabric, of which it is a part.

Robert Boyle

#9. My grandmother's feet had been bound when she was two years old. Her mother ... first wound a piece of white cloth about twenty feet long round her feet, bending all the toes except the big toe inward and under the sole. Then she placed a large stone on top to crush the arch.

Jung Chang

#10. I know on which side my bread is buttered.

John Heywood

#11. It's about getting in position and taking a swing. I don't care if you're taking steroids or not; if you don't do those two things, it's not going to matter anyway.

Tony Gwynn

#12. Mathematics, mostly, is a communal enterprise, each advance the product of a huge network of minds working toward a common purpose, even if we accord special honor to the person who places the last stone in the arch.

Jordan Ellenberg

#13. I'd fight for you, Julia. I'd get you everything you wanted. I'd give you everything you wanted.

Lauren Blakely

#14. Inanimate objects were often so much nicer than people.

Barbara Pym

#15. It's amazing how confused and distracted and misdirected so many people are.

Stephen Covey

#16. I don't care if my opinion falls on the right or the left. I'm more of what I call a passionate centrist. I just believe what I believe. I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too.

Larry Wilmore

#17. If I'm feeling something, I have a lot of different ways to express it, you know? I can write an article about it. I can write a screenplay about it. I can act in someone's thing.

Josh Radnor

#18. You can't go around making plans that have you getting killed as a by-product. Eventually one of them is going to work.

Holly Black