Top 14 Words On Marble Quotes
#2. Rather a thousand times the county jail than to lie under this marble figure with wings and this granite pedestal bearing the words "pro patria." What do they mean anyway?
Edgar Lee Masters
#3. words, literature, are not in the consciousness of the person who writes but in his fingers and the paper and the typewriter, just like the statues of Michelangelo were in the block of marble where they were revealed.
Antonio Munoz Molina
#4. Jesus was not the great exception; he was the great example.
Ernest Holmes
#6. The Constitution isn't written in Chinese, Swahili or Sanskrit. It's in plain English.
Harry Browne
#7. I dead each day when her call was busy elsewhere.
Atul Purohit
#8. I peered at his writing, but I could make nothing of it.
Then I saw why, and my soul chilled like marble.
His writing was running left to right. Not the words in reverse order, but the letter themselves. All of it. It was mirror writing- to be read by the Devil.
Theresa Breslin
#9. Let me just say that, if you ever have the choice of putting your words in powerpoint or having them carved into 30-foot high marble, I'd say go for the marble.
Peter Norvig
#10. Her marble tears run down her marble face.
A stranger is someone who has no handkerchief.
Who has no words to say.
Whose shadow mind is burning
as he sits watching her hands
and thinks how rare!
to see a Roman
talk
with no gestures at all.
Anne Carson
#11. I can draw pencil lines to show something is moving, but if I'm writing, I struggle with how to write it. The boy ran down the hallway? The boy ran quickly down the hallway? The boy ran down the marble hallway? I agonize over the words. So my editor works very hard. I'm lucky to have her.
Brian Selznick
#12. Silence is deep as Eternity, speech is shallow as Time.
Thomas Carlyle
#13. It's so quiet this high up, the feeling you get is that you're one of those space monkeys. You do the little job you're trained to do. Pull a lever. Push a button. You don't understand any of it, and then you just die.
Chuck Palahniuk
#14. This world, that world, doesn't matter. You never make people to see what you see, hear, feel what you feel. Notes don't do it, words don't do it, paints, bronze, marble, nothing. All you can do, you maybe get it a little close, a little closer. But right, like you're talking? No.
Peter S. Beagle
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