Statues Quotes

Statues Quote of the day

I've searched all the parks in all the cities - and found no statues of Committees.

There will be statues of Bill Gates across the Third World. There's a reasonable shot that - because of his money - we will cure malaria.

One day you're the statue. One day you're the pigeon.

Did you know that Mozart had no arms and no legs? I've seen statues of him on people's pianos.

He once begged alms of a statue, and, when asked why he did so, replied, "To get practice in being refused."

Wisdom is for statues. Humor uncaps our inhibitions, unleashes our energies, seals friendships, patches hurts. Laughing is probably the most alive you can be.

There are far more statues of soldiers out there than there are of civilians.

Musical compositions, it should be remembered, do not inhabit certain countries, certain museums, like paintings and statues. The Mozart Quintet is not shut up in Salzburg: I have it in my pocket.

When the wise man opens his mouth, the beauties of his soul present themselves to the view, like the statues in a temple.

When my journal appears, many statues must come down.

When men die, they enter history. When statues die, they enter art. This botany of death is what we call culture.

Nothing can take the sting out of the world’s economic problems like watching millionaires present each other with golden statues.

The Europeans wanted gold and slaves, like everybody else; but at the same time they wanted statues put up to themselves as people who had done good things for the slaves.

No statue has ever been put up to a critic.

Altars should face the east, and should always be placed on a lower level than are the statues in the temples, so that those who are praying and sacrificing may look upwards towards the divinity.

Heroes are not giant statues framed against a red sky. They are people who say: This is my community, and it's my responsibility to make it better.

We have destroyed 80 percent of the statues. There is only small amount left and we will destroy that soon.

Guantanamo Bay is the anti-Statue of Liberty.

We passed hieroglyphic scrolls, gold jewelry, sarcophagi, statues of pharaohs, and huge chunks of limestone. Why would someone display a rock? Aren't there enough of those in the world?

Idols aren't stone statues. They are thoughts, desires, and longings that we worship in the place of the true God

I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums.

There are many statues of men slaying lions, but if only the lions were sculptors there might be quite a different set of statues.

Bodies devoid of mind are as statues in the market place.

In a notable family called Stein There were Gertrude, and Ep, and then Ein. Gert's writing was hazy, Ep's statues were crazy, And nobody understood Ein.

No one ever erected a statue of a critic.

Christ is more of an artist than the artists; he works in the living spirit and the living flesh, he makes men instead of statues.

Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble.

I think statues are great; they show what great people would look like if a bird sh*t all over them.

As in Rome there is, apart from the Romans, a population of statues, so apart from this real world there is a world of illusion, almost more potent, in which most men live.

There are no statues erected to critics.

The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.

No one has ever built a statue to a critic, it's true. On the other hand, it's only the people with statues that get pooped on by birds flying by.

If I have done any honorable exploit, that is my monument; but if I have done none, all your statues will signify nothing.

Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.

Nobody ever built a statue to a committee.

There is a statue of limitation.

The painter leaves his mark. And I just put in two statues in Rhode Island that I'm working on. And I think that's going to make me last longer than me.

As a boy I remember how terribly real the statues of the saints would seem at 7 o'clock Mass-before I'd had breakfast. From that I learned always to conduct hungry.

This world is a great sculptor's shop. We are the statues and there is a rumor going round the shop that some of us are some day going to come to life.

Presenting statues of honor to reporters for covering an earthquake is like presenting a first prize to a doctor for performing surgery.

Clinton has more important things to worry about. He not only risks being destroyed historically, like Afghanistan's Buddha statues; he also could end up going to jail.

When I was a boy, we had forty five statues of saints in my house. Ever have ninety eyes looking at you every time you have to go to the bathroom?

From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt.

There is always a temptation to diddle around in the contemplative life, making itsy-bitsy statues.

We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.

I just think perfection and lasting through the ages is for Greek statues, not us mere humans.

It seems strange to me that someone thought of making marble statues.

Here's the thing - I mean, I don't act for statues. I really don't. The great thing about winning an award is that it creates opportunities.

Spoons and skimmers you can be undistinguishably together; but vases and statues require each a pedestal for itself.

Music: breathing of statues. Perhaps: silence of paintings. You language where all language ends. You time standing vertically on the motion of mortal hearts.