Tower Quotes

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I haven't seen the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, the Louvre. I haven't seen anything. I don't really care.

The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.

I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.

If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted.

When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.

Smooth shapes are very rare in the wild but extremely important in the ivory tower and the factory.

May you find your Tower, Roland, and breach it, and may you climb to the top!

A walk about Paris will provide lessons in history, beauty, and in the point of Life.

Being the most striking manifestation of the art of metal structures by which our engineers have shown in Europe, it [the Eiffel Tower] is one of the most striking of our modern national genius.

The scariest, most terrifying thing that I fear? Yes. My Imagination. I thought you were going to say "Fear, itself." Then you have a small imagination.

As a system of philosophy it is not like the Tower of Babel, so daring its high aim as to seek a shelter against God's anger; but it is like a pyramid poised on its apex.

There will be water if God wills it.

Once again there was the desert, and that only.

We look down on our scientists if they engage in outside consultation. We implicitly promote the ivory tower.

See you later, alligator. After a while, crocodile.

Go then, there are other worlds than these.

What if I fall?', Tim cried. Maerlyn laughed. 'Sooner or later, we all do.

An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open.

We are going to fight. We are going to be hurt. And in the end, we will stand.

And in the gunslinger's mind, those words echoed: You dare not.

the man in black travels with your soul in his pocket.

How will the Tower of Babel be undone? How will we understand each other in Heaven? Will we all speak English or Dutch or Latin? No, we will speak music.

We took the elevator back down from the first observation level of the Eiffel Tower and started walking in he direction of the Taj Mahal

It's about communication, no matter how impossibly hard your art is to understand and how much of an ivory tower or high horse you get on, it's still basically communication or why are you doing it?

They were close to the end of the beginning . . .

I have no opinion. No, none at all. Opinion is politics, and politics is an evil which has caused many a fellow to be hung while he's still young and pretty.

Our Lord never called His people to help build the tower of Babel in the hope of getting a Bible study in the basement. He commanded us to build our own city on a hill.

Control the things you can control .

Long days and pleasant nights

The ivory tower of the artist may be the only stronghold left for human values, cultural treasures, man’s cult of beauty.

It is perfectly possible to be enamoured of Paris while remaining totally indifferent or even hostile to the French.

Many live in the ivory tower called reality; they never venture on the open sea of thought.

A coward judges all he sees by what he is.

God pisses down the back of your neck every day but only drowns you once.

In the end, the wind takes everything, doesn't it? And why not? Why other? If the sweetness of our lives did not depart, there would be no sweetness at all.

They had discovered one could grow as hungry for light as for food.

As much as we sometimes roll our eyes at the ivory-tower isolation of universities, they continue to serve as remarkable engines of innovation.

Fools are the only folk on the earth who can absolutely count on getting what they deserve.

Any statement beginning with the words 'In truth' is almost always a lie.

The commonest ivory tower is that of the average man, the state of passivity towards experience.

The only refuge left to us was the poet's ivory tower, which we climbed, ever higher, to isolate ourselves from the mob.

I hope I'm not giving the impression of an ivory tower science, but for me science is an attempt to understand, it's an attempt to understand the universe.

Strategy should evolve out of the mud of the marketplace, not in the antiseptic environment of an ivory tower.

I don't like being up high. It took me three days to get to the top of the Eiffel Tower.

Definition of a wanderer: a guy who's always looking beyond.

Inconvenience in progress, work is regretted.

You'll start talking, and pretty soon we'll all start nodding, and then the next thing you know, I'm hang gliding off the Eiffel Tower at night, being chased by ninja vampires

Does the imagination dwell the most Upon a woman won or a woman lost?

I know everybody. I make friends easily. I'm a gregarious guy, I'm open, I'm easy to get to know - I don't lock myself in an ivory tower. So I like people; I enjoy people.

That's a big part of being a designer now: going out, having dinners, meeting people. Being in an ivory tower, you can feel very removed.