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Letter "G" » gallery
«I enjoy art anyone can afford. The gallery is the sky and the painter - the lord.»
«I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth.»
Author: Lewis H. Lapham
| Keywords:
art museums, cemetery, deductible, galleries, gallery, museum, pass by, portraits, tax deductible
«Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
cymbal, galleries, gallery, talking picture, tinkle, tinkling
«I'm a greenery-yallery, Grosvenor Gallery, / Foot-in-the-grave young man!»
«GARGOYLE, n. A rain-spout projecting from the eaves of mediaeval buildings, commonly fashioned into a grotesque caricature of some personal enemy of the architect or owner of the building. This was especially the case in churches and ecclesiastical structures generally, in which the gargoyles presented a perfect rogues' gallery of local heretics and controversialists. Sometimes when a new dean and chapter were installed the old gargoyles were removed and others substituted having a closer relation to the private animosities of the new incumbents.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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animosities, architect, Buildings, caricatures, chapter, churches, deans, eaves, ecclesiastical, gallery, gargoyle, Heretics, incumbent, incumbents, incumbent on, install, local, mediaeval, owner, personal relation, Personal relations, presented, projecting, spout, spouted, spouting, spouts, substituted, The Building, The Dean, This Was
«History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| About:
History
| Keywords:
copies, galleries, gallery, originals
«For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
cymbal, gallery, talking picture, tinkle, tinkling
«A crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures»
«How much would you want to stand at the wrong end of a shooting gallery?»
Author: Groucho Marx
(Actor, Comedian, Singer)
| Keywords:
galleries, gallery, shooting, shooting gallery
«Burke said that there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporters' Gallery yonder, there sat a Fourth Estate, more important far than they all.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
| Keywords:
Burke, estates, fourth estate, gallery, Reporters, yonder
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