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«Culture is a sham if it is only a sort of Gothic front put on an iron building -- like Tower Bridge -- or a classical front put on a steel frame -- like the Daily Telegraph building in Fleet Street. Culture, if it is to be a real thing and a holy thing, must be the product of what we actually do for a living -- not something added, like sugar on a pill.»
Author: Eric Gill
| Keywords:
added, classical, Daily Telegraph, fleet, fleetest, Fleet Street, Gothic, pill, real thing, sham, shams, steel, sugar, telegraph, The Daily Telegraph, The Telegraph, tower, Tower Bridge
«It [the Eiffel Tower] looked very different from the Statue of Liberty, but what did that matter? What was the good of having the statue without the liberty?»
Author: Josephine Baker
| Keywords:
Eiffel, Eiffel Tower, The Eiffel Tower, The Statue of Liberty, tower
«I pull you from your tower, take away your pain. Show you all the beauty you possess, if you only let yourself believe.»
Author: Sarah McLachlan
(Singer, Songwriter)
| About:
Beauty
| Keywords:
possess, pull, pull away, take away, tower, Towered
«I'm learning English at the moment. I can say 'Big Ben', 'Hello Rodney', 'Tower Bridge' and 'Loo'.»
«I think on the seventh day, God was running around, going, ?Oh, my God! What haven?t I?? Rwanda! I better create Rwanda! Sorry, haven?t quite done that? The Tower of Pisa! Oh, it?s leaning? Oh, shi? done! Toilets in French camping sites? there we go. English football hooligans? there we go, whatever that is? Mrs. Thatcher?s heart? there we go? oh, fuck that! I know, I?ll put a stone in, that?ll work! There we go??The next week, I think, people are coming back, going, ?Rwanda doesn?t work very well; infrastructure?s fucked.?»
Author: Eddie Izzard
(Actor, Comedian)
| About:
God
| Keywords:
camped, camping, coming back, English people, football, French, French people, fuck, fucked, infrastructure, leaning, lean back, Mrs, Oh My, Pisa, running back, Rwanda, seventh, Seventh day, sites, thatcher, The Tower, toilets, tower, Tower of, Tower of Pisa, very well
«Is not this house [the Tower of London] as nigh heaven as my own?»
Author: Thomas More
(Chancellor, Humanist, Statesman)
| Keywords:
nigh, The Tower, The Tower of London, tower, Tower of, Tower of London
«I haven't seen the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, the Louvre. I haven't seen anything. I don't really care.»
Author: Tyra Banks
(Model)
| Keywords:
dame, dames, Eiffel, Eiffel Tower, The Eiffel Tower, The Louvre, tower
«If you ever fall off the Sears Tower, just go real limp, because maybe you'll look like a dummy and people will try to catch you because, hey, free dummy.»
«I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes. The greater part of all mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims. They have undertaken to build a tower, and spend no more labor on the foundation than would be necessary to erect a hut.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Respect
| Keywords:
aims, arises, distinctly, erect, erecting, erects, foundation, hut, mischief, sufficiently, The Foundation, tower, Towered, undertaken
«Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.»
Author: Saint Augustine
(Bishop, Theologian)
| Keywords:
Begin, clouded, clouding, clouds, Clouds The, cloud over, descending, foundation, humility, lay, Pierce, pierces, piercing, plan, rise, The Clouds, The Foundation, tower, Towered
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