Towers Quotes - Page 4

• As we conquer peak after peak we see in front of us regions full of interest and beauty, but we do not see our goal, we do not see the horizon; in the distance tower still higher peaks, which will yield to those who ascend them still wider prospects, and deepen the feeling, the truth of which is emphasized by every advance in science, that 'Great are the Works of the Lord'.

  Joseph John Thomson

  Distance, Yield, Goal

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• I actually felt calmer and more serene when we got up to the tower that I think I ever have. We had literally done everything we could to prepare.

  Roseline Filion

  Thinking, Preparation, Training

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• Larry wanted us to reposition the tower. We wouldn't, and won't. He's been holding back our fees. We want to get paid. And that's it. It'll get solved and we'll carry on with planning Ground Zero.

  Daniel Libeskind

  Zero, Want, Planning

  "You've got to have faith" by Jonathan Glancey, www.theguardian.com. August 4, 2004.

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• For 'tis green, green, green, where the ruined towers are gray, And it's green, green, green, all the happy night and day; Green of leaf and green of sod, green of ivy on the wall, And the blessed Irish shamrock with the fairest green of all.

  Mary Elizabeth McGrath Blake

  Wall, Spring, Blessed

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

  Al Ries

  Ivory Tower, Mud, Environment

  Al Ries, Jack Trout (2006). “Marketing Warfare: 20th Anniversary Edition: Authors' Annotated Edition”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• In Into the Woods, Cinderella runs from her prince, Rapunzel is thrown from a tower for her prince, and Sleeping Beauty just thought she was getting coffee with Bill Cosby.

  Tina Fey

  Running, Coffee, Sleep

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• After a hundred years the son of the King then reigning, who was of another family from that of the sleeping Princess, was a-hunting on that side of the country, and he asked what those towers were which he saw in the middle of a great thick wood.

  Charles Perrault

  Country, Kings, Princess

  Charles Perrault (2015). “The sleeping beauty in the woods”, p.13, "Издательство ""Проспект"""

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• I love meeting 'the Odd Man Out' - like fans of 'Baywatch' who regret, as I do, that Tower 12 Productions didn't put nearly as much energy into writing and directing the show as they put into photographing and editing it.

  Nicole Eggert

  Regret, Writing, Men

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• I read numerous books - loads in fact - and, as I always do when recording a historical project, immersed myself into the subject matter. I spent many hours at Henrys old homes, such as Hampton Court, and visiting the Tower of London. I read no other books during that period.

  Rick Wakeman

  Book, Home, Historical

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• The Anti-Vivisector does not deny that physiologists must make experiments and even take chances with new methods. He says that they must not seek knowledge by criminal methods, just as they must not make money by criminal methods. He does not object to Galileo dropping cannon balls from the top of the leaning tower of Pisa; but he would object to shoving off two dogs or American tourists.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Dog, Animal, Two

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• Only recently serious research into the relationship between photography and art has taken place. Why has it been so long in coming ? In some respects historical research is analogous with that of science. The bringing to light of factual material and the development of ideas is to a large extent cumulative. But when artists themselves were, from about 1910, beginning to tear down the bastions protecting Art in its ivory tower, questioning the idea of Art with a capital 'A', photography was inevitably to assume a new stature both in the eyes of artists and the public, too.

  Aaron Scharf

  Photography, Art, Taken

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• I don't know about you, but moderation and restraint is not what I felt when I watched the twin towers crumble to the ground, a side of the Pentagon destroyed, and almost 3,000 of our fellow citizens perish in flames and rubble.

  Karl Rove

  Flames, Citizens, Sides

  Speech at a Fund-raiser in Midtown for the Conservative Party of New York State, www.nytimes.com. June 23, 2005.

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• What the Londoner sees in his mind's eye is that cluster of towers and pinnacles seen from Pentonville Hill and outlined against a foggy sunset, and the great arc of Barlow's train shed gaping to devour incoming engines, and the sudden burst of exuberant Gothic of the hotel seen from gloomy Judd Street.

  John Betjeman

  Sunset, Eye, Mind

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• 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.

  Adam Sedgwick

  Philosophy, Pyramids, Tower Of Babel

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• Trinity Park lies directly across from the library, Trinity Church rising like a midieval thought amidst the glass and steel towers.

  Nick Flynn

  Lying, Glasses, Church

  Nick Flynn (2010). “Being Flynn (Movie Tie-in Edition) (Movie Tie-in Editions)”, p.201, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Hawai‘i Pacific University's new use of the iconic Aloha Tower Marketplace will continue its historic role of welcoming visitors, and now students, to the heart of Honolulu in a modern, vibrant mixed-use space.

  Kirk Caldwell

  Heart, Space, Roles

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• Sometimes, looking up at Sophiatown... I have felt I was looking at an Italian village somewhere in Umbria. For you do 'look up' at Sophiatown, and in the evening light, across the blue-grey haze of smoke from braziers and chimneys, against a saffron sky, you see close-packed, red-roofed little houses. ...And above it all you see the Church of Christ the King, its tower visible north, south, east, and west.

  Trevor Huddleston

  Kings, Italian, Blue

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• The repeat run of Fawlty Towers (BBC2) drew bigger audiences than ever and deservedly so. Statistical surveys reveal that only the television critic of the Spectator is incapable of seeing the joke, which is that Basil Fawlty has the wrong temperament to be a hotel proprietor, just as some other people have the wrong temperament to be television critics.

  Clive James

  Running, People, Television

  Clive James (2017). “Glued To The Box”, p.127, Pan Macmillan

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• Do not give the terrorists, the enemy combatants, the people who blow up folks at weddings, who fly airplanes into the twin towers, the ability to sue our own troops all over the country for any and everything.

  Lindsey Graham

  Country, Airplane, Blow

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• PW spent time with Sigel in a New York recording studio shortly before he went away on his federal gun possession charge. He paged through a book of promotional photos of himself, one of which was shot shortly after 911. It featured him holding a copy of the Bible upright in one palm while the Koran rose from the other the Twin Towers. Some of the record company people, they wouldn't let me put this out, ... They said it would be too controversial. But this picture is saying 'Look, they can stand together. Don't have to be no fight.'

  Beanie Sigel

  New York, Book, Fighting

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• We shot that in Morocco, and got out of the country at the beginning of July - and two months later came the attack on Twin Towers. The movie was then released in December, so that kind of atmosphere is not something that was unfamiliar to me.

  Eric Bana

  Country, July, Two

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• A bottomless pit of violence, a Tower of Babel where all are speakers and no hearers.

  Alexander Smith

  History, Tower Of Babel, Pits

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• Six months have passed since that horrible, horrible event of terrorism in the twin towers and Washington. I hope people all over the world recognize that these bad people, these criminals who committed crimes like that will be shown to the courts, and the people will have justice, and that we all shall work together to prevent these bad people from hurting us again.

  Hamid Karzai

  Hurt, People, Justice

  "Afghan capital optimistic 6 months later" By Rose Arce, www.cnn.com. March 11, 2002.

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• Language as the technology of human extension, whose powers of division and separation we know so well, may have been the "Tower of Babel" by which men sought to scale the highest heavens. Today computers hold out the promise of a means of instant tr

  Marshall McLuhan

  Mean, Technology, Men

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• The VIP area, which is geared to live entertainment, is a black-lit stage with a neon painting resembling New York City on the walls. It's supposed to resemble New York City, ... Look, we even have the Twin Towers on there.

  Mike Wells

  New York, Wall, Cities

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