Domes Quotes

• The dome of thought, the palace of the soul.

  Lord Byron

  Soul, Palaces

  Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.46, Cambridge University Press

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• When we live up to our Constitution, let's form a Conga line around the Capitol and bungee jump off the dome.

  Paula Poundstone

  Lines, Constitution, Form

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• Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass,
  Stains the white radiance of eternity.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Inspirational, Life, Time

  'Adonais' (1821) st. 52

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• The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.

  Milan Kundera

  Happiness, Laughter, Joy

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• The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Funny, Humor, Blue

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• The earth is my altar, the sky is my dome, mind is my garden, the heart is my home and I'm always at home - yea, I'm always at Om.

  Eden Ahbez

  Home, Heart, Garden

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• I had been told I was on the road to hell, but I had no idea it was just a mile down the road with a dome on it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Ideas, Justice, Hell

  Abraham Lincoln (1992). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln”, Plume

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• A stately pleasure-dome decree.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Classic, Pleasure, Decree

  "Kubla Khan" l. 1 (1816)

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• Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Stress, Home, Circles

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• Man is encompassed with a dome of incomprehensible wonders. In him and about him is that which should fill his life with majesty and sacredness. Something of sublimity and sanctity has thus flashed down from heaven into the heart of every one that lives.

  Albert Pike

  Heart, Men, Heaven

  Albert Pike “Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry”, Lulu.com

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• This City now doth like a garment wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie Open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

  William Wordsworth

  Beauty, Morning, Lying

  'Composed upon Westminster Bridge' (1807)

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• An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.

  John Ruskin

  Nature, Cities, Littles

  John Ruskin (2015). “The Seven Lamps of Architecture”, p.122, John Ruskin

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• Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.

  Ansel Adams

  Space, Sunrise, Green

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• Be cocky. Walk into the Georgia Dome like you own it.

  Mary Lou Retton

  Cocky, Georgia, Like You

  Mary Lou Retton, David Bender (2000). “Mary Lou Retton's Gateways to Happiness: 7 Ways to a More Peaceful, More Prosperous, More Satisfying Life”, WaterBrook Press

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• I also hope that with the assistance and expertise of Dome Records, that I will be able to further pierce the UK and European market. I really like playing there and I want to do more! I've found that the audiences get quite involved and really listen to what's happening.

  George Duke

  Records, Want, Able

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• The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch, but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and domes is theirs.

  Harry Seidler

  Bottom Of The Barrel, Use, Arches

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• I judge wisely...as if nothin ever surprise me,
  Loungin, between two pillars of ivory.
  I'm lively, my dome piece is like buildin stones in Greece.
  My poems are deep, from ancient thrones I speak.

  Killah Priest

  Rap, Two, Ivory

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• It does seem to me, that herein we see the rare virtue of a strong individual vitality, and the rare virtue of thick walls, and the rare virtue of interior spaciousness. Oh, man! admire and model thyself after the whale! Do thou, too, remain warm among ice. Do thou, too, live in this world without being of it. Be cool at the equator; keep thy blood fluid at the Pole. Like the great dome of St. Peter's, and like the great whale, retain, O man! in all seasons a temperature of thine own.

  Herman Melville

  Strong, Wall, Men

  Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.292

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• Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean].

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Sadness, Mean, Knowing

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.211, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Some keep the Sabbath going to church, I keep it staying at home, with a bobolink for a chorister, and an orchard for a dome.

  Emily Dickinson

  Nature, Home, Gardening

  c.1860 Complete Poems, no.324 (first published 1864).

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• Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb - or Dome of Worm - or Porch of Gnome - or some Elf's Catacomb?

  Emily Dickinson

  Home, Literature, Worms

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1167, Delphi Classics

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• SADNESSES OF THE INTELLECT: Sadness of being misunderstood [sic]; Humor sadness; Sadness of love wit[hou]t release; Sadne[ss of be]ing smart; Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean]; Sadness of having options; Sadness of wanting sadness; Sadness of confusion; Sadness of domes[tic]ated birds; Sadness of fini[shi]ng a book; Sadness of remembering; Sadness of forgetting; Anxiety sadness.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Life, Smart, Book

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.211, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The One remains, the many change and pass;
  Heaven's light forever shines, Earth's shadows fly;
  Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass,
  Stains the white radiance of Eternity,
  Until Death tramples it to fragments.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Life, Change, Science

  'Adonais' (1821) st. 52

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• I think that surprisingly few people right now know much about [Buckminster] Fuller beyond the few really iconic points. He invented the geodesic dome and he coined the term "spaceship earth" and that's pretty much the extent of what people who even have heard of him know. And I'm struck by how many people have not heard of him at all.

  Jonathon Keats

  Thinking, People, Buckminster Fuller

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Spread outward. Crack the round dome. Break through.
  Have liberty not as the air within a grave
  Or down a well. Breathe freedom, oh, my native,
  In the space of horizons that neither love nor hate.

  Wallace Stevens

  Freedom, Hate, Air

  Wallace Stevens (1954). “Collected poems”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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