Towers Quotes - Page 23

• No one ever asks me about Breeze O'Rourke! I did the pilot for[Payne] right after Jawbreaker, or at least right around the same time, and it was an Americanized version of Fawlty Towers. That was the first time I worked with John Larroquette, and it was definitely not the last time.

  Julie Benz

  Pilots, Lasts, Firsts

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The ideas of [ Le Corbusier ] that actually found their way into practice were deeply destructive - for instance, the tower-in-a-park, which mutated into the vertical slums of the late 20th century.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Ideas, Practice, Way

  Source: www.raisethehammer.org

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• Everybody was going along thinking that it was a day like any other day, and bang, down went the Twin Towers. Changed everything. So you can't really predict the future, but you can say, "Boy, are those glaciers ever melting." You can measure that, and you can say, "When they're all melted there won't be any Athabasca River," and you can say, "What will happen to the oil sands then?" because you need a lot of water to make that oil. "Where's that going to come from?" You can say things like that.

  Margaret Atwood

  Boys, Thinking, Oil

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Well, start waving and yelling, because it is the so-called Oxford comma and it is a lot more dangerous than its exclusive, ivory-tower moniker might suggest. There are people who embrace the Oxford comma and people who don't, and I'll just say this: never get between these people when drink has been taken. Oh, the Oxford comma. Here, in case you don't know what it is yet, is the perennial example, as espoused by Harold Ross: "The flag is red, white, and blue." So what do you think of it? Are you for or against it? Do you hover in between?

  Lynne Truss

  Taken, Thinking, Ivory

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• Goodness is a perpetual quantity, all penetrating, all searching, impartial, noble, a comfort in distress, a refuge to the weak, a tower and a defense to all who wish to be right and to do right.

  Joseph Parker

  Wish, Comfort, Defense

  Joseph Parker (1873). “Detached links, extracts from the writings and discourses of J. Parker, compiled by J. Lucas”, p.455

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

  Vikram Sarabhai

  Ivory Tower, Looks, Scientist

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• But as the old Confusion of tongues was laudable, when men who were of one language in wickedness and impiety, even as some now venture to be, were building the Tower; for by the confusion of their language the unity of their intention was broken up, and their undertaking destroyed; so much more worthy of praise is the present miraculous one. For being poured from One Spirit upon many men, it brings them again into harmony. And there is a diversity of Gifts, which stands in need of yet another Gift to discern which is the best, where all are praiseworthy.

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Men, Broken, Diversity

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• What better day to lay the cornerstone of the Freedom Tower than the day our country declared its independence.

  George Pataki

  Country, Independence, Better Days

  "Cornerstone to be laid at trade center site" by Phil Hirschkorn, Alina Cho, www.cnn.com. July 3, 2004.

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• Scientists are supposed to live in ivory towers. Their darkrooms and their vibration-proof benches are supposed to isolate their activities from the disturbances of common life. What they tell us is supposed to be for the ages, not for the next election. But the reality may be otherwise.

  Simon LeVay

  Reality, Ivory Tower, Age

  "Queer Science: The Use and Abuse of Research into Homosexuality". Book by Simon LeVay, Cambridge: MIT Press. p. 9, 1996.

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• In the forest of primeval
  A school for Good and Evil
  Twin towers like two heads
  One for the pure
  And one for the wicked
  Try to escape you'll always fail,
  The only way out is
  Through a fairytale.

  Soman Chainani

  School, Two, Evil

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• And I think it was the outline of that church tower at Belaugh against the sky which gave me a passion for churches so that every church I've past since I've wanted to stop and look in.

  John Betjeman

  Passion, Past, Thinking

  John Betjeman (1997). “John Betjeman: coming home : an anthology of his prose 1920-1977”, Vintage

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• Norfolk would not be Norfolk without a church tower on the horizon or round a corner up a lane. We cannot spare a single Norfolk church. When a church has been pulled down the country seems empty or is like a necklace with a jewel missing.

  John Betjeman

  Country, Jewels, Missing

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• Great question in science - questions like the ones Herschel raised about the structure of the universe - are seldom answered by ivory-tower types engaging in pure thought. They are answered by people who are willing to get down into the trenches and grapple with nature. If that means casting your own telescope mirrors, as Herschel did, so be it.

  James Trefil

  Mean, Ivory Tower, Mirrors

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• If we made an income pyramid out of a child's blocks, with each layer portraying $1,000 of income, the peak would be far higher than the Eiffel Tower, but almost all of us would be within a yard of the ground.

  Paul Samuelson

  Children, Block, Pyramids

  Paul Anthony Samuelson (1961). “Economics: An Introductory Analysis”

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• To neglect the common ground with other primates, and to deny the evolutionary roots of human morality, would be like arriving at the top of a tower to declare that the rest of the building is irrelevant, that the precious concept of "tower" ought to be reserved for the summit.

  Frans de Waal

  Roots, Arriving, Would Be

  Frans de Waal (2009). “Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved”, p.181, Princeton University Press

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• Louis Armstrong is the master of the jazz solo. He became the beacon, the light in the tower, that helped the rest of us navigate the tricky waters of jazz improvisation.

  Ellis Marsalis, Jr.

  Light, Water, Jazz Improvisation

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• Mr. Bernard died on a Monday, at the age of seventy-five, his body wasted. He lay in state for two days in the lobby of the Bernard Gursky Tower and, as he failed to rise on the third, he was duly buried.

  Mordecai Richler

  Monday, Two, Age

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• Before Bin Laden did everything but advertise. Yet he had to blow up the Twin Towers just to get the attention of anyone outside the intelligence community. So what did we do? We invaded the wrong country, killed the wrong madman, and too often used the wrong interrogation techniques on the wrong people-all because our leaders lost contact with the truth.

  Richard North Patterson

  Country, Blow, Interrogation Techniques

  Richard North Patterson (2012). “The Devil's Light: A Novel”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• My loving friend, you see, my life was never given a foundation, no one was able to imagine what it would want to become. In Venice there stands the so-called Ca del Duca, a princely foundation, on which later the most wretched tenement came to be built. With me it's the opposite: the beautiful arched elevations of my spirit rest on the most tentative beginning; a wooden scaffolding, a few boards....Is that why I feel inhibited in raising the nave, the tower to which the weight of the great bells is to be hoisted (by angels, who else could do it)?

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Beautiful, Angel, Opposites

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• It would be as easy for the United States to build a tower to remove the sun, as to remove polygamy, or the Church and Kingdom of God.

  Heber C. Kimball

  Church, Kingdoms, Sun

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• His Name will never fall. His Name will never be defeated. His Name will never be reduced to rubble. A tower that’s stronger than any man-made fortress and large enough to see from a distance, even if we’ve lost our way.

  Liz Curtis Higgs

  Distance, Fall, Men

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• The day I was born, my house burnt down; the day I left home, the Twin Towers burnt down; and I lived in a jungle in India at 15.

  Neon Hitch

  Home, House, Down And

  "Discovery: Neon Hitch" by Kristin Studeman, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 28, 2012.

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• I grew up looking at the Sunset Strip, literally. The things that I remember are the Rainbow Room, the Roxy, the Bizarries, Tower, I grew up my whole life going there, Filthy McNasty's and I said, I need these things and now fill it in with other iconic buildings.

  Adam Shankman

  Sunset, Rainbow, Needs

  Source: collider.com

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• If you shut yourself up disdainfully in your ivory tower and insist that you have your own conscience and are satisfied with its approval, it is because you know that everybody is criticizing you, condemning you, or laughing at you.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Ivory Tower, Laughing, Approval

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• My biggest fear, I think falling from a great height. If I want to keep myself awake at night I imagine I'm on the top of the North or South Tower in 9/11, wondering whether I'm going to be burnt to death or I'm going to jump. And I think I would burn to death. And yet I'm impressed by the fact that hundreds didn't.

  Ian Mcewan

  Fall, Night, Thinking

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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