37 Marble Quotes for You to Enjoy

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. Michelangelo

Angel Free Saw Carved Until Him Marble Set

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble. Charles Spurgeon

Best Good Character You Remember Will Those Carve Name Withered Were Hearts Loved Your Good Character Who Helped Marble Tombstone

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble. Benjamin Franklin

Benefits Dust Write Marble Injuries

Life is made up of marble and mud. Nathaniel Hawthorne

Life Made Up Mud Marble

The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has. Michelangelo

Art Thought Every Carved Greatest Artist Form Hold Marble

In judging of a beautiful statue, the aesthetic faculty is absolutely and completely gratified by the splendid curves of those marble lips that are dumb to our complaint, the noble modelling of those limbs that are powerless to help us. Oscar Wilde

There isn't any one material that's mine. It all depends on the context. For example, I did a house that had the most exquisite marble applications. That sounds ostentatious, but it wasn't, given the context. The color white I subscribe to extensively. I love thinking about color, but I often go with white. Annabelle Selldorf

Love Example Subscribe White Thinking Mine About Given Color Had For Example Most House Material Context Sounds Go Did Any Often Depends Marble Exquisite Applications Ostentatious

I can draw pencil lines to show something is moving, but if I'm writing, I struggle with how to write it. The boy ran down the hallway? The boy ran quickly down the hallway? The boy ran down the marble hallway? I agonize over the words. So my editor works very hard. I'm lucky to have her. Brian Selznick

Struggle Writing Words Down Ran Draw Pencil Something Write Over Boy Editor Hallway How Lines Very Quickly Moving Hard Show Agonize Works Lucky Marble Her

Vaults and caskets are not the law; they are the policy of individual cemeteries. Vaults prevent the settling of the dirt around the body, thus making landscaping more uniform and cost effective. As an added bonus, vaults can be customized and sold at a markup. Faux marble? Bronze? Take your pick, family. Caitlin Doughty

Family Law Bonus Added Settling Sold Faux Bronze Cost Cost-Effective More Prevent Dirt Individual Take Pick Thus Policy Around Making Effective Cemeteries Uniform Body Your Marble

Driving a steamroller over an old trumpet or a teaspoon is no more destructive than taking a chisel to a lump of marble already torn from the landscape. But people don't see it that way because marble is considered noble. Cornelia Parker

People Old Considered Way Destructive Torn See More Driving Noble Taking Over Because Trumpet Than Chisel Landscape Marble Lump

I tell myself every day I love my Jacuzzi, I love my marble floors, I love my high ceilings. DJ Khaled

Love Myself Day Every Day Every Tell High Marble Floors

In my Indian bedroom, the carved, cut-out marble jalis, or screens, which were formerly used by Indian princes to keep their wives from other eyes, have a new purpose: they are not only decorations, but a means of security, for they can be locked without shutting off the air. Doris Duke

Imagining themes that are specific to coating lines, shapes, shades, thoughts, the decoration of our homes and the objects of utility or pure pleasure, adapting its purpose in a material-specific way to metal or wood, marble or fabric - it is, without any doubt, an absorbing occupation. Emile Galle

Thoughts Pure Doubt Adapting Our Way Pleasure Fabric Shades Objects Purpose Shapes Absorb Occupation Without Metal Lines Any Wood Themes Decoration Utility Marble Homes Specific Imagining

I wanted to do pretty much a purely boy story, yes. The girls are kind of the bad guys in 'Marble Season', although that wasn't my intention. It's also a world without adults. Gilbert Hernandez

I love the way the Victorians found a way to put faces in everything: you know, furniture and marble and, you know, everywhere you turn around - the banister, you know, there's someone looking at you. Gillian Flynn

Love You Looking Everything Way Furniture Everywhere Someone Faces Put Know Around Turn Found Marble

The Earth reminded us of a Christmas tree ornament hanging in the blackness of space. As we got farther and farther away it diminished in size. Finally it shrank to the size of a marble, the most beautiful marble you can imagine. James Irwin

The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished. Jean de la Bruyere

People Composed Like Court Polished Very Hard Marble Palace

If you look at the entrance halls of the skyscrapers of the 1920s and 1930s, they are very welcoming. They are public spaces with enormous amounts of display and marble and so on. They were havens off the street. Joseph Rykwert

You Enormous Haven Entrance Look Welcoming Halls Were Off Very Spaces Public Display Skyscrapers Marble Street Amount

As a memorial, I'd like a statue. Not of me, but a little modern statue, in marble or bronze, maybe of a bird, in a park where children could play and people going by could see it. On it, I'd just like it to say: 'Maeve Binchy, storyteller' and people could look at the name and remember that they'd seen it somewhere else. Maeve Binchy

Me People Remember Bird Seen Somewhere Else Say Statue Bronze Memorial See Park Somewhere Else Could Name Like Look Modern Going Maybe Just Where Children Storyteller Little Marble Play

I've tried not to treat Shakespeare as a marble giant. Martin Freeman

Treat Giant Tried Shakespeare Marble

Reality television is to television what marble and gold are to real estate. The point is to dispense with the idea of taste. It's all id. The more unrestrained the better. We all know that 'reality' in reality television is not real. That anybody who would participate in reality television is a fake. But pretending otherwise makes them real. Michael Wolff

Reality Better Real Estate Pretending Otherwise Television Would More Point ID Idea Participate Know Makes Fake Real Taste Gold Anybody Estate Them Reality Television Who Dispense Marble

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