Quotes by category:Towers

I famously stole tons of VHS tapes from a video store I worked in. It was detailed in my special, Laboring Under Delusions. I worked at Tower Video and stole a bunch of videotapes from them, and then got caught and had to return the videotapes. It was a mortifying experience.

Paul F. Tompkins

tape towers special

....If you are guided toward a faith, use it as a stepping stone to God, not as a barrier between yourself and God's other children or as a tower to hold you aloft from others. If you are not guided toward a faith (or even if you are) seek God in the silence - seek within.

silence towers children

Nigel Farage, even if you don`t follow British politics, he`s a British politician but you may recognize him from his frequent visits to the United States, for example, his time at Trump Tower. You may recognize him from his time on the campaign trail with Donald Trump.

campaigns towers may

I couldn't stop bawling, watching the towers come down. it was a terrible thing to happen. And a terrible thing to realize that I don't sit though the nigh crying when such horrors happen all the time.

Randa Abdel-Fattah

realizing horror towers

I'm the tower of power, too sweet to be sour. by Randy Savage

I'm the tower of power, too sweet to be sour.

sour towers sweet

Where dwells the religion? Tell me first where dwells electricity, or motion, or thought or gesture. They do not dwell or stay atall. Electricity cannot be made fast, mortared up and ended, like London Monument, or the Tower, so that you shall know where to find it, and keep it fixed, as the English do with their things, forevermore; it is passing, glancing, gesticular; it is a traveller, a newness, a surprise, a secret which perplexes them, and puts them out.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

towers secret religion

I don't like being up high. It took me three days to get to the t... by Ray Bradbury

I don't like being up high. It took me three days to get to the top of the Eiffel Tower.

eiffel-tower three towers

Merely taking the profits from the hotels and putting those aside is not enough. They need to look at bank loans. They need to look at foreign banks leasing space in the Trump Tower.

space towers needs

The university must be retrospective. The gale that gives direction to the vanes on all its towers blows out of antiquity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

towers blow giving

Britain is obviously one of the world powers and they bombed the World Trade Centre, which is a landmark in itself, and over in Britain you've got Buckingham Palace and the Eiffel Tower, which are big buildings, so to speak.

rugby-league towers world

The Duke of Clarence . . . a prisoner in the Tower, was secretly put to death and drowned in a barrel of Malmesey wine.

dukes wine towers

The Black Tower stands with the Lion of Andor." -Logain by Robert Jordan

The Black Tower stands with the Lion of Andor." -Logain

lions black towers

In order to capture Mid-World for new readers, I had to streamline the original tale [ The Gunslinger Born], but I also had to incorporate scenes from earlier Dark Tower novels.

towers dark order

I do believe it is the first time in history that fire has ever melted steel. I do believe that it defies physics for the World Trade Center Tower Seven, building seven, which collapsed in on itself.

Rosie O'Donnell

towers fire believe

A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting... by Rudyard Kipling

A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.

Rudyard Kipling

towers mind men

I do have a regard for the musicality of language that came from BBC sitcoms like 'Fawlty Towers.'

sitcom language towers

I've been to Mar-a-Lago. I'm not going to Trump Tower. by Rush Limbaugh

I've been to Mar-a-Lago. I'm not going to Trump Tower.

mars trump towers

Oh, bird of my soul, fly away now, For I possess a hundred fortif... by Rumi

Oh, bird of my soul, fly away now, For I possess a hundred fortified towers.

towers soul bird

Anything Can Happen is also, incidentally, a poem that arose from teaching. I'd talked about the Horace Ode (I, 34) [on which the poem is based] in a lecture I gave at Harvard in the fall of 2000 entitled Bright Boltsand remembered it after the Twin Towers attack.

towers teaching fall

So, there was this beautiful princess. She was locked in a high tower(...)She was stuck up there(...)So the only thing was to jump.

Scott Westerfeld

princess towers beautiful

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