Gargoyles Quotes

• De hecho, nunca he conocido a nadie a quien no le gustaran las Gárgolas.

  Keith David

  Facts, Support Our Troops, Mets

  "Biografía/ Citas personales". www.imdb.com.

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• The creativity and pathology of the human mind are, after all, two sides of the same medal coined in the evolutionary mint. The first is responsible for the splendour of our cathedrals, the second for the gargoyles that decorate them to remind us that the world is full of monsters, devils, and succubi.

  Arthur Koestler

  Creativity, Two Sides, Mind

  Arthur Koestler, Harold Harris (1975). “Astride the two cultures: Arthur Koestler at 70”, Not Avail

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• To a gargoyle on the ramparts of Notre Dame as Esmeralda rides off with Gringoire Quasimodo says. "Why was I not made of stone like thee?

  Victor Hugo

  Dames, Stones, Made

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• When I can feel you breathing into me i, like a stone gargoyle atop some crumbling building, spring to life a resuscitated angel.

  Saúl Williams

  Spring, Angel, Breathing

  Saul Williams (2009). “, said the shotgun to the head.”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• Gargoyles were the complement to saints; Leonardo's caricatures were complementary to his untiring search for ideal beauty. And gargoyles were the expression of all the passions, the animal forces, the Caliban gruntings and groanings which are left in human nature when the divine has been poured away. Leonardo was less concerned than his Gothic predecessors with the ethereal parts of our nature, and so his caricatures, in their expression of passionate energy, merge imperceptibly into the heroic.

  Kenneth Clark

  Passion, Animal, Expression

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• So much paperwork to read! So much paperwork to push away! So much paperwork to pretend he hadn't received and that might have been eaten by gargoyles.

  Terry Pratchett

  Might, Paperwork, Has Beens

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• Hey, rock dude, are you destroying the house? Causing mayhem? Who’s a ferocious gargoyle? Stoney’s a ferocious gargoyle.

  Devon Monk

  Rocks, House, Hey

  Devon Monk (2010). “Magic at the Gate: An Allie Beckstrom Novel”, p.111, Penguin

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• It is not the glorious battlements, the painted windows, the crouching gargoyles that support a building, but the stones that lie unseen in or upon the earth. It is often those who are despised and trampled on that bear up the weight of a whole nation.

  John Owen

  Lying, Support, Weight

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• People fear what they do not understand.

  Bruce Lee

  People, Goliath

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• Littlefinger: A trade envoy from Lys once observed to me that Lord Stannis must love his daughter very well, since he'd erected hundreds of statues of her all along the walls of Dragonstone. Tyrion: My lord, those are gargoyles.

  George R. R. Martin

  Daughter, Wall, Lord

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.929, Bantam

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• The small gargoyle had gone entirely white to match the ceiling, and only the rims of his ears, his long clawlike nails, and a thick stripe down his whip-like tail were still gray. He was crawling along the ceiling like a bat, wings held to make sharp angles and claws extended. It just about broke my creepy meter.

  Kim Harrison

  Wings, White, Long

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• I did not love cold harmony and perfect regularity of organization; what I sought was variety, mystery, tradition, the venerable, the awful. I despised sophisters and calculators; I was groping for faith, honor, and prescriptive loyalties. I would have given any number of neo-classical pediments for one poor battered gargoyle.

  Russell Kirk

  Loyalty, Organization, Numbers

  Russell Kirk (2014). “The Essential Russell Kirk: Selected Essays”, p.213, Open Road Media

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• Una parábola: Un hombre estaba examinando la construcción de una catedral. Preguntó a un cantero qué hacía picando las piedras, y el cantero respondió: "Estoy haciendo piedras". Preguntó a un tallador de piedra qué estaba haciendo. "Estoy tallando una gárgola". Y así sucesivamente, cada uno contaba con detalle lo que hacía. Finalmente llegó a una anciana que estaba barriendo el suelo. Ella dijo. "Estoy ayudando a construir una catedral." ...La mayoría de las veces, cada persona está inmersa en los detalles de una parte especial del conjunto y no piensa en cómo lo que está haciendo se relaciona con el panorama general.

  Richard Hamming

  Ciencia, Hombres, Pensamiento

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• Watching a dog try to chew a large piece of toffee is a pastime fit for gods. Mr. Fusspot's mixed ancestry had given him a dexterity of jaw that was truly awesome. He somersaulted happily around the floor, making faces like a rubber gargoyle in a washing machine.

  Terry Pratchett

  Dog, Trying, Faces

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Making Money: (Discworld Novel 36)”, p.141, Random House

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• What will you do with the time you have left?

  Mitch Albom

  Izquierda

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• the point of feminism ... is to win women a wider range of experience. Feminism remains a pretty simple concept, despite repeated - and enormously effective - efforts to dress it up in greasepaint and turn its proponents into gargoyles.

  Susan Faludi

  Winning, Simple, Effort

  Susan Faludi (1991). “Backlash: the undeclared war against American women”, Crown Pub

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• The intruder hesitated, turned, and anchored itself in the corner, where the ceiling met the wall. It sat there, fastened to the paneling by enormous yellow talons, still and silent like a gargoyle in full sunlight. I took a swig from the bottle and set it so I could still see the creatures reflection. Nude and hairless, it didn't carry a single ounce of fat on its lean frame. Its skin stretched so tight over the cords of muscle, it threatened to snap. Like a thin layer of wax melted over an anatomy model. Your friendly neighbourhood Spiderman.

  Ilona Andrews

  Wall, Reflection, Yellow

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  ¡Doble, doble, trabajo y problemas; fuego arder, y caldero burbujear!

  William Shakespeare

  Halloween, Memorable, Play

  "Macbeth" (1606) acto 4, esc. 1, l. 4

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• One legged veterans will greet the dawn, and they're whistling marches as they mow the lawn, and the gargoyles on sit and grieve.

  Phil Ochs

  Grieving, Dawn, Politics

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• It is often those who are despised and trampled on that bear up the weight of a whole nation.

  John Owen

  Bears, Weight, Despised

  John Owen (1991). “The Works of John Owen”

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• Juntos, él [Girolamo Savonarola] y su archienemigo Lorenzo [de' Medici] habrían sido material de gárgolas. Uno casi podría imaginarse el díptico en el que se enfrentan sus perfiles, sus narices tan poderosas como sus personalidades.

  Sarah Dunant

  Powerful, Personality, Together

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• La casa de un hombre es su castillo, y su mujer es el conserje

  Lucille Kallen

  Dolor, Hogar, Hombres

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