Marble Quotes - Page 10

• Schoolboy days are no happier than the days of afterlife, but we look back upon them regretfully because we have forgotten our punishments at school and how we grieved when our marbles were lost and our kites destroyed – because we have forgotten all the sorrows and privations of the canonized ethic and remember only its orchard robberies, its wooden-sword pageants, and its fishing holidays.

  Mark Twain

  School, Holiday, Fishing

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.4550, Delphi Classics

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• ¡OH, NO, NO, MUCHACHO!" Harry se dio la vuelta. El profesor Moody bajaba cojeando por la escalera de mármol. Tenía la varita apuntando a un hurón blanco que temblaba en el suelo de piedra, exactamente donde había estado Malfoy.

  J. K. Rowling

  Blanco, Harry Potter divertido, Hurones

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• I laid my face to the smooth face of the marble and howled my loss into the cold salt rain.

  Sylvia Plath

  Rain, Loss, Salt

  Sylvia Plath (2008). “The Bell Jar”, p.124, Faber & Faber

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• I dreamt that I dwelt in marble halls, With vassals and serfs at my side, And of all who assembled within those walls, That I was the hope and the pride.

  Alfred Bunn

  Wall, Pride, Sides

  Michael William Balfe, Alfred Bunn (1856). “The Bohemian Girl: An Opera in Three Acts Performed by the Pyne and Harrison English Opera Troupe”, p.14

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• "Bueno, siempre íbamos a suspender esa", dijo Ron sombríamente mientras ascendían por la escalera de mármol. Acababa de hacer que Harry se sintiera bastante mejor contándole cómo le había hablado en detalle al examinador del hombre feo con una verruga en la nariz que había en la bola de cristal, sólo para levantar la vista y darse cuenta de que había estado describiendo el reflejo del examinador.

  J. K. Rowling

  Reflexión, Hombres, Detalles

  "Harry Potter y la Orden del Fénix". Libro de J. K. Rowling, 21 de junio de 2003.

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• Convince yourself that you are working in clay, not marble, on paper not eternal bronze: Let that first sentence be as stupid as it wishes.

  Jacques Barzun

  Block, Stupid, Writing

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• Why do people write books that say it's better to be older than to be younger? It's not better. Even if you have all your marbles, you're constantly reaching for the name of the person you met the day before yesterday.

  Nora Ephron

  Empleo, Libro, Escritura

  "Nora Ephron Dies at 71; Writer and Filmmaker With a Genius for Humor" by Charles Mcgrath, www.nytimes.com. June 26, 2012.

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• When he at least reached the door the handle had cease to vibrate. Lowering himself suddenly to his knees he placed his head and the vagaries of his left eye (which was for ever trying to dash up and down the vertical surface of the door), he was able by dint of concentration to observe, within three inches of his keyholed eye, an eye which was not his, being not only of a different colour to his own iron marble, but being, which is more convincing, on the other side of the door.

  Mervyn Peake

  Eye, Doors, Iron

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• Your soul is a chosen landscape Where charming masked and costumed figures go Playing the lute and dancing and almost Sad beneath their fantastic disguises. All sing in a minor key Of all-conquering love and careless fortune They do not seem to believe in their happiness And their song mingles with the moonlight. The still moonlight, sad and beautiful, Which gives the birds to dream in the trees And makes the fountain sprays sob in ecstasy, The tall, slender fountain sprays among the marble statues.

  Paul Verlaine

  Beautiful, Dream, Song

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• In every landscape, the point of astonishment is the meeting of the sky and the earth, and that is seen from the first hillock aswell as from the top of the Alleghanies. The stars at night stoop down over the brownest, homeliest common, with all the spiritual magnificence which they shed on the Campagna, or on the marble deserts of Egypt.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spiritual, Stars, Night

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.454, Modern Library

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• Y cuando se me olvide, como sucederá, y duerma en el frío y opaco mármol, donde no se oiga hablar de mí, di: Yo te enseñé.

  William Shakespeare

  Teacher, Teaching, Dull

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• Man toils, and strives, and wastes his little life to claim-- At last the transient glory of a splendid name, And have, perchance, in marble mockery a bust, Poised on a pedestal, above his sleeping dust.

  Andrew Jackson Downing

  Sleep, Men, Dust

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• In all ages the people have honored those who dishonored them. They have worshiped their destroyers; they have canonized the most gigantic liars, and buried the great thieves in marble and gold. Under the loftiest monuments sleeps the dust of murder.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Liars, Sleep, Dust

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.68, Library of Alexandria

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• Poor Kate,"said Constance,"she's lost her marbles.

  Trenton Lee Stewart

  Poor, Lost, Said

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• El silencio está tan lleno de sabiduría e ingenio potenciales como el mármol no mostrado de una gran escultura. Los silenciosos no dan testimonio contra sí mismos.

  Aldous Huxley

  Wisdom, Silence, Sculpture

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• I think it's important to remember that these men are not perfect. If they were marble gods, what they did wouldn't be so admirable. The more we see the founders as humans the more we can understand them.

  David McCullough

  Thinking, Men, Perfect

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• Podemos vivir sin ella, y rendir culto sin ella, pero no podemos recordar sin ella. ¡Qué fría es toda la historia, qué sin vida toda la imaginería, comparada con lo que la nación viva escribe, y el mármol incorrupto lleva!

  John Ruskin

  Escritura, Historia, Mayo

  John Ruskin (1849). "Las siete lámparas de la arquitectura", p.164

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• A man with a full stomach and the respect of his fellows had no business to scold about anything that he might think to be wrong in the ways of the universe, or even with the ways of society. Let the unfortunates rail; the others may play marbles.

  Stephen Crane

  Hombres, Pensar, Jugar

  Stephen Crane, Anthony Matthew Mellors, Fiona Robertson (1998). “The Red Badge of Courage and Other Stories”, p.77, Oxford Paperbacks

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• Earth Is Enough. We men of Earth have here the stuff Of Paradise - we have enough! We need no other stones to build The Temple of the Unfulfilled - No other ivory for the doors - No other marble for the floors - No other cedar for the beam And dome of man's immortal dream. Here on the paths of every-day - Here on the common human way Is all the stuff the gods would take To build a Heaven, to mold and make New Edens. Ours is the stuff sublime To build Eternity in time!

  Edwin Markham

  Dream, Men, Doors

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• One minute I'm standing at Ronnie Scott's getting a standing ovation and the next minute, I'm on a marble slab

  Keith Richards

  Ovation, Next, Minutes

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• I sometimes wonder if the hand is not more sensitive to the beauties of sculpture than the eye. I should think the wonderful rhythmical flow of lines and curves could be more subtly felt than seen. Be this as it may, I know that I can feel the heart-throbs of the ancient Greeks in their marble gods and goddesses.

  Helen Keller

  God, Heart, Eye

  Helen Keller (2012). “The Story of My Life”, p.81, Courier Corporation

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• In testimony of their Respect For The Patriot of incorruptible Integrity, The Soldier of approved Valour The Statesman of consummate Wisdom; Whose Talents and Virtues will be admired By Grateful Posterity Long after this Marble shall have mouldered into Dust.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Wisdom, Integrity, Tombstone

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• A marble cutter, with chisel and hammer, was changing a stone into a statue. A preacher looking on said: "I wish I could deal such changing blows on stony hearts." The workman answered: "Maybe you could, if you worked like me, upon your knees."

  Arthur Tappan Pierson

  Prayer, Heart, Blow

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• Others may fashion more smoothly images of bronze (I for one believe it), evoke living faces from marble, plead causes better, trace with a wand the wanderings of the heavens and foretell the rising of stars. But you, Roman, remember to rule the peoples with power (these will be your arts); impose the habit of peace, spare the vanquished and war down the proud!

  Virgil

  Fashion, Art, Stars

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• Cada pieza de mármol contiene una estatua que espera ser liberada por una persona con la habilidad suficiente para eliminar las partes innecesarias. Al igual que el escultor lo es para el mármol, la educación lo es para el alma. La libera. Sólo las personas educadas son libres. No se puede crear una estatua rompiendo el mármol con un martillo, y no se puede liberar el espíritu o el alma de las personas con la fuerza de las armas.

  Confucius

  Profesor, Habilidades, Personas

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