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Its walls were mirrored, its tables marble, its espresso feral, its pastry stale. — Amy Waldman

I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble. — Augustus

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

If a man has done evil in his life, he must not be complimented in marble. — Charles Sumner

You find me at work; excuse the dust on my blouse. I sculpt my marble myself. — Camille Claudel

Much rain wears the marble. — William Shakespeare

The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination. — Elbert Hubbard

Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor. — Alexis Carrel

The chasm was merely one of the orifices of that pit of blackness that lies beneath us.. — Nathanial Hawthorne

To make a face from marble means to remove from the slab everything that is not the face — Anton Chekhov

I asked to use the bathroom and sat, recovering, on the edge of a marble bath on a dais - the kind Greek husbands are slain in. — Olivia Sudjic

Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, or is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a trifling extent. — Henry David Thoreau

If the plural for marble, marbles, is slang for sanity, then what does it mean to get lost in a room of marble statues? — Bridgette Bates

Yes, the work comes out more beautiful from a material that resists the process, verse, marble, onyx, or enamel. — Theophile Gautier

Tobias' body became a marble statue, and she knew she'd reached the darkness of his soul. — Monica Burns

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh. — Victor Hugo

White paint is my marble. — Cy Twombly

We are too prone to engrave our trials in marble and write our blessings in sand. — Charles Spurgeon

Being the first woman speaker and breaking the marble ceiling is pretty important. Now it's time to move on. — Nancy Pelosi

We chip away as best we can at the mysterious block of marble our lives are made of- in vain; the black vein of destiny always reappears. — Victor Hugo

In my mind Greece is reduced to one vast pile of shattered marble, shimmering in a heat aze. — William Boyd

You Just scared me half to death," I said.
"You should be thrilled you're halfway there. — Rae Hachton

To me, he was in reality become no longer flesh, but marble; his eye was a cold, bright, blue gem; his tongue a speaking instrument - nothing more. — Charlotte Bronte

[I]n the end this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin. — Elizabeth I

Marble is not alike in all countries. — Vitruvius

Such was the texture of her marble.
[In a description of Laura Trevelyan.] — Patrick White

I would run to close those last few feet between us - reckless as always - and I would be in his marble arms, finally safe. — Stephenie Meyer

Who builds a church to God and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name. — Alexander Pope

I love your hairless chest." She nuzzled his pecs. "So smooth and sculpted. Like a marble manslut statue. — Nicole Archer

The secret of architectural excellence is to translate the proportions of a dachshund into bricks, mortar and marble. — Christopher Wren

The gods are made of marble
Deep inside a museum
A quadruped monster beckons me to approach
("Outcries") — Helene Baronne D'Oettingen

CLARE: The library is cool and smells like carpet cleaner, although all I can see is marble. — Audrey Niffenegger

The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself. — Michelangelo

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul. — Joseph Addison