Marble Quotes
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Marble Quotes & Sayings
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A sculptor will more easily extract a beautiful statue from a piece of rough marble than from one that has been badly blocked out by someone else.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
The work of art is already within the block of marble. I just chop off whatever isn't needed.
— Auguste Rodin
As polishing expresses the vein in marble, and grain in wood, so music brings out what of heroic lurks anywhere. The hero is the sole patron of music.
— Henry David Thoreau
What! Sex in the car? Can't we just do it on the cool marble of the lobby floor ... please?Ana's thoughts — E.L. James
I laid my face to the smooth face of the marble and howled my loss into the cold salt rain.
— Sylvia Plath
What is experience? A poor little hut constructed from the ruins of the palace of gold and marble called our illusions.
— Philibert Joseph Roux
Much rain wears the marble.
— William Shakespeare
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
He that sows his grain upon marble will have many a hungry belly before his harvest.
— John Arbuthnot
A writer creates like the sculptor, with one exception: The writer must create his block of marble, before chiseling away the non-essentials.
— Garry Fitchett
It's always the scuffs in the marble that make its inner light seem to glow more brightly.
— Alena Graedon
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
I was made to rule the darkness.
— Rae Hachton
New York has total depth in every area. Washington has only politics; after that, the second biggest thing is white marble.
— John Lindsay
For men use, if they have an evil turn, to write it in marble; and whoso doth us a good turn we write it in dust.
— Thomas More
Forget thyself to marble.
— John Milton
There were seventy-five people in the lobby and only a seven-year-old girl was finding out what it felt like to sit on the Marble Floor
— Hugh Prather
You make the rarest canvas, love
— Madeline Miller
The statue lies hid in a block of marble; and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter, and removes the rubbish.
— Joseph Addison
And besides, in the end, perhaps love demands marble palaces, white peacocks and swans.
— Irene Nemirovsky
I've read in many a novel, that unless they've souls that grovelFolks prefer in fact a hovel to your dreary marble halls. — Charles Stuart Calverley
Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.
— Phillips Brooks
Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.
— Benjamin Franklin
Men have marble, women waxen, minds.
— William Shakespeare
Too many people write their blessings in the sand but engrave their sorrows in marble
— Charles Spurgeon
The court is like a palace built of marble; I mean that it is made up of very hard but very polished people.
— Jean De La Bruyere
In order to become the chisel that breaks the marble inside us, the artist must first become the hammer. [Soviet censor of paintings and photos]
— Anthony Marra
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A small metal marble pinballs within my chest, banging and clanging against all the routes inside me.
— S.M. Parker
Anne laughed.I don't want sunbursts or marble halls, I just want you. — L.M. Montgomery
I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
— Michelangelo Buonarroti
The building is a national tragedy - a cross between a concrete candy box and a marble sarcophagus in which the art of architecture lies buried.
— Ada Louise Huxtable
I am carving myself into a shapethat no one will recognize
because it is better being the marble
than the monster. — Ashe Vernon
Maidof the luminous grey-eyes,
Mistress
of honey and marble implacable white thighs
and Goddess,
chaste daughter of Zeus. — Hilda Doolittle
To say she was attractive would be an understatement. Calling her 'attractive' would be like calling the Taj Mahal a marble grave.
— Mallika Nawal
He was like warm marble wherever she touched him, solid and unyielding, Michelangelo's namesake sculpture come to life.
— Tina Wright
For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
— Seneca The Younger
My vagina claps her pretty lips, and my magic marble lights up like we've won the million-dollar prize.
— Helena Hunting
Books have that strange quality, that being of the frailest and tenderest matter, they outlast brass, iron and marble.
— William Drummond
If Michaelangelo made a marble sculpture of a defensive end it would look like Mario Williams.
— Dan Dierdorf
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The chasm was merely one of the orifices of that pit of blackness that lies beneath us..
— Nathanial Hawthorne
Yes, the work comes out more beautiful from a material that resists the process, verse, marble, onyx, or enamel.
— Theophile Gautier
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
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
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
To make a face from marble means to remove from the slab everything that is not the face
— Anton Chekhov
In my mind Greece is reduced to one vast pile of shattered marble, shimmering in a heat aze.
— William Boyd
Tobias' body became a marble statue, and she knew she'd reached the darkness of his soul.
— Monica Burns
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
White paint is my marble.
— Cy Twombly
Marble is not alike in all countries.
— Vitruvius
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
Photography has always been a simple medium, compared to painting in oil or chipping at marble.
— John Gossage
But soft you, the fair Ophelia: Ope not thy ponderous and marble jaws, But get thee to a nunnery - go!
— Mark Twain
My eye-balls are glass,my limbs marble,
my face fixed
in its marble mask. — Hilda Doolittle
I used to hit the kitchen lights, cockroaches everywhere/Hit the kitchen lights, now it's marble floors everywhere.
— Young Jeezy
I perceive that marble conceals a multitude of sins.
— Aldous Huxley
You Just scared me half to death," I said."You should be thrilled you're halfway there. — Rae Hachton
If someone took the finest marble and knew how to shape it artfully: Prometheus' material was lowly clay, but his statues walked.
— Franz Grillparzer
Maybe nothing phased her until she was beaten to death on her marble floor, and I envision a blitz attack.
— Patricia Cornwell
One should always dress like a marble column.
— Jackie Kennedy
They found each other's hands in the dark, and an angel with chipped marble wings watched over them as they slept.
— Mindy McGinnis
It is not he who forms idols in gold or marble that makes them gods, but he who kneels before them.
— Martial
The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.
— Jean De La Bruyere
I have nothingOf woman in me; now from head to foot
I am marble-constant. — William Shakespeare
The soft droppes of rain perce the hard marble.
— John Lyly
I've tried not to treat Shakespeare as a marble giant.
— Martin Freeman
carve your name on hearts and not on marble.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
In these few seconds Finn lived such a long time, that the marble fell back into the bottom of an exhausted world.
— Neil M. Gunn
