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I asked if you'd rather me keep my shirt on."
"No. Why?"
"Should we throw a tarp over the statue of David while we're at it? — Ophelia London

No statue has ever been put up to a critic. — Jean Sibelius

The statue of Freedom has not been cast yet, the furnace is hot, we can all still burn our fingers. — Georg Buchner

A photograph is analogous to a plaster cast taken from life, which is always inferior to a good statue. — Jean-Francois Millet

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

Education without courage is like a wax statue - beautiful to look at but bound to melt at the first touch of a hot stuff. — Mahatma Gandhi

The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf. — Mark Twain

Fang is not the huggiest person in the world - he turns into an unbending statue, and you just have to do the best you can. Which — James Patterson

You revere me: but what if your reverence should some day collapse? Be careful lest a statue fall and kill you! — Friedrich Nietzsche

No-one ever built a statue of a critic. — David Nicholls

The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources
because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples. — Lyndon B. Johnson

With breast cancer." Father Sherry's hand was resting on the statue's shoulder. "Theresa was — Anita Diamant

I peered into the deep-sae canyon, hoping to spot a toppled skyscraper. Maybe even the Statue of Liberty. — Kat Falls

To see my statue unveiled alongside Borje Salming, the player I grew up idolizing in Sweden, will be very special for both my family and me. — Mats Sundin

The Statue of Liberty's gender changed nothing. It was the same here as anywhere: men and their wars. — Jeffrey Eugenides

I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one. — Marcus Porcius Cato

Wasn't Winston Churchill the first black president of America? There's a statue of him near me ... that's black ... — Danielle O'Hara

She looked like a statue of pride hanging its head. — Lawrence Durrell

The real sustains the same relation to the ideal that a stone does to a statue - or that paint does to a painting. Realism degrades and impoverishes. — Robert Green Ingersoll

I think watching Channing Tatum caress his Lego Oscar statue will be something I won't forget. Even if I try. — Nathan Sawaya

The French never allow a distinguished son of France to lack a statue. — E. V. Lucas

Up there with my awards, I have a great big statue of Groucho Marx, just to put everything in perspective. — John Lithgow

A statue in a garden is to be considered as one part of a scene or landscape. — William Shenstone

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

No statues, please. School or statue? Hospital or statue? No need to explain further. — Chetan Bhagat

The last time I was inside a woman was when I went to the Statue of Liberty. — Woody Allen

The last woman I was in was the Statue of Liberty. — Woody Allen

A dead man who never caused others to die seldom rates a statue. — W. H. Auden

I give up," Mr. Poe said, and coughed into his handkerchief. "Five hundred is too much to pay for a big herring statue. — Lemony Snicket

I've been all over the world and I've never seen a statue of a critic. — Leonard Bernstein

I'm not Hans Christian Anderson. Nobody's gonna make a statue in the park with a lot of scrambling kids climbing up me. I won't have it, okay? — Maurice Sendak

Then maybe you shouldn't put a statue of it on your altar, Annabeth thought. — Rick Riordan

Time meant nothing.
She loved him in an instant.
She would love him forever. — Ellen Read

His face bore an imperial nose, one belonging to the same pedigree as the one venomously blasted from the face of the Sphinx statue by Greek envy. — David B. Dacosta

I've got a statue of St. Francis in my front yard, and I'm not even a practicing Catholic. — Michael Keaton

Into the statue that breathes, the soul of the sculptor is bidden. — Richard Realf

Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it. — Michelangelo

Ye venerate me; but what if your veneration should some day collapse? Take heed lest a statue crush you! — Friedrich Nietzsche

Pay no attention to critics. No one ever erected a statue to a critic — Werner Erhard

She wants to be treated as an equal, not like a goddess or a statue. — Auliq Ice

It was so cold in New York City today that the Statue of Liberty had her torch under her dress. — David Letterman

Guantanamo Bay is the anti-Statue of Liberty. — Thomas Friedman

I grew up in New Jersey and never went up the Statue of Liberty. — Buzz Aldrin

It's my estimation that every man ever got a statue made of him was one kind of a son of a bitch or another.
Malcolm Reynolds — Melodie Ramone

If the statue engulfs people in fire, we should send Leo." "I love you too, man. — Rick Riordan

It is all very well for people with fine arts degrees, but for ordinary people like myself, we want a statue to look like the person. — Ken Livingstone

I have a beautiful wooden Superman statue with a removable cape - I really love that piece. — Tim Daly

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

Maybe I'll just stand here for the half hour and pretend to be a statue. "You were given an order, sub," he said softly.
Or not. — Cherise Sinclair

Sir Francis, recognising the statue, whispered, The goddess Kali; the goddess of love and death. — Jules Verne

I always say South America's the only place where you cut a gentleman his suit one week and see his statue wearing it the next. — John Le Carre

I feel," he replied, "like a sweaty Englishman molesting a naked statue in the presence of a complete stranger." - Adam — Mark Mills

To have a statue of you up 100 years from now at the Superdome, I think that's amazing. — Steve Gleason

Did you see the statue topple? Bill Clinton got nostalgic seeing something that big in a beret go down. — Craig Kilborn

I have a bronze statue of myself, naked. I have these really big curls and water comes out of every curl. It's hot. — Macy Gray

As a sculptor sculpts a statue, an educator educates our future generation. Beauty depends on the creator. — Debasish Mridha

A work of art is somehow organic, and to slash a painting or smash a statue is not just an offence against property: it is an offence against life. — Anthony Burgess

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

There's a reason why in New York Harbor we have the Statue of Liberty, not the Statue of Equality. — Charles Krauthammer

The most powerful visual in America today is actually the Statue of Liberty. — Frank Luntz

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

I studied him silently. He looked like he always did - a living, breathing statue. Perfection without any humanity, and yet he was here. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

Nobody ever built a statue to a committee. — Roger Stone

The more the marbles wastes, the more the statue grows. — Michelangelo

United States: the country where liberty is a statue. — Nicanor Parra

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up. — Jay Leno

If you are not open to the change, you will be no different than a statue in the museum! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The Statue of Liberty is meant to be shorthand for a country so unlike its parts that a trip from California to Indiana should require a passport. — Anna Quindlen

When President Chirac gave [President] Bush a souvenir statue of the Eiffel Tower ... Bush said 'This is great! A little oil rig!' — Jay Leno

Love like a phantoms lights but hold in the heart, it builds like the empty smile adorning a statue with sightless eyes. — Dan Fogelberg

Many of America's and New York's sons and daughters are around the world fighting for the freedoms that the Statue of Liberty stands for. — Michael Bloomberg

exquisite--such was Fantine; and beneath these feminine adornments and these ribbons one could divine a statue, and in that statue a soul. — Victor Hugo

I base jumped off the Jesus statue in Rio de Janeiro. — Felix Baumgartner

I don't know who that guy was in the famous statue called The Thinker, but he was so deep in thought, he forgot to put on a pair of pants. — R.J. Silver

A statue of the book thief stood in the courtyard ... it's very rare, don't you think, for a statue to appear before it's subject has become famous? — Markus Zusak

As you come out of the sea, naked,
and return to the world full of salt and sun,
reverberating statue and sword of the sand. — Pablo Neruda

Tatues of saints in somebody else's religion. To me they're just rock shaped into glorified nobodies. — Chuck Palahniuk

Hell was never God's intention. It is man's invention. It is a human-manufactured religious icon, no less idolatrous than deifying a statue. — Carlton D. Pearson

A garden without its statue is like a sentence without its verb. — Joseph Beach

I have a wonderful make-up crew. They're the same people restoring the Statue of Liberty. — Bob Hope

Bridget was so excited to see the giant Colin Firth statue, she almost had a stroke. But she couldn't quite reach. — Bridget Golightly

I've always had a strong feeling for the Statue of Liberty, because it became the statue of my personal liberty. — David Antin

Jesus is magic, because he turned water into wine. I think he made the statue of liberty disappear in the 80s or something. — Sarah Silverman

salvation is less like a good man becoming a saintly man than it is like a statue coming to life. — Louis Markos

The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal. — Novalis

One day you're the statue. One day you're the pigeon. — Diane Sawyer

Somedays you're the pigeon, somedays you're the statue. — J. Andrew Taylor

A man were better relate himself to a statue or picture than to suffer his thoughts to pass in smother. — Francis Bacon

From now on, anyone raped at Penn State should just tell Joe Paterno's statue. It couldn't help you any less than the real Joe would have. — Jim Norton

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

Accept that some days you are the pigeon and some days you are the statue — Scott Adams

And the quality all these reasonable failures share is an inability to accept that the statue quo is temporary. — Chuck Klosterman

Life is nothing but a clump of mud; your thoughts define which statue you can mold out of it. — Debasish Mridha

You are organic, aren't you? Or am I talking to a statue again? — Christina Daley

Marvelous oriental pace he's got, just like a Buddhist statue. — Harry Carpenter

Hard. That was what he looked like. That was what you first noticed about him: a hard, chiselled face, like that that of some ancient Greek statue. — Robert Thier

There's no hall of fame for that working class hero, no statue carved out of stone. And his greatest reward is the love of a woman and his children. — Alan Jackson

It was about as easy getting the Statue of Liberty to spread cunny, which did take some dynamite persuasion. — William T. Vollmann

A statue is just a statue until someone comes along and says it is beautiful. Then it starts to enjoy the magnificence of life. — Debasish Mridha

He spread his arms in benediction, like that Jesus statue in Brazil before the Maoists blew it up. — Bruce Sterling