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If you want to know why the towers of American capitalism are crumbling, I recommend reading 'The Creature from Jekyll Island' by G. Edward Griffin. — Robert Kiyosaki

Let go! Gollum,' he said. 'This is Sting. You have seen it before once upon a time. Let go, or you'll feel it this time! I'll cut your throat — J.R.R. Tolkien

I saw Byzantium in a dream and knew that I would die there.. and the golden towers of Byzantium would be my tomb ~ Aidan — Stephen R. Lawhead

The tower of power, too sweet to be sour, ohhhh yeahh! — Randy Savage

Pride juggles with her toppling towers, They strike the sun and cease, But the firm feet of humility They grip the ground like trees. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

'Baker Towers' is the book I've always known I would write, but it wasn't an easy book to do. — Jennifer Haigh

Strapped, noosed, nighing his hour, He stood and counted them and cursed his luck; And then the clock collected in the tower Its strength, and struck. — A.E. Housman

Gilds the crenelated towers of the churches here and there, Intensifies the hue of flowers makes thy lovely face more fair. — Marguerite De Angeli

The day I was born, my house burnt down; the day I left home, the Twin Towers burnt down; and I lived in a jungle in India at 15. — Neon Hitch

The towers of removal boxes throw shadows across the hall, like monuments to everything that is now absent — Fredrik Backman

Over shadowy spires and gleaming towers lay the ghostly darkness and silence that runs before dawn. — Robert E. Howard

The Duke of Clarence ... a prisoner in the Tower, was secretly put to death and drowned in a barrel of Malmesey wine. — Robert Fabyan

A new day will come and when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. — J.R.R. Tolkien

The stillness of the water, the horizon framed by other glass towers and miniature boats drifting in the distance. — Emily St. John Mandel

Let him go, you filth! Let him go! You will not touch him again! — J.R.R. Tolkien

Gimignano and admired the skyline of towers. "It is a noble sight, mia bella. One day you must paint it. — Carol M. Cram

From the shaken tower
A flock of bells take flight,
And go with the hour. — Alice Meynell

Communication land lines are going to be around for a long time, the internet runs on them, as do the wireless cell phone towers. — Steven Magee

I will build you a castle with a tower so high it reaches the moon. — Smokey Robinson

The university must be retrospective. The gale that gives direction to the vanes on all its towers blows out of antiquity. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Across the land, the semaphore towers stood deathly still. — Alastair Reynolds

Since when do princesses go on quests? They are the ones who remain safely locked away in towers playing the role of damsel-in-distress! — L.T. Suzuki

Young people are capable, when aroused, of bringing down the towers of oppression and raising the banners of freedom. — Nelson Mandela

Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. — Horace

How fleeting the sorrows of youth, how slight the foundations on which the young build towers of despair — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Was this the face that launched a thousand ships/And burnt the topless towers of Ilium? — Christopher Marlowe

Done and done," P.J. said curtly. "Both front towers are clear. Giddy up, cowboys. Let's rope the goat and get back home. — Maya Banks

A second plane hit the second tower. America is under attack. — Andrew Card

Break into Alton Towers! I would ... break into McDonalds. And I would kiss everyone. On the lips ... before I left the world. I mean, man and female. — Tom Meighan

In the years to come, I hope there will be Bill Rancic towers right alongside the Trump towers. — Bill Rancic

I smelled war on the horizon, with more deaths and trouble to come
Bombing of the Twin Towers
From Rape of a Nation by Sara Niles — Sara Niles

I can take about an hour on the tower of power, as long as I gets a little golden shower. — Frank Zappa

I was living near the Twin Towers on 9/11, so I saw the attacks, and I had friends who were killed in the attacks. — Anand Gopal

The rules of reason build towers that reach past the treetops. The rules of trust build towers that reach past the stars. — Mary E. Pearson

She came to the Cleopatra and her attention was immediately drawn to the side-by-side Tigris and Euphrates Towers. Her — Michael Connelly

I don't like being up high. It took me three days to get to the top of the Eiffel Tower. — Ray Bradbury

I only know one thing: Everything I learned about the banking business, I learned in the banking towers of the Societe. — Jerome Kerviel

Grammar perfect books are for Ivy Leaguers in Ivory Towers. My book is a sandcastle built on the beach of usefullness. — Jonathan Heatt

Four grey walls, and four grey towers, Overlook a space of flowers, And the silent isle imbowers The Lady of Shalott. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

I wonder,' said Frodo. 'It's my doom, I think, to go to that Shadow yonder, so that a way will be found. But will good or evil show it to me? — J.R.R. Tolkien

Some books are serials, not to be mistaken for anything else. 'The Two Towers,' for example, ought never to be read in isolation. — Edward M. Lerner

Fragrant o'er all the western groves The tall magnolia towers unshaded. — Maria Gowen Brooks

But in the end it is only a passing thing ... this shadow. Even darkness must pass. - Samwise Gamgee, The Two Towers — J.R.R. Tolkien

My focus on 9/11 was on the victims - in the towers, in the planes - and all that loss. — Kiefer Sutherland

I want people to be excited about cooling towers and megasheds; they're as much part of our history as the rural barn. — Antony Gormley

Lying on the ceiling. Refusing to go to school. Not opening up to me. Climbing water towers. No, she's all right. — Kami Garcia

At the Quebec prison, he had read Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope, then had autographed the book and given it to a guard for a souvenir. — Erik Larson

My destiny no longer has me conquering the highest toowers in the world, but rather the void they protect.
This cannot be measured. — Philippe Petit

Shaped like an enormous horseshoe, the Louvre was the longest building in Europe, stretching farther than three Eiffel Towers laid end to end. — Dan Brown

See the BEAR of fearsome size! All the WORLD'S within his eyes. TIME grows thin, the past is a riddle; The TOWER awaits you in the middle. — Stephen King

Night. Rain. A livid sky pierces the lacework
Of spires and towers, the silhouette of a Gothic
Town dim in the gray distance. — Paul Verlaine

It cannot be done all at once. To overpower vertigo - the keeper of the abyss- one must tame it, cautiously. — Philippe Petit

I've been spending this last month trying to find four outfits to wear to the different premieres of The Two Towers. It's hard work. — Liv Tyler

I had to make a confession of faith in stone. That was the beginning of the tower, the house I built for myself at Bollingen. — Carl Jung

Great men stand like solitary towers in the city of God. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

What better day to lay the cornerstone of the Freedom Tower than the day our country declared its independence. — George Pataki

There was a lot of terrible, terrible comedy in the seventies along with 'Fawlty Towers.' It's easy to forget. — Robert Webb

Trinity Park lies directly across from the library, Trinity Church rising like a midieval thought amidst the glass and steel towers. — Nick Flynn

Everything on 'Sharknado' somehow, for some reason, something went wrong with everything. The days we had the water towers, they weren't working. — Cassie Scerbo

You have these 'hot towers', tropical storm clouds acting like chimneys to carry heat to the upper atmosphere. — Peter May

A 60-story tower in New York evokes a 70-story tower in Chicago [and] a 60-story tower in New York evokes a 70-story tower directly across the street. — Hugh Ferriss

So much death! What can med do against such reckless hate? — J.R.R. Tolkien

It would be as easy for the United States to build a tower to remove the sun, as to remove polygamy, or the Church and Kingdom of God. — Heber C. Kimball

Boy, do you ever know how to woo a girl, Damon Garratt," she teased.

"Only the ones I feel are worth wooing, Katrina Alexander. — Terry Towers

You are your own forerunner, and the towers you have builded are but the foundation of your giant-self. And that self too shall be a foundation. — Khalil Gibran

People said the towers looked like giant salt and pepper shakers, but I'd always thought they looked like Daleks from Doctor Who. — Rick Riordan

It was at that moment that I knew, regardless of whether we were here or in the world outside of these walls, I couldn't live without him. — Terry Towers

So, on the eastern summit, clad in gray, morn, like a horseman girt for travel, comes, and from his tower of mist night's watchman hurries down. — Henry Kirke White

I sometimes think about the tower at Pisa as the first particle accelerator, a (nearly) vertical linear accelerator that Galileo used in his studies. — Leon M. Lederman

Jace and I had been like that, two towers, soaring through the sky side by side, looking and feeling indestructible while we were together. — Natalie Valdes

We look down on our scientists if they engage in outside consultation. We implicitly promote the ivory tower. — Vikram Sarabhai

The waterfront without the Ferry Tower would be like a birthday cake without a candle. — Herb Caen

I am very sorry to say that I rejoiced when I once more perceived the towers of Windsor behind me. — Karl Philipp Moritz

Whene'er, by Jove's decree, our conquering powers Shall humble to the dust her lofty towers. — Homer

Just as only one week ago, the respected and dedicated defender of justice, Cicely Towers had her life brought to an end. — J.D. Robb

I have a Vision of the Future, chum. The workers flats in fields of soya beans tower up like silver pencils, score on score. — John Betjeman

When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter. — Logan Pearsall Smith

As she walked, clock towers across Prague started arguing midnight, and the long, fraught Monday came at last to a close. — Laini Taylor

For some, bottles of liquor gleam like the towers of Eldorado. — Mason Cooley

Rome in the ages, dimmed with all her towers, / Floats in the mist, a little cloud at tether. — Alice Meynell

The higher the tower, the greater the fall thereof. — Horace

I miss the comedy of the '70s and '80s, like 'Only Fools And Horses' and 'Fawlty Towers,' so I'm glad I'm put in that category. — Brendan O'Carroll

This is the hour of the Shire-folk, when they arise from their quiet fields to shake the towers and counsels of the Great. — J.R.R. Tolkien

I fear I am beyond your comprehension. - Gandalf the White — J.R.R. Tolkien

I can never do better than Fawlty Towers whatever I do. Now I very much want to teach young talent some rules of the game. — John Cleese

The sun sets in the west (just about everyone knows that), but Sunset Towers faced east. Strange! — Ellen Raskin

My first walk illegally at 20 years old was between the towers of Notre Dame. — Philippe Petit

Though I love the luxury of the Waldorf Towers, room service there doesn't do soul food. — Sammy Davis Jr.

One more thing: Philippe, you are not a coward-so what I want to hear from you is the ecstatic truth about the twin towers. — Werner Herzog

Towers, or float in lazy circles there like the nations of gulls — Anonymous

Tower'd cities please us then, And the busy hum of men. — John Milton

And King Harren learned that thick walls and high towers are small use against dragons," the tale always ended. "For dragons fly. — George R R Martin

Until it seems the whole city will be covered with gold pollen shaken from the bell-towers, lilies plundered with the weight of massive bees ... — Hilda Doolittle

The moon now drew a faint light over their path, and, soon after, enabled them to distinguish some towers rising above the tops of the woods. — Ann Radcliffe

If an ant looked to the towers men build, it could not dig it's own hole — Bangambiki Habyarimana

You don't have to be someone who likes walking a tightrope across the Twin Towers to watch 'Man On Wire.' — Asif Kapadia

I do have a regard for the musicality of language that came from BBC sitcoms like 'Fawlty Towers.' — Russell Brand

You got me stranded on the bungee tower of love. — Al Yankovic

I see the beauty of God's archetypal infinity reflected in the towers of infinities in set theory — Vern Poythress

I was a war correspondent and journalist for a long time, and I was very near the towers on 9/11 and very shortly after in Afghanistan. — Peter Landesman