Best 21 quotes in «marble quotes» category

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

Being happy with less is what makes a great human being, not a big house with marble floors, or everyone knowing who you are.

A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty.

Fortunately, when we have all our marbles, we can shift our memories very quickly.

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art.

Forget thyself to marble.

Even when conservatives have all the marbles, they still act as if they're under siege. Now that they are under siege, it is no time for them to act as if they're losing their marbles.

It seems strange to me that someone thought of making marble statues.

I found Rome built of bricks; I leave her clothed in marble.

Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm.

Life is made up of marble and mud.

Men have marble, women waxen, minds.

The soft droppes of rain perce the hard marble.

Marble flooring is to a Punjabi what a foreign degree is to a Tamilian

Tears harden lust, though marble wear with raining.

The floor consisted of the most colorful marble that is found in our mountains. The slabs overlapped so well that scarcely a joint could be seen; the marble was smoothed and polished very finely and the colors so arranged that the floor gave the impression of a lovely picture. Moreover it gleamed and shimmered in the light that was streaming in from the windows.

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

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

Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble.

Swallowing, he entered the second code. Then there was a sound like a marble dropping on the floor - bouncing slowly, gradually getting faster as it dropped lower and lower… The thing was toying with him! Where was it? He strained his hearing, but all was again silent. He wanted to shout and scream obscenities at it, but he fought the impulse. It might not really know his location after all - and that would've led it right to him. It must be coming for him! It must be by the door by now, looking for a way in. Time was running out. He hastily keyed in the third and last code. Death the destroyer never is late!

You make the rarest canvas, love