Best 21 quotes in «marble quotes» category

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

You make the rarest canvas, love

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

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art.

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.

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

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

Forget thyself to marble.

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

Life is made up of marble and mud.

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

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

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

Men have marble, women waxen, minds.

Tears harden lust, though marble wear with raining.

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

The soft droppes of rain perce the hard marble.

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.

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!

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