Statues Quotes
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Statues Quotes & Sayings
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And this do I say also to the o'erthrowers of statues: It is certainly the greatest folly to throw salt into the sea, and statues into the mud.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
I think statues are great; they show what great people would look like if a bird sh*t all over them.
— Demetri Martin
No statue has ever been put up to a critic.
— Jean Sibelius
The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.
— Lew Wallace
I just think perfection and lasting through the ages is for Greek statues, not us mere humans.
— Mary E. Pearson
A pretty girl who is naked / is worth a million statues
— E. E. Cummings
The statues of Lenin and Stalin are down, but the fight against their ghosts seems harder.
— Octavian Paler
A beautiful behavior is better than a beautiful form; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of fine arts.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
But have you wine and music still,And statues and a bright-eyed love,And foolish thoughts of good and ill,And prayers to them who sit above?
— James Elroy Flecker
Nothing can take the sting off the world's economic problems like watching millionaires present each other golden statues.
— Billy Crystal
We have destroyed 80 percent of the statues. There is only small amount left and we will destroy that soon.
— Mohammed Omar
There is a statue of limitation.
— Samuel Goldwyn
If I have done any honorable exploit, that is my monument; but if I have done none, all your statues will signify nothing.
— Agesilaus II
No statues, please. School or statue? Hospital or statue? No need to explain further.
— Chetan Bhagat
Statues and pictures and verse may be grand, But they are not the Life for which they stand.
— James Thomson
Memories come to mind like excavated statuesthat have misplaced their heads. — Wislawa Szymborska
Christ is more of an artist than the artists; he works in the living spirit and the living flesh, he makes men instead of statues.
— Vincent Van Gogh
Only drunks stare at statues .... I never liked the statues keeping vigil, primarily because they were too close to life.
— Amit Chaudhuri
Idols aren't stone statues. They are thoughts, desires, and longings that we worship in the place of the true God
— Elyse Fitzpatrick
He cut through the 21st Century Gallery, past the big plastic statues of Pluto and Mickey, animal headed gods of lost America
— Philip Reeve
We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
— Walter Scott
Turkish opium-eaters, it seems, are absurd enough to sit, like so many equestrian statues, on logs of wood as stupid as themselves.
— Thomas De Quincey
The statues carved here may be viewed as fragments of consciousness itself, or the residue of violent emotions
— Linda Lappin
A fixed idea is like the iron rod which sculptors put in their statues. It impales and sustains.
— Hippolyte Taine
For Rome is sometimes cold and rainy in the winter in spite of all the naked statues.
— John Cheever
Guantanamo Bay is the anti-Statue of Liberty.
— Thomas Friedman
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
Please tell me we don't have to find it," Percy said. "I've had enough giant magic statues for one trip.
— Rick Riordan
Spoons and skimmers you can be undistinguishably together; but vases and statues require each a pedestal for itself.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
She looked at me then everything emptied out of her eyes and they looked like the eyes in statues blank and unseeing and serene put
— William Faulkner
We stood there, locked and lovely as statues in a garden.
— Paula McLain
I think the Statue of David is pretty sexy. I'd do him.
— Deena Nicole Cortese
Statues with beating hearts.
— Markus Zusak
I'm very happy for you guys. I heard my voice, so false it was all the statues could do to keep themselves from rolling their eyes.
— Daniel Handler
There will be statues of Bill Gates across the Third World. There's a reasonable shot that - because of his money - we will cure malaria.
— Malcolm Gladwell
In Rome the statues, in Paris the paintings, and in Prague the buildings suggest that pleasure can be an education.
— Caleb Crain
No one ever erected a statue of a critic.
— Jean Sibelius
Certainly, it is more reasonable to devote one's life to women than to postage stamps, old snuff-boxes, or even to paintings and statues.
— Marcel Proust
I can't imagine what it is like to be raised in a society where their only statues that exist are to you and your father.
— Madeleine Albright
There are no statues erected to critics.
— Tim Ferriss
Many have lived on a pedestal who will never have a statue when dead.
— Pierre-Jean De Beranger
Over at 3d.si.edu, these already include 3D files of dinosaur skeletons, famous statues, insects and ancient art.
— Christopher Barnatt
They linger near the back door, forehead to forehead and curved like statues as their lips whisper and brush together.
— Lisa McMann
A man cannot make statues without rejecting stone.
— G.K. Chesterton
Maybe there was something to be said for creepy statues after all.
— Jennifer Estep
Holy hotness. He is beautiful. I mean truly beu-ti-ful. Like the kind of beautiful they build statues to worship. ~ Sara
— Rebecca Donovan
Yes, Mom, we're trying to save the world from a crazy guy who's using magic statues to cause terrible weather.
— John Bellairs
When my journal appears, many statues must come down.
— Arthur Wellesley
One day you're the statue. One day you're the pigeon.
— Diane Sawyer
I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.
— Denis Diderot
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
When men die, they enter history. When statues die, they enter art. This botany of death is what we call culture.
— Chris Marker
I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums.
— Steven Wright
The two of them together in a place like Retribution Falls would result in alcoholic carnage, sure as bird shit on statues.
— Chris Wooding
Did you know that Mozart had no arms and no legs? I've seen statues of him on people's pianos.
— Victor Borge
We are not on this earth to just stand still & look pretty. The museums already have enough statues.
— Mandy Hale
I did not find Liverpool ugly. Her stately public buildings, broad streets, public squares, and noble statues redeem her from the charge.
— M. E. W. Sherwood
If someone took the finest marble and knew how to shape it artfully: Prometheus' material was lowly clay, but his statues walked.
— Franz Grillparzer
There is always a temptation to diddle around in the contemplative life, making itsy-bitsy statues.
— Thomas Merton
There are far more statues of soldiers out there than there are of civilians.
— George Armstrong Custer
Nothing can take the sting out of the world's economic problems like watching millionaires present each other with golden statues.
— Billy Crystal
I prefer statues silent, rather than of ears with tongues sticking out and licking out loudly.
— Jarod Kintz
