(42 quotes found)
“Its oak paneling is rectory English; the marble in its bathrooms sometimes outdoes the tombstones of the Medici; and the salutes of the older bellhops seem imported from Windsor Castle.”
Frederic Morton
“I always got a lump in my throat whenever I walked up those marble steps to argue a case before the court.”
John Roberts
“The yielding marble of her snowy breast.”
Edmund Waller
“The car got loose getting into three, and I just got up in the marbles.”
Casey Mears
“Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.”
Benjamin Franklin
“He's lost his marbles. He's out there taking it out on everyone else.”
Mike Babcock
“With the affairs of active human beings it is different. Here knowledge of truth alone does not suffice; on the contrary this knowledge must continually be renewed by ceaseless effort, if it is not to be lost. It resembles a statue of marble which st”
Albert Einstein
“We are like these children, holding a marble in their left hand and not letting it go until they are sure that the swap is in their right hand: we would like to have a new life but without losing the former life. We refuse the moment of passage, the moment of the empty hand.”
Christian Bobin (french author)
“Each of the satellites in the solar system are pummeled by interplanetary dust particles, or meteoroids which are marble-sized or millimeter-sized objects. When those hit a satellite, or moon, at high speeds, they slam into the surface and blast a crater, and all sorts of particles fly off. That's what is happening at Ganymede, and we think that's what's happening at all the satellites in the solar system.”
Douglas Hamilton
“Pink marble floors four inches thick. Thirty-six solid bronze lamps. They were very gorgeous. Just the whole house was incredible.”
Clay Harpster
