(46 quotes found)
“Christianity is a world that is a great sculptor's shop. We are the statues and there a rumor going around the shop that some of us are some day going to come to life.”
C.S. Lewis
“They showed you a statue and told you to prayThey built you a temple and locked you awayBut they never told you the price that you payFor things that you might have done.”
Billy Joel
“The more the marbles wastes, the more the statue grows.”
Michelangelo
“Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it”
“Did you see the statue topple? Bill Clinton got nostalgic seeing something that big in a beret go down.”
Craig Kilborn
“Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble.”
Louise Bogan
“The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead.”
William Lloyd Garrison
“The statue is permanently out of place in my house,”
Steven Wright
“The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed--it is a process of elimination.”
Elbert Hubbard
“The doctor glanced up at the statue of the Republic, then said he did not know if he was using the language of reason but he knew he was using the language of the facts as everybody could see them - which wasn't necessarily the same thing”
Albert Camus