Towers Quotes

I'm the tower of power, too sweet to be sour.

I've been to the Leaning Tower of Pisa. It's a tower, and it's leaning. You look at it, but nothing happens, so then you look for someplace to get a sandwich.

I haven't seen the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, the Louvre. I haven't seen anything. I don't really care.

War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.

When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.

I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.

Smooth shapes are very rare in the wild but extremely important in the ivory tower and the factory.

May you find your Tower, Roland, and breach it, and may you climb to the top!

We look down on our scientists if they engage in outside consultation. We implicitly promote the ivory tower.

Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ileum?

But all this language gotten, and augmented by Adam and his posterity, was again lost at the tower of Babel , when by the hand of God, every man was stricken for his rebellion, with an oblivion of his former language.

Fragrant o'er all the western groves The tall magnolia towers unshaded.

I don't think that we need to see [Donald Trump] tax returns to verify his financial acumen. I walk into the Trump Tower every day and I'm like, this guy did pretty well for himself before I got here.

We see only the simple motion of descent, since that other circular one common to the Earth, the tower, and ourselves remains imperceptible. There remains perceptible to us only that of the stone, which is not shared by us; and, because of this, sense shows it as by a straight line, always parallel to the tower, which is built upright and perpendicular upon the terrestrial surface.

Yet suppose further. Suppose that all worlds, all universes, met at a single nexus, a single pylon, a Tower. And within it, a stairway, perhaps rising to the Godhead itself. Would you dare climb to the top, gunslinger? Could it be that somewhere above all of endless reality, there exists a room?...' You dare not.' And in the gunslinger's mind, those words echoed: You dare not.

I sometimes think about the tower at Pisa as the first particle accelerator, a (nearly) vertical linear accelerator that Galileo used in his studies.

War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all.

You got me stranded on the bungee tower of love.

And sometimes you didn't want to know the end… because how could the end be happy?

She looked, and a scarlet butterfly flew away from her, away down the length of the tower, and then another, another, an unraveling scarf of butterflies like winged blood.

Manhattan, one of the most moneyed spots on the planet, also has one of the greatest concentrations of people in its skyscrapers. Its also, of course, the place where every architect wants to build his tower.

Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going because they were holding on to something.... That there's some good in the world, Mr. Frodo, and it's worth fighting for.

When you have a wife who has been a tower of strength and shown more courage than you dreamed existed - that's the finest I know.

A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer.

We took the elevator back down from the first observation level of the Eiffel Tower and started walking in he direction of the Taj Mahal