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Cubism is a Cathedral of shit. -- Francis Picabia
That great Cathedral space which was childhood. -- Virginia Woolf
Seeing that picture, for me, was like Chartres Cathedral. -- Henry Moore
I sang at the Inaugural prayer service at the National Cathedral. -- Michael W. Smith
A bicycle shed is a building Lincoln Cathedral is a piece of architecture -- Nikolaus Pevsner
I read the Scriptures at the American Cathedral on Christmas and Easter; that's it. It's a task I love. -- Olivia De Havilland
I think there's definitely a potential there for a congregation to survive without the Crystal Cathedral. The congregation is the people. It's not the building. -- Robert A. Schuller
And so we smile on, Feeding the truths we share With a union of our souls, Cathedral slaves of our passion Which builds beauty amongst chaos. -- Scott Hastie
[It is] the most hideous waterfront structure ever inflicted on a city by a combination of architectural conceit and official bad taste. the Cathedral of Asphalt. -- Robert Moses
The Christmas market at the Barcelona Cathedral sells all kinds of things for your Nativity scene. It will also give you a good idea of Catalan culture. -- Jose Andres Puerta
We will live to see the day that St. Patrick's Cathedral is a child-care center and the pope is no longer a disgrace to the skirt that he has on. -- Gloria Steinem
mountains had taken the place of religion, had satisfied her religious sense, her need for adoration and worship as no service in any Cathedral, however sublime, had been able to do ... -- Ann Bridge
Words mean what they're generally believed to mean. When Charles II saw Christopher Wren's St. Paul's Cathedral for the first time, he called it "awful, pompous, and artificial." Meaning roughly: Awesome, majestic, and ingenious. -- S.M. Stirling
My faith grew strong, and I sent a letter (as I was ordered) to the Rev. Dignitary of the Cathedral of Exeter. I was assured, before I sent it, he would not answer it. -- Joanna Southcott
Five days a week I drive from our home to the Episcopal Cathedral Center of Los Angeles where I have an office, my computer, and a wonderful sense of community - especially nurtured by the presence of several younger gay men and women who are good friends. -- Malcolm Boyd
Five days a week I drive from our home to the Episcopal Cathedral Center of Los Angeles where I have an office, my computer, and a wonderful sense of community - especially nurtured by the presence of several younger gay men and women who are good friends. -- Malcolm Boyd
The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness. -- Oscar Niemeyer
The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral. -- H. L. Mencken
Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart. -- Anita Diament
I grew up in a forest. It's like a room. It's protected. Like a cathedral... it is a place between heaven and earth. -- Anselm Kiefer
I love Spanish cities, particularly Barcelona, Madrid and Palma, which has the most amazing cathedral that I once went to for a wedding. -- Louise Nurding
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Put three grains of sand inside a vast cathedral, and the cathedral will be more closely packed with sand than space is with stars. -- James Jeans
A Hubble Space Telescope photograph of the universe evokes far more awe for creation than light streaming through a stained glass window in a cathedral. -- Michael Shermer
I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
We are material creatures who spend much of our lives on material pursuits (even building a cathedral or writing a novel requires stone and mortar or paper and ink). -- Virginia Postrel
But now I know that it is very important that all buildings should be consistent, that this is the quality of the Gothic cathedral, for instance, that we like. -- Minoru Yamasaki
We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I'm not a religious person. But, when I look at a beautiful cathedral, what brings awe, what induces awe is the idea that architecture, you know, a beautiful cathedral, a beautiful building. -- Jason Silva
Sigmund Freud was the apostle of disbelief. He was the one who made psychoanalysis a part of our culture, and in so doing he kicked out a flying buttress that had been essential for holding up our cathedral of faith. -- Tony Campolo
He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all. -- Sinclair Lewis
There are times when the art world seems like a religious empire. There are great cathedral galleries and pilgrimage sites where treasured art pieces are displayed like holy relics, and this can certainly be a great pleasure on a rainy Sunday afternoon. -- Michael Leunig
Religions in general have to rediscover their roots. In Hinduism and the Koran, animals are described as equals. If you walk into a cathedral and look at the decorations of early Christianity, there are vines, animals, creatures and birds thriving all over the stonework. -- Margaret Atwood
For me, the reason why people go to a mountaintop or go to the edge of the ocean is to look at something larger than themselves. That feeling of awe, of going to a cathedral, it's all about feeling lost in something bigger than oneself. To me, that's the definition of spectacle. -- Diane Paulus
I like the thought that what we are to do on this earth is embellish it for its greater beauty, so that oncoming generations can look back to the shapes we leave here and get the same thrill that I get in looking back at theirs - at the Parthenon, at Chartres Cathedral. -- Philip Johnson
Walking at random through the streets, we came by chance upon the Cathedral of Notre Dame. I shall long remember my first impression of the scene within. The lofty gothic ceiling arched far above my head and through the stained windows the light came but dimly - it was all still, solemn and religious. -- Bayard Taylor
I grew up on the South Island of New Zealand, in a city chosen and beloved by my parents for its proximity to the mountains - Christchurch is two hours distant from the worn saddle of Arthur's Pass, the mountain village that was and is my father's spiritual touchstone, his chapel and cathedral in the wild. -- Eleanor Catton
At the school I attended, the clergyman who ran the cathedral school in Shanghai would give lines to the boys as a punishment. They expected you to copy out, say, 20 or 30 pages from one of the school texts. But I found that rather than laboriously copying out something from a novel by Charles Dickens, it was easier if I made it up myself. -- J. G. Ballard
I went and looked at one of these great cathedrals one day, and I was blown away by it. From there I became interested in how cathedrals were built, and from there I became interested in the society that built the medieval cathedral. It occurred to me at some point that the story of the building of a cathedral could be a great popular novel. -- Ken Follett
The library is my cathedral. -- Barbara Bretton
Everyone will live in his own cathedral. -- Ivan Chtcheglov
Every sport needs its temple, its cathedral. -- Thomas Friedman
Maimed but still magnificent... Europe's mightiest medieval cathedral. -- R. W. Apple
Maimed but still magnificent... Europe's mightiest medieval cathedral. -- R. W. Apple
An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral. -- Clarence Darrow
What is a roofless cathedral to a well-built pie? -- William Maginn
I wish someone would ask me to design a cathedral. -- Philip Johnson
Intellectuals are cynical and cynics have never built a cathedral. -- Henry A. Kissinger
It was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel. -- Robert Hughes
The Christian faith is a grand cathedral with divinely pictured windows. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
A story is like building a chapel; a novel is a cathedral ... -- Rosario Ferre
One Cardinal entered his cathedral for the first time at his funeral. -- Barbara W. Tuchman
This is *our* Universe, our museum of wonder and beauty, our cathedral. -- John Archibald Wheeler
A peaceful home is as sacred a place as any chapel or cathedral. -- Bil Keane
In the cathedral of my heart a candle will always be lit for you. -- Hardy Kruger
A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us and not done by us. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The raising of a child is the building of a cathedral. You can't cut corners. -- Dave Eggers
Step by step, a path; stone by stone, a cathedral,' my great-grandfather used to say. -- Phil Cousineau
A good meal must be as harmonious as a symphony and as well-constructed as a Norman cathedral. -- Fernand Point
The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There's a certain slant of light, On winter afternoons, That oppresses, like the weight Of cathedral tunes. -- Emily Dickinson
I have come to regard the law courts not as a cathedral but rather as a casino. -- Richard Ingrams
I would just as soon have abused the old village church at home for not being a cathedral. -- Joseph Conrad
Music is a holy place, a cathedral so majestic that we can sense the magnificence of the universe. -- Don Campbell
Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that. -- Henry Ward Beecher
A grove of giant redwood or sequoias should be kept just as we keep a great and beautiful cathedral. -- Theodore Roosevelt
Peace is not just the absence of war. Like a cathedral, peace must be constructed patiently and with unshakable faith. -- Pope John Paul II
You can't build a cathedral in a day. A look at the club's history tells you these things take time. -- Gerard Houllier
A true leader is one who designs the cathedral and then shares the vision that inspires others to build it. -- Jan Carlzon
You don't need a great cathedral for a great marriage. All you need is fate to be on your side -- Bangambiki Habyarimana
Sex wasn't God's big mistake. Judging against sex was humanity's big mistake. Pleasure is as divine as any cathedral, any temple. -- Deepak Chopra
The unpurged images of day recede; The Emperor's drunken soldiery are abed; Night resonance recedes, night-walkers' song After great cathedral gong. -- William Butler Yeats
A cathedral, a wave of a storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped. -- Marcel Proust
The library became the cathedral where I would come to worship amd the stories were as precious to me as prayers. -- Anita Anand
It is easy to turn our religious life into a cathedral for beautiful memories, but there are feet to be washed . . . -- Oswald Chambers
In cathedral or cottage, the art of worship is an inner adventure; it is the personal practice of the presence of God. -- Wilferd Peterson
Concepts differentiate architecture from mere building...A bicycle shed with a concept is architecture; a cathedral without one is just a building. -- Bernard Tschumi
A complicated structure? Undoubtedly. But after all, the cathedral of Milan is complicated too, and you still look at it with awe. -- Kató Lomb
People said making clothes inside out was not proper. I disagreed, because clothes that are inside out are as beautiful as a cathedral. -- Sonia Rykiel
You need a plan for everything, whether it's building a cathedral or a chicken coop. Without a plan, you'll postpone living until you're dead. -- John Goddard
I believe that love is better than hate. And that there is more nobility in building a chicken coop than in destroying a cathedral. -- Betty Greene
[On Rachmaninoff:] He was the most Russian of them all, like a cathedral in the snow. Holy, wintry, infinite, he was all the Russias. -- Dagmar Godowsky
I believe that love is better than hate. And that there is more nobility in building a chicken coop than in destroying a cathedral. -- Betty Greene
[Rumi] is trying to get us to feel the vastness of our true identity... like the sense you might get walking into a cathedral... -- Coleman Barks
But one never finds a cathedral, a wave in a storm, a dancer's leap in the air quite as high as one has been expecting; -- Marcel Proust
Kindness is the color in the cathedral window which woven into beautiful characters shuts out the hideous sights of a world which is all too practical. -- James Leonard Gordon
He who bears in his heart a cathedral to be built is already victorious. He who seeks to become sexton of a finished cathedral is already defeated. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The whole wide world is a cathedral; I stand inside, the air is calm, And from afar at times there reaches My ear the echo of a psalm. -- Boris Pasternak
It seemed she was in a cathedralâ??if, that is, the earth itself were to dream a cathedral into being over thousands of years of water weeping through stone. -- Laini Taylor
No permanence is ours; we are a waveThat flows to fit whatever form it finds:Through night or day, cathedral or the caveWe pass forever, craving form that binds. -- Hermann Hesse
The pursuit of peace resembles the building of a great cathedral. It is the work of a generation. In concept it requires a mater-architect; in execution, the labors of many. -- Hubert H. Humphrey
This authority stood steady as the cathedral itself. The building was raised once and for all, and for those who dare doubt it, something else was raised: The witch fires. -- André Bjerke
The God of the Bible is also the God of the genome. He can be worshipped in the cathedral or in the laboratory. His creation is majestic, awesome, intricate, and beautiful. -- Francis Collins
In my mind I am eloquent; I can climb intricate scaffolds of words to reach the highest cathedral ceilings and paint my thoughts. But when I open my mouth, everything collapses. -- Isaac Marion
An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral. And the advance of man's knowledge is a greater miracle than all the sticks turned to snakes or the parting of the waters. -- Jerome Lawrence
The cathedral, at its noblest, is the best outward symbol of the spiritual nature of man, as it is also the most suggestive measure and prophecy of the corporate life of man. -- Jenkin Lloyd Jones
I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer. My bank of wild grass is majestic and full of music. It is a fire that solitude presses against my lips. -- Violette Leduc
You think my paintings are calm, like windows in some cathedral? You should look again. I'm the most violent of all the American painters. Behind those colours there hides the final cataclysm. -- Mark Rothko
In a small cathedral town where changes are few, there are always people who remember who used to live in a particular house, what happened to them there and afterwards, and so on. -- James Hilton
Faith is a grand cathedral, with divinely pictured windows - standing without, you can see no glory, nor can imagine any, but standing within every ray of light reveals a harmony of unspeakable splendors. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
I want to be one of the artists in the cathedral on the great plain. I want to make a dragon's head, an angel, a devil - or perhaps a saint - out of stone. -- Ingmar Bergman
I'm not a preacher, and I'm certainly not a good example, but I have my own feelings about God. I'm kind of a nature guy. My cathedral is forests, or the prairies, or the beach. -- Neil Young
Music is a holy place, a cathedral so majestic that we can sense the magnificence of the universe, and also a hovel so simple and private that none of us can plumb its deepest secrets. -- Don Campbell

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