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St. Paul's Chapel stands - without so much as a broken window. Little miracle. -- Rudy Giuliani
Even Michelangelo got paid for doing the Sistine Chapel. To those artists who say they're doing it for the love of art, I say: Get real. -- Gianni Versace
John Brown first swam into my vision in the 1960s when I was a political activist in the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement at Chapel Hill, where I went to university. -- Russell Banks
If that's your definition of the Clinton faction, then I think that that seems to be in ascendancy. That might include a guy like John Edwards, who's just starting this new center in Chapel Hill to deal with issues of poverty and work. -- John Podesta
Why build a zoo when we can just put up a fence around Chapel Hill? -- Jesse Helms
One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor -- Edvard Munch
I am proud to find, from two astronomical observations, that Chapel Hill lies right in the orbit of Jupiter and his satellites, and that the period of his revolution is about twelve years. -- William Hooper
Nature is our chapel. -- Bjork
For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel. -- Martin Luther
There are no conditions in which we subordinate the interests of the class as a whole to the interests of any sect, any chapel, any separate organization. -- Ernest Mandel
Memory, so complete and clear or so evasive, has to be ended, has to be put aside, as if one were leaving a chapel and bringing the prayer to an end in one's head. -- Harold Brodkey
Before I took the veil, I was ornamented for the ceremony, and was clothed in a rich dress belonging to the Convent, which was used on such occasions; and placed not far from the altar in the chapel, in the view of a number of spectators who had assembled, perhaps about forty. -- Maria Monk
Could five hundred men have painted the Sistine Chapel? -- Bill Lear
Mining in BC's Sacred Headwaters is like drilling for oil in the Sistine Chapel -- Wade Davis
It would have been the equivalent of Jackson Pollock's attempts to copy the Sistine Chapel. -- Malcolm Cowley
When I started out, I wanted to paint the Sistine Chapel. But I didn't have the content. -- James Rosenquist
If Michaelangelo were a heterosexual, the Sistine Chapel would have been painted basic white and with a roller. -- Rita Mae Brown
I was born in 1970 in Illinois, but all the life I remember I've spent in Chapel Hill, N.C. -- Sarah Dessen
One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor. -- Edvard Munch
The Sistine Chapel is an extraordinary work of education - it lays out all the early books of the Bible. -- Peter Greenaway
My friends, it is one thing to go to church or chapel; it is quite another thing to go to God. -- Charles Spurgeon
[The Freedom of Information Act is] the Taj Mahal of the Doctrine of Unanticipated Consequences, the Sistine Chapel of Cost-Benefit Analysis Ignored. -- Antonin Scalia
I am a Protestant. I am a communicant at the Church of the Holy Family, an Episcopal church in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. -- Stanley Hauerwas
Fashion is everywhere. Everywhere! Flowers are fashion to me, the sky is fashion, my garden is fashion. My darling, the Sistine Chapel is fashion. -- Anna Dello Russo
Take your troubles to the Chapel, get down on your knees and pray. Your burdens will be lighter, and you'll surely find the way. -- Elvis Presley
In 2012 the best venue I played was Union Chapel in London. It's a beautiful room, the sound is exceptional, and they treated us very well. -- Ron Pope
Jack Nicholson is fairly gifted. We were at the Sistine Chapel, and everybody went from looking straight up to looking across the room at him. -- Greg Kinnear
People who prefer e-books...think that books merely take up space. This is true, but so do your children and Prague and the Sistine Chapel. -- Joe Queenan
I was brought up by an Episcopalian father and Presbyterian mother in nondenominational Army chapels all over the world and never really had much religious experience. -- Sally Quinn
No yoga exercise, no meditation in a chapel filled with music will rid you of your blues better than the humble task of making your own bread. -- M. F. K. Fisher
Wherever God erects a house of prayer the Devil always builds a chapel there; And 't will be found, upon examination, the latter has the largest congregation. -- Daniel Defoe
When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve. -- Francois Cavanna
There is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel, that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of making bread. -- M. F. K. Fisher
It has always been difficult to get very close to the spirit of the Sistine Chapel now that it is cleaned, it is like trying to get close to a trumpet -- Nigel McGilchrist
Everybody thought I was crazy. They thought I should take the money and run. But there was just something special about being a senior at Chapel Hill. I just couldn't leave. -- Lorrie Fair
Speeches are for the younger men who are going places. And I'm not going anyplace except six feet under the floor of that little chapel adjoining the museum and library at Abilene. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
If God dislikes gays so much, how come he picked Michelangelo, a known homosexual, to paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling while assigning Anita Bryant to go on television and push orange juice? -- Mike Royko
I had always dreamed of living in Chapel Hill. When I was a college student at Hollins University in Virginia, I came down to Chapel Hill for summer school and just loved it. -- Lee Smith
I am proud of my connections to Carolina and pleased to know that some results from a lifetime of work on television, film, stage and recordings will have a permanent home in Chapel Hill. -- Andy Griffith
When you're a kid and someone's an artist, you think of Leonardo da Vinci. You don't think that's a job; you just think of a man with a beard painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. -- Noel Fielding
Chapel services on race day have a calming effect. It's a nice time for us to worship and try to get the message and hear some music and have a little fellowship together before we get to racing. -- Matt Kenseth
Poets will never be the highest-paid writers in the world. Instead, poetry will go on cutting a hand-made path through the mass-market insanity. For me, anyway, that path is the one that leads to the Chapel of the Grail. -- Jeanette Winterson
The more ignorant men are, the more convinced are they that their little parish and their little chapel is an apex to which civilization and philosophy has painfully struggled up the pyramid of time from a desert of savagery. -- George Bernard Shaw
The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put up and take down portraits all day long and make such a hammering you can't hear yourself speak. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
I love this site. It was lovingly hand-shaped it. Your soul transformed this into this art. It was perfect. I have tried to create another equal to it... but to no avail, so I will just have to paint the Sistine Chapel. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Communication has always been at the service of power. Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel for the Pope. Is it not an advertisement for the Church? I try to make the best pictures I can and sometimes they are used in advertising campaigns. -- Oliviero Toscani
The Language of Sand has something for everyone: myths, mystery, community, humor, grief, and ultimately healing. I found myself not only rooting for Abigail but for the whole community of Chapel Isle. Block manages to hold sass and heartfelt emotion in perfect equilibrium. -- Brunonia Barry
I go to a Calvary Chapel church out here in Los Angeles. I had been here about two years at the time. I'm very close with my church, very close with the pastor and his wife, and I work with a girls' ministry here. -- Tiffany Dupont
They are preserving the sanctity of marriage, so that two gay men who've been together for twenty-five years can't get married, but a guy can still get drunk in Vegas and marry a hooker at the Elvis chapel! The sanctity of marriage is saved! -- Lea DeLaria
On Sofia Coppola's 16th birthday, way back in 1987, I stole a lip gloss from her Sistine Chapel of a bedroom. Years later, I left a Chanel lip gloss in the reception of the Mercer Hotel for her. You know why? I believe that you've got to fix your karma. -- Courtney Love
Don't tell anyone, but on the pagan day of the sun god Ra, I kneel at the foot of an ancient instrument of torture and consume ritualistic symbols of blood and flesh. ...And if any of you care to join me, come to the Harvard chapel on Sunday, kneel beneath the crucifix, and take Holy Communion. -- Dan Brown
The practice of soulful travel is to discover the overlapping point between history and everyday life, the way to find the essence of every place, every day: in the markets, small chapels, out-of-the-way parks, craft shops. Curiosity about the extraordinary in the ordinary moves the heart of the traveler intent on seeing behind the veil of tourism. -- Phil Cousineau
We can have open and good discussion with our Republican brothers and sisters. But when we walk into the chapel we should leave our political differences out in the parking lot. -- Scott Howell
But I feel truly wowed by the architecture and the meaning of the architecture if you get lost in it and think about the man hours in the smallest little chapel, and the love involved. God it's fantastic. -- Paul Bettany
I grew up in a modern home, but my grandmother lived across the street in an old house that was built when churches were illegal in Mexico. She had a chapel in the home, right between the kitchen and dining room. -- Laura Esquivel
When I'm building my dome in my chapel, and I had a vision - I've worked on perpetual motion and I haven't never give it up yet. I still think it could be done, perpetual motion. I had a vision of a un resist able windmill. -- Howard Finster
I went to Colby College in Waterville, ME and did picture it when I was writing 'Cum Laude.' So many of the physical details were included, like the loop where people jogged. The story of the chapel is also borrowed from Colby... but the students and cast of characters are fictional. -- Cecily von Ziegesar
I remember how my mother would bring us to chapel on Sundays... and my father used to wait outside. One of the things that I picked up from my father and my mother was the sense that religion often gets in the way of God. For me, at least, it got in the way. -- Bono
I was sent to boarding school - a grim place. The only good thing the headmaster did for us was every Sunday evening in the winter he would show us films in the chapel. He couldn't afford a sound projector, so we saw silent films, which you could then still rent from photographic shops. -- Kevin Brownlow
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
Every night, half an hour before curtain up, the bells of St. Malachy's, the Actors' Chapel on New York's 49th Street, peal the tune of 'There's No Business Like Show Business.' If you walk the streets of the theatre district before a show and see the vast, enthusiastic lines it sounds like a calling: there is certainly no place like Broadway. -- Dan Stevens
I'm not going for the sixteenth chapel. -- Justin Bieber
The moonlight builds its cold chapel again out of piecemeal darkness. -- Jane Hirshfield
There's no such thing as a coincidence in a prayer chapel. -- Karen Barber
Where God has his church the Devil will have his chapel -- Spanish Proverb
A story is like building a chapel; a novel is a cathedral ... -- Rosario Ferre
A peaceful home is as sacred a place as any chapel or cathedral. -- Bil Keane
In the chapel you prayed to be a saint and now I will make you a god. -- Anne Rice
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Factory windows are always brokenOther windows are let alone.No one throws through the chapel-windowThe bitter, snarling, derisive stone. -- Vachel Lindsay
Since I wrote to you last we have got our chapel beautifully lighted with gas and have had our anniversary. -- John Hawley
Some wish to live within the sound of a chapel bell, I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of Hell. -- Charles Studd
It was like love, he thought, this crumbling chapel: it has been complicated, and therefore perfected, by what time had done to it -- Julie Orringer
There is a brotherhood among the kindly- Closer and defter and more integral- Than any of aisle or coven- For love rang out before the chapel bell -- Mervyn Peake
Whilst the beautifully crafted image of Michel Angelo's youthful looking priestesslooks out from her position on the ceiling of the sistine chapel linked forever with Heaven Earth and Time. -- Daniel Peter Buckley
I rather have a pastor that committed every horrible sin and repented, than a pastor that has no place of reference to preach redemption to a packed chapel full of sinners. -- Shannon L. Alder
No man can hinder our private addresses to God; every man can build a chapel in his breast, himself the priest, his heart the sacrifice, and the earth he treads on, the altar. -- Jeremy Taylor
The castle will seem very quiet and strange without you here. The stone stairs and the chapel will miss your footstep, the gateway will will miss your laughter, and the wall will miss your shadow. -- Philippa Gregory

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