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Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble. -- Benjamin Franklin
A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty. -- William C. Bryant
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. -- Auguste Rodin
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul. -- Joseph Addison
I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble. -- Augustus
I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. -- Michelangelo
Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor. -- Alexis Carrel
The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has. -- Michelangelo
The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone. -- Michelangelo
A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble. -- Charles Spurgeon
The greatest artist has no conception which a single block of white marble does not potentially contain within its mass, but only a hand obedient to the mind can penetrate to this image. -- Michelangelo
Marble, I perceive, covers a multitude of sins. -- Aldous Huxley
Marble flooring is to a Punjabi what a foreign degree is to a Tamilian -- Chetan Bhagat
Marble statues, engraved with public inscriptions, by which the life and soul return after death to noble leaders. -- Horace
The only time I've been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979. -- Wendell Berry
When my dad was young he shot marbles. When I was young I played Marble Madness on my Nintendo Entertainment System. -- Kevin James Breaux
When my dad was young he shot marbles. When I was young I played Marble Madness on my Nintendo Entertainment System. -- Kevin James Breaux
There were seventy-five people in the lobby and only a seven-year-old girl was finding out what it felt like to sit on the Marble Floor -- Hugh Prather
I wanted to do pretty much a purely boy story, yes. The girls are kind of the bad guys in 'Marble Season', although that wasn't my intention. It's also a world without adults. -- Gilbert Hernandez
I wanted to do pretty much a purely boy story, yes. The girls are kind of the bad guys in 'Marble Season', although that wasn't my intention. It's also a world without adults. -- Gilbert Hernandez
In testimony of their Respect For The Patriot of incorruptible Integrity, The Soldier of approved Valour The Statesman of consummate Wisdom; Whose Talents and Virtues will be admired By Grateful Posterity Long after this Marble shall have mouldered into Dust. -- Alexander Hamilton
I often envy my friends who are visual artists. Visual artists have other things to work with. Other media. I envy my sculptor friends: they have hunks of matter. Marble. Wood. It's physical, which I find very appealing. What we have is nothing, is just glaringly blank. -- Dani Shapiro
Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble. -- Benjamin Franklin
Life is made up of marble and mud. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Carve your name on hearts, not on marble -- Charles Spurgeon
A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination. -- Ada Louise Huxtable
Keeping up the appearance of having all your marbles is hard work, but important. -- Sara Gruen
Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble. -- Louise Bogan
The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself. -- Michelangelo
You find me at work; excuse the dust on my blouse. I sculpt my marble myself. -- Camille Claudel
I used to hit the kitchen lights, cockroaches everywhere/Hit the kitchen lights, now it's marble floors everywhere. -- Young Jeezy
Being the first woman speaker and breaking the marble ceiling is pretty important. Now it's time to move on. -- Nancy Pelosi
The statue lies hid in a block of marble; and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter, and removes the rubbish. -- Joseph Addison
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
Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh. -- Victor Hugo
If every year is a marble, how many marbles do you have left? How many sunrises, how many opportunities to rise to the full stature of your being? -- Joy Page
I'm the kind of person who would have liked to have lived at the Plaza. I love crystal chandeliers and gold leaf, velvets and mirrors, Oriental rugs and marble. -- Candace Bushnell
Most people are on the world, not in it-- having no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them-- undiffused seporate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but seporate. -- John Muir
Every human being has within him an ideal man, just as every piece of marble contains in a rough state a statue as beautiful as the one that Praxiteles the Greek made of the god Apollo. -- Jose Marti
In judging of a beautiful statue, the aesthetic faculty is absolutely and completely gratified by the splendid curves of those marble lips that are dumb to our complaint, the noble modelling of those limbs that are powerless to help us. -- Oscar Wilde
The top players in every field think differently when all the marbles are on the line. Great performers focus on what they are doing, and nothing else...They let it happen, let it go. They couldn't care less about the results. -- John Eliot
The Earth reminded us of a Christmas tree ornament hanging in the blackness of space. As we got farther and farther away it diminished in size. Finally it shrank to the size of a marble, the most beautiful marble you can imagine. -- James Irwin
A fellow will hack half a year at a block of marble to make something in stone that hardly resembles a man. The value of statuary is owing to its difficulty. You would not value the finest head cut upon a carrot. -- Samuel Johnson
Without the hard little bits of marble which are called 'facts' or 'data' one cannot compose a mosaic; what matters, however, are not so much the individual bits, but the successive patterns into which you arrange them, then break them up and rearrange them. -- Arthur Koestler
As far as the game of marbles is concerned, there is therefore no contradiction between the egocentric practice of games and the mystical respect entertained for rules. This respect is the mark of a mentality fashioned, not by free cooperation between equals, but by adult constraint. -- Jean Piaget
In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect in attitude and action. I have only to hew away the rough walls that imprison the lovely apparition to reveal it to the other eyes as mine see it. -- Michelangelo
There are two kinds of sculptures. There's the kind that subtracts: Michelangelo starts with a block of marble and chips away. And then there is the kind that adds, building with clay, piling it on. The way I write novels is to keep piling on and piling on and piling on. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
As we got further and further away, it [the Earth] dimished in size. Finally it shrank to the size of a marble, the most beautiful you can imagine. That beautiful, warm, living object looked so fragile, so delicate, that if you touched it with a finger it would crumble and fall apart. Seeing this has to change a man. -- James Irwin
'Wayne of Gotham' is very much a father-and-son exploration. We've always seen Thomas Wayne through the years as this figure carved in marble; this perfect man. The only thing we really know about is that he died in that alley outside of a theater. But every son has to confront the reality of his father at some point in his life. -- Tracy Hickman
Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead. We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them. -- Henry David Thoreau
The soft droppes of rain perce the hard marble. -- John Lyly
Forget thyself to marble. -- John Milton
Brighter than Parian marble. -- Horace
Ingratitude, thou marble-hearted fiend ... -- William Shakespeare
Much rain wears the marble. -- William Shakespeare
Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm. -- Alexander Pope
One should always dress like a marble column. -- Jackie Kennedy
I found Rome built of bricks; I leave her clothed in marble. -- Suetonius
Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek. -- Edmund Waller
Celebrity: I picture myself as a marble bust with legs to run everywhere. -- Jean Cocteau
Anne laughed. "I don't want sunbursts or marble halls, I just want you. -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
Anne laughed. "I don't want sunbursts or marble halls, I just want you. -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
Today I am a small blue thing Like a marble or an eye -- Suzanne Vega
Blessed be Death, that cuts in marble What would have sunk to dust! -- Edna St. Vincent Millay
My heart is wax molded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain. -- Miguel de Cervantes
My eye-balls are glass, my limbs marble, my face fixed in its marble mask. -- Hilda Doolittle
When we first met and loved, I did not build Upon the event with marble. . . . -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
My Chevrolet shines like a marble floor. Baby keep it raw, have you modeled before? -- Rick Ross
Underneath my stiffened gown Is the softness of a woman bathing in a marble basin -- Amy Lowell
The secret angels of God are only as alive as the marble angels of Michelangelo! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Too many people write their blessings in the sand but engrave their sorrows in marble -- Charles Spurgeon
I have nothing Of woman in me; now from head to foot I am marble-constant. -- William Shakespeare
If Michaelangelo made a marble sculpture of a defensive end it would look like Mario Williams. -- Dan Dierdorf
Photography has always been a simple medium, compared to painting in oil or chipping at marble. -- John Gossage
We are too prone to engrave our trials in marble and write our blessings in sand. -- Charles Spurgeon
If a man has done evil in his life, he must not be complimented in marble. -- Charles Sumner
cats will be clean in a pigsty while pigs will be dirty in a marble hall. -- Vicki Baum
He that sows his grain upon marble will have many a hungry belly before his harvest. -- John Arbuthnot
The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished. -- Jean de la Bruyere
I love my blocks of marble, always piling up in the yard like a flock of sheep. -- Barbara Hepworth
CLARE: The library is cool and smells like carpet cleaner, although all I can see is marble. -- Audrey Niffenegger
The great doctors all got their education off dirt pavements and poverty - not marble floors and foundations. -- Martin H. Fischer
The secret of architectural excellence is to translate the proportions of a dachshund into bricks, mortar and marble. -- Christopher Wren
Man is a marble piece; unlike Michelangelo's masterpieces, man is unconsciously carved and imperfectly shaped by the nature -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Who builds a church to God and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name. -- Alexander Pope
The work of art is already within the block of marble. I just chop off whatever isn't needed. -- Auguste Rodin
To make a face from marble means to remove from the slab everything that is not the face -- Anton Chekhov
I came to Rome when it was a city of stone ... and left it a city of marble -- Julius Caesar
For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold. -- Seneca the Younger
Yes, the work comes out more beautiful from a material that resists the process, verse, marble, onyx, or enamel. -- Theophile Gautier
A ghost in marble of a girl you knew Who would have loved you in a day or two. -- Edna St. Vincent Millay
Books have that strange quality, that being of the frailest and tenderest matter, they outlast brass, iron and marble. -- William Drummond
Maid of the luminous grey-eyes, Mistress of honey and marble implacable white thighs and Goddess, chaste daughter of Zeus. -- Hilda Doolittle
One minute I'm standing at Ronnie Scott's getting a standing ovation and the next minute, I'm on a marble slab -- Keith Richards
I laid my face to the smooth face of the marble and howled my loss into the cold salt rain. -- Sylvia Plath
New York has total depth in every area. Washington has only politics; after that, the second biggest thing is white marble. -- John Lindsay
It is not he who forms idols in gold or marble that makes them gods, but he who kneels before them. -- Martial
But soft you, the fair Ophelia: Ope not thy ponderous and marble jaws, But get thee to a nunnery - go! -- Mark Twain
He [Caesar Augustus] found a city built of brick; he left it built of marble. [Lat., Urbem lateritiam accepit, mamoream relinquit.] -- Suetonius
What is experience? A poor little hut constructed from the ruins of the palace of gold and marble called our illusions. -- Philibert Joseph Roux
If someone took the finest marble and knew how to shape it artfully: Prometheus' material was lowly clay, but his statues walked. -- Franz Grillparzer
To say she was attractive would be an understatement. Calling her 'attractive' would be like calling the Taj Mahal a marble grave. -- Mallika Nawal
On the other side of the handrail, the hallway's gray marble floor looks as if we've climbed a stairway through the clouds. -- Chuck Palahniuk
What a severe yet master artist old Winter is... No longer the canvas and the pigments, but the marble and the chisel... -- John Burroughs
Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, or is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a trifling extent. -- Henry David Thoreau
I've read in many a novel, that unless they've souls that grovel-- Folks prefer in fact a hovel to your dreary marble halls. -- Charles Stuart Calverley
Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves. -- Aldous Huxley
Being happy with less is what makes a great human being, not a big house with marble floors, or everyone knowing who you are. -- Yanni
Hardly any of my most memorable meals have been eaten in a restaurant, and definitely none in one of those fancy marble-floored, polished-silver establishments. -- Yotam Ottolenghi
Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues. -- Phillips Brooks
Really,' thought I, 'we call Baltimore the 'Monumental City' for its two marble columns, and here is Edinburg with one at every street-corner! -- Bayard Taylor
Really,' thought I, 'we call Baltimore the 'Monumental City' for its two marble columns, and here is Edinburg with one at every street-corner!' -- Bayard Taylor
the wealthy ... live in marble mausoleums surrounded by the suspicions and neuroses that have replaced the medieval moats which once isolated so-called aristocrats from reality. -- Elsa Maxwell
A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant. -- George Bernard Shaw
In order to become the chisel that breaks the marble inside us, the artist must first become the hammer." [Soviet censor of paintings and photos] -- Anthony Marra
Convince yourself that you are working in clay, not marble, on paper not eternal bronze: Let that first sentence be as stupid as it wishes. -- Jacques Barzun
By my definition, most art has nothing to do with oil paint or marble. Art is what we're doing when we do our best work. -- Seth Godin
The building is a national tragedy - a cross between a concrete candy box and a marble sarcophagus in which the art of architecture lies buried. -- Ada Louise Huxtable
The monument of a great man is not of granite or marble or bronze. It consists of his goodness, his deeds, his love and his compassion. -- Alfred Armand Montapert
Luke moved as silently as fog, while Maryse's heels sounded like gunshots on the marble floor. Clary wondered if Isabelle's propensity for unsuitable footwear was genetic. -- Cassandra Clare

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