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There are no such things as the Elgin Marbles. -- Melina Mercouri
I watch vlogs on YouTube. I watch Jenna Marbles a lot - I think she's really funny - and a lady called Daily Grace. -- Maisie Williams
'Marbles' really took so much and such a thorough effort from me that I was so happy to tie that up and have it feel satisfying. -- Ellen Forney
The Elgin Marbles were supposed to be on the Parthenon. For many works of art, a museum is an artificial setting - a zoo, not a natural habitat. -- Virginia Postrel
People are trying so hard to become famous. Johnny Marbles, he tried to throw a pie in Rupert Murdoch's face. What do I gotta do, give Sumner Redstone a wedgie? -- Andy Kindler
If so men's memories not a monument be, None shalt thou have. Warm hearts, and not cold stone, Must mark thy grave, or thou shalt lie, unknown. Marbles keep not themselves; how then, keep thee? -- John Vance Cheney
You must understand what the Parthenon Marbles mean to us. They are our pride. They are our sacrifices. They are our noblest symbol of excellence. They are a tribute to the democratic philosophy. They are our aspirations and our name. They are the essence of Greekness. -- Melina Mercouri
I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
The more the marbles wastes, the more the statue grows. -- Michelangelo
The Parthenon without the marbles is like a smile with a tooth missing. -- Neil Kinnock
Whether I played marbles, whether I played football or slam anything else, I wanted to excel. -- Robert Mondavi
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
When a hurricane thrashes the mid-Atlantic, my hilly town often reaps the fringe of the storm. The rain starts blowing sideways, and sometimes we see hail the size of purie marbles. -- Diane Ackerman
I have just one black and white photograph left of my mother when she was younger. She was 17 when it was taken and beautiful with wispy curls and eyes that shone like dark marbles. -- Liz Murray
Once you realize that everyone is in the same boat, that everyone is just as insecure and childlike as everyone else, that all these jokers in D.C. ruining our world are just greedy kids grabbing for marbles - I think that realization means you're an adult. -- Conor Oberst
On more than one occasion, the camera has cut to me after a break as I'm still trying to swallow the last bite of cookie. Those of you who have thought to yourselves, 'That guy talks like he has marbles in his mouth,' should know that they are not marbles, but oatmeal cookies. -- Lester Holt
I have never had other kids in the house... I had a huge collection of marbles, and they all had names, which I think concerned my parents. I used to go and sweep outside and talk to myself, and my mum's friends would be over and say, 'Do you realise she is talking to herself?' -- Alexandra Adornetto
The magnificent lobby of the Chrysler Building - faced with rare marbles, aglitter with decorative metalwork, and surmounted by a ceiling painted with a totemic image of the tower itself - leads to elevator cabs inlaid with exotic woods in fanciful patterns. The entire route from street to office is invested with ceremony, dignity, and delight. -- Martin Filler
Poor Kate,"said Constance,"she's lost her marbles. -- Trenton Lee Stewart
Fortunately, when we have all our marbles, we can shift our memories very quickly. -- Michelle Stuart
Keeping up the appearance of having all your marbles is hard work, but important. -- Sara Gruen
I don't want to play with marbles, when God told me to move mountains! -- Reinhard Bonnke
Do men who have got all their marbles go swimming in lakes with their clothes on? -- P. G. Wodehouse
Grey time-worn marbles Hold the pure Muses. In their cool gallery, By yellow Tiber, They still look fair. -- Matthew Arnold
When I was a kid, I used to play marbles. I know some of you think I've lost mine. -- Jimy Williams
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
Little kids shoot marbles where the branches break the sun into graceful shafts of light"¦ I just want to be pure. -- Jim Carroll
It would be easier to grow oak trees by planting marbles than for someone to be saved without the seed of the word. -- Steven J Lawson
Trying to fill the God-sized hole in our hearts with things other than God is like trying to fill the Grand Canyon with marbles. -- Peter Kreeft
[Donald] Trump phenomenon is just marbles with all this toxic stuff, the misogyny, the outright bigotry and so now people are left to try to pull this apart. -- Van Jones
The Arab who built himself a hut with marbles from the temple of Palmyra is more philosophical than all the curators of the museums of London, Paris, and Munich. -- Anatole France
I was 15 years old when I was in this band; we were called Stag. We used to wear spandex pants and no underwear - we looked like marbles smugglers. -- Craig Ferguson
I know in London a Welsh hairdresser who has striven so vehemently to abolish his accent that he sounds like a man speaking with the Elgin marbles in his mouth. -- Dylan Thomas
Alas for him who never sees The stars shine through his cypress-trees Who, hopeless, lays his dead away, Nor looks to see the breaking day Across the mournful marbles play! -- John Greenleaf Whittier
I can remember the lush spring excitement of language in childhood. Sitting in church, rolling it around my mouth like marbles--tabernacle and pharisee and parable, tresspass and Babylon and covenant. -- Penelope Lively
I am convinced, by repeated observation, that marbles, lime-stones, chalks, marls, clays, sand, and almost all terrestrial substances, wherever situated, are full of shells and other spoils of the ocean. -- Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
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
A strong will deals with the hard facts of life as a sculptor with his marbles, making them facile and yielding to his purposes, and conquering their stubbornness by a greater stubbornness in himself. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
Even when conservatives have all the marbles, they still act as if they're under siege. Now that they are under siege, it is no time for them to act as if they're losing their marbles. -- Maureen Dowd

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