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Kids can't build a marble statue at home. But I've had parents tell me that, after an exhibit, their kids immediately dug out their Lego kits and disappeared for three days.
- Nathan Sawaya
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I used to joke that, since breastfeeding, my boobs looked like an old athletic sock with some loose change at the bottom, so when I felt a lump the size of a marble, I knew something was terribly wrong.
- Jessica St. Clair
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As I passed along the side walls of Westminster Abbey, I hardly saw any thing but marble monuments of great admirals, but which were all too much loaded with finery and ornaments, to make on me at least, the intended impression.
- Karl Philipp Moritz
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There's a staircase on the first floor of the Capitol that I walk every day. It's made of marble, and as you walk those steps, you think of those who've walked before you. You think of the challenges that the country's faced.
- Kevin McCarthy
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Sometimes I carry a Green Marble SeLr setting spray. It's the one drag queens use. That is bomb.
- Jeannie Mai
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For me, life is not about gold taps and marble all over the place.
- Ben Elliot
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I love the classic marble inlay work of Arga.
- Adnan Sami
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Lincoln has been my first love, and as always with first loves, it fixed a standard. So I scaled sunlit heights with Lincoln and produced the colossal marble head in the rotunda of the capitol of the United States.
- Gutzon Borglum
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An American store is generally a very extensive apartment, handsomely decorated, the roof frequently supported on marble pillars. The owner or clerk is seen seated by his goods, absorbed in the morning paper - probably balancing himself on one leg of his chair, with a spittoon by his side.
- Isabella Bird
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Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble.
- Louise Bogan
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I was obsessed with carrara marble. I had a carrara marble phone case.
- Josie Totah
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Being the first woman speaker and breaking the marble ceiling is pretty important. Now it's time to move on.
- Nancy Pelosi
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As in the Divine Right of Kings, hierarchies invest those who preside at the top of their pyramidal structure with absolute power to rule over the lesser ranks that spread down like a marble staircase to the broad foundation stones of those with no power at all.
- Eugene Kennedy
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When the others grew tired and went home and there was no one else to play with I used to play my own Test matches on the porch of our house, using a broom handle or a stick as the bat and a marble as the ball. I would arrange the pot plants to represent fielders and try to find the gaps as I played my shots.
- Brian Lara
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I can draw pencil lines to show something is moving, but if I'm writing, I struggle with how to write it. The boy ran down the hallway? The boy ran quickly down the hallway? The boy ran down the marble hallway? I agonize over the words. So my editor works very hard. I'm lucky to have her.
- Brian Selznick
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There isn't any one material that's mine. It all depends on the context. For example, I did a house that had the most exquisite marble applications. That sounds ostentatious, but it wasn't, given the context. The color white I subscribe to extensively. I love thinking about color, but I often go with white.
- Annabelle Selldorf
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I tell myself every day I love my Jacuzzi, I love my marble floors, I love my high ceilings.
- DJ Khaled
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You find me at work; excuse the dust on my blouse. I sculpt my marble myself.
- Camille Claudel
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History, after all, is a process, not a position, and it is not best written in bronze and marble. It is complex, plastic and ever-changing; all things that heroic statues are not.
- David Olusoga
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A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.
- Ada Louise Huxtable
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If you look at the entrance halls of the skyscrapers of the 1920s and 1930s, they are very welcoming. They are public spaces with enormous amounts of display and marble and so on. They were havens off the street.
- Joseph Rykwert
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My brother shaved a cricket bat out of a coconut branch... we played cricket with anything we put our hands on - a hard orange, a lime, a marble - anything we could use in the backyard or the streets.
- Brian Lara
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I used to play snooker in millionaires' mansions with marble floors and eat at the best places, but that's all over now.
- Alex Higgins
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England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
- John Burroughs
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Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.
- Benjamin Franklin
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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
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Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.
- Edmund Waller
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Yes, the work comes out more beautiful from a material that resists the process, verse, marble, onyx, or enamel.
- Theophile Gautier
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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
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I think the hardest part of writing is revising. And by that I mean the following: A novelist has to create the piece of marble and then chip away to find the figure in it.
- Chaim Potok
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
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A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty.
- William Cullen Bryant
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I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Auguste Rodin
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Marble is not alike in all countries.
- Vitruvius
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The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.
- Jean de la Bruyere
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Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
- Alexis Carrel
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I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
- Augustus
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The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.
- Michelangelo
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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
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The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.
- Michelangelo
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I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
- Michelangelo
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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
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
- Joseph Addison
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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
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