#cathedral

The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart. ↗

— Anita Diament

#cathedral #dining #dining room #family #heart

Inside a religious body you get sects and hierarchies, inside an information network you get bazaars and cathedrals, it is the same, call them what you like. They survive by pointing the finger of blame at each other. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#body #call #cathedrals #each #finger

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

#cathedrals #each #half #hour #hundred

Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria. ↗

— David Lodge

#cathedrals #criteria #existence #justify #modern

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#house #music #opera

Seeing that picture, for me, was like Chartres Cathedral. ↗

— Henry Moore

#like #me #picture #seeing

The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness. ↗

— Oscar Niemeyer

#cathedral #challenge #good #inventiveness #very

Every sport needs its temple, its cathedral. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#every #needs #temple

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

#closely #grains #inside #more #packed

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

#because #cathedral #clothes #disagreed #i