#cathedral

That great Cathedral space which was childhood. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#childhood #great #space #which

It was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel. ↗

— Robert Hughes

#dedicated #rites #secular #travel

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. ↗