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#statues

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We are not on this earth to just stand still & look pretty. The museums already have enough statues.


Mandy Hale


#change #destiny #greater-calling #helping-people #life

Presenting statues of honor to reporters for covering an earthquake is like presenting a first prize to a doctor for performing surgery.


Phil Donahue


#doctor #earthquake #first #honor #like

With such evidence, as well as the sealed doorway between the two guardian statues of the King, the mystery gradually dawned upon us. We were but in the anterior portion of a tomb.


Howard Carter


#dawned #doorway #evidence #gradually #guardian

Clinton has more important things to worry about. He not only risks being destroyed historically, like Afghanistan's Buddha statues; he also could end up going to jail.


Ed Koch


#afghanistan #also #being #buddha #clinton

The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.


Lew Wallace


#against #death #history #inscriptions #monuments

In the case of Michel Angelo we have an artist who with brush and chisel portrayed literally thousands of human forms; but with this peculiarity, that while scores and scores of his male figures are obviously suffused and inspired by a romantic sentiment, there is hardly one of his female figures that is so,—the latter being mostly representative of woman in her part as mother, or sufferer, or prophetess or poetess, or in old age, or in any aspect of strength or tenderness, except that which associates itself especially with romantic love. Yet the cleanliness and dignity of Michel Angelo's male figures are incontestable, and bear striking witness to that nobility of the sentiment in him, which we have already seen illustrated in his sonnets.


Edward Carpenter


#homoeroticism #homosexuality #love #men #michelangelo

There is a lot of folklore about equestrian statues, especially the ones with riders on them. There is said to be a code in the number and placement of the horse's hooves: If one of the horse's hooves is in the air, the rider was wounded in battle; two legs in the air means that the rider was killed in battle; three legs in the air indicates that the rider got lost on the way to the battle; and four legs in the air means that the sculptor was very, very clever. Five legs in the air means that there's probably at least one other horse standing behind the horse you're looking at; and the rider lying on the ground with his horse lying on top of him with all four legs in the air means that the rider was either a very incompetent horseman or owned a very bad-tempered horse.


Terry Pratchett


#horses #humor #statues #humor

I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees.


Gilbert K. Chesterton


#committees #found #i #parks #searched

We have destroyed 80 percent of the statues. There is only small amount left and we will destroy that soon.


Mohammed Omar


#destroy #destroyed #left #only #percent

I have seen statues that would look stodgy beside her, I have seen painted Madonnas whose features would be coarse beside her pale luminous loveliness.


Philippa Gregory


#madonna #queen #statues #beauty






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