quotes about Arches
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He just wanted to look at her and know her life was marching along under the same arch of time and space as he is.
-- Ann Brashares -
Behind the proscenium arch, you can't always hear what people in the audience are saying.
-- Billy Connolly -
What is sexual in a high heel is the arch of the foot, because it is exactly the position of a woman's foot when she orgasms... So putting your foot in a heel, you are putting yourself in a possibly orgasmic situation.
-- Christian LouboutinSource : "No, Christian Louboutin, wearing high heels does not lead to orgasm!" by Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. October 23, 2011.
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There is an oath upon her," he said to Arch, and I realized dimly that he was still speaking in Gaelic, though I understood him clearly. "She may not kill, save it is for mercy or her life. It is myself who kills for her.
-- Diana Gabaldon -
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Spread ya legs, arch your back. Go up and down, and make it clap.
-- Diplo -
A lot of period dramas can appear quite arch to most people, stuffy.
-- Emily Blunt -
The Golden Arches are now more widely recognized than the Christian cross.
-- Eric SchlosserSource : Eric Schlosser (2001). “Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal”, p.4, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Only the previous day, Arch had found him in a spirit-dance corral, blistering the creatures to the point of death, such was his need to touch and destroy.
-- Frank Beddor -
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What do you want to do with me?" she asked. You had an unpleasant tumble." He nodded toward the unfamiliar creatures. "My Ganmede friends and I are nursing you back to health, that's all." By drugging me?" (Molly and Arch)
-- Frank Beddor -
Ten builders rear an arch, each in turn lifting it higher; but it is the tenth man, who drops in the keystone, who hears our huzzas.
-- George IlesSource : George Iles (1918). “Canadian Stories”
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Putin stands for the opposite of a universal ideology; he has become an arch-nationalist of a pre-Cold War type, making mystic appeals to motherland and religion.
-- George PackerSource : "Terms of Crisis" by George Packer, www.newyorker.com. March 31, 2014.
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The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch, but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and domes is theirs.
-- Harry Seidler -
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I am a part of all that I have met. Yet, experience is an arch wherethro gleams that untravl'd world whose margin fades forever and forever when I move.
-- Homer -
A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis. The time of a cigarette is a parenthesis, and if it is shared, you are both in that parenthesis. Its like a proscenium arch for a dialogue.
-- John Berger -
You walk through a series of arches, so to speak, and then, presently, at the end of a corridor, a door opens and you see backward through time, and you feel the flow of time, and realize you are only part of a great nameless procession.
-- John Huston -
Why do you speak to me of the stones? It is only the arch that matters to me.
-- Kublai Khan -
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Without stones there is no arch
-- Marco PoloSource : "Invisible Cities". Book by Italo Calvino, 1972.
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The spine is best at bearing a load in an arch
-- Mark Rippetoe -
It is a sad fact that because of comfort, complacency, a morbid fear of communism, and our proneness to adjust to injustice, the Western nations that initiated so much of the revolutionary spirit of the modern world have now become the arch-antirevolutionaries.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. -
The Golden Arches of McDonald's rise, glorious across the landscape, contempo-monolithic, simple in concept as Stonehenge if we could but see it.
-- Maureen Howard -
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Without a belief in personal immortality, religion surely is like an arch resting on one pillar, like a bridge ending in an abyss.
-- Max Muller -
The fifth freedom, the Freedom of Individual Enterprise, is the keystone of the arch on which the other Four Freedoms rest. This is what freedom means.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler -
Do we really have to wander around apologizing for enjoying plot, just because James Wood and a few dozen other arch-aesthetes sniff at it? It's like being careful not to sing pop songs in the shower because some guy in the local alt-weekly is a music snob.
-- Patrick Nielsen HaydenSource : "Oh No Lev Grossman No". nielsenhayden.com. August 30, 2009.
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The sun, centre and sire of light, The keystone of the world-built arch of heaven.
-- Philip James Bailey -
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Great. "So not only am I not-human, but Death is my arch foe?" Who, me? Panic? "Anything else you want to tell me, while we're confessing?
-- Rachel Vincent -
In an arch each single stone which, if severed from the rest, would be perhaps defenceless is sufficiently secured by the solidity and entireness of the whole fabric, of which it is a part.
-- Robert Boyle -
Motherhood is the keystone of the arch of matrimonial happiness.
-- Thomas Jefferson -
And then the sly arch-lover that he was, he said the subtlest thing of all: that the lover was nearer the divine than the beloved; for the god was in the one but not in the other - perhaps the tenderest, most mocking thought that ever was thought, and source of all the guile and secret bliss the lover knows.
-- Thomas Mann -
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Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.
-- Virginia Woolf -
The internet becomes too arch. The clip is uploaded and reuploaded endlessly with banner headlines and crappy 3-D graphics. Stuff rots in this supposedly clinical space.
-- Max Tundra -
Egyptian pyramids or obelisks – seemed to be the basis of the great memorials that have kept their significance and dignity across time. Neither an obelisk nor a rectangular box nor a dome seemed right on this site or for this purpose. But here, at the edge of the Mississippi River, a great arch did seem right.
-- Eero SaarinenSource : "Eero Saarinen on His Work: A Selection of Buildings Dating from 1947 to 1964 with Statements by the Architect".