Quotes and Sayings About Towers

Strapped, noosed, nighing his hour, He stood and counted them and cursed his luck; And then the clock collected in the tower Its strength, and struck.
-- A. E. Housman

#Luck #Towers #Hours

Strategy should evolve out of the mud of the marketplace, not in the antiseptic environment of an ivory tower.
-- Al Ries

#Ivory Tower #Towers #Mud

You got me stranded on the bungee tower of love.
-- Al Yankovic

#Relationship #Towers #Bungee

My own center, my Kingdom Center, which is the highest priced tower in Saudi Arabia, was vacated twice because of terrorist attacks, terrorist threats.
-- Al-Waleed bin Talal

#Arabia #Towers #Kingdoms

A bottomless pit of violence, a Tower of Babel where all are speakers and no hearers.
-- Alexander Smith

#History #Tower Of Babel #Towers

A second plane hit the second tower. America is under attack.
-- Andrew Card

#America #Towers #Planes

Smooth shapes are very rare in the wild but extremely important in the ivory tower and the factory
-- Benoit Mandelbrot

#Ivory #Important #Towers

Currently, I am overseeing the construction of the new Trump Tower in Chicago. I am involved in meeting with the construction crews, architects and sales teams. I am learning a lot and working with some of the best in the business.
-- Bill Rancic

#Team #Chicago #Towers

Even ivory towers need central heating.
-- Breyten Breytenbach

#Ivory Tower #Ivory #Towers

I don’t want to be a Princess,” she said finally. “You can’t make me be one.” She knew very well what became of Princesses, as Princesses often get books written about them. Either terrible things happened to them, such as kidnappings and curses and pricking fingers and getting poisoned and locked up in towers, or else they just waited around till the Prince finished with the story and got around to marrying her. Either way, September wanted nothing to do with Princessing.
-- Catherynne M. Valente

#Book #Princess #Towers

I'm learning English at the moment. I can say 'Big Ben', 'Hello Rodney', 'Tower Bridge' and 'Loo'.
-- Cher

#Bridges #Towers #Hello

Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ileum?
-- Christopher Marlowe

#Towers #Ships #Faces

I spent a lot of time in Tower Records. I'm a huge music nerd, and Tower was instrumental to me when I was growing up.
-- Colin Hanks

#Growing Up #Nerd #Towers

the reason for the scaffolding on the tower of Saint Germain-des-Près is that a rich American has purchased it and is having it crated for shipping ...
-- Cornelia Otis Skinner

#Paris #Saint #Towers

We took the elevator back down from the first observation level of the Eiffel Tower and started walking in he direction of the Taj Mahal
-- D. J. MacHale

#Taj Mahal #Towers #Levels

I'm all news, all the time. Full power, tall tower. I want to break in when news breaks out. That's my agenda. Now, respectfully, when you start talking about a liberal agenda and all the, quote, 'liberal bias' in the media, I quite frankly, and I say this respectfully but candidly to you, I don't know what you're talking about.
-- Dan Rather

#Media #Talking #Towers

Larry wanted us to reposition the tower. We wouldn't, and won't. He's been holding back our fees. We want to get paid. And that's it. It'll get solved and we'll carry on with planning Ground Zero.
-- Daniel Libeskind

#Zero #Towers #Want

I've been to the Leaning Tower of Pisa. It's a tower, and it's leaning. You look at it, but nothing happens, so then you look for someplace to get a sandwich.
-- Danny DeVito

#Towers #Looks #Sandwiches

I know sometimes I can come off like a lonely spinster in a tower. That's not me at all.
-- Daphne Guinness

#Lonely #Towers #Sometimes

Destiny is a tower of cards - nudge one just an inch and everything stacked on top comes crashing down. P116
-- Darren Shan

#Destiny #Towers #Cards

Have you forgotten when those towers fell, we had neighbors still inside. And you say we shouldn't worry about Bin Laden, have you forgotten?
-- Darryl Worley

#Worry #Towers #Politics

I like the Eiffel Tower in Las Vegas more than the actual one.
-- David LaChapelle

#Vegas #Las Vegas #Towers

I consider part of lower Manhattan to be hallowed ground. Nearly 3,000 people lost their lives in the World Trade Center towers... and for that reason alone, our nation should make absolutely sure that what gets built on Ground Zero is an inspiring tribute to all who loved the Twin Towers, worked in them, and died there.
-- David Shuster

#Zero #People #Towers

Our problems may tower over us, but God towers over our problems.
-- Dillon Burroughs

#Towers #May #Problem

Lust is a strong tower of mischief, and hath in it many defenders, as neediness, anger, paleness, discord, love, and longing.
-- Diogenes

#Strong #Lust #Towers

Living in a tower, however secure it may feel, is hardly a social attribute.
-- Dirk Bogarde

#Towers #May #Social

Before this distinguished assembly and the world, the bells today proclaim the joyous tidings of the completion of this quietly soaring tower.
-- Earl Warren

#Towers #World #Bells

The sun sets in the west (just about everyone knows that), but Sunset Towers faced east. Strange!
-- Ellen Raskin

#Sunset #East #Towers

Redd Towers Apartments, whose advertising slogan, 'If you lived here, you'd be home by now,' did little to fill vacancies.
-- Frank Beddor

#Home #Towers #Vacancy

What is a church?—Our honest sexton tells, 'Tis a tall building, with a tower and bells.
-- George Crabbe

#Church #Towers #Bells