quotes about Domes
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I had been told I was on the road to hell, but I had no idea it was just a mile down the road with a dome on it.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
In the later nineteenth century, the tops of skyscrapers often took the shape of domes, surmounted by jaunty gilded lanterns; later came ziggurats, mausoleums, Alexandrian lighthouses, miniature Parthenons. These charming follies contained neither royal corpses nor effigies of gods and goddesses; rather they contained large wooden tanks filled with water.
-- Brendan GillSource : 1982 Quoted in Laura Rosen Top of the City: NewYork's hidden rooftop world (1990), foreword.
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The dome of the U.S. Capitol has fallen into severe disrepair... As the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, which oversees matters of the Capitol's physical plant, I have serious concerns about the consequences of omitting this funding from the stopgap spending measure.
-- Charles Schumer -
You'd have to live in a cave not to know about the Carrier Dome. It put Syracuse on the map.
-- Dick Vitale -
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Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb - or Dome of Worm - or Porch of Gnome - or some Elf's Catacomb?
-- Emily Dickinson -
I also hope that with the assistance and expertise of Dome Records, that I will be able to further pierce the UK and European market. I really like playing there and I want to do more! I've found that the audiences get quite involved and really listen to what's happening.
-- George Duke -
Wherever you go in life, you will feel somewhere over your shoulder a pink, castellated shimmering presence, the domes and riggings and crooked pinacles of the Serenissima
-- Jan MorrisSource : 1960 Venice.
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If you want a Super Bowl, put a retractable dome on your stadium
-- Joe FlaccoSource : "Play the Super Bowl -- indoors!" By Mike Downey, www.cnn.com. January 29, 2014.
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With writing and publishing, my only aim is to live in the aesthetic pleasure dome.
-- Ken BaumannSource : "Go Forth (vol. 6)". Interview with Nicolle Elizabeth, logger.believermag.com. December 7, 2012.
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Be cocky. Walk into the Georgia Dome like you own it.
-- Mary Lou Retton -
The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.
-- Milan Kundera -
When we live up to our Constitution, let's form a Conga line around the Capitol and bungee jump off the dome.
-- Paula Poundstone -
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Don't put blankets over the drum! Open completely. Let your spirit ear listen to the green dome's passionate murmur.
-- Rumi -
My trigger finger itching, positioned at your dome, one twitch and it's on. No remorse or second thoughts.
-- Snoop Dogg -
I would say that what the value of talking about and thinking about a dome over Manhattan is that [Buckminster] Fuller has identified a scale of action I think is actually really compelling.
-- Jonathon Keats -
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I think that surprisingly few people right now know much about [Buckminster] Fuller beyond the few really iconic points. He invented the geodesic dome and he coined the term "spaceship earth" and that's pretty much the extent of what people who even have heard of him know. And I'm struck by how many people have not heard of him at all.
-- Jonathon Keats -
Georgia Dome was a pretty big eye opener that I had something kind of going in the right direction. It seemed like a movement, and I was greatly appreciative for the chants and the signs.
-- Bill GoldbergSource : ""Bill Goldberg Talks To 411 About Whether WWE Has Contacted Him About Returning, WWE HOF Induction, Brock Lesnar’s UFC Fight, Developing the Goldberg Character, More" by Jeffrey Harris". 411mania.com. June 28, 2016.
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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".