The Tower Quotes

I think the obligation of a poet is not to be in an ivory tower; it is not to be isolated but to be among people.

Throughout Finnegans Wake Joyce specifies the Tower of Babel as the tower of Sleep, that is, the tower of the witless assumption, or what Bacon calls the reign of the Idols.

Jan built herself an ivory tower to keep the wolves out; she never dreamed they were already inside.

I don't want to become an ivory tower filmmaker. That sounds peculiar, but I want to be a mainstream filmmaker. I want the largest possible audience that I can find - but, of course, on my terms.

In order to capture Mid-World for new readers, I had to streamline the original tale [ The Gunslinger Born], but I also had to incorporate scenes from earlier Dark Tower novels.

I've learned a heck of a lot this way [making Dark Tower comics]. I've also learned a lot from the editors at Marvel, who are always an equal part in the creative team.

My lifetime’s memories are what I have brought home from the trip. I will require them for eternity no more than that little souvenir of the Eiffel Tower I brought home from Paris.

Maybe what I admired most about John Steinbeck is that he never mortgaged his 45-acre heart for a suite in an ivory tower.

Ivory towers are as rare as bowling alleys in tribal cultures.

The quickest way to learn about a new place is to know what it dreams of.

Margo's beauty was a kind of sealed vessel of perfection--uncracked and uncrackable.

When President Chirac gave [President] Bush a souvenir statue of the Eiffel Tower... Bush said 'This is great! A little oil rig!'

There is no better story in the Old Testament, or perhaps the whole Bible, for depicting the difference between the ladder-defined life and the cross-defined life than that of the Tower of Babel.

If one attempts to achieve deity or to have the holy, he is thrown back; he is refused. His language is taken from him. He can no longer even communicate. That's the Tower of Babel.

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

Language evolves and moves on. It is an organic thing. It is not stuck in an ivory tower, hung with expensive works of art.

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

For me or a Bruce Springsteen to sit up in our ivory towers and make comments about racism, well, were not really in it, are we?

Chefs who cook in these ivory towers are in control in their own world. We try to approximate that world as best we can, but ultimately our goal is to please our clients.

you know this means that what we did-what we almost did in Paris-" "Going to the Eiffel Tower?

The trap had a ghastly perfection

Be as a tower firmly set Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.

The woman who preaches has poison religion. Let the respectable ones go

Lend me your wings, bird. I'll spread them and fly on the thermals.

Allie sighed. It was an old yellow sound, like turning pages.

Do you believe in an afterlife?" the gunslinger asked him as Brown dropped three ears of hot corn onto his plate.Brown nodded. "I think this is it.

What we’ve got here is a lunatic genius ghost-in-the-computer monorail that likes riddles and goes faster than the speed of sound. Welcome to the fantasy version of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.

The Man in Black fled across the desert, and the Gunslinger followed

Of course it's heavier, he thought. It's got my grief in it. I pull it along with me everywhere I go, so I do.

There was murder, there was rape, there were unspeakable practices, and all of them were for the good, the bloody good, the bloody myth, for the grail, for the Tower.

Roland of Gilead responded as he ever had and ever would when such useless, mystifying questions were raised: 'Ka.

I grab the nearest lamppost when my knees threaten to give out, panting for breath as the words rip through me

It feels like someone is gripping my heart and twisting it. It feels like I can't breathe. I shut my eyes tightly against the memory that is threatening to surface. I can't br

Every gesture and every look he gives me takes me by surprise and causes my heart to stutter.

For him, the kampung was a place to live and work that was based on a steadfast and intimate relationship between man and nature. The village was a true reflection of life in the tropics.

When we step onto the bridge, Nathan turns and spreads his arms out wide. ‘Welcome to Pont des Arts, a.k.a. The Lock Bridge.

The boy took my sketchbook.

I head in the direction of the Eiffel Tower when I exit the alley, relieved to be out of the dark.

The Lord is our mighty shield.The Lord is our greet strength.

The Spirit Tower has its guardian, but unless it understands who its guardian is, it cannot be guarded.

The acknowledgement of a single possibility can change everything.

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I like The Eiffel Tower because it looks like steel and lace.

Man’s guilt in history and in the tides of his own blood has been complicated by technology, the daily seeping falsehearted death.

No mountain of doom, Just foothills of Ferninand.Towers of fire and glory as far as one can see.

I ought to be jealous of the tower. She is more famous than I am.

We need to take music out of the ivory tower - both for musicians and for the public. Otherwise, classical music will not survive the 21st century.