Madonna Of The Stairs Quotes & Sayings

Slowly the highlights emerged: sunlight on the Madonna's face, on the curls, left cheek and shoulder of the child. On the foredrapery covering the Madonna's leg, on the back of John as he straddled the balustrade, on the inside of the balustrade itself to accent its importance in the structure. All the rest, the blockseat, stairs, walls were in quiet
shadow. Now, he thought, one saw and felt the crisis, the intense emotional thinking reflected on Mary's face as she felt the tug of Jesus at her breast and the weight of the cross in her hand. — Irving Stone

When a man ain't got no ideas of his own, he'd ought to be kind o' careful who he borrows 'em from. — Owen Wister

Love shows itself more in adversitythan in prosperity; as light does, which shines most where the place isdarkest. — Leonardo Da Vinci

When it comes to statistics, our best advice is to use them as input, not output. Use them to make up your mind on an issue. Don't make up your mind and then go looking for the numbers to support yourself - that's asking for temptation and trouble. But if we use statistics to help us make up our minds, we'll be in a great position to share the pivotal numbers with others, — Chip Heath

Ambivalence and contradiction energize nearly every figure Michaelangelo carved, from the adolescent Madonna of the Stairs onward...But the four allegories atop the sarcophagi raise them to a symphonic crescendo. Each is a battleground of conflicting emotions and motives, in which will and paralysis battle for supremacy. — Eric Scigliano

What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of living high. — Doug Larson

I wanted the figures to be real and believable so that you would feel that with their very next breath would begin life itself. — Irving Stone

He had touched her. Bare skin to bare skin. She needed a bleach wipe. She would absolutely use a bleach wipe on her leg. Even if it ate her flesh off. — Gwenn Wright

A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse. — Thomas More

Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings! — Mackenzie Astin

The happiness of society is the end of government. — John Adams

For growth to happen it is necessary to get your BUT out of the way. — Jay Perry

It is the right of government to protect the weak; it is the right of the weak to find in their courts fair treatment before the law. — Robert Kennedy