Michelangelo Sculptures Quotes & Sayings

There's a series of sculptures there by Michelangelo that you should see. They are called The Captives. Out of a great formless mass of stone, the figures of slaves emerge: heads, shoulders, torsos, straining toward freedom but still held fast in the stone. There are souls like that, Reyes. There are souls that try to carve themselves from their own formlessness. — Mary Doria Russell

Faith is the antidote for fear. — Russell M. Nelson

The albums I did around that time probably wouldn't have been the same without Ecstacy. The first three Soft Cell albums ... were all really albums that were just done around Ecstacy and the whole E feeling. — Marc Almond

The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is - a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation of motion and integration of matter. — Herbert Spencer

The great artist Michelangelo claimed that his sculptures were already present in the stone, and all he had to do was carve away everything else.
Our understanding of identity is often similar: Beneath the many layers of shoulds and shouldn'ts that cover us, there lies a constant, single, true self that is just waiting to be discovered. — Sheena Iyengar

Bring Solomon Gorge to God that he might purge the sin from this evil land! — Lucian Bane

Stacy just watches her body in amazement as the hand clutches onto her leg and pulls. Another hand emerges and grabs her other thigh, trying to pull itself out of there. — Carlton Mellick III

From birth to the teenage years, the brain undergoes a fourfold increase in volume — Eric Jensen

There are two kinds of sculptures. There's the kind that subtracts: Michelangelo starts with a block of marble and chips away. And then there is the kind that adds, building with clay, piling it on. The way I write novels is to keep piling on and piling on and piling on. — Jonathan Safran Foer

There is a logical explanation for everything, often mistaken for the reason it happened. — Robert Breault

I've been an idiot to think that real life could have a happy ending — Jodi Picoult

There are the altars, but here is the greatest of altars, the living, conscious human body, and to worship at this altar is far higher than the worship of any dead symbols. — Swami Vivekananda

Every day in every way I am getting better and better.* — Bill Bryson