Pediment Quotes & Sayings

On the pediment of the town hall, Death turns his sunglasses to mark the hours. No one takes any notice. it is eternal, this present. The world will gain little by continuing to evolve. This civilisation has reached its peak. A few details may need to be sorted out. some drugs could do with refining. — Patrick Deville

Writing a very personal journey, but that doesn't mean it has to be a slow one. Sometimes, all it takes is a new way of looking at the problem to change everything. — Rachel Aaron

If THINKING about exercising, eating healthy and losing weight burned calories, I'd be a SUPERMODEL! — Tanya Masse

I will not be misquoted! — Todd Barry

I never wanted to be a star, and I don't really want to be famous. I just love the stability of my life. I'm a complete family guy. — Joshua Morrow

America acknowledged the greatness of Confucius through a trio of ancient lawgivers - Moses flanked by Confucius to his right and Solon on his left - on the monument to "Justice, the Guardian of Liberty" displayed on the eastern pediment of the U.S. Supreme Court Building in Washington, D.C. — Patrick Mendis

Nothing in human life is inherently private. — Terry Eagleton

I'm stronger today," I said, hoping that by saying the words out loud it would make them true. I leaned across the sink, resting my palms against the mirror's surface. My reflection fogged over. As I began to disappear, I wiped the steam from the mirror, just like I'd temporarily wiped away all the ugliness that stained my soul. — Linda Oaks

Since language is the only tool with which writers can reflect and shape a culture, it must be transformed into art. Language is not a limitation on the art of literature; it is a glorification. It has been the scaffolding inside which nations and philosophies have been built, and the language of literature has added the ornamental pediment by which the culture is remembered. — E.L. Konigsburg

On a cement pediment stands the inevitable bronze statue of a man in a cheap suit. — Alex Shakar

History, as it was purveyed to us, was not so much a narrative, not even the detached observation of the rise and fall of fortunes and cultures. It was the litany of loss, attended by the inevitable sympathy for the vanquished side. The past was always the underdog, and we sensed it was only right to be on its side against the bully future. We were left with the impression that our own grip was loosening on some essential pediment as one empire after another was swallowed up, and the centuries collapsed into our own. — Patricia Hampl

Grandma, he had often wanted to say, Is this where the world began? For surely it had begun in no other than a place like this. The kitchen, without doubt, was the center of creation, all things revolved about it; it was the pediment that sustained the temple. — Ray Bradbury

The solution to the problem of life is seen in the vanishing of this problem. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

If you love an addle egg as well as you love an idle head, you would eat chickens i' th' shell. — William Shakespeare

I'm going to treat myself to one of these as a reward for not knocking himself unconscious with a skillet. — Nora Roberts

I've always been salaried; I've never owned anything. I've done very well, lived very well. — Joan Rivers

Wherever he goes, whatever he does, he will always see that word: murder - immortally inscribed upon the pediment of that vast slaughterhouse - humanity. — Octave Mirbeau

I mean Iggy and The Stooges first couple of albums I think sold twenty five thousand between the two of them you know and so to talk in terms of an underground I mean you have to go really to the independent labels and things like that. — Lester Bangs

I looked up. From the pediment of an old brick church, a gigantic eye painted into a triangle was staring straight at me through the mist. — Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky

Every new morning brings new freshness and new renewal. — Lailah Gifty Akita