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«Put three grains of sand inside a vast cathedral, and the cathedral will be more closely packed with sand than space is with stars»
«[It is] the most hideous waterfront structure ever inflicted on a city by a combination of architectural conceit and official bad taste. the Cathedral of Asphalt.»
Author: Robert Moses
| About:
Architecture
| Keywords:
architectural, asphalt, Bad Taste, conceit, hideous, inflicted, official, The Cathedral, waterfront
«He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.»
Author: Sinclair Lewis
(Writer)
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a hundred, cathedral, cathedrals, half time, spent, The Cathedral
«All men, believing in God or not, are invited to enter. I wish to make them curious to see what God has to offer them within the cathedral.»
«Inside, the cathedral is a Gothic forest dappled in violet twilight and vast with quiet.»
Author: Wendy Insinger
| Keywords:
dapple, dappled, Gothic, Inside the, The Cathedral, twilight, violet, violets
«A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.»
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
(Author, Pilot, Writer)
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«Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.»
Author: Frank Lloyd Wright
(Architect, Writer)
| Keywords:
cathedral, desirable, regard, The Cathedral
«A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.»
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
(Author, Pilot, Writer)
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«HALF, n. One of two equal parts into which a thing may be divided, or considered as divided. In the fourteenth century a heated discussion arose among theologists and philosophers as to whether Omniscience could part an object into three halves; and the pious Father Aldrovinus publicly prayed in the cathedral at Rouen that God would demonstrate the affirmative of the proposition in some signal and unmistakable way, and particularly (if it should please Him) upon the body of that hardy blasphemer, Manutius Procinus, who maintained the negative. Procinus, however, was spared to die of the bite of a viper.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
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«'Lohengrin' to us ordinary mortals seemed something like the whistling of the wind through the keyholes of a cathedral, which has a dreamy charm for a little while, but by and by you long for the sound even of a street organ to rush in and break the»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
break even, break wind, by and by, cathedral, charm, dreamy, keyholes, mortals, organ, rush, seemed, The Cathedral, The Sound, Through the Keyhole, whistled, whistles, whistling
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