statue quotes

You must not miss Whitehall. At one end you will find a statue of one of our kings who was beheaded; at the other, a monument tothemanwho did it.That isjust one example of our attempts to be fair to everybody.

- Sir Edward Victor Appleton
  Speech, Stockholm,1  Jan.

It was like walking down the street with the Statue of Liberty.

- (Donald) Pat(rick) Conroy
  On walking in Manhattan with the instantly recognizable Barbra Streisand. In WAMU, 4 Sep.

I'm fat, but I'm thin inside. Has it ever struck you that there's a thin man inside every fat man, just as they say there's a statue inside every block of stone? See Connolly 233:82.

- George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair Orwell
  Coming Up For Air, pt.1, ch.3.

   One does not walk around a statue any more than one walks around a painting, because one does not walk around a figure to receive an impression from it.Nothing is material in space.

- Medardo Rosso
Quoted in Edmond Claris De l'impressionisme en sculpture, 'Medardo Rosso' (1902).

Poetry†is perfection's sweat but most seen as fresh as the raindrops on a statue's brow.

- Derek Alton Walcott
  In the NewYorkTimes, 8 Dec.