#tower

We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types. ↗

— J. B. Priestley

#administrative #colour #course #fire #fit

Sometimes when I'm watching television and something, an image, will come on that has to do with 9/11 or some of these families telling their stories, or children talking about drawing pictures of airplanes flying into towers, you know, I find myself still choking up. ↗

— Ann Richards

#children #choking #come #drawing #families

When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am. ↗

— Sarah Orne Jewett

#confidence #did #i #little #now

A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#man #mind #more #seven #sitting

Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#center #intelligence #new #skill #successfully

Work creates an enormous sense of self and I saw that in my mother. She was an enormous, towering figure to me in the best possible way. I picked up a lot of things from her in the way that I work... I also picked up a lot of the failings of when your father doesn't have those things and that results in a house that turns into a minefield. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#best #creates #enormous #failings #father

Yes, I remember the barbed wire and the guard towers and the machine guns, but they became part of my normal landscape. What would be abnormal in normal times became my normality in camp. ↗

— George Takei

#barbed #barbed wire #became #camp #guard

My own center, my Kingdom Center, which is the highest priced tower in Saudi Arabia, was vacated twice because of terrorist attacks, terrorist threats. ↗

— Al-Waleed bin Talal

#attacks #because #center #highest #kingdom

Go then, there are other worlds than these. ↗

— Stephen King

#jon-jake-chambers #stephen-king #tower #darkness

The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed. ↗

— Stephen King

#horror #darkness