Only imagination that towers can reproduce evanescence and render rigidity flexible.
I only know one thing: Everything I learned about the banking business, I learned in the banking towers of the Societe.
What the Londoner sees in his mind's eye is that cluster of towers and pinnacles seen from Pentonville Hill and outlined against a foggy sunset, and the great arc of Barlow's train shed gaping to devour incoming engines, and the sudden burst of exuberant Gothic of the hotel seen from gloomy Judd Street.
I can never do better than Fawlty Towers whatever I do. Now I very much want to teach young talent some rules of the game.
Redd Towers Apartments, whose advertising slogan, 'If you lived here, you'd be home by now,' did little to fill vacancies.
I couldn't stop bawling, watching the towers come down. it was a terrible thing to happen. And a terrible thing to realize that I don't sit though the nigh crying when such horrors happen all the time.
Ivory towers are as rare as bowling alleys in tribal cultures.
The road and the tale have both been long, would you not say so? The trip has been long and the cost has been high. . . but no great thing was ever attained easily. A long tale, like a tall Tower, must be built a stone at a time.
Our lives are full of supposes. Suppose this should happen, or suppose that should happen; what could we do; how could we bear it? But, if we are living in the high tower of the dwelling place of God, all these supposes will drop out of our lives. We shall be quiet from the fear of evil, for no threatenings of evil can penetrate into the high tower of God.
Britannia needs no bulwarks, No towers along the steep; Her march is o'er the mountain waves, Her home is on the deep.
Jan built herself an ivory tower to keep the wolves out; she never dreamed they were already inside.
Nor aught availed him now to have built in heaven high towers; nor did he scrape by all his engines, but was headlong sent with his industrious crew to build in hell.
You live in a tower that soars to heaven and goes unpunished by God.
The round towers of the castles looked as if they were so firmly encrusted in the sky that, to get to their other side, one would have to hew out a passage through the celestial marble.
So, on the eastern summit, clad in gray, morn, like a horseman girt for travel, comes, and from his tower of mist night's watchman hurries down.
The point is, not to resist the flow. You go up when you're supposed to go up and down when you're supposed to go down. When you're supposed to go up, find the highest tower and climb to the top. When you're supposed to go down, find the deepest well and go down to the bottom. When there's no flow, stay still. If you resist the flow, everything dries up. If everything dries up, the world is darkness.
And sometimes you didn't want to know the end… because how could the end be happy?
Managing life from our mental control towers, we have separated ourselves from our bodies and hearts.
I'm learning English at the moment. I can say 'Big Ben', 'Hello Rodney', 'Tower Bridge' and 'Loo'.
When you have a wife who has been a tower of strength and shown more courage than you dreamed existed - that's the finest I know.