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Tag Name "Towering" (40)

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Towering genius disdains a beaten path ... It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts for distinction.
Abraham Lincoln
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Towering genius distains a beaten path.
Abraham Lincoln
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Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.
Abraham Lincoln
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Towering genius...thirsts and burns for distinction and, if possible, it will have it, whether at the expense of emancipating slaves or enslaving freeman.
Abraham Lincoln
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You will always be here with me As long as I live, A towering figure of love.
May Sarton
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The boy had the towering arrogance only seen in the greatest of artists and all nine-year-old boys.
Neil Gaiman
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A towering theoretical achievement of exceptional elegance...Like most great books, Sociobiology is unpedantic, lucid, and eminently accessible.
Pierre L. van den Berghe
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One of the towering people in this industry said, why don't you go and make a five-year contract with somebody, make yourself several million dollars and put it away, then go and do whatever you want, work for public TV if you want.
Roone Arledge
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Lula was really the face of Brazil's boom in the previous decade and is one of the most towering politicians in the country today, so for this investigation to find get to him is an enormous deal.
Simon Romero
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The humble were the elect of God. Did not the priests teach so, in their gemmed, kingly robes, from their towering pulpits?
Tanith Lee
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The dusk runs down the lane driven like hail Far off a precise whistle is escheat To the dark and then the towering weak and pale.
Allen Tate
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The gallantry of his grief did put me into a towering passion.
William Shakespeare
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Paris was a universe whole and entire unto herself, hollowed and fashioned by history so she seemed in this age of Napoleon III with her towering buildings, her massive cathedrals, her grand boulevards and ancient winding medieval streets - as vast and indestructible as nature itself.
Anne Rice
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The descent of Israel from the morally towering position of a 'light for the nations' to the lowest of the low and one of the last relics of bygone shameful times of merciless imperialism, conquest, exploitation is on the cards.
Zygmunt Bauman
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What may appear as a towering peak to one may seem but an ordinary eminence to another.
Cargill Gilston Knott
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Becoming Richard Pryor is a compulsively readable book that sets a new gold standard for American biography. Scott Scaul's research is extraordinary his writing is taut, elegant, and insightful and he captures both the hilarity and pain that made Richard Pryor such a towering figure.
Debby Applegate
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Meeting Justin Bieber was interesting. We were backstage at The Voice, and he was there premiering his Boyfriend music video. I was in six-inch heels, so I was towering over him like a giant.
Erin Willett
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It is only now and then, in a jungle, or amidst the towering white menace of a burnt or burning Australian forest, that Nature strips the moral veils from vegetation and we apprehend its stark ferocity.
H. G. Wells
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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
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Yeah, I screamed in Daniel Radcliffe's face. We were both doing Letterman. I grabbed him by the shoulder. Of course, I'm in 6-inch heels. That makes me 6-foot-4. I'm towering over him, saying, 'I love Harry Potter!' His security people were nodding to each other - should we go?
Jennifer Lawrence
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In the cross of Christ I glory,Towering o'er the wrecks of timeAll the light of sacred storyGathers round its head sublime.
John Bowring
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We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in color and fire.
Joseph Priestley
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What if you have failed in the past? So, at one time did every man we recognize as a towering success. They called it temporary defeat.
Napoleon Hill
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I learned that along with the towering achievements of the cultures of ancient Greece and China there stood the culture of Africa, unseen and denied by the imperialist looters of Africa's material wealth.
Paul Robeson
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