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21 " The author sees Luke's loyalty to the apostle Paul " depicted architecturally in the great church at Rome known as St. Paul Outside the Walls. There, a statue of Luke holding a writing stylus commemorates not only his work as a Gospel author but his faithfulness to Paul. "
22 " You are organic, aren't you? Or am I talking to a statue again? "
23 " No-one ever built a statue of a critic. "
― David Nicholls , One Day
24 " Jacin said nothing else. Neither did she. After the first ring was completed, she leaned her head against his thigh, making herself more comfortable as she picked out a sunburst orange. Overhead, Jacin sighed, and she felt the faintest brush of fingertips against her hair. A hint, a suggestion of togetherness, before he became a statue once more. "
― Marissa Meyer , Winter (The Lunar Chronicles, #4)
25 " I believe she is Selene, goddess of the moon." " She looks so content." " You sound surprised." " Well," Callie said tentatively, " Selene is not the happiest of stories. After all, she is doomed to love a mortal in eternal sleep." St. John turned at her words, obviously impressed. " Her own fault. She should have known better than to ask favors of Zeus. That particular course of action never ends well." " A truth of which Selene was likely acutely aware upon receiving her favor. I assume that this statue depicts a happy Selene before Zeus meddled." " You forget," St. John said, a teasing gleam in his eye, " she and Endymion did have twenty children despite his somnolence, so she couldn't have been so very unhappy with her situation." " With due respect, my lord," Callie said, " bearing and raising twenty children alone does not sound like the happiest of circumstances. I hardly think she would appear so very rested were this a statue depicting her maternal bliss. "
26 " You must not miss Whitehall. At one end you'll find a statue of one of our kings who was beheaded at the other the monument to the man who did it. This is just an example of our attempts to be fair to everybody. "
27 " They never raised a statue to a critic. "
28 " If you walk into the front hallway of the CIA, you will see, on your left, a statue of William 'Wild Bill' Donovan. Bill Donovan was the person who created the OSS, the Office of Strategic Services, which was America's spy agency during World War II and then kind of morphed into what's now the CIA. "
29 " I tried to go to Kosovo to establish a statue to commemorate those who died during the wars, and to discuss moving on, so we could move into a new era. But I was banned from there. "
30 " Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh. "
31 " Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it. "
