Marbles Quotes - Page 1

There are no such things as the Elgin Marbles.
Melina Mercouri / Actress
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I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
Gilbert K. Chesterton / Writer
Sports
Expensive
Golf
Guitar
Regard
Marbles
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The more the marbles wastes, the more the statue grows.
Michelangelo / Sculptor
Grows
Marbles
Statue
Wastes
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The Parthenon without the marbles is like a smile with a tooth missing.
Neil Kinnock / Former Leader Of The Labour Party
Smile
Missing
Parthenon
Teeth
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Tooth
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I hate losing. Whether it's marbles, spades, blackjack, whatever it is.
Odell Beckham, Jr. /
Losing
Blackjack
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Do glassmakers not have the ability to knead their own agates, marbles and rock crystals?
Emile Galle /
Crystals
Marbles
Rock
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Whether I played marbles, whether I played football or slam anything else, I wanted to excel.
Robert Mondavi / Winemaker
Economy
Football
Slam
Anything Else
Excel
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If I'm a national treasure, does that mean I'm like the Elgin Marbles and will get repatriated at some point?
Bill Bailey / Comedian
Treasure
Marbles
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I build a robot version of Jenna Marbles' dog, Kermit. It turned out a little bit worse than I had anticipated.
Simone Giertz /
Anticipated
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I watch vlogs on YouTube. I watch Jenna Marbles a lot - I think she's really funny - and a lady called Daily Grace.
Maisie Williams / Actress
Funny
Grace
Thinking
Watches
Youtube
Daily
Watch
Lady
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We used to play marbles for keeps. If you lost, you lost. It is the same way with politics, but not everybody knows this.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan / Former United States Senator
Lost
Used
Same
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You read so many scripts, especially pilots, that really feel like marbles in your mouth when you go to read them out loud.
Sarah Goldberg /
Loud
Pilots
Scripts
Marbles
Mouth
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'Marbles' really took so much and such a thorough effort from me that I was so happy to tie that up and have it feel satisfying.
Ellen Forney / Cartoonist
Satisfying
Thorough
Marbles
Tie
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The Elgin Marbles were supposed to be on the Parthenon. For many works of art, a museum is an artificial setting - a zoo, not a natural habitat.
Virginia Postrel / Writer
Artificial
Habitat
Setting
Marbles
Museum
Supposed
Zoo
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I have just one black and white photograph left of my mother when she was younger. She was 17 when it was taken and beautiful with wispy curls and eyes that shone like dark marbles.
Liz Murray / Inspirational Speaker
Black And White
Curls
Just One
Photograph
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When a hurricane thrashes the mid-Atlantic, my hilly town often reaps the fringe of the storm. The rain starts blowing sideways, and sometimes we see hail the size of purie marbles.
Diane Ackerman / Author
Fringe
Hail
Rain
Sideways
Size
Storm
Blowing
Hurricane
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My mother took me to the British Museum aged five. I had thought people from the past weren't as good as we were, and then I saw the Elgin marbles. Suddenly, the world seemed more complicated.
Mary Beard / Professor
British Museum
Good World Me
Aged
Marbles
Museum
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In 2009, novelty toymaker Maxfield & Oberton released Buckyballs, sets of curiously powerful magnetic marbles that became the most popular cubicle toy since the Rubik's Cube, selling more than 2 million units in 15 countries.
David Sax /
Magnetic
Novelty
Powerful
Selling
Units
Became
Countries
Cube
Curiously
Marbles
Million
Popular
Released
Sets
Toy
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Children are more restricted than ever when it comes to taking physical risks - one of the ways previous generations built resilience. Thanks to health and safety mania, leapfrog, marbles and conkers are now considered unsafe.
Claire Fox /
Health
Generations
Mania
Resilience
Safety
Thanks
Unsafe
Considered
Marbles
Physical
Previous
Restricted
Risks
Taking
Ways
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Children's games constitute the most admirable social institutions. The game of marbles, for instance, as played by boys, contains an extremely complex system of rules - that is to say, a code of laws, a jurisprudence of its own.
Jean Piaget / Psychologist
Admirable
Code
Games
Instance
Jurisprudence
Social Institutions
Rules
Complex
Complex System
Constitute
Extremely
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I have no desire to be a centenarian. I think 90 is a great time. You've had a good innings. You have to deal with the cards that have been dealt, of course, but I don't think very old age, if you haven't got your marbles, can be very nice.
Mary Berry /
Cards
Old Age
Time Good Age
Dealt
Great Time
Innings
Marbles
No Desire
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Once you realize that everyone is in the same boat, that everyone is just as insecure and childlike as everyone else, that all these jokers in D.C. ruining our world are just greedy kids grabbing for marbles - I think that realization means you're an adult.
Conor Oberst / Singer-Songwriter
Kids
Boat
Childlike
Grabbing
Greedy
Insecure
Mean
Our World
Realization
Adult
Everyone Else
Marbles
Ruining
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On more than one occasion, the camera has cut to me after a break as I'm still trying to swallow the last bite of cookie. Those of you who have thought to yourselves, 'That guy talks like he has marbles in his mouth,' should know that they are not marbles, but oatmeal cookies.
Lester Holt / Journalist
Break
Cutting
Guy
Oatmeal
Should
Trying
Me More Know
After
Bite
Those
Camera
Me Know More
Cookie
Cut
Still
Last
Marbles
Mouth
Occasion
Swallow
Talks
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I have never had other kids in the house... I had a huge collection of marbles, and they all had names, which I think concerned my parents. I used to go and sweep outside and talk to myself, and my mum's friends would be over and say, 'Do you realise she is talking to herself?'
Alexandra Adornetto / Author
Mum
Herself
Marbles
Other Kids
Realise
Sweep
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If we were poor, we didn't know it 'cause I guess you don't miss what you never had. So, you know, we made do with whatever. We used to make our own toys, and we used to play with spinning tops and marbles. A pocket full of marbles, and you were rich - you didn't worry about no money.
Aaron Neville / Singer
Money
Made
Poor
Rich
Spinning
Toys
Used
Worry
Money Rich Poor
Had
Make
Never
Own
Miss
Cause
Full
Whatever
Guess
Marbles
Pocket
Tops
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I don't think you change from the time you're 16 until you die. Maybe your body changes, and you have different experiences, but I think you become a fully conscious soul with full abilities. Souls are eternal, and if you keep your marbles until you croak in your 90s or your 100s, you're the same.
Whit Stillman / Writer
Conscious
Eternal
Your Body
Marbles
Souls
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I retired when I was 30, with all my marbles and a few bucks. But a lot of guys leave boxing penniless with no skills. Men in their 30s and early 40s, old for boxing, young in life, but also old in the job market if you're just getting started with no education. These guys need someone in their corner.
Gerry Cooney / Boxer
Boxing
Bucks
Getting Started
Retired
Corner
Marbles
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The house was big enough for my brother and me to have firecracker wars at one end and leave Mom and Dad undisturbed at the other. When firecrackers weren't available, we attacked each other with pennies and marbles and clumps of Crisco, which made brilliant greasy asterisks when you missed and hit the wall.
John Dickerson /
Dad
Mom
Available
Brilliant
Brother
House
Mom And Dad
Pennies
Wall
Mom Enough Me
Dad Enough Me
Attacked
Hit
Big Enough
Wars
Leave
Dad Mom Me
Marbles
Missed
Undisturbed
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Justin Vernon is one of the collaborators Kanye will always go to. He doesn't fit in with any genres - you never know if he's gonna sing, like, the Bee Gees or some crazy, distorted thing. And you don't know what he's saying half the time. He's kind of like Michael McDonald, like he's got marbles in his mouth.
Mike Dean /
Bee Gees
Collaborators
Fit
Half
Justin
Bee
Distorted
Michael
Genres
Half The Time
Mcdonald
Marbles
Mouth
Saying
Sing
Vernon
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Our forefathers regarded as a prodigy the passage of the Alps: first by Hannibal and, more recently, by the Cimbri; but at the present day, these very mountains are cut asunder to yield us a thousand different marbles; promontories are thrown open to the sea; and the face of Nature is being everywhere reduced to a level.
Pliny The Elder / Author
Forefathers
Sea
Thousand
Thrown
Yield
Everywhere
Asunder
Mountains
Cut
Hannibal
Marbles
Passage
Recently
Reduced
Regarded
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The magnificent lobby of the Chrysler Building - faced with rare marbles, aglitter with decorative metalwork, and surmounted by a ceiling painted with a totemic image of the tower itself - leads to elevator cabs inlaid with exotic woods in fanciful patterns. The entire route from street to office is invested with ceremony, dignity, and delight.
Martin Filler /
Ceilings
Ceremony
Chrysler
Delight
Dignity
Exotic
Magnificent
Office
Patterns
Towers
Woods
Rare
Ceiling
Itself
Decorative
Elevator
Entire
Fanciful
Street
Image
Invested
Leads
Lobby
Marbles
Painted
Route
Tower
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At a certain point, if you still have your marbles and are not faced with serious financial challenges, you have a chance to put your house in order. It's a cliche, but it's underestimated as an analgesic on all levels. Putting your house in order, if you can do it, is one of the most comforting activities, and the benefits of it are incalculable.
Leonard Cohen / Singer-Songwriter
Chance
Benefits
Certain
Cliche
Comforting
Financial
House
Levels
Order
Serious
Underestimated
You Can Do It
Activities
Certain Point
Still
Faced
Incalculable
Put
Marbles
Point
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