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"Anything Can Happen is also, incidentally, a poem that arose from teaching. I'd talked about the Horace Ode (I, 34) [on which the poem is based] in a lecture I gave at Harvard in the fall of 2000 entitled Bright Boltsand remembered it after the Twin Towers attack."
"The Black Tower stands with the Lion of Andor." -Logain"
"The King is in his Tower, eating bread and honey. The Breakers in the basement, making all the money."
"I hold to no God," Roland said. "I hold to the Tower, and won't pray to that."
"See the BEAR of fearsome size! All the WORLD'S within his eyes. TIME grows thin, the past is a riddle; The TOWER awaits you in the middle."
"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."
"Denmark is sadly a hellish place if you happen to be a pig, but the brioche and fruits that tower on the table before me have me hastily attaching a feedbag."
"I do have a regard for the musicality of language that came from BBC sitcoms like 'Fawlty Towers.'"
"A journey of a thousand miles starts in front of your feet. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth. A journey of a thousand miles starts in front of your feet."
"At the entrance to the original tower, there is a stone into which Jung carved some words with his own hand: 'Cold or not, God is present."
"His chains chinked softly. I seldom fling children from towers to improve their health. Yes, I meant for him to die."
"Things always seem fairer when we look back at them, and it is out of that inaccessible tower of the past that Longing leans and beckons."
"Jan built herself an ivory tower to keep the wolves out; she never dreamed they were already inside."
"Age shakes Athena's tower, but spares gray Marathon."
