A. N. Wilson
A. N. Wilson

On the rare occasions when I spend a night in Oxford, the keeping of the hours by the clock towers in New College, and Merton, and the great booming of Tom tolling 101 times at 9 pm at Christ Church are inextricably interwoven with memories and regrets and lost joys. The sound almost sends me mad, so intense are the feelings it evokes.

Alfred Noyes
Alfred Noyes

At a certain stage in his evolution, man himself had been able to lay hold upon a higher order of things, which raised him above the level of the beasts that perish, and enabled him to see, at least in the distance, the shining towers of the City of God.

Anand Gopal
Anand Gopal

I was living near the Twin Towers on 9/11, so I saw the attacks, and I had friends who were killed in the attacks.

Ann Richards
Ann Richards

Sometimes when I'm watching television and something, an image, will come on that has to do with 9/11 or some of these families telling their stories, or children talking about drawing pictures of airplanes flying into towers, you know, I find myself still choking up.

Antony Gormley
Antony Gormley

I want people to be excited about cooling towers and megasheds; they're as much part of our history as the rural barn.

Asif Kapadia
Asif Kapadia

You don't have to be someone who likes walking a tightrope across the Twin Towers to watch 'Man On Wire.'

Bayard Taylor
Bayard Taylor

Oh! what waves of crime and bloodshed have swept like the waves of a deluge down the valley of the Rhine! War has laid his mailed hand on those desolate towers and ruthlessly torn down what time has spared, yet he could not mar the beauty of the shore, nor could Time himself hurl down the mountains that guard it.

Cassie Scerbo
Cassie Scerbo

Everything on 'Sharknado' somehow, for some reason, something went wrong with everything. The days we had the water towers, they weren't working.

Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick
Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick

If the only people we seek to impress are within our own ivory towers of artistic excellence or our hallowed institutions, we will find the audience is gone in 20 to 30 years. I find as I keep a broader audience in mind, I choose to sing and say more things I actually want to share and fewer things just for the sake of impressing others.

Chris Benz
Chris Benz

I love how New York as an idea is less a paradigm of manifest destiny and more a romance for the social orphans of the world. We live here to be among the towers and the crowds.