{"quotes":[{"text":"The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.","author":"Elbert Hubbard","tags":["beautiful","process","statue "],"id":8758,"author_id":"Elbert+Hubbard"},{"text":"The statue was of a nude woman playing a slide trombone. It was entitles, enigmatically, Evelyn and Her Magic Violin.","author":"Kurt Vonnegut Jr.","tags":["magic","nude","sculpture","statue","trombone","violin"],"id":21966,"author_id":"Kurt+Vonnegut+Jr."},{"text":"As a sculptor sculpts a statue, an educator educates our future generation. Beauty depends on the creator.","author":"Debasish Mridha","tags":["beauty","creator","education","educator","future","generation","happiness","hope","inspirational","intelligence","knowledge","life","love","philosophy","sculptor","statue","truth","wisdom"],"id":42769,"author_id":"Debasish+Mridha"},{"text":"We even commissioned a smaller pair of these statues for the baggage claim area in the regular lobby. Gives all those Normal conspiracy nuts something to talk about besides the Blue Mustang. They think our statues are the work of Masons or reptilian beings. Ha.","author":"Daven Anderson","tags":["airport","blue","conspiracy","denver","dia","gargoyle","mustang","statue","vampire"],"id":141678,"author_id":"Daven+Anderson"},{"text":"Doing a little at once can fix something, eventually, but I feel like when you believe something is truly a problem, you throw everything you have at it, because you just can't help yourself.","author":"Veronica Roth","tags":["allegiant","beatrice-prior","bureau","damage","divergent","four","genetic","inspirational","insurgent","realistic","statue","tris","true","veronica-roth"],"id":145542,"author_id":"Veronica+Roth"},{"text":"Does one love a statue?' she demanded. 'Shall I caress a picture? Shall I rain tears or kisses over the mere semblance of a life that does not live, shall I fondle hands that never return my clasp? Love! Love is in my heart -yes! Like a shut-up fire in a tomb,but you hold the key, and the flame dies for want of air.","author":"Marie Corelli","tags":["heart","life","love","statue","tomb"],"id":160317,"author_id":"Marie+Corelli"},{"text":"Heroes and scholars represent the opposite extremes... The scholar struggles for the benefit of all humanity, sometimes to reduce physical effort, sometimes to reduce pain, and sometimes to postpone death, or at least render it more bearable. In contrast, the patriot sacrifices a rather substantial part of humanity for the sake of his own prestige. His statue is always erected on a pedestal of ruins and corpses... In contrast, all humanity crowns a scholar, love forms the pedestal of his statues, and his triumphs defy the desecration of time and the judgment of history.","author":"Santiago Ramón y Cajal","tags":["benefit","contrast","corpses","crown","death","desecration","effort","extreme","heroes","history","humanity","inspirational","judgement","love","opposite","pain","patriot","pedestal","prestige","ruins","sacrifice","scholars","science","statue","struggle","time","triumph"],"id":277106,"author_id":"Santiago+Ram%C3%B3n+y+Cajal"},{"text":"True leaders are like statues, whether it rains or it shines, they never bend their necks to look backwards! They never run away from challenges!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["backward","backwards","bend","challenge","challenges","change","food-for-thought","israelmore-ayivor","lead","leader","leaders","leadership","look","look-back","look-backwards","neck","never-change","never-look-backward","never-run-away","rain","rainfall","run","run-away","self-leader","self-leaders","self-leadership","shine","shines","statue","statues","sun","sunshine","take-the-lead","true","true-leaders","truth","water"],"id":319202,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"The relationship between critic and writer is similar to the one between the pigeon and the statue.","author":"Ashwin Sanghi","tags":["statue","writer","between "],"id":326806,"author_id":"Ashwin+Sanghi"},{"text":"What can you learn from a statue? You can learn to stay calm whatever happens!","author":"Mehmet Murat ildan","tags":["calm","calm","ildan-wisdom","ildan-wise-sayings","ildan-words","learn","learning","learning","mehmet-murat-ildan","mehmet-murat-ildan","statue","stay-calm","staying-calm","turkish-","turkish-literature","turkish-playwrights","turkish","turkish","turkish-wisdom-words","turkish-writers"],"id":347974,"author_id":"Mehmet+Murat+ildan"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":13,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}