This is a list of leaning towers. A leaning tower is a tower which, either intentionally, or unintentionally (due to errors in design, construction or to subsequent external influence) does not stand perpendicular to the ground. The most famous example is the Leaning Tower of Pisa in Italy.
Famous quotes containing the words list of, list, leaning and/or towers:
“Thirty—the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)
“We saw the machinery where murderers are now executed. Seven have been executed. The plan is better than the old one. It is quietly done. Only a few, at the most about thirty or forty, can witness [an execution]. It excites nobody outside of the list permitted to attend. I think the time for capital punishment has passed. I would abolish it. But while it lasts this is the best mode.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
“he dreadful darts
With rapid glide along the leaning line;
And, fixing in the wretch his cruel fangs”
—James Thomson (1700–1748)
“The sardonic funeral towers of metropolitan finance.”
—Lewis Mumford (1895–1990)