When I visit the Eiffel Tower I am less taken by the spectacular views of Paris from the top than the guts of the tower itself.
It is a giant erector set writ large.
With graceful spires that reach up into the very heavens
And strange geometric shapes that seem to shrink into themselves as they gain altitude.
There is something kaleidoscopic hidden amidst the lines and shadows of this conglomeration of iron and steel and cables and wires and plastic and imagination.
Just another roadside attraction?
I think not.
I like the Eiffel Tower because it looks like steel and lace: Natalie Lloyd
There are very few times in my life I’ve felt so small. Leisa Rayven
The Eiffel Tower is the Empire State Building after taxes. Unknown
Never in history has a structure been more technologically advanced, materially obsolescent, and gloriously pointless all at the same time. Bill Bryson
I don’t like being up high. It took me three days to get to the top of the Eiffel Tower. Ray Bradbury
I should go to Paris and jump off of the Eiffel Tower. If I took the Concorde, I could be dead three hours earlier. Woody Allen
I like the Eiffel Tower in Las Vegas more than the actual one. David LaChapelle
The Arc de Triomphe, the Eiffel Tower. They’re monumental. They’re straight out of Page 52 in your school history book. Billy Crystal
When President Chirac gave President Bush a souvenir statue of the Eiffel Tower… Bush said ‘This is great! A little oil rig!’ Jay Leno
The Eiffel Tower was once thought impossible to build. Hector Jesus Arencibia
The Eiffel Tower is, um, tall. Ron Cunningham
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