Cut Stone

Famous quotes containing the words cut and/or stone:

“‘Twas English cut on Greek and Latin,
Like fustian heretofore on satin;”
—Samuel Butler (1612–1680)

“Here [in London, history] ... seemed the very fabric of things, as if the city were a single growth of stone and brick, uncounted strata of message and meaning, age upon age, generated over the centuries to the dictates of some now all-but-unreadable DNA of commerce and empire.”
—William Gibson (b. 1948)