Cut Stone

Famous quotes containing the words cut stone, cut and/or stone:

    “and a man climbing
    must scrape his knees, and bring
    the grip of his hands into play. The cut stone
    consoles his groping feet. Wings brush past him.
    The poem ascends.”
    —Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

    “It was not exactly a hairdresser’s; that is to say, people of a coarse and vulgar turn of mind might have called it a barber’s; for they not only cut and curled ladies elegantly, and children carefully, but shaved gentlemen easily.”
    —Charles Dickens (1812–1870)

    “Converse: Don’t they say that this is where everybody finds out who they are? Huh?
    Hicks: Yeah. What a bummer for the gooks.”
    —Judith Rascoe, U.S. screenwriter, Robert Stone (b. 1939)