Cut Stone

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

“Duccio came not by usura
nor Pier della Francesca; Zuan Bellin’ not by usura
nor was ‘La Calunnia’ painted.
Came not by usura Angelico; came not Ambrogio Praedis,
Came no church of cut stone signed: Adamo me fecit.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

“If you want to know something he won’t tell you, cut off one of his fingers—the little one. Then tell him his thumb’s next. After that he’ll tell you if he wears ladies’ underwear.”
—Quentin Tarantino, U.S. screenwriter and director. Mr. White (Harvey Keitel)

“I passed a tomb among green shades
Where seven anemones with down-dropped heads
Wept tears of dew upon the stone beneath.”
—Unknown. The Thousand and One Nights.

AWP. Anthology of World Poetry, An. Mark Van Doren, ed. (Rev. and enl. Ed., 1936)