Midsummer Night was roasting hot. The shore, of red granite, glowed with the heat; the dark blood of the earth seemed to… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Life is also busy transporting and overturning the soils of earth, the stones, and the minerals. The miles-long drifts of sea kelp… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
Your eyes are as a flame, but our brothers have neither hope nor fire. Your mouth is cut of granite, but our… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Solidarity is not a matter of sentiment but a fact, cold and impassive as the granite foundations of a skyscraper. If the… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
Lay down these words Before your mind like rocks. placed solid, by hands In choice of place, set Before the body of… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
For me chemistry represented an indefinite cloud of future potentialities which enveloped my life to come in black volutes torn by fiery… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
Don't take anything for granite. That's what tombstones are made of. — John R. Erickson Copy Share Image
Mad is the man who is forever gritting his teeth against that granite block, complete and changeless, of the past. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
We need to build a beautiful granite and bronze monument in our nation's capital to honor American heroes, unsung American heroes. And… — Bernard Goldberg Copy Share Image
People who walk across dark bridges, past saints, with dim, small lights. Clouds which move across gray skies past churches with towers… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
German is of stone, limestone, pudding stone, marble, granite even, and so to a considerable degree is English, whereas French is bronze… — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
Filmmaking is finding a piece of granite and you start to chip away and then you have the shape of a head,… — Jason Reitman Copy Share Image
When Ray Charles is concentrating he's like a piece of granite, nothing twitches, nothing, ... He sat for 25 minutes solid like… — Taylor Hackford Copy Share Image
Tears are copiously showered over frailties the discoverer takes a malicious delight in circulating; and thus, all granite on one side of… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
The enthusiasm geologists show for adding new words to their conversation is, if anything, exceeded by their affection for the old. They… — John McPhee Copy Share Image
A clear thought, a pure affection, a resolute act of a virtuous will, have a dignity of quite another kind, and far… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
“Always the seer is a sayer. Somehow his dream is told; somehow he publishes it with solemn joy: sometimes with pencil on… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Toward seven o'clock every morning, I leave my study and step Out on the bright terrace; the sun already burns resplendent Between… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
...wordless conditioning is crude and wholesale; cannot bring home the finer distinctions, cannot inculcate the more complex courses of behavior. For that… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass, Or night-dews on still waters between… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We dream — it is good we are dreaming — It would hurt us — were we awake — But since it… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
And how stands the city on this winter night? More prosperous, more secure, and happier than it was 8 years ago. But… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Lately we have been getting facts pointing to the "oceanic" nature of the floor of so-called inland seas. Through geological investigations it… — Vladimir Belousov Copy Share Image
Cremation has become the most popular form of burial in the United States... People used to want a big, thick granite stone,… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
