“when the sun rose at the quarry it turned the world lavender and gold. After” — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“The dogs are still playing in the yard, but the quarry will not escape them, never mind how fast it is running… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
West Africa today is just a quarry of paving stones for Hell, and those stones were cemented in place with — Mary Kingsley Copy Share Image
Sorry-in-the-Vale, Sorriest River, Crying Pools," said Jared. "Is the quarry called Really Depressed Quarry? — Sarah Rees Brennan Copy Share Image
So scented the grim Feature, and upturn'd His nostril wide into the murky air, Sagacious of his quarry from so far. — John Milton Copy Share Image
My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
From the top of the quarry cliffs, one could see the New Jersey suburbs bordered by the New York City skyline. — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
But I think the real tension lies in the relationship between what you might call the pursuer and his quarry, whether it's… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
Sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
Guido the plumber and Michelangelo obtained their marble from the same quarry, but what each saw in the marble made the difference… — Rob Kall Copy Share Image
We need to revisit that planning decision because in many cases across our capital [London], greenbelt land doesn't deserve the name. Car… — David Lammy Copy Share Image
Me, I was still in the pygmy hippo in a skirt, singing lusty songs about Solomon's private life and a giant stone… — Jonathan Stroud Copy Share Image
“Life lies behind us as the quarry from whence we get tiles and copestones for the masonry of to-day. This is the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The search for truth can be compared to a cat chasing her tail: frantic in her pursuit, her quarry nevetheless eludes her;… — Gina Barreca Copy Share Image
The Times are the masquerade of the eternities; trivial to the dull, tokens of noble and majestic agents to the wise; the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Newshounds are people with mini-video cameras, people who are continually taking pictures in the street and sending the tapes in to CNN.… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
The stone in quarries is found to be of different and unlike qualities. In some it is soft, in others it is… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
I'm so sorry," I whisper. I lean forward and kiss him. His eyelashes flutter and he looks at me through a haze… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
It is quite easy to debase the sport, change its values, dilute its ethics and destroy its traditional associations with quietness, relaxation… — Roderick Haig-Brown Copy Share Image
as a bird swoops down on it's prey, and assumes this land bound wretch into heaven, so did romeo steal her lips… — Anne Fortier Copy Share Image
So live, that when thy summons comes to join, The innumerable caravan which moves, To that mysterious realm where each shall take,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All these soft kinds [of stone] have the advantage that they can be easily worked as soon as they have been taken… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
Isn’t there a time or two you can remember when somehow an animal you’ve hunted has done something to make you let… — Gene Hill Copy Share Image
A minute analysis of life at once destroys that splendor which dazzles the imagination. Whatsoever grandeur can display, or luxury enjoy, is… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism -- victimless collecting, as it were... in a world that is… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“Their quarry had been cornered in his defenses and their bloodlust was such that they were likely to pay top Julep to… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
The undertaking of a careless man succeeds not, though he use the right expedients: a clever hunter, though well placed in ambush,… — J. K. Bharavi Copy Share Image
When I was a kid the highlight of my week would be doing a fossil hunt at the local quarry... that kind… — Alice Lowe Copy Share Image
“Life lies behind us as the quarry from whence we get tiles and copestones for the masonry of to-day.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
One has to tiptoe lightly and steal up to one's quarry; you don't swish the water when you are fishing. — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
Cameras are like dogs, but dumb, and toward quarry, even more faithful. They point, they render, and defy the photographer who hopes. — Tod Papageorge Copy Share Image
Who are the farmer's servants? ... Geology and Chemistry, the quarry of the air, the water of the brook, the lightning of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Perhaps she drives men away. Perhaps, without even being able to help herself, she just puts men into her ill-tempered car and… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image