Cracks Quote by Annie Dillard

I'd harbored hopes that the intelligence that once inhabited novels or films would ingest rock. I was, perhaps, wrong.

— Lou Reed

Rock is much more malleable than ideas.

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“The rocks were really big around the mountains and at times some rocks seemed as if they had been sculpted by some unknown artist.”

— Avijeet Das

We passed hieroglyphic scrolls, gold jewelry, sarcophagi, statues of pharaohs, and huge chunks of limestone. Why would someone display a rock? Aren't there enough…

— Rick Riordan

Much as I admired the elegance of physical theories, which at that time geology wholly lacked, I preferred a life in the woods to…

— Anonymous

When the uncultured man sees a stone in the road it tells him no story other than the fact that he sees a stone…

— Elisha Gray

No Geologist worth anything is permanently bound to a desk or laboratory, but the charming notion that true science can only be based on…

— Stephen Jay Gould

We're stunned by the diversity of rocks. This stuff looks like it was put into a blender.

— Steven Squyres

“The rock I'd seen in my life looked dull because in all ignorance I'd never thought to knock it open. People have cracked ordinary…

— Annie Dillard

“Although men were strong like rocks, any stone could crack. Women were more like water. They nurtured life and could shape the hardest granite…

— Michael J. Sullivan

I think that the history of rock could be recycled in a different way and brought back into focus without the luggage that comes…

— David Bowie

Paper Covers Rock is dazzling in its intensity and intelligence, spell-binding in its terrible beauty.

— Kathi Appelt