Quarry Quotes

29 quotes by 26 authors

Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character. — Samuel Butler
But I think the real tension lies in the relationship between what you might call the pursuer and his quarry, whether it's the writer or… — John le Carre
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
Nelson Mandela once remarked that he befriended his jailers, those grim, khaki-clad overseers of his decades of hard labor in a limestone quarry, by "exploiting… — Marc Ian Barasch
The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his quarry… — Marc Bloch
Isnâ€™t there a time or two you can remember when somehow an animal youâ€™ve hunted has done something to make you let him vanish in… — Gene Hill
Itâ€™s paradoxical that the death of your quarry is besides the point and at the same time the whole point. A chase without a kill… — Philip Caputo
I consider an human soul without education like marble in the quarry, which shows none of its inherent beauties till the skill of the polisher… — Joseph Addison
The fish is not so much your quarry as your partner. — Arnold Gingrich
The authour who imitates his predecessors only by furnishing himself with thoughts and elegances out of the same general magazine of literature, can with little… — Samuel Johnson
Who are the farmer's servants? ... Geology and Chemistry, the quarry of the air, the water of the brook, the lightning of the cloud, the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Come, see the north-wind's masonry, Out of an unseen quarry evermore Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer Curves his white bastions with projected roof Round… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism -- victimless collecting, as it were... in a world that is well on its… — Susan Sontag
Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
From the top of the quarry cliffs, one could see the New Jersey suburbs bordered by the New York City skyline. — Robert Smithson
they do not know that they seek only the chase and not the quarry. — Blaise Pascal
I'm so sorry," I whisper. I lean forward and kiss him. His eyelashes flutter and he looks at me through a haze of opiates. "Hey,… — Suzanne Collins
So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan which moves To that mysterious realm where each shall take His chamber in… — William C. Bryant
Perhaps she drives men away. Perhaps, without even being able to help herself, she just puts men into her ill-tempered car and drives them off:… — Lorrie Moore
as a bird swoops down on it's prey, and assumes this land bound wretch into heaven, so did romeo steal her lips before they fled… — Anne Fortier

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