Health Quote by Grady Hendrix

“Who shall conceive the horrors of my secret toil as I dabbled among the unhallowed damps of the grave or tortured the living animal…

— Mary Shelley

Now sticks 'n' stones'll break ya bones, a little tokin' never hurt no one. Let's toke, toke, toke about it.

— Nikola Tesla

“Life's a forge! Yes, and hammer and anvil, too! You'll be roasted, smelted, and pounded, and you'll scarce know what's happening to you. But…

— Lloyd Alexander

“The tribe that confuses its totems and symbols with reality has succumbed to fetishism and may be in more trouble than it realises.”

— Christopher Hitchens

“Why are we weighed upon with heaviness, And utterly consumed with sharp distress, While all things else have rest from weariness? All things have…

— James Baldwin

“life was a stone cutting and grinding...”

— Raymond Carver

The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.

— Aeschylus

With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long…

— Matthew Arnold

“You scrape yourself, over and over, against all the hard edges of life so that you become so sharp that people can be wounded…

— Meli Raine

Cutting for Stone is nothing short of masterful -a riveting tale of love, medicine, and the complex dynamic of twin brothers. It is beautifully…

— Richard Selzer

“Early risers strolling along the Thames would see the toshers wading through the muck of low tide, dressed almost comically in flowing velveteen coats,…

— Steven Johnson

Pardon, gentles all, the flat unraised spirits that have dared on this unworthy scaffold to bring forth so great an object.

— William Shakespeare