Cherries Quote by Samuel Johnson

“What use, Milton, a silly story Of our lost general parents, eaters of fruit?”

— Gary Snyder

“Is it not indeed, possible that, while a high order of genius is necessarily ambitious, the highest is above that which is termed ambition?…

— Edgar Allan Poe

A marble cutter, with chisel and hammer, was changing a stone into a statue. A preacher looking on said: "I wish I could deal…

— Arthur Tappan Pierson

His dad said even the cavemen had geniuses among them. Somebody had thought up the wheel.

— Suzanne Collins

Alexandros of Antioch took a block of marble and chiseled away from it everything that was not his masterpiece, the Venus de Milo. If…

— Robert Breault

“I've permanently yanked the silver spoon from my mouth, and I buried it miles beneath the Earth's crust. I mean, figuratively speaking, of course.…

— Cabin Boy

Don Quixote thought he could have made beautiful bird-cages and toothpicks if his brain had not been so full of ideas of chivalry. Most…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

You can't make a sculpture until you've got a lump of rock.

— Eran Creevy

“The hardest stone to cut and carve is within us.”

— Stevan V. Nikolic

When primeval man first used flint stones for any purpose, he would have accidentally splintered them, and would then have used the sharp fragments.…

— Charles Darwin

If someone took the finest marble and knew how to shape it artfully: Prometheus' material was lowly clay, but his statues walked.

— Franz Grillparzer

“He did. He researched her. Someone told him that she had a special interest in John Milton. It did not take long to discover…

— Ian McEwan