Basalt Quotes

#1. Cathedrals do not seem to me to have been built. They seem, rather, stupendous growths of nature, like crystals, or cliffs of basalt.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#2. There seemed to be nothing that contributed more to squalor than a bunch of basalt-block structures designed to lift people out of squalor.

Philip K. Dick

#3. The citadel of Machaerus rose east of the Dead Sea on a basalt Peak shaped like a cone, girdled by four deep valleys; two about its sides, one in front, and the fourth behind.

Gustave Flaubert

#4. The Deccan Traps volcanoes spilled as much as a half million cubic miles of basalt over an area equal to half of present-day India. In places, the basalt lies more than a mile deep.

Greg Breining

#5. We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is all about - farming replacing hunting.

Jacques-Yves Cousteau

#6. He and I had a bridge that no one else traveled that made us artistic lovers, passionate without a touch of the flesh. He made me thrive, and valuing that, I could do nothing that would endanger it.

Susan Vreeland

#7. We and we alone have the power to change our lives, and we can choose to do so at any moment.

Debbie Ford

#8. I am fascinated a) by transgressive art and b) what happens beyond the boundaries.

Neil Gaiman

#9. In my career as a director, there's always been some point where you get halfway through it, or three-quarters, and you go: 'What is this thing all about, and why am I telling the story? Does anybody really care about seeing this?' At that time you have to say: 'OK, forget that and just go ahead.'

Clint Eastwood

#10. I pick my nose and I'm not ashamed to admit it. If there's a bogey then just pick it, man.

Justin Timberlake

#11. There never was a moment, and never will be, when we are without the power to alter our destiny.

Steven Pressfield

#12. I look a bit like him.

Robert Pattinson

#13. You have to go through a storm to get a rainbow.

Dainere Anthoney

#14. I've never made any concessions, so I am 100% responsible for my films. This makes me feel very proud.

Jean-Pierre Jeunet

#15. She always said how lucky were to be friends ... but it was us baby who were the lucky ones

Jonathan Larson

#16. I wouldn't write about people who are living and who are close to me, because I think it's a very violent thing to do to another person. And anytime I have done it, even in the disguise of fiction, the results have been horrific.

Zadie Smith

#17. When our fingers touch a crackle of electricity passes between us.

Cathy Cassidy

#18. In effect, none of the most important countries which must build a new world order have had any experience with the multistate system that is emerging. Never before has a new world order had to be assembled from so many different perceptions, or on so global a scale.

Henry Kissinger