Cutting For Stone Quotes

#1. Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
From Cutting for Stone

Abraham Verghese

#2. Ho said, 'I do not grieve because my feet have been cut off. I grieve because a precious jewel is dubbed a mere stone, and a man of integrity is called a deceiver. This is why I weep.'

Orson Scott Card

#3. Wasn't that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted

Abraham Verghese

#4. Each of us is carving a stone, erecting a column, or cutting a piece of stained glass in the construction of something much bigger than ourselves.

Adrienne Clarkson

#5. When rewriting, move quickly. It's a little like cutting your own hair.

Robert Stone

#6. With Usura With usura hath no man a house of good stone each block cut smooth and well fitting.

Ezra Pound

#7. I just like to know what I'm putting in my mouth before I swallow

Michelle Hodkin

#8. Keep it simple in the kitchen. If you use quality ingredients, you don't need anything fancy to make food delicious: just a knife, a cutting board, and some good nonstick cookware, and you're set.

Curtis Stone

#9. life was a stone cutting and grinding...

Raymond Carver

#10. A fellow will hack half a year at a block of marble to make something in stone that hardly resembles a man. The value of statuary is owing to its difficulty. You would not value the finest head cut upon a carrot.

Samuel Johnson

#11. You look at Vladimir Radmanovic, this guy is cut from stone. As if Michelangelo was reading and a lightening bolt flashed before him.

Bill Walton

#12. I want to learn your trickery and feel what it's like to have me wrapped around your finger. I want to lie to everyone because it gets me where I want faster. I want to be like you, because you are blind; and now that I finally see, I don't want to.

Coco J. Ginger

#13. Sometimes, like in 'Invisible Monsters,' I get too out of control, and instead of a plot point every chapter, I want a plot point in every sentence.

Chuck Palahniuk

#14. In my view, prescribing antidepressant drugs is too often a quick and easy substitute for developing treatment plans that address the totality of health concerns and lifestyle factors that have an impact on wellness, including emotional wellness.

Andrew Weil

#15. Every man at time of Death,
Would fain set forth some saying that may live
After his death and better humankind;
For death gives life's last word a power to live,
And, lie the stone-cut epitaph, remain
After the vanished voice, and speak to men.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#16. Sculpture is not the mere cutting of the form of anything in stone; it is the cutting of the effect of it. Very often the true form, in the marble, would not be in the least like itself.

John Ruskin

#17. If you come any closer Dal'las I will be forced to tie you to our bedja until we are done with our discussion." "Hmm, I've been meaning to suggest a little rope play in our sex life," she practically purred, truly finding the idea exciting.

Nia K. Foxx

#18. The most terrifying thing was how trusting people were.

Stephen King