Top 14 Lapidary Quotes
#1. Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.
Victor Hugo
#2. Dust webbed the window and the showtrays. Dust darkened the toiling fingers with their vulture nails. Dust slept on dull coils of bronze and silver, lozenges of cinnabar, on rubies, leprous and winedark stones.
James Joyce
#3. Nuclear scientists lost their innocence when we used the atom bomb for the very first time. So we could argue computer scientists lost their innocence in 2009 when we started using malware as an offensive attack weapon.
Mikko Hypponen
#4. Nothing expresses Kafka's innermost sense of self more profoundly than his lapidary definition of "writing as a form of prayer": he was a writer. Not a man who wrote, but one to whom writing was the only form of being, the only means of defying death in life.
Ernst Pawel
#5. Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths?
Edith Wharton
#6. Oh if at every moment of our lives we could know the consequences of some of the utterings, thoughts and deeds that seem so trivial and unimportant at the time! And should we not conclude from such examples that there is no such thing in life as unimportant moments devoid of meaning for the future?
Isabelle Eberhardt
#8. I cherish the review-as-literature; as lapidary journalism in the eighteenth-century mode, the last hard sparkling diamond in theessayists's tarnished crown. To me, writing a good review is not just a way to make extra money, but a sacred duty.
Florence King
#9. Middle-class prosperity is lapidary; the flow of cash rounds and smooths a person like water does riverbed stones.
Neal Stephenson
#10. The diamond of character is revealed by the concussion of misfortune, as the splendor of the precious jewel of the mine is developed by the blows of the lapidary.
Francis Alexander Durivage
#12. Of all the skills necessary for her work, what she was perhaps worst at was being polite to inanimate things.
China Mieville
#14. Ever since I was a little kid, I told my mom that I want to go to Hollywood and make a 'Batman' movie.
David S.Goyer