Stone Cutter Quotes

#1. I found I'm quite happy working on a sentence for an hour or more, searching for the right phrase, the right word. I compare it to the work of a stone cutter - chipping away at the raw material until it's just right, or as right as you can get it.

Harriet Doerr

#2. He repeated until his dying day that there was no one with more common sense, no stone cutter more obstinate, no manager more lucid or dangerous, than a poet.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#3. What is patience but an equanimity which enables you to rise superior to the trials of life.

William Osler

#4. This world is so full of care and sorrow that it is a gracious debt we owe to one another to discover the bright crystals of delight hidden in somber circumstances and irksome tasks.

Helen Keller

#5. Something about guys showing their soft side always made me feel all sigh-worthy.

Linda Kage

#6. Whether we laugh or cry, the days are going to pass by. So why not choose to laugh?

Mata Amritanandamayi

#7. Acting for kids is like playing house, you know? But growing up in Hollywood, it just made it seem possible.

Jennifer Jason Leigh

#8. A marble cutter, with chisel and hammer, was changing a stone into a statue. A preacher looking on said: "I wish I could deal such changing blows on stony hearts." The workman answered: "Maybe you could, if you worked like me, upon your knees."

Arthur Tappan Pierson

#9. How wonderful it was to sit on a set with Norman Mailer and get to know him.

Frances Fisher

#10. Realistically, the chance of any book becoming a film is slim.

Kenneth Oppel

#11. Emotional maturity is the ability to stick to a job and to struggle through until it is finished, to endure unpleasantness, discomfort and frustration.

Edward Adam Strecker

#12. I can't play my songs on the smaller harp. I have a Celtic harp. I can't do the key changes.

Joanna Newsom

#13. I was on the mathematics faculty at M.I.T. from 1951 through until I resigned in the spring of 1959.

John Forbes Nash Jr.