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“German is of stone, limestone, pudding stone, marble, granite even, and so to a considerable degree is English, whereas French is bronze and gives out a metallic resonance with tones that neither German nor English tolerate.”

Giving Degrees Stones Tone Tolerate Marble Resonance Bronze Pudding Granite Metallic Limestone

Author:Bernard Berenson

“There's this Indian fellow who worked out a cycle like the idea of stone-age, bronze-age, only he did it on an Indian one. The cycle goes from nothing until now and 20th century and then on and right around the cycle until the people are really grooving and then just sinks back into ignorance until it gets back into the beginning again. So the 20th century is a fraction of that cycle, and how many of those cycles has it done yet? It's done as many as you think and all these times it's been through exactly the same things, and it'll be this again.”

People Thinking Ideas Done Age Century Ignorance Stones Fellows Indian Cycles Get Back 20th Century Fractions Begin Again Bronze Stone Age

Author:George Harrison

“What is conserved in the ground? Stone, bronze, ivory, bone, sometimes pottery. Never wood objects, no fabric or skins. That completely skews our notions about primitive man.”

Men Sometimes Objects Stones Skins Notion Woods Bones Primitive Fabric Ivory Bronze Pottery Primitive Man

Author:Pablo Picasso

“I see no reason why I should tickle stones or waste time on polishing bronze.”

Should Reason Waste Stones Reason Why No Reason Wasting Time Bronze

Author:Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

“Out of the closets and into the museums, libraries, architectural monuments, concert halls, bookstores, recording studios and film studios of the world. Everything belongs to the inspired and dedicated thief…. Words, colors, light, sounds, stone, wood, bronze belong to the living artist. They belong to anyone who can use them. Loot the Louvre! A bas l’originalité, the sterile and assertive ego that imprisons us as it creates. Vive le vol-pure, shameless, total. We are not responsible. Steal anything in sight.”

“When the Dark comes rising six shall turn it back; Three from the circle, three from the track; Wood, bronze, iron; Water, fire, stone; Five will return and one go alone. Iron for the birthday; bronze carried long; Wood from the burning; stone out of song; Fire in the candle ring; water from the thaw; Six signs the circle and the grail gone before. Fire on the mountain shall find the harp of gold Played to wake the sleepers, oldest of old. Power from the Green Witch, lost beneath the sea. All shall find the Light at last, silver on the tree.”

Source: The Dark Is Rising: Movie Tie-in Edition

“You must try, the voice said, to become colder. I understood at once. It's like the bodies of gods: cast in bronze, braced in stone. Only something heartless could bear the full weight.”

Trying Said Body Voice Bears Understood Stones Weight Casts Heartless Bronze

Book:The lives of the heart

Source: The lives of the heart

“Our patriotism comes straight from the Romans. This is why French children are encouraged to seek inspiration for it in Corneille. It is a pagan virtue, if these two words are compatible. The word pagan, when applied to Rome, early possesses the significance charged with horror which the early Christian controversialists gave it. The Romans really were an atheistic and idolatrous people; not idolatrous with regard to images made of stone or bronze, but idolatrous with regard to themselves. It is this idolatry of self which they have bequeathed to us in the form of patriotism.”

People Ifs Children Made Two Self Inspiration Christian Form Virtue Horror Stones Regard Patriotism Significance Rome Pagan Idolatry Atheistic Compatible Bronze

Author:Simone Weil

“You can keep the things of bronze and stone and give me one man to remember me just once a year.”

Men Giving Years Remember Stones Give Me One Man Last Words Remember Me Bronze

Author:Damon Runyon