“Beyond the terrace, a light breeze stirred the reeds at the edge of the pond. Looking out at this intimate vista, one could see the reeds and a stone lantern and the brightest of the evening's stars floating on the gloaming mirror of the pond. Then the breeze came again to crack the water's surface, and the picture was flooded.” LightStarsWaterStonesMirrorsEdgesSurfaceEveningIntimateCracksFloatingBreezePondsReedsVistasLanternsTerraceGloaming Book:The Commoner Source: The Commoner
“Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species.” ArtRealRunningHalfArt IsRiversStonesSpeciesFeministGenderTinyCracksOne HalfFlawlessCreeksSubjugationFeminist Art Author:Andrea Dworkin
“If thou shouldst paint mountains in a good style and to look natural, take some large stones full of cracks and copy them.” IfsLooksNaturalStyleMountainModelsStonesPaintCopiesCracks Author:Cennino Cennini
“The world is a stone wall ... and they have put the stones so close together that there is not a single crack through which one may enter.” WorldMayTogetherWallStonesCracksStone Walls Author:Eiji Yoshikawa
“I understand how you could see something in the root of a tree, a crack in the wall, in an eroded stone or pebble. But marble? It comes off in blocks and doesn't evoke any image. It does not inspire.” DoeTreeInspireWallStonesRootsBlockCracksMarbleEvokePebbles Author:Pablo Picasso
“Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.” KnowsFirstsLooksTwoMotivationalLastsPeaceLeadershipWorkInspiringGoneRocksSelf EsteemHundredDeterminationStonesPerseveranceBlowCracksSplitsNever Giving UpPersistentPersevereGave UpStay StrongWill And DeterminationDetermination MotivationalDetermination PerseverancePerseverance And DeterminationDetermination And PersistenceCuttersPatience And PerseveranceMotivation And DeterminationSelf PerseverancePersistence In Business Author:Jacob August Riis
“Step on a crack , you'll break your mama's back. Step on a stone, you'll end up all alone. Step on a stick, you're bound to get the Sick. Watch where you tread, you'll bring out all the dead. - A common children's playground chant, usually accompanied by jumping rope or clapping.” ChildrenEndsCommonStepsWatchesBreakStonesSickSticksBoundsCracksJumpingRopeMamaAll AlonePlaygroundsClapping Book:Delirium: The Complete Collection: Delirium, Hana, Pandemonium, Annabel, Raven, Requiem Source: Delirium: The Complete Collection: Delirium, Hana, Pandemonium, Annabel, Raven, Requiem
“This is the world we live in, a world of safety and happiness and order, a world without love. A world where children crack their heads on stone fireplaces and nearly gnaw off their tongues and the parents are concerned. Not heartbroken, frantic, desperate. Concerned, as they are when you fail mathematics, as they are when they are late to pay their taxes.” WorldChildrenOrderParentPayFailingTaxesLateConcernedStonesMathematicsSafetyTongueDesperateCracksHeartbrokenWithout LoveFranticFireplaces Author:Lauren Oliver