Rocks Quotes - Page 38

• If even rock was interesting, if even this ugliness was worth whole shelves at the library, required sophisticated tools to study, and inspired grown men to crack mountains and saw crystals--then what wasn't?

  Annie Dillard

  Men, Interesting, Mountain

  Annie Dillard (2016). “An American Childhood”, p.149, Canongate Books

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• The Three Wiseman: The weather has been awful, The countryside is dreary, Marsh, jungle, rock; and echoes mock, Calling our hope unlawful; But a silly song can help along Yours ever and sincerely: At least we know for certain that we are three old sinners, that this journey is much too long, that we want our dinners, and miss our wives, our books, our dogs, but have only the vaguest idea why we are what we are. To discover how to be human now Is the reason we follow this star.

  W. H. Auden

  Dog, Song, Stars

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• I was lingering out on the pavement. There was a missing person inside of myself and I needed to find him . . . I felt done for, an empty burned-out wreck . . . Wherever I am, I'm a '60s troubadour, a folk-rock relic, a wordsmith from bygone days, a fictitious head of state from a place nobody knows.

  Bob Dylan

  Missing, Done, Wrecks

  Bob Dylan (2004). “Chronicles: Volume One”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

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• I've always felt that rock & roll was very, very wholesome.

  Aretha Franklin

  Music, Felt

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• Water, water, water....There is no shortage of water in the desert but exactly the right amount , a perfect ratio of water to rock, water to sand, insuring that wide free open, generous spacing among plants and animals, homes and towns and cities, which makes the arid West so different from any other part of the nation. There is no lack of water here unless you try to establish a city where no city should be.

  Edward Abbey

  Home, Animal, Cities

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.126, Simon and Schuster

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• Rocks are space, and space is illusion.

  Jack Kerouac

  Space, Illusion

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• She seems to have had the ability to stand firmly on the rock of her past while living completely and unregretfully in the present.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Grandma, Past, Grandpa

  Madeleine L'Engle (2017). “The Crosswicks Journals: A Circle of Quiet, The Summer of the Great-Grandmother, The Irrational Season, and Two-Part Invention”, p.259, Open Road Media

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• They lay listening. Can you do it? When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no time. Now is the time. Curse God and die. What if it doesn't fire? It has to fire. What if it doesn't fire? Could you crush that beloved skull with a rock? Is there such a being within you of which you know nothing? Can there be? Hold him in your arms. Just so. The soul is quick. Pull him toward you. Kiss him. Quickly.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Crush, Kissing, Fire

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• Q: What’s hard for you? A: Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane. Math is hard. Reading a map. Following orders. Carpentry. Electronics. Plumbing. Remembering things correctly. Straight lines. Sheet rock. Finding a safety pin. Patience with others. Ordering in Chinese. Stereo instructions in German.

  Tom Waits

  Reading, Math, Reality

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• In the morning I'm like a snake in the spring: I need to lie out on a warm rock and let the sun sink into me before I can start wiggling around and get on with the day.

  Katherine Hannigan

  Morning, Spring, Lying

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• They say - "they" being the great philosophers, or possibly the cast of Seinfeld - that breaking up is like pushing over a Coke machine. You can't just do it, you have to set the thing in motion, rock it back and forth a few times.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Machines, Coke, Pushing

  Jennifer Weiner (2001). “Good in Bed: A Novel”, Atria Books

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• Her fingers moved among barnacles and mussels, blue-black, sharp-edged. Neon red starfish were limp Dalis on the rocks, surrounded by bouquets of stinging anemones and purple bursts of spiny sea urchins.

  Janet Fitch

  Blue, Sea, Purple

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• In an ideal world the scientist should find a method to prevent the most severe forms of autism but allow the milder forms to survive. After all, the really social people did not invent the first stone spear. It was probably invented by an Aspie who chipped away at rocks while the other people socialized around the campfire. Without autism traits we might still be living in caves.

  Temple Grandin

  People, Autism, Caves

  Temple Grandin (2009). “Thinking in Pictures”, p.85, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• A small rock holds back a great wave.

  Homer

  Inspirational, Teenager, Teens

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• (Rush are) like the JD Salinger of Canadian Prog Rock

  Stephen Colbert

  Salinger

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• Tightly held by rocks Through winter, the ice today Begins to come undone: A way-seeker also is the water, Melting, murmuring from the moss.

  Saigyō

  Winter, Ice, Water

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• She would have liked to sit upon a rock and listen to words, not of any man, but detached, mysterious, poetic words that she alone would interpret through some sense inherited from sleep.

  Patrick White

  Sleep, Men, Mysterious

  Patrick White (2011). “Voss”, p.63, Random House

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• Saphira waved her tail, the tip whistling loudly. "I'm not asking you to. However, if we attack first, we may gain the advantage." "Have you gone crazy? They'll..." Eragon's voice trailed off as he thought about it. "They won't be able to do a thing." "Exactly," said Saphira. "We can inflict lots of damage from a safe height." "Let's drop rocks on them!

  Christopher Paolini

  Crazy, Voice, Tails

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• And there were other rocks that were like animals, creeping, horrible animals, putting out their tongues, and others were like words I could not say, and others like dead people lying on the grass. I went on among them, though they frightened me, and my heart was full of wicked song they put into it; and I wanted to make faces and twist myself about the way they did, and I went on and on a long way till at last I liked the rocks and they didn’t frighten me any more

  Arthur Machen

  Song, Lying, Heart

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• It's not an old book, or a treasure map. Nope. Staring up at me was a pile of rocks.

  Wendy Mass

  Book, Maps, Treasure

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• Sand is overrated. It's just tiny little rocks.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Littles, Tiny, Sand

  Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• love is a hawk with velvet claws love is a rock with heart and veins love is a lion with satin jaws love is a storm with silken reins

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Heart, Love Is, Storm

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• There were no men in this painting, but it was about men, the kind who caused women to fall. I did not ascribe any intentions to these men. They were like the weather, they didn't have a mind. They merely drenched you or struck you like lightning and moved on, mindless as blizzards. Or they were like rocks, a line of sharp slippery rocks with jagged edges. You could walk with care along between the rocks, picking your steps, and if you slipped you'd fall and cut yourself, but it was no use blaming the rocks.

  Margaret Atwood

  Fall, Cutting, Men

  Margaret Atwood, Victor-Lévy Beaulieu, Phyllis Aronoff, Howard Scott (1998). “Two Solicitudes: Conversations”, McClelland & Stewart

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• Man corrupt everything, say Shug. He on your box of grits, in your head, and all over the radio. He try to make you think he everywhere. Soon as you think he everywhere, you think he God. But he ain't. Whenever you trying to pray, and man plop himself on the other end of it, tell him to git lost, say Shug. Conjure up the flowers, wind, water, a big rock.

  Alice Walker

  Flower, Men, Thinking

  Alice Walker (2012). “Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism”, p.31, Ballantine Books

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• What?" It was a good word. Like a rock in a river, sticking up to let you land on it, so you could make your way across the flow.

  Patricia A. McKillip

  Land, Rivers, Way

  Patricia A. McKillip (2006). “Solstice Wood”, p.138, Penguin

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