#stone

My touchstone for every question is the Constitution. ↗

— Ted Cruz

#every #question #touchstone

William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#gladstone #redeeming #single #william

Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts. ↗

— Robert Fulghum

#break #hearts #our #sticks #stones

Fire is the origin of stone.By working the stone with heat, I am returning it to its source. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#fire #heat #i #i am #origin

I soon realised that what had happened on a small scale cannot necessarily be repeated on a larger scale. The stones were so big that the amount of heat required was prohibitively expensive and wasteful. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#big #cannot #expensive #had #happened

Once the fired stone is out of the kiln, it is still possible to mentally reconstruct it in its original form. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#form #mentally #once #original #out

Stones are checked every so often to see if any have split or at worst exploded. An explosion can leave debris in the elements so the firing has to be abandoned. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#any #checked #debris #elements #every

The first stone was just tried in the spirit of experimentation. The opening of the stone was far more interesting than the drawing that I had done on it. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#drawing #experimentation #far #first #had

The hardened mass of liquid stones had much stronger qualities than those which had simply torn. The skin remained a recognisable part of the molten stone. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#hardened #liquid #mass #much #part

The stones tear like flesh, rather than breaking. Although what happens is violent, it is a violence that is in stone. A tear is more unnerving than a break. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#break #breaking #flesh #happens #like