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Is the carbon molecule lined with thought?
The couturier should be a geometrician, for the human body makes
geometrical figures to which the materials should correspond.
Ignite, my love. Ignite.
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.
I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material but I know it when I see it.
My pencil is like a fencer's foil.
The finest edge is made with the blunt whetstone.
Metal. In some ways, that was the true mark of mankind. Man tamed the stones, the bones of the earth below. Man tamed the fire, that ephemeral, consuming soul of life. And combining the two, he drew forth the marrow of the rocks themselves, then made molten tools.
The only difference between black coal and a precious diamond is the amount of pressure it endured.
A carbon nanotube is just a graphene sheet that's rolled up seamlessly, and this happens in nature; carbon nanotubes are found in mineral deposits around the planet.
We're stunned by the diversity of rocks. This stuff looks like it was put into a blender.
I'm trying to assemble materials for a different mode of life.
I've never let a rhinestone go unturned
I'm an ice sculptor. Last night I made a cube.
You cannot expect stone to be as pliable as clay.
cubes to blow torches.
the skin like velvet over steel,
Its surface sheened with saft that evaporated out from its crystal shielding in threads that degraded to nothing.
The tubular steel chair is surely rational from technical and constructive points of view. It is light, suitable for mass production, and so on. But steel and chromium surfaces are not satisfactory from the human point of view.
Some of the stainless steel discs that I play, I cut myself from pieces of stainless steel that I found. I don't make as many as I used to, because you can't get into surplus and scrap yards as easily anymore.
What I saw had no solidity, it was all made of mist and nylon, with nothing behind.
Silk does for the body what diamonds do for the hand.
I love drawing on lead. Romans used to curse each other with sheets of it. My slave would come slide the sheet under your door with a curse on it. They had amazing writing and drawings on them, and they survive to this day since lead is so stable.
Paper is the strongest material in the world. Things under which a mountain will crumble, you can place on paper and it will hold: beauty at its most intense; love at its fiercest; the greatest grief; the greatest rage.
Selenite occurs in abundance in well formed clear crystals of several inches in length.
Perhaps time's definition of coal is the diamond.
We're seeing diamonds coming back into favor.
Simple, like uncarved wood.
Diamonds are forever.
I set down a beautiful chord on paper - and suddenly it rusts.
Instincts under pressure crush the carbon of conformity and create diamonds.
Neverwinter Wood.
Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.
God made solids, but surfaces were the work of the devil.
But which is the stone that supports the bridge?
Metallic trees. That's new. If you see any steel dryads, be sure to tell me so I can run away screaming.
Solid stone is just sand and water ... Sand and water and a million years gone by.
Moonstones and diamonds," said Griphook, who had sidled into the room without Harry noticing. "Made by goblins, I think?
ballpoint pens guaranteed right on them to write a lifetime on butter under water,
like an angry diamond,
Crafting, as the title suggests,
bradawl. It was just a blunt steel spike set into a handle.
Paper Covers Rock is dazzling in its intensity and intelligence, spell-binding in its terrible beauty.
#3 pencils and quadrille pads.(when asked what CAD tools he used to design the Cray I supercomputer )
I build only living stones
men.
Whatever is not stone is light
The hardness of a diamond is part of its usefulness, but its true value is in the light that shines through it.
What turns to stone is inside you.
The diamond is the hardest stone
to get.
The best wood in most amateurs' bags is the pencil.
I carve stone. I've got hammers and chisels and I carve from sandstone. I just did a big mural of birds and trees.
of lead, sometimes
There are two kinds of stones, as everyone knows, one of which rolls.
Chrysoberyl. Among them twinkle hundreds upon
Carbon's eastern neighbor on the table, nitrogen, dresses up diamonds in pinks, yellows, oranges, and brownish tints known romantically as 'champagne.'
I wonder if those in Silicon Valley who shave stones to their essence and put them in machines of memory perhaps already know somehow that stones have always managed information.
Behind stone, with stone, carrying stone
I'm fascinated by diamonds. When I put diamonds on, my hands start to shake.
You can't make a sculpture until you've got a lump of rock.
his heart made of stone.
As with all my work, whether it's a leaf on a rock or ice on a rock, I'm trying to get beneath the surface appearance of things. Working the surface of a stone is an attempt to understand the internal energy of the stone.
Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.
This diamond has so many carats it's almost a turnip.
It's a geode. You can sess that, the way the rock around you abruptly changes to
Even iron sometimes melts.
My mother showed me that when tin or zinc was bent it uttered a special 'cry'. 'It's due to deformation of the crystal structure,' she said, forgetting that I was five, and could not understand her - and yet her words fascinated me, made me want to know more.
It was like a lucky pebble kept in my pocket that got so shined up from rubbing against the denim that no one could tell it had ever been an ordinary stone.
I am like a huge rough stone ... and the only polishing I get is when some corner gets rubbed off by coming in contact with something else, striking with accelerated force ... thus I will become a smooth and polished shaft in the quiver of the Almightly.
Fucking bastard, I'll stab you in the chest with this pencil.
In a dung heap, even a plastic bead can gleam like a sapphire.
I come to the point of using steel, and simply cannot. It's like the marriage proposal of a perfectly eligible man who just isn't loveable. It is wood I love.
Don't be afraid of pressure. Pressure is what transforms a lump of coal into a diamond.
Continual dropping wears away a stone.
Looking for a gem, we are sometimes dumb enough to try to hold on to a lump of coal, convinced that it will turn into a diamond in our lifetime ... but all it does it get sh*t all over you until you burn it and use the energy for something else.
I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
The hardest stone to cut and carve is within us.
#3 pencils and quadrille pads.
steel wedge between the
Steel under silk
Gold
the picklock that never fails.
Some days are diamond. Some days are stone.
I like to write my lyrics on clay tablets.
The metal is called Celestial bronze. It's deadly to monsters, like Imperial gold, but even rarer.
I'm doing quite a lot of painting on stones - little funny fish and animals.
Our pictures are fleeting and elusive. In the far future, bits of hard drives may be fossilized in limestone, and discarded iPhones may find themselves encased in amber, hardened like nail polish, but the bits of humanity that these exquisitely crafted machines hold will be lost to time.
Metal. It was the key to everything.
No pressure, no diamonds.
Nothing lasts forever, but old Fords and a natural stone.
If you take suede leather and put it on a piece of steel, and put moisture on it, it actually sticks.
Our art is called 'Feruchemy,' and it grants the ability to store certain physical attributes inside bits of metal.
All polishing is done by friction,
It was of grey stone, huge block set on block;but it caught the sunlight like a dolphin's back at dawn.
Not so much like drops of water, though water, it is true, can wear holes in the hardest granite; rather, drops of liquid sealing-wax, drops that adhere, incrust, incorporate themselves with what they fall on, till finally the rock is all one scarlet blob. Till
The Graff Hallucination is a sculptural masterpiece; a celebration of the miracle of coloured diamonds. For many years I have thought about creating a truly remarkable watch that illustrates our all-consuming passion for diamonds. The Hallucination has made my diamond dream a reality.
very dull object.
Chairs are like sculpture.
Here is a semi-transparent pebble I picked up on the way to my EKG. Probably worthless but it is my heart so take it.
During the boom in velocipedes - known with good reason as 'boneshakers' - tyres were made of solid iron.
Who can understand the deeply bonded alloy of order and intemperance that is its foundation?
Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.