Block/people

Famous quotes containing the words block and/or people:

“Painting consumes labour not disproportionate to its effect; but a fellow will hack half a year at a block of marble to make something in stone that hardly resembles a man. The value of statuary is owing to its difficulty. You would not value the finest head cut upon a carrot.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

“Watt had watched people smile and thought he understood how it was done.”
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)