Spoil Rock Hunter

Famous quotes containing the words spoil, rock and/or hunter:

    “They don’t want you until you have made a name, and by the time you have made a name, you have developed some kind of talent they can’t use. All they will do is spoil it, if you let them.”
    —Raymond Chandler (1888–1959)

    “each rock a word
    a creek-washed stone
    Granite: ingrained
    with torment of fire and weight”
    —Gary Snyder (b. 1930)

    “There is on the earth no institution which Friendship has established; it is not taught by any religion; no scripture contains its maxims. It has no temple, nor even a solitary column. There goes a rumor that the earth is inhabited, but the shipwrecked mariner has not seen a footprint on the shore. The hunter has found only fragments of pottery and the monuments of inhabitants.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)