Famous quotes containing the words stone and/or gap:
“Some may know what they seek in school and church,
And why they seek it there; for what I search
I must go measuring stone walls, perch on perch....”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.”
—George Orwell (1903–1950)