Sawdust Quotes

“I had had the job for three weeks. It was dreary. You couldn't read; they didn't like it. I would feel as if I were drugged, sitting there, watching those damned dolls, thinking what a success they would have made of their lives if they had been women. Satin skin, silk hair, velvet eyes, sawdust heart - all complete.”
― Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight

“En dehors des statues finies de Michel-Ange, j'ai la certitude que son atelier serait encore quelque
chose de suggestif et de grand. Même la sciure de son marbre, n'aurait-elle pas un aspect auguste ? C'est une impression de cet ordre que vous causera ce gros volume de cinq cent cinquante pages, où il y a de la sciure de ces idées qui, depuis, sont devenues des monuments !”
― Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, Joseph de Maistre, Blanc de Saint-Bonnet, Lacordaire, Gratry, Caro

“Sawdust takes me back to my childhood when there were trees to be seen.”
― Anthony T. Hincks