“Milton, Madam, was a genius that could cut a Colossus from a rock; but could not carve heads upon cherry-stones.”
In response to Hannah More wondering why Milton could write Paradise Lost but only poor sonnets. June 13, 1784, p. 542
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol IV
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“I could carve a better man out of a banana. ”

Source: Discipleship (1937), The Disciple and Unbelievers, p. 183.
Book II, Chapter 6, p. 302
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (1976)

History of the Indies (1561)

“If you want data to survive, carve it in rock.”
Source: Academy Series - Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins, Cauldron (2007), Chapter 28 (p. 256)

“I rock a beat harder than you could beat it with rocks”
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1990s, Infinite (1996)