Stones famous quotes

Stone, steel, dominions pass, Faith too, no wonder; So leave alone the grass That I am under.
-- A. E. Housman

#Steel #Stones #Dominion

One might regard architecture as history arrested in stone.
-- A. L. Rowse

#Stones #Might #Architecture

Well, I would hardly say I do write as yet. But I write because I like words. I suppose if I liked stone I might carve. I like words. I like reading. I notice particular words. That sets me off.
-- A. S. Byatt

#Reading #Writing #Stones

Nay, in death's hand, the grape-stone proves As strong as thunder is in Jove's.
-- Abraham Cowley

#Strong #Hands #Stones

Symbol and metaphor are as much a part of the architectural vocabulary as stone and steel.
-- Ada Louise Huxtable

#Vocabulary #Steel #Stones

sticks and stones can only break bones; but words can shatter the soul
-- Adam Savage

#Soul #Stones #Sticks

Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.
-- Adrienne Rich

#Writing #Voice #Stones

Use pain as a stepping stone, not a camp ground.
-- Alan Cohen

#Pain #Use #Stones

Each possession I own is but a stone around my neck.
-- Albert Einstein

#Stones #Necks #Possession

There are sermons in stones, but it depends on how good your aim is.
-- Albert Meltzer

#Stones #Aim

The foundation stones of a great building are destined to groan and be pressed upon; it is not for them to crown the edifice.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#Foundation #Crowns #Stones

A fly, a grape-stone, or a hair can kill.
-- Alexander Pope

#Hair #Stones #Grapes

I always feel the movement is a sort of mosaic. Each of us puts in one little stone, and then you get a great mosaic at the end.
-- Alice Paul

#Mosaics #Movement #Stones

but, he also said it because part of him wanted more of her, this cold woman who was not exactly cold, this rock who was not stone.
-- Alice Sebold

#Rocks #Stones #Cold

Something I've learned from people like U2, the Stones and Lenny Kravitz is that the grind of live shows is so necessary [to build your career].
-- Alicia Keys

#Careers #People #Stones

The brain is highly structured, but it is also extremely flexible. It's not a blank slate, but it isn't written in stone, either.
-- Alison Gopnik

#Brain #Stones #Blank

Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone, and irrational as a headless hen.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Patriotism #Fever #Stones

Throwing stones is the birthright and duty of anyone subject to foreign rule. Throwing stones is an action as well as a metaphor of resistance.
-- Amira Hass

#Stones #Resistance #Action

People who live in seven houses shouldn't throw stones
-- Amy Klobuchar

#People #House #Stones

The Sun is a mass of fiery stone, a little larger than Greece.
-- Anaxagoras

#Science #Stones #Littles

When I first saw Emma Stone, it was like I woke up.
-- Andrew Garfield

#Stones #Saws #Firsts

When I’m working with materials it’s not just the leaf or the stone, it’s the processes that are behind them that are important. That’s what I’m trying to understand, not a single isolated object but nature as a whole.
-- Andy Goldsworthy

#Important #Trying #Stones

Fire is the origin of stone.By working the stone with heat, I am returning it to its source.
-- Andy Goldsworthy

#Fire #Stones #Heat

The reason why the stone is red is its iron content, which is also why our blood is red.
-- Andy Goldsworthy

#Blood #Iron #Stones

A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories.
-- Andy Goldsworthy

#Memories #Historical #Stones

It's frightening and unnerving to watch a stone melt.
-- Andy Goldsworthy

#Scary #Watches #Stones

The early firings contained many stones.
-- Andy Goldsworthy

#Stones

I did tests on small stones before collecting and committing myself to the larger ones.
-- Andy Goldsworthy

#Stones #Tests #Collecting

Once the fired stone is out of the kiln, it is still possible to mentally reconstruct it in its original form.
-- Andy Goldsworthy

#Stones #Form #Reconstruction

It's very schizophrenic because I like a lot of very straight pop, like Small Faces, Stones, Kinks; and on the other hand, I like a lot of avant garde things.
-- Andy Partridge

#Hands #Avant Garde #Stones

I feel like something magical is going to happen, and I feel like all the stars have finally lined up perfectly for Angie Stone.
-- Angie Stone

#Stars #Stones #Feels

The word dropped like a stone on my still living breast. Confess: I was prepared, am somehow ready for the test.
-- Anna Akhmatova

#Stones #Tests #Breasts

Mary Magdalene beat her breast and sobbed, The beloved disciple turned to stone, But where the silent Mother stood, there No one glanced and no one would have dared.
-- Anna Akhmatova

#Mother #Stones #Beloved

You cannot expect stone to be as pliable as clay.
-- Anne Bronte

#Clay #Stones

Some stones are so heavy only silence helps you carry them!
-- Anne Michaels

#Silence #Stones #Helping

I'd rather break stones on the king's highway than hem a handkerchief.
-- Anne Sullivan Macy

#Kings #Hem #Stones

When I started working for Rolling Stone, I became very interested in journalism and thought maybe that's what I was doing, but it wasn't.
-- Annie Leibovitz

#Artist #Rolling #Stones

At my Rolling Stones' tour, the camera was a protection. I used it in a Zen way.
-- Annie Leibovitz

#Cameras #Rolling #Stones

I've become friends with Michael Mann and Oliver Stone; I've seen those guys work and that was great to see.
-- Antoine Fuqua

#Guy #Stones

Failure is a stepping stone to success.
-- Arianna Huffington

#Stones #Stepping Stones

Our model of Nature should not be like a building-a handsome structure for the populace to admire, until in the course of time some one takes away a corner stone and the edifice comes toppling down. It should be like an engine with movable parts. We need not fix the position of any one lever; that is to be adjusted from time to time as the latest observations indicate. The aim of the theorist is to know the train of wheels which the lever sets in motion-that binding of the parts which is the soul of the engine.
-- Arthur Eddington

#Soul #Levers #Stones

Even stone can be worn down with enough rain.
-- Arthur Golden

#Rain #Stones #Enough

My mother once told me I was like water. Water can carve its way even through stone. And when trapped, water makes a new path.
-- Arthur Golden

#Mother #Water #Stones

Leave no stone unturned to help your clients realize maximum profits from their investment.
-- Arthur Nielsen

#Stones #Clients #Helping

Genius is to other gifts what the carbuncle is to the precious stones. It sends forth its own light, whereas other stones only reflect borrowed light.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer

#Light #Genius #Stones

I guess I feel like it's a gift to meet those talented artists like George Lucas and Oliver Stone, Spike Lee and Richard Kelly. Even if it's a small role, it's a gift to be working that closely with them.
-- Bai Ling

#Artist #Roles #Stones

Im the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then theres a few more albums in us.
-- Barry Gibb

#Albums #Stones #Drag

I've always loved War's Low Rider and Sly Stone's Thank You, and I just wanted to put my take on them.
-- Barry White

#Thank You #War #Stones

You have to talk to the stone, and it has to talk to you.
-- Ben Nighthorse Campbell

#Crafts #Stones

If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Money #Philosophy #Stones

Also I played on a lot of demos in the early days of the Stones.
-- Big Jim Sullivan

#Stones #Demos

Everything had to be done in-between Stones time.
-- Bill Wyman

#Done #Stones

I am much more my own man than I was when I was with the Stones.
-- Bill Wyman

#Men #Stones

I didn't want to stay in the Stones, and be stuck in a position having to play a music I didn't like anymore and that restricted me from doing all the others things I'm interested in because of time.
-- Bill Wyman

#Play #Want #Stones

The Stones always tried to do the odd smaller gig when they could.
-- Bill Wyman

#Stones #Gigs #Odd

I may be an antique like the Stones, but antiques are valuable.
-- Billy Joel

#May #Antiques #Stones

When I hit 11 so did the careers of Dylan and the Stones. A year later it was the Who and the Kinks.
-- Bob Geldof

#Years #Careers #Stones

The stone that the builder refused shall be the head corner stone.
-- Bob Marley

#Stones #Builder

A censure would put an indelible scar on the president's place in history, .. Monica Lewinsky is not Watergate. Let he who has no sin in this chamber cast the first stone.
-- Bob Menendez

#President #Stones #Firsts

The first session I did with the Stones was an accident. I just happened to be wandering down the hallway of the same studio.
-- Bobby Keys

#Stones #Firsts #Hallways

Our hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps.
-- Brennan Manning

#Heart #Flesh #Stones

The Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Phil Spector. Those were my idols.
-- Brian Wilson

#Idols #Rolling #Stones

Lucy looked and saw that Aslan had just breathed on the feet of the stone giant. It's all right!" shouted Aslan joyously. "Once The feet are put right, all the rest of him will follow.
-- C. S. Lewis

#Feet #Giants #Stones

Football has always been a stepping stone for my education.
-- Cardale Jones

#Football #Stones #Stepping Stones

Stones grow, plants grow, and live, animals grow live and feel.
-- Carl Linnaeus

#Life #Animal #Stones

Even though language has its richness the relationship between language and the writer is always like a stone and you have to make the stone human.
-- Carmen Boullosa

#Writing #Stones #Language

I don't care very much for literary shrines and hauntsI knew a woman in London who boasted that she had lodgings from the windows of which she could throw a stone into Carlyle's yard. And when I said, "Why throw a stone into Carlyle's yard?" she looked at me as if I were an imbecile and changed the subject.
-- Carolyn Wells

#Travel #Shrines #Stones

Anytime you feel love for anything, be it stone, tree, lover, or child, you are touched by the Goddess's magick...
-- Cate Tiernan

#Children #Tree #Stones

I keep telling you the future isn't set in stone. It's not all decided yet. The future is just what's down the road we decided to walk on today. You can change roads anytime. And that changes where you end up.
-- Catherine Ryan Hyde

#Stones #Today #Ends

While other girls swooned over The Beatles and the Rolling Stones, I worshipped Rudolf Nureyev and Isadora Duncan.
-- Celia Imrie

#Girl #Rolling #Stones

The poem I want to write is impossible. A stone that floats.
-- Charles Simic

#Writing #Want #Stones

The Temple will not be completed until every living stone is there. And then what? The next thing will be that which our Masonic friends make so much of, and which we make so much of namely: the glorification of the temple.
-- Charles Taze Russell

#Stones #Next #Temples

I think a guy who's had just the right amount of booze can sing the blues a hell of a lot better than a guy who is stone sober.
-- Charlie Rich

#Thinking #Guy #Stones

Natural Selection never made it come to pass, as a habit of nature, that an unsupported stone should move downwards rather than upwards. It applies to no part of inorganic nature, and is very limited even in the phenomena of organic life.
-- Chauncey Wright

#Moving #Stones #Habit

When you fly high people will throw stones at you. Don't look down. Just fly higher so the stones won't reach you
-- Chetan Bhagat

#People #Looks #Stones

What do you think Jesus would twitter, 'Let he who is without sin cast the first stone' or 'Has anyone seen Judas? He was here a minute ago.'
-- Chris Cornell

#Jesus #Thinking #Stones

Some sessions are stars and some sessions are stones, but in the end they are all rocks and we build upon them.
-- Chrissie Wellington

#Stars #Rocks #Stones

You can't pretend to be a Sharon Stone or a Marilyn Monroe. You really can't fake that.
-- Claire Bloom

#Fake People #Stones #Sharon

It therefore should be possible for even the photographer - just as for the creative poet or painter - to use the object as a stepping stone to a realm of meaning completely beyond itself.
-- Clarence John Laughlin

#Creative #Use #Stones

Everything changes, even stone.
-- Claude Monet

#Change #Stones #Things Change

The entrée wasn't tender enough to be a paving stone and the gravy couldn't have been primordial soup because morphogenesis was already taking place.
-- Clive James

#Soup #Stones #Classic

One has to remember that every failure can be a stepping stone to something better.
-- Colonel Sanders

#Encouraging #Stones #Remember

Slipknot is the darkness; Stone Sour is the light. Slipknot is chaos; Stone Sour is structure.
-- Corey Taylor

#Light #Darkness #Stones

At my death paint my body with red paint and plunge it into fresh water to be restored back to life, otherwise my bones will be turned into stone and my joints into flint in my grave, but my spirit will rise
-- Crazy Horse

#Water #Body #Stones

A stepping-stone can be a stumbling block if we can't see it until after we have tripped over it.
-- Cullen Hightower

#Block #Stones #Stumbling

My solution to the problem would be to tell the North Vietnamese Communists frankly that they've got to drawn in their horns and stop their aggression or we're going to bomb them into the stone age.
-- Curtis LeMay

#Horny #Age #Stones

I would rather sit still in a state of peace on a stone than ride in the motor-car of a multi-millionaire and feel the peacelessness of the multi-millionaire poisoning me.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Car #Stones #States

There are more riddles in a stone than in a philosopher's head
-- Damon Knight

#Stones #Philosopher #Riddle

A stone that looks satisfied with its position reflects the sense of ease the waller felt when placing it there.
-- Dan Snow

#Looks #Ease #Stones

Life is a lone wolf, scratching out a living with teeth and claws and a heart of stone.
-- Dan Wells

#Heart #Teeth #Stones

This sadness wasn't a huge part of me--I wasn't remotely depressed--but still, it was like a stone I carried in my pocket. I always knew it was there. [p. 179]
-- Dani Shapiro

#Sadness #Pockets #Stones

I am really into '70s music, like The Rolling Stones, The Doors and what not.
-- Danny Masterson

#Doors #Rolling #Stones

I wept not, so to stone within I grew.
-- Dante Alighieri

#Stones #Grew

The Beatles were just the beginning of everything music could be, just like the Stones I was Rolling along like a ship lost out on the sea.
-- David Allan Coe

#Sea #Rolling #Stones

To shatter even the largest stones on earth, it takes only a small quantity of explosive powder.
-- David Ben-Gurion

#Change #Earth #Stones

I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on.
-- David Bowie

#Men #Demise #Stones

Stones are raw, they blunt my paw, but words will never hurt me.
-- David Clement-Davies

#Hurt #Stones #Paws

Never Throw Stones At Your Mother
-- David Ross

#Mother #Insulting #Stones

The original lists were probably carved in stone and represented longer periods of time. They contained things like 'Get More Clay. Make Better Oven.'
-- David Viscott

#Clay #Stones #Lists

I picked up the Joss Stone album, Josh Groban, and the new Norah Jones. I love, love, love Norah.
-- Deborah Cox

#Albums #Stones #Josh