Stones Quotes

Books are but stepping stones to show you where other minds have been.

While the Beatles always had George Martin around to clean up their act, the Rolling Stones had Andrew Loog Oldham to coarsen theirs.

Fear is like the wilderland - Stepping stones or sinking sand

I guess I haven't talked to Bob Dylan since before then [interview to Rolling Stones]. I follow his career.

I like to listen to different kinds of music - it just depends on my mood. I love Madonna, Russian singers... I like the Rolling Stones a lot!

Failure is a stepping-stone to greatness.

I know Mick Jagger wouldn’t tour without Keith Richards and call it the Rolling Stones.

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

One might regard architecture as history arrested in stone.

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.

I'm here because the reason I get up each morning, needs me as much as I need her." -Jax Stone

Punk rock really influenced me, the basic metal bands, Zeppelin, Stones and Floyd, and Southern rock bands. I think I was pretty well-rounded.

The next world war will be fought with stones.

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

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

Our habitual experience is a complex of failure and success in the enterprise of interpretation. If we desire a record of uninterpreted experience, we must ask a stone to record its autobiography.

Every good band in the world was a cover band first. The Beatles were and the Stones were. Everybody was a cover band.

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.

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].

People who live in seven houses shouldn't throw stones

...we were like two people standing apart on separate mountain peaks, recklessly leaning forward to throw stones at one another, unaware of the dangerous chasm that separated us.

It's not set in stone. I like to keep it rolling and changing, and so I am like, "Great, I get to remake my song."

The early firings contained many stones.

I go way beyond just the wood and stone but to the process of growth and farming and the tensions between the two.

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

When I behold the heavens as in their prime, And then the earth (though old) still clad in green, The stones and trees, insensible of time, Nor age nor wrinkle on their front are seen

Words are like gems to me... imagine yourself walking through a very shallow stream and picking up beautiful stones that catch your eye... that's what names are like for me.

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.

Some cats are blind and stone deafdeaf some. But ain't no cat wuz ever dumb.

The seed haunted by the sun never fails to find its way between the stones in the ground. And the pure logician, if no sun draws him forth, remains entangled in his logic.

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

Often, you'll fail. But, as my mother also taught me, failure isn't the opposite of success - it's a stepping stone to success.

The stones that critics hurl with harsh intent, a man may use to build his monument.

Great stones they lay upon his chest until he plead aye or nay. They say he give them but two words. "More weight," he says. And died.

I grew up listening to blues and rock 'n' roll and other music, but, legitimately, the Stones is one of my favorite bands in the world.

I enjoy raining on parades and throwing stones in glass homes.

You have to talk to the stone, and it has to talk to you.

Solid stone is just sand and water...Sand and water and a million years gone by.

We just want to be remembered before something is set in stone.

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

Everything had to be done in-between Stones time.

The times are a-changing and if we don't we will sink like a stone.

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.

I always refer to [Stardust Memories] as Sharon Stone's and my first film.

I really like natural, warm finishes. I like any of the natural stones, the oiled wood that is kind of a pre-finished flooring. I'm very tactile.

Sharon Stone has the kind of face I'd leave my wife for. Since I'm not married, I'll have to leave someone else's wife.

I had to make a confession of faith in stone. That was the beginning of the tower, the house I built for myself at Bollingen.

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.

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

In a more universal sense, we only get one thing. You know...a head stone if we're lucky; if not, green grass.