Stones Quotes

Novels may teach us as wholesome a moral as the pulpit. There are "sermons in stones," in healthy books, and "good in everything.

The temple of truth is built indeed of stones of crystal, but, inasmuch as men have been concerned in rearing it, it has been consolidated by a cement composed of baser materials.

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

I mean that I value vision, and dread being struck stone blind.

If you're an American kid, you can't help but be influenced by Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and the Rolling Stones because they're always on the radio.

If you purchased the latest Joss Stone CD, what you're saying is that you're an employee of VH1.

The Breath becomes a stone; the stone, a plant; the plant, an animal; the animal, a man; the man, a spirit; and the spirit, a god.

I wanted a real band. I wanted the Rolling Stones, the Beatles.

I know that whenever I think about death, I come up against a stone wall.

Oliver Stone's strategy is to unnerve the actors so as to make them alert and alive.

But I always kind of knew in the back of my head that I could come back and do Stone Sour.

I will always make music with Stone Sour. Stone Sour will always be here.

He felt he had lost it for good, he knew what it was to have been in communication with her, and to be cast off again. In misery, his heart like a heavy stone, he went about unliving.

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

Friends, I was pretty sure, lift their friends up; they don't weigh them down like a sack full of stones

It will be full of precious stones and jewels, and best of all, full of precious souls!-Immortal souls, saved souls that love Jesus and that you won to the Lord.

Lawyers like to leave no stone unturned, provided they can charge by the stone.

My policy is 'No stone throwing regardless of housing situation.'

Zeroes are important. A million seconds ago was last week. A billion seconds ago, Richard Nixon resigned the presidency. A trillion seconds ago was 30,000 BC, and early humans were using stone tools.

... he trotted down the hallway on all fours and started in on his second favorite pastime, conversations with plumbing. Just what I needed: Stone, the Toilet Whisperer.

Whether it's a blatant homage or unconscious mimicry, the Rolling Stones have permanently, indelibly influenced how rock stars look and behave.

"American Idol" has done a lot for me. It's a stepping stone in my life.

I'm in a state of learning, and I don't have any set-in-stone ideas about what shows or even what eras I want to pursue.

So by the time the 60s rolled in that became a huge art form in its own right with bands like the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and Hendrix doing total concept albums, same thing with Pink Floyd.

Ask yourself this question. Do we have to be humans forever? Consciousness is exhausted. Back now to inorganic matter. This is what we want. We want to be stones in a field.

New York is eating young geniuses [businessmen] up alive. It's eating them up alive, Stone. And it's showing the beauty of the city, but it's showing the toughness and the viciousness of the city.

The music of the Stones pounds the air like the amplified pulse of my erection.

If one's conscience be dead as a stone, it is as heavy too.

Will an intelligent spectator not admire the prodigeous structures of Stone-Henge because he does not know by what law of mechanics they were raised?

One cannot lay a foundation by scattering stones, nor is a reputation for good work to be got by strewing volumes about the world.

When you start a show, the plans are not set in stone. They're really mutable, cocktail napkin sketches.

is there not an Arabick Proverb which goes, 'No one throws Stones at a Barren Tree'?

Better to have a single perfect diamond than a sack of flawed stones.

Leave no stone untamed.

But nothing in life was set in stone and nothing in life is promised us. Not happiness, not joy, not love. Everything was variable and mutable and inconstant.

I was out training one black night when I heard a noise. I turned around and saw a leopard. I threw some stones at him and he went away, so I went on my way.

My mother said, "kiss him, darling, it's easy so natural" and I thought to myself, not with lips of stone, dear mother, not with lips of stone

The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity.

Let woman be a plaything, pure and fine, like a precious stone, illumined with the virtues of a world not yet come.

Platonic England, house of solitudes, rests in its laurels and its injured stone

It would positively be a relief to me to dig Shakespeare up and throw stones at him.

Vertue now is in herbs and stones and words onely.

Who remove stones, bruise their fingers.

You cannot flea a stone.

A man's own addition to what he learns is cement to bind an otherwise loose heap of stones into a structure of unity, strength, and use.

The body is the substance of the stone.

The grinding power of the plain words of the Gospel story is like the power of mill-stones, and those who can read them simply enough will feel as if rocks had been rolled upon them.

Mortality is but a stepping-stone to a more glorious existence in the future.

Australians are very provincial in many ways. If they feel that you've used them as a stepping stone to bigger things, they resent it.

I mean, I feel like you can kill the same bird with both stones.