Stones Quotes

No experience in life is set in stone unless we ourselves have unwittingly poured the concrete!

At the entrance to the original tower, there is a stone into which Jung carved some words with his own hand: 'Cold or not, God is present.

A good education is a stepping-stone to wealth.

She had always been fond of history, and here [in Rome] was history in the stones of the street and the atoms of the sunshine.

When I think of Mick Jagger still singing that he can't get any satisfaction in over forty years of being in the Rolling Stones, I have to conclude that he's either lying or not all that bright.

The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.

We start to try to live in tomorrow and the future, and start to think about what we build today as a stepping stone to graduate users.

There were certain things, learned so young and remembered so deep that they felt like little stones in the center of her mind.

The music I listened to as a kid - the Stones, the Beatles - that was so rebellious at the time, it became mainstream.

There is no such thing as failure; everything is just a stepping stone to a greater lesson or achievement.

I really want to work with Emma Stone; she is adorable.

The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycamores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.

Stone dead," said Howard, as though there were degrees of deadness, and the kind that Barry Fairbrother had contracted was particularly sordid.

Ordinary language embodies the metaphysics of the Stone Age.

They were frightfully angry. Quite apart from the stones no spider has ever liked being called Attercop, and Tomnoddy of course is insulting to anybody.

The Stone the Builders Rejected.

I want to be alone. I need to touch each stone, face the grave that I have grown. I want to be alone.

Profits on the exchange are the treasures of goblins. At one time they may be carbuncle stones, then coals, then diamonds, then flint stones, then morning dew, then tears.

Particularly fine is the top-heavy comedienne, Loni Anderson, as the receptionist whose movements turn men to stone...she keeps her head while all the men around her are losing theirs.

Some questions cannot be answered. They become familiar weights in the hand, round stones pulled from the pocket, unyielding and cool.

A person is full of sorrow the way a burlap sack is full of stones or sand.

I wanted to be in Rolling Stone number two with a tomorrow feel to it, like an experimental Rolling Stones with Jagger singing.

That's the past for you. Not only does it come back at the most unexpected, and inconvenient, times but it's set in stone.

I remember things like that...A lifetimes accredidation of unkindness, all of those little longering hurts that I carried around like stones sewn into my pockets.

Decades ago, Gerhard Richter found a painterly philosopher's stone. Like Jackson Pollock before him, he discovered something that had been in painting all along, always overlooked or discounted.

I believe that the Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin are two of the greatest rock bands ever!

Oh boy. His chest was smooth and warm and hard as stone, and she wanted to both touch and nibble. And lick. Could she pretty please lick?

Once you call something a story, it's set in stone. It has a beginning, a middle, and an end that can't be transformed, because by definition, if you do that, it's not the same story anymore

I saw the Stones three years ago at the Wiltern Theater in L.A. and that was mind blowing.

It is often pleasant to stone a martyr, no matter how much we may admire him.

Success is a continuing thing. It is growth and development. It is achieving one thing and using that as a stepping stone to achieve something else.

There is scarce a cave, an isolated rock, a lone pine tree or a pile of stones without supporting folklore.

You roll back the stones, and you find slithering things. That is the world of Richard Nixon.

There will be no war, but in the pursuit of principle no stone will be left standing.

You can't get blood from a stone.

Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipp'd stocks and stones.

The Australian film industry has recognised Tropfest as a place to nurture young talent. It's a stepping stone between amateur and professional.

If you can draw the stone rightly, everything within reach of art is also within yours.

Take away all the emotional baggage of any band's fight, be it The Beatles or The Stones, but in the end, you just enjoy the creativity. That's what the legacy is.

The Rolling Stones are violence. Their music penetrates the raw nerve endings of their listeners and finds its way into the groove marked 'release of frustration.'

Congress, the legislative stone in America's urethra.

What I like to do is come in, write the entire program and treat my staff to hot stone massages.

With his ABC News experience, perhaps Pierre Salinger's next job could be cohosting-with Oliver Stone-a 24-hour Conspiracy Network.

Men not only don't get what's important about what women are capable of, but in fact they fear it, and envy it, and want to throw stones at it, because it's the thing they can't have.

The smoothest way is sometimes full of stones.

And what can still delight an inert stone except to become, once more, the bed of a raging torrent?

A gentleman is not born but crafted. He had to work on himself in the same way as a sculptor shaped a rough stone and made it a thing of beauty.

I had a great deal of pressure to move to LA after Romancing the Stone came out and I'd become very popular. But people came to me anyway.

Know that your style will always change and that nothing is ever set in stone.

I finish so many books it's amazing. I'm also doing Rosetta Stone, learning some French.