Stones Quotes · Page 25

I do not recognize these as defeats. They are but interesting experiences of life. They are valuable stepping stones to success.

— Walter Russell

My dad turned me onto Led Zeppelin, the Stones, and the Who, but Madonna and pop music came from my mom.

— Grace Potter

I assaulted Stone Cold Steve Austin and got away with it! It was indeed a very special night for me...

— Vince McMahon

Whereas to write, all you need is paper and an idea, so I felt that writing might be my stepping stone.

— Curtis Hanson

All loves should be simply stepping stones to the love of God. So it was with me; and blessed be his name…

— Plato

The savage prays to a stone that he calls a god, while the Christian prays to a god he calls a spirit,…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

When people throw stones at you, use those stones to build the most beautiful house and invite them to dinner.

— Nompumelelo Zulu

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

— Angie Stone

I interviewed Matt [Stone] and Trey [Parker], actually, and I got to ask them questions. I love them deeply because they appeared…

— Eric Idle

Fairytales were maps formed of blood and hair and bones; they were the knots of the sub-conscious unwound. Every word in every…

— Alice Hoffman

For me, a picture should be like sparks. It must dazzle like the beauty of a woman or a poem. It must…

— Joan Miro

When I was eleven or twelve years old, I became for a while fixated on the question whether there could be two…

— Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

Looking back, I could not point to one special time and say, There! That's what is amazing. We can change completely and…

— Anonymous

A marble cutter, with chisel and hammer, was changing a stone into a statue. A preacher looking on said: "I wish I…

— Arthur Tappan Pierson

I was bright, and I could use that as a weapon: words can wound, whatever those sticks and stones sayings claim about…

— Neil Gaiman

A censure would put an indelible scar on the president's place in history, .. Monica Lewinsky is not Watergate. Let he who…

— Bob Menendez

The woods were deserted that day. The stones stood still and silent, as though they were waiting for something. At the center…

— Liz Kessler

The Czech Republic, severed from its old Slovak half, sits in apparent landlocked contentment, inside the European Union but outside the troubled…

— Thomas Mallon

Our modern world defined God as a ‘religious complex’ and laughed at the Ten Commandments as OLD FASHIONED. Then, through the laughter…

— Cecil B. DeMille

There was a feeling, not sudden, but complete, as though I had been given a small object to hold unseen in my…

— Diana Gabaldon

I have been asked what I mean by my word of honor. I will tell you. Place me behind prison walls -…

— Karl G. Maeser

BIRTH, n. The first and direst of all disasters. As to the nature of it there appears to be no uniformity. Castor…

— Ambrose Bierce

Kylie Minogue - she's so great. You'd love her if you met her. Everyone would. In a way I wish everyone could,…

— Michael Hutchence

Orion brightened. "I have an idea." "Yes?" said Foaly, daring to hope that a spark of Artemis remained. "Why don't we look…

— Eoin Colfer

See every difficulty as a challenge, a stepping stone, and never be defeated by anything or anyone.

— Eileen Caddy

“You'll never reach your destination if you stop to throw stones at every dog that barks.”

— Anonymous

Experience may be hard but we claim its gifts because they are real, even though our feet bleed on its stones.

— Mary Parker Follett

And I flunked anger management the moment I put the counselor through a stone wall. You might want to keep that in…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

But loss is a precious stone to me, a nectar Distilled in time, preaching the truth of winter To the fallen heart…

— James K. Baxter

Once a script is released that doesn't mean it's the final product. It's not set in stone.

— Nathalie Emmanuel

The art of stone in a Japanese garden is that of placement. Its ideal does not deviate from that of nature.

— Isamu Noguchi

Never be afraid to fail. Failure is only a stepping stone to improvement. Never be overconfident because that will block your improvement.

— Anonymous

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

— Francesca Lia Block

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

— Joe Elliott

It happens in this business - The Rolling Stones were ripped off, so were the Beatles. George Harrison hardly had anything left…

— Leo Sayer

“All the stones that are around here, each one has a language of its own. Even the earth has a song.”

— Wallace Black Elk Lakota

What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.

— Paracelsus

“Sediments of stones scatter as the ego hath crushed, weather of life changes every form , be it rock or a human!”

— Soumya V

Look deeply; I arrive in every second to be a bud on a spring branch ... to be a jewel hiding itself…

— Nhat Hanh

Prayer and love are really learned in the hour when prayer becomes impossible and your heart turns to stone.

— Thomas Merton