PRISON, n. A place of punishments and rewards. The poet assures us that - stone walls do not a prison make. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
We can choose to throw stones, to stumble on them, to climb over them, or to build with them. — William Arthur Ward Copy Share Image
UNDER THE STORM AND THE CLOUD TODAY, AND TODAY THE HARD PERIL AND PAIN - TOMORROW THE STONE WILL BE ROLLED AWAY,… — Joaquin Miller Copy Share Image
Symbol and metaphor are as much a part of the architectural vocabulary as stone and steel. — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
A man without passion is only a latent force, only a possibility, like a stone waiting for the blow from the iron… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
I learnt horse-riding, have practiced running around on boulders, jumping in a river with stones on the riverbed and wading through mud. — Sargun Mehta Copy Share Image
“If all the seven stones were laid out before me now, I should shut my eyes and put my hands in my… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
On the stone that remains carved next to his name, his epitaph plain, only a pawn in their game. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
It is better to grope in the dark and wade through a million errors to reach the Truth than to entrust oneself… — Sudhir Kakar Copy Share Image
No matter what terror the earth could produce - winds, seas - a person could produce the same, lived with the same,… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
The chemistry of dissatisfaction is as the chemistry of some marvelously potent tar. In it are the building stones of explosives, stimulants,… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
...we were like two people standing apart on separate mountain peaks, recklessly leaning forward to throw stones at one another, unaware of… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
I got an opportunity to be on a tribute to the Rolling Stones in the late '90s and did a rockin' version… — Tracy Lawrence Copy Share Image
One's mind and the earth are in a constant state of erosion, mental rivers wear away abstract banks, brain waves undermine cliffs… — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
For though love has been ridiculed and disgraced, exchanged and bartered, dragged through the courts, and sold for thirty pieces of silver,… — Bess Streeter Aldrich Copy Share Image
J, n. A consonant in English, but some nations use it as a vowel . . . from a Latin verb, "jacere",… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
My parents were real classic rock freaks, so I heard a lot of Zeppelin, Stones, Hendrix stuff. Thankfully, they were also into… — Princess Superstar Copy Share Image
But this man had set down with a hammer and chisel and carved out a stone water trough to last ten thousand… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Arthur’s fingers tighten on the silver-braided hilt: see how naturally it fits his hand! He pulls. The Sword of Britain slides from… — Stephen R. Lawhead Copy Share Image
In The Godfather, for instance, they say they won't deal drugs because they have a code of behaviour. He is the last… — David Suchet Copy Share Image
The light was leaving in the west it was blue The children's laughter sang and skipping just like the stones they threw… — Jack Johnson Copy Share Image
Afterward, Isabel drove me home and I shut myself in the study with Rilke, and I read and I wanted. And leaving… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
If you're feeling alone, and your weariness has grown, look up above, and thank God for His love. There's nothing you can… — Nick Vujicic Copy Share Image
There is something I like about talking to journalists that really goes beyond promotion because you aren't just talking to the journalist,… — Mick Jagger Copy Share Image
Milton, Madam, was a genius that could cut a Colossus from a rock; but could not carve heads upon cherry-stones. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
In a suitable temperature, an egg becomes a chicken, and there are no chickens born of stones. — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
...the sound of our lack of conversation amplified by the echo of our footsteps on the stone around us. — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
And here I am, strapped into a tree, a stone's throw from the biggest idiot in the games. — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
That's always the way with fanatics; they cross themselves at the tavern and throw stones at the temple. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Sitting still as stone watching - watching People walking by you wondering why No one ever stops to talk or thinks about… — Dave Matthews Copy Share Image
When the devil, life, people, anything goes and starts throwing stuff at you, take it all and build a walls around you — Hommie G/ Guardian Copy Share Image
I find that discussing an idea out loud is often the way to kill it stone dead. — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Sarah had a saying: Der gleichster veg iz ful mit shtainer." "What's it mean?" "The smoothest way is sometimes full of stones. — Julie Orringer Copy Share Image
Stones has meant to me the things that hurt people, things that cause people pain. — Neil Diamond Copy Share Image
The foundation stones of a great building are destined to groan and be pressed upon; it is not for them to crown… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
She might have melted a heart of stone, but nothing can melt a heart of wood. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Better a thousand times even a swiftly fading, ephemeral moment of life than the epoch-long unconsciousness of the stone. — Edwin Way Teale Copy Share Image
Go, grieving rimes of mine, to that hard stone Whereunder lies my darling, lies my dear, And cry to her to speak… — Petrarch Copy Share Image
I think it was Columbia politics, Columbia Records politics that, that, Tom Wilson left [Bob Dylan] after "Like A Rolling Stone". — Al Kooper Copy Share Image
But, you know, the Stones were my opening act in the Sixties. I loved those British guys, the way they just stood… — Ronnie Spector Copy Share Image