Can't you see the angel imprisoned in the block of stone trying to get out? I am trying to free him — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
She had always been fond of history, and here [in Rome] was history in the stones of the street and the atoms… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Truth must be the foundation stone, the cement to solidify the entire social edifice. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Be kind, be decent, be generous, be tolerant, compassionate, and understanding. Be fast to praise, slow to judge. Remember, we're all human,… — Allen Drury Copy Share Image
Sticks and stones may break your bones, but Chinese throwing stars get you a dozen stitches. — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
You have no idea how much pain I'm in. It's like being cut open every day, bleeding onto the stones. I can't… — Erin Hunter Copy Share Image
Peace does not come just because we wish for it. Peace must be fought for. It must be built stone by stone. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Death arrives among all that sound like a shoe with no foot in it, like a suit with no man in it,… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
Freud was a hero. He descended to the "Underworld" and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
Can we find "The Universe in a grain of sand"? Well perhaps, but a stone seems easier to visualize. — Peter J. Carroll Copy Share Image
I would rather be erring on the side of common-sense pragmatism and doing everything possible so that I felt that no stone… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whereas to write, all you need is paper and an idea, so I felt that writing might be my stepping stone. — Curtis Hanson Copy Share Image
Ann Coulter to me is someone who says things that I say all the time, but I say them at three in… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
A subtle-witted man is like an arrow, which, rending little surface, enters deeply, but they whose minds are dull resemble stones dashing… — Magha Copy Share Image
As from a star I saw, coldly and soberly, the separateness of everything. I felt the wall of my skin; I am… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Lenin is an artist who has worked men, as other artists have worked marble or metals. But men are harder than stone… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
To a naturalist nothing is indifferent; the humble moss that creeps upon the stone is equally interesting as the lofty pine which… — James Hutton Copy Share Image
Nothing is etched in stone in tennis until the final point has been played. That's why we watch. — Dave McPherson Copy Share Image
When a good change is flowing towards you, don't stand like the river stones before it! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Beige is atmosphere. It's bisque, it's ivory, it's cream, it's stone, it's toast, it's cappuccino. It;s well, it's magic. — Albert Hadley Copy Share Image
Yet reason frowns in war's unequal game, Where wasted nations raise a single name; And mortgag'd states their grandsire's wreaths regret, From… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
One must be reasonable in one's demands on life. For myself, all that I ask is: (1) accurate information; (2) coherent knowledge;… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
In time they sank and decayed, and nothing is left of them except an occasional impression in stones, in stones now found… — Erik Fosnes Hansen Copy Share Image
The poet’s life is just so much crenellated waste, nights and days whipping swiftly or laboriously past the cinematic window. We’re hunched… — Eileen Myles Copy Share Image
Black bears, though, are not fearsome. I encountered one on the road to my house in Vermont, alone at night. I picked… — Edward Hoagland Copy Share Image
If thou shouldst paint mountains in a good style and to look natural, take some large stones full of cracks and copy… — Cennino Cennini Copy Share Image
I got into cooking and I went and cooked in Italy. I became a doula for a while. I built stone walls… — Gaby Hoffmann Copy Share Image
Sticks and stones, I'll break yer bones, but names ain't worth a quarrel. — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
A correct execution of an adagio is the ne plus ultra of our art; and I look on it as the touch-stone… — Carlo Blasis Copy Share Image
I used to refer to my drug use as putting the monster in the box. I wanted to be less, so I… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
Jane Francklyne, born in 1565, had lived for less than a month. She left very little behind. She was buried in the… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
So by the time the 60s rolled in that became a huge art form in its own right with bands like the… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
When I was in the gulag I would sometimes even write on stone walls. I used to write on scraps of paper,… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose first, then you listen for the… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
After all, when a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
Although prefabrication has a long history - the ancient Romans shipped pre-cut stone columns, pediments, and other architectural elements to their colonies… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
If you ask me who the members of the Rolling Stones or Led Zep or the Clash were, I'd be able to… — Dave Gahan Copy Share Image