Stone Quotes

1677 Stone quotes by 1136 unique authors

I honored the fallen enemy by placing a stone on his beautiful grave. — Manfred von Richthofen
Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at… — Jacob August Riis
It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a… — Jose Rizal
I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut… — Henry Rollins
There's no point in making predictions. It's not worth speculating because nothing is set in stone and things change all the time in football. Today… — Cristiano Ronaldo
The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the… — Bertrand Russell
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… — Jerry Saltz
I've built my whole life around loving music. I'm a writer for 'Rolling Stone,' so I am constantly searching for new bands and soaking up… — Rob Sheffield
Just because I look sexy on the cover of Rolling Stone doesn't mean I'm naughty. — Britney Spears
What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage. — Gertrude Stein
I feel like something magical is going to happen, and I feel like all the stars have finally lined up perfectly for Angie Stone. — Angie Stone
In the language of poetry, where every word is weighed, nothing is usual or normal. Not a single stone and not a single cloud above… — Wislawa Szymborska
I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on… — Amy Tan
Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break… — Jeremy Taylor
The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a… — Henry David Thoreau
Bob Dylan did the first really long record - Like A Rolling Stone - I think it was four minutes. — Pete Townshend
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… — Kathleen Turner
The original lists were probably carved in stone and represented longer periods of time. They contained things like 'Get More Clay. Make Better Oven.' — David Viscott
In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or… — Earl Warren
And what could be a hotter ticket than the improbable triumph of 'The Book of Mormon,' the musical-comedy moon shot of the season? Its creators,… — James Wolcott
In the first weeks of the Obama administration, 'bipartisanship' was the reigning buzzword, and when the Beltway thinks 'bipartisan,' it pictures President Reagan and Democratic… — James Wolcott
Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice? — William Butler Yeats
Although prefabrication has a long history - the ancient Romans shipped pre-cut stone columns, pediments, and other architectural elements to their colonies in North Africa,… — Martin Filler
In business, standards establish the rules of the game, creating path dependencies as investments are made and corresponding designs are set in stone and plastic.… — Evgeny Morozov
After the bare requisites to living and reproducing, man wants most to leave some record of himself, a proof, perhaps, that he has really existed.… — John Steinbeck

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