Stone Quotes

1677 Stone quotes by 1136 unique authors

Lay down these words Before your mind like rocks. placed solid, by hands In choice of place, set Before the body of the mind in… — Gary Snyder
We could go back," he said. In the dome light of the car, his face looked hard as stone. "We could go back to your… — Charlaine Harris
Dear to me is sleep: still more, being made of stone, While pain and guilt still linger here below, Blindness and numbness--these please me alone;… — Michelangelo
Faërie contains many things besides elves and fays, and besides dwarfs, witches, trolls, giants, or dragons; it holds the seas, the sun, the moon, the… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Kill two birds with one stone, feed the homeless to the hungry. — Ray Bradbury
The world is his who can see through its pretension. What deafness, what stone-blind custom, what overgrown error you behold, is there only by sufferance,--by… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
When asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "One word at a time," and the answer is invariably dismissed. But that is all it… — Stephen King
Like a sculptor, if necessary, carve a friend out of stone. Realize that your inner sight is blind and try to see a treasure in… — Unknown Author
Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest. — Emile Zola
When you do your research write down whatever interests you. Whatever stimulates your imagination. Whatever seems important. A story is built like a stone wall.… — Roland Smith
maggie and milly and molly and may went down to the beach (to play one day) and maggie discovered a shell that sang so sweetly… — E E Cummings
He tunneled into stories where weak men changed into strong half-animals or used eye beams or magic hammers to power through steel or climb up… — Alice Sebold
From the biography of Freud, by Irving Stone, said by Freud's fiance after he teased her for being sweet, "Beware of truly sweet people. They… — Irving Stone
Laughter went on and on, like sunlight and stone, even if the human beings who laughed did not. — Robin McKinley
He lay listening to the water drip in the woods. Bedrock, this. The cold and the silence. The ashes of the late world carried on… — Cormac McCarthy
Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way of being with the mystery, unique and not to be judged — Unknown Author
A man seeks his own destiny and no other, said the judge. Wil or nill. Any man who could discover his own fate and elect… — Cormac McCarthy
What is remembered is not a deed in stone but a metaphor. Meta = above. Pheren = to carry. That which is carried above the… — Jeanette Winterson
Everybody's got their secrets; I carry mine like a jagged stone in my shoe. — Patrick Jones
A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist. — Eleanor Roosevelt
To a gargoyle on the ramparts of Notre Dame as Esmeralda rides off with Gringoire Quasimodo says. "Why was I not made of stone like… — Victor Hugo
Maybe the first time you saw her you were ten. She was standing in the sun scratching her legs. Or tracing letters in the dirt… — Nicole Krauss
You use the word "Infinity" very glibly.... Have you ever been there? Time and space are extensions of the mind, the will. Which means that… — Mike Carey
I watched the early morning light pass over and through the windows of colored glass, leaving streaks of red and green and yellow on the… — Karen Cushman
The direction of a big act will warp history, but probably all acts do the same in their degree, down to a stone stepped over… — John Steinbeck

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