Stones Quotes
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Back in the day, in '91 or so, I tried to interview Fugazi for Rolling Stone, which the band felt stood for everything they detested about corporate infiltration of music. They said, 'We'll do the interview if you give us a million dollars of cash in a suitcase.' Which was their way of saying no.
Michael Azerrad
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The stones were sharp, The wind came at my back; Walking along the highway, Mincing like a cat.
Theodore Roethke
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In Fleet Street, in Fleet Street, the People are so fleet, They barely touch the cobble-stones with their nimble feet!
Eleanor Farjeon
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Platonic England, house of solitudes, rests in its laurels and its injured stone
Geoffrey Hill
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It's the people who almost decide to live in glass houses who throw the first stones.
Carol Tavris
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I keep telling you the future isn't set in stone. It's not all decided yet. The future is just what's down the road we decided to walk on today. You can change roads anytime. And that changes where you end up.
Catherine Ryan Hyde
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Every good band in the world was a cover band first. The Beatles were and the Stones were. Everybody was a cover band.
Alice Cooper
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We can choose to throw stones, to stumble on them, to climb over them, or to build with them.
William Arthur Ward
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Throwing stones is the birthright and duty of anyone subject to foreign rule. Throwing stones is an action as well as a metaphor of resistance.
Amira Hass
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Lay me down, Let the only sound, Be the overflow, Pockets full of stones.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
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No philosopher's stone of a constitution can produce golden conduct from leaden instincts.
Herbert Spencer
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The line-storm clouds fly tattered and swift, The road is forlorn all day, Where a myriad snowy quartz stones lift, And the hoof-prints vanish away. The roadside flowers, too wet for the bee, Expend their bloom in vain. Come over the hills and far with me, And be my love in the rain.
Robert Frost
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Only the dead can be forgiven; But when I think of that my tongue's a stone.
William Butler Yeats
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God takes out your heart of flesh, and gives you a heart of stone.
Hilary Mantel
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A stone that looks satisfied with its position reflects the sense of ease the waller felt when placing it there.
Dan Snow
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Every time you read something about Rolling Stones it always mentions their age and how long can they go on? I think there are certain genres of music where people are allowed to go on, but there is something about rock and roll, I guess because it originally started out to be a teenage rebellion.
Kate Pierson
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I'm sort of killing two birds with one stone here, getting to write for "True Blood" and being able to put myself in a comic at the same time.
Michael McMillian
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Stones grow, plants grow, and live, animals grow live and feel.
Carl Linnaeus
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Even though language has its richness the relationship between language and the writer is always like a stone and you have to make the stone human.
Carmen Boullosa
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In the end, it is not the stones that matter, but the people who dwell within them.
Elizabeth Chadwick
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I have always thought of poems as stepping stones in one's own sense of oneself.
Seamus Heaney
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When a man's ways please God, the stones of the street shall be at peace with him.
Walter Cradock
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Let him who is without guilt cast the first stone. A trap. Because then he will be no longer without guilt.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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If the nation only knew their hands dripped with innocent blood, it would have met them not with applause but with stones.
Georgy Zhukov