Stone Quotes
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I'll say that I don't think you can throw a stone and not come in contact with someone who knows someone or has problems with substance abuse.
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The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.
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Here (Jerusalem), tears do not weaken the eyes, they only polish and shine the hardness of faces like stone.
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Nothing is written in stone, as a career is an unpredictable journey.
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As when, O lady mine, With chiselled touch, The stone unhewn and cold, Becomes a living mould, The more the marble wastes, The more the statue grows.
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Failure is a stepping-stone to greatness.
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Further conceive, I beg, that a stone, while continuing in motion, should be capable of thinking and knowing, that it is endeavoring, as far as it can, to continue to move. Such a stone, being conscious merely of its own endeavor and not at all indifferent, would believe itself to be completely free, and would think that it continued in motion solely because of its own wish. This is that human freedom, which all boast that they possess, and which consists solely in the fact, that men are conscious of their own desire, but are ignorant of the causes whereby that desire has been determined.
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I need therapy after writing. It's like leaking blood from a stone. It's brutally difficult but worth it.
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Only last week I murdered a rock, injured a stone and hospitalized a brick.
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The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race.
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I'd read Stone Cold's biography about how he lived on, like, raw potatoes, and I thought, this is all part of it. This is what wrestlers do, and this is what I'm going to do.
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The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.
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The stuff I write I'm very proud of, but I'm smart enough to know I'll never get on the cover of 'Rolling Stone' next to Elvis Costello.
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The entrée wasn't tender enough to be a paving stone and the gravy couldn't have been primordial soup because morphogenesis was already taking place.
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The Sun is a mass of fiery stone, a little larger than Greece.
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The story of each stone leads back to a mountain.
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I went to a place recently I think is one of the most f**ked up places I've ever been to. I'm convinced this place is the epitome of American excess, of American greed. I'm talking about a place called Cold Stone Creamery. Whoa. If you have not been there, the basic gist of Cold Stone is that they take ice cream and then they just go ape sh*t with it.
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The stone that the builder refused shall be the head corner stone.
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One pale woman all alone, The daylight kissing her wan hair, Loitered beneath the gas lamps' flare, With lips of flame and heart of stone.
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What is silence, is it more solid than a stone?
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So I’m pampering myself to a homemade stone pumice session, to sand down my feet … because I’m worth it.
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One has to remember that every failure can be a stepping stone to something better.
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If you're asked: What is the silence? Respond: It is the first stone of the Wisdom's temple.
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Then Aragorn stooped and looked in her face, and it was indeed white as a lily, cold as frost, and hard as graven stone. But he bent and kissed her on the brow, and called her softly, saying: 'Éowyn Éomund's daughter, awake! For your enemy has passed away!'
