Stone Quotes
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Symbol and metaphor are as much a part of the architectural vocabulary as stone and steel.
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The interior of the Zigana Mosque, a beehivelike geodesic dome composed of pointed arches of honey-colored stone, was based on al-Biruni’s sacred geometry.
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I think it's kind of written in stone that men are supposed to have strong feelings about age, but I've never really thought about it.
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The diamond is the hardest stone -- to get.
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You have to have the right sort of stone. Peridot for mothers, girasol for lovers, sapphire for sadness, and garnet for joy.
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Affaires meant 'business.' How like the French to kill two birds with one stone.
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Devolution will kill Nationalism stone dead.
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When an English man speaks well, for example now, and this is another way of putting us down, they say he's "eloquent" you see. "Oh, eloquent chap they are!" An Irish person speak well, they say, "Ah, you have the gift of the gab." "Ah, you kissed the blarney stone." You see, all of this putting us down.
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Sculpture is not the mere cutting of the form of anything in stone; it is the cutting of the effect of it. Very often the true form, in the marble, would not be in the least like itself.
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That thought had balled itself up and turned itself into a stone which has resided inside his heart.
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Knowledge without devotion is like a stone in water.
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Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.
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All the best gods are made of stone and say nothing.
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Monsters, you know, cannot appreciate the niceties of commandments carved in stone.
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As individuals they were stone, but together they were glass.
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If a mistake is not a stepping stone, it is a mistake.
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FABLEHAVEN: None who enter will leave unchanged. Trespassers will be turned to stone.
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At Poltersberg, there is a lake similarly cursed. If you throw a stone into it, a dreadful storm immediately arises, and the whole neighboring district quakes to its centre. 'Tis the devils kept prisoner there.
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If one's conscience be dead as a stone, it is as heavy too.
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You cannot expect stone to be as pliable as clay.
