Stone Quotes
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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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As concerning faith we ought to be invincible, and more hard, if it might be, than the adamant stone; but as touching charity, we ought to be soft, and more flexible than the reed or leaf that is shaken with the wind, and ready to yield to everything.
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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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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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Affaires meant 'business.' How like the French to kill two birds with one stone.
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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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Devolution will kill Nationalism stone dead.
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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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All the best gods are made of stone and say nothing.
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Knowledge without devotion is like a stone in water.
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As individuals they were stone, but together they were glass.
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Monsters, you know, cannot appreciate the niceties of commandments carved in stone.
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The diamond is the hardest stone -- to get.
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Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.
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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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You cannot expect stone to be as pliable as clay.
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If one's conscience be dead as a stone, it is as heavy too.
