Stones Quotes - Page 10

Can we find "The Universe in a grain of sand"? Well perhaps, but a stone seems easier to visualize.

No one should be allowed to make music as if he were made of wood. One must reproduce the musical text exactly, but not play like a stone.

If we can by any method establish a relation of mutual trust between the laborer and the employer, we shall lay the foundation stone of a structure that will endure for all time.

The past is nothing but a weight. It will build inside of you like a stone.

There are no successes and failures in life, only achievements - stepping stones.

Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts.

How to read "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone"? Why, very quickly, to begin with, and perhaps also to make an end. Why read it? Presumably, if you cannot be persuaded to read anything better, Rowling will have to do.

I won't apologize for ticket prices. I think we're well worth it. We consider ourselves in the elite touring acts, like the Stones, Elton John, Paul McCartney.

Everyone knows Newton as the great scientist. Few remember that he spent half his life muddling with alchemy , looking for the philosopher's stone. That was the pebble by the seashore he really wanted to find.

The diamond is the hardest stone -- to get.

[I]n the end this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin.

One must be reasonable in one's demands on life. For myself, all that I ask is: (1) accurate information; (2) coherent knowledge; (3) deep understanding; (4) infinite loving wisdom; (5) no more kidney stones, please.

Watching a woman make Russian pancakes, you might think that she was calling on the spirits or extracting from the batter the philosopher's stone.

Some stones are so heavy only silence helps you carry them!

You cannot expect stone to be as pliable as clay.

Symbol and metaphor are as much a part of the architectural vocabulary as stone and steel.

Everything in my life has been a stepping-stone to something else.

In the end, it all comes to choices to turn stumbling blocks into stepping stones.

Too many people spouting too many words, and in the end those words will turn to bullets and stones.

The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man.

Consider the possibility that the little obstacles in life are not obstacles at all, but stepping stones.

Handicaps can be converted into stepping stones on which one may climb toward some worthy goal, unless they are accepted as obstacles, and used as alibis.

It is as easy to draw back a stone thrown with force from the hand, as to recall a word once spoken.

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.

I respect the Stones but their songs are a pile of crap. As for U2, they don’t say a lot or seem like normal persons.