Stones Quotes - Page 17

Self-respect,--the corner-stone of all virtue.

A poet wants only one small stone on which to carve his life.

Gyms are always packed. The only machine available is the one that simulates the gynecological exam. You know, the Sharon Stone machine.

I didn’t feel anything but a bone-deep weariness. Like I was suddenly a hundred years old, and I knew at that moment I would have to live a hundred more years, carrying my grief around like a backpack full of stones.

Statues to great men are made of the stones thrown at them in their lifetime.

I find that discussing an idea out loud is often the way to kill it stone dead.

What you compose with is neither here nor there, you compose with words, or you compose with stone plants and trees, or you compose with events; the Sheriff's officer, or whatever.

Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is 'The X Factor.'

Remember, when incited to slander, that it is only he among you who is without sin that may cast the first stone.

Some men are, in regard to ridicule, like tin-roofed buildings in regard to hail: all that hits them bounds rattling off; not a stone goes through.

Our good works are like stones cast into the pool of time; though the stones themselves may disappear, their ripples extend to eternity.

I cannot figure out just what Dadaism is beyond an insane jumble of the four winds, the six senses, and plum pudding. But if the Baroness is to be a keystone for it, — then I think I can possibly know when it is coming and avoid it.

When I was 13, when I was 14, when I was in England, yeah all I wanted to do was go and see The Who, go and see The Stones.

Get to live; Then live, and use it; else, it is not true That thou hast gotten. Surely use alone Makes money not a contemptible stone.

With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely as I despise Shakespeare when I measure my mind against his. . . . It would positively be a relief to me to dig him up and throw stones at him.

A rolling stone gathers no moss and therefore will not be derided as a moss-back. Roll as much as possible.

The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity.

What you gain in internal knowledge goes from one lifetime to another. It is not wasted. Unlike those stone edifices that will fade, your internal knowledge will stay with you from one incarnation to another.

Lay me down, Let the only sound, Be the overflow, Pockets full of stones.

Euclid alone Has looked on Beauty bare. Fortunate they Who, though once only and then but far away, Have heard her massive sandal set on stone.

The poets scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.

Every experience of love, bliss, belonging, inspiration, and insight provides a stepping stone back to your true self.

The original lists were probably carved in stone and represented longer periods of time. They contained things like 'Get More Clay. Make Better Oven.'

When the coherence of the parts of a stone, or even that composition of parts which renders it extended; when these familiar objects, I say, are so inexplicable, and contain circumstances so repugnant and contradictory; with what assurance can we decide concerning the origin of worlds, or trace their history from eternity to eternity?

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.