Stones Quotes - Page 18

Styx and The Stones may break my bones but 'More than Words' will never hurt me

"Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age" was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant's thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed OUT of the Stone Age.

While other girls swooned over The Beatles and the Rolling Stones, I worshipped Rudolf Nureyev and Isadora Duncan.

Lucy looked and saw that Aslan had just breathed on the feet of the stone giant. It's all right!" shouted Aslan joyously. "Once The feet are put right, all the rest of him will follow.

The Stones always tried to do the odd smaller gig when they could.

Also I played on a lot of demos in the early days of the Stones.

Get what you can, and what you get hold; 'tis the Stone that will turn all your Lead into Gold.

I've always loved War's Low Rider and Sly Stone's Thank You, and I just wanted to put my take on them.

Genius is to other gifts what the carbuncle is to the precious stones. It sends forth its own light, whereas other stones only reflect borrowed light.

Failure is a stepping stone to success.

Perhaps creativity is fumbling that dance step, or driving the chisel the wrong way into the stone.

The word dropped like a stone on my still living breast. Confess: I was prepared, am somehow ready for the test.

I did tests on small stones before collecting and committing myself to the larger ones.

Fire is the origin of stone.By working the stone with heat, I am returning it to its source.

The reason why the stone is red is its iron content, which is also why our blood is red.

A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories.

The foundation stones of a great building are destined to groan and be pressed upon; it is not for them to crown the edifice.

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.

Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.

Nay, in death's hand, the grape-stone proves As strong as thunder is in Jove's.

through metaphor to reconcile the people and the stones.

Love is the stepping stone to new beginnings.

She sees things — things that might happen, things that are coming. But it’s very subjective. The future isn’t set in stone. Things change.

All is forgotten in the stone halls of the dead. These are the rooms of ruin where the spiders spin and the great circuits fall quiet, one by one.

You would rouse to anger a heart of stone.