Stones Quotes - Page 23

Only the dead can be forgiven; But when I think of that my tongue's a stone.

Cleaniness is the cornerstone of discipline and the trademark of success

He (Alexander Woollcott) always praises the first production of each season, being reluctant to stone the first cast.

Let me take up your metaphor. Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat or violence or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can never be trusted after. The more graceful and ornamental it was, the more clearly do we discern the hopelessness of restoring it to its former state. Coarse stones, if they are fractured, may be cemented again; precious stones, never.

Ask for an omen, then stone it when it comes -- de essentia hominum.

When a man's ways please God, the stones of the street shall be at peace with him.

They [Marvel] don't tell you. You never know with them. They have their world, but they don't like to spoil anything, so nobody knows until it's set in stone. You don't know. I actually don't know what they have in store for Wilson Fisk, or my Wilson Fisk, I should say.

I don't like things set in stone.

Factory windows are always brokenOther windows are let alone.No one throws through the chapel-windowThe bitter, snarling, derisive stone.

Scientific truth will out, you can't hide the sun under a stone.

The moon was sharp enough to draw blood from a stone

Every experience deeply felt in life needs to be passed along. Wheather it be through words and music, chiseled in stone, painted with a brush, or sewn with a needle, it is a way of reaching for immortality.

Men have lost their reason in nothing so much as their religion, wherein stones and clouts make martyrs.

Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years. Generations pass while families last not three oaks.

If you Americans aren't from the stone age then explain to me how your president is a ****ing pterodactyl

What do you call those things at the bottom of rivers? Frogs? Stones? Unsuccessful gangsters?

Internet radio stations like KCRW do take you everywhere, yet thats just one of a hundred small things you have to do to succeed. It used to be, if you just got on the cover of Rolling Stone and a spotlight on The Tonight Show, that was enough.

When Ray Charles is concentrating he's like a piece of granite, nothing twitches, nothing, ... He sat for 25 minutes solid like that, like a stone, and I thought, 'Oh my God, if he doesn't like it I'm dead.' ... And then finally, after 25 minutes he started to talk back to the screen. I heard him say 'That's right. That's the truth.' .

I must make a choice every time I speak a sentence in English. I try to choose the happier way of saying things, so that my own words will not weigh me down like stones.

How dreadful it is that because of our wills we can never love anything without messing it around! We couldn’t even love a tree, a stone even; for sooner or later we should be pruning the tree or chipping a bit off the stone.

Knowledge without devotion is like a stone in water.

You think of me as a... living stone - hard and cold. That's true. We are set the way we are, and it is very rare for us to experience a real change. When that happens, as when Bella entered my life, it is a permanent change. There's no going back.

Is a mountain only a huge stone? Is a planet an enormous mountain?

The city and nature, the built stone and the found stone, concrete and slate, poetry addresses them all democratically.

Nobody makes movies like Oliver Stone.