Stones Quotes - Page 24

The past is history written in stone that can't be altered. The future is transitory and never guaranteed. Today is the only thing you can alter for certain. Make the most of it.

I made an airplane out of stone. . . I always did like staying home.

He did a very good impression of a stone column.

Sometimes my fancy gets to floating inside me, threatening to carry me away like a leaf on a wind. Better to be a stone.

Oliver Stone. Is that not enough?

He [Oliver Stone] is great. I really like working with directors who know what they want and aren't afraid to tell you, "Do it like this. Don't do it like that."

Hark," he said, his tone very dry. "What stone through yonder window breaks?

No one worth possessing Can be quite possessed; Lay that on your heart, My young angry dear; This truth, this hard and precious stone, Lay it on your hot cheek, Let it hide your tear. Hold it like a crystal When you are alone And gaze in the depths of the icy stone. Long, look long and you will be blessed: No one worth possessing Can be quite possessed.

I've pretty much kicked over every stone. And there's nothing in me that says, "I must create this particular thing."

Yeah, yeah, I've been Beatled, I've been Rolling Stoned.

I am a rolling stone, never in one place for very long.

I did a cover for Rolling Stone the other day and it was a kind of crazy lack of outfit. I thought, "Oh, Lord. I'm never going to be Jane Austen in a film now!" 'Cause that's what I'd really like to do.

The family has always been the cornerstone of American society.

Laughter went on and on, like sunlight and stone, even if the human beings who laughed did not.

You go up the mountaintop and all you're gonna get is a great big heavy stone tablet handed to you with a bunch of rules on it.

The sticks break, the stones crumble, The eternal altars tilt and tumble, Sanctions and tales dislimn like mist About the amazed evangelist. He stands unshook from age to youth Upon one pin-point of the truth.

Rand al'Thor is a mule-headed, stone-willed fool of a...a...a man!

Great virtues may draw attention from defects, they cannot sanctify them. A pebble surrounded by diamonds remains a common stone, and a diamond surrounded by pebbles is still a gem.

A small species of pinus was much prized, and, when dwarfed in the manner of the Chinese, fetched a very high price; it is generally grafted on a variety of the stone pine.

I know Mick Jagger wouldn’t tour without Keith Richards and call it the Rolling Stones.

We stone our prophets, then build monuments to them after they're gone.

'Tis hard preaching a stone into tears, or making a rock to tremble.

Kill two birds with one stone, feed the homeless to the hungry.

Throw a stone into the stream and the ripples that propagate themselves are the beautiful type of all influence.

Because I was always a fat child, I got fatter and fatter, and I ended up 18 stone and with a 40-inch waist.