Stones Quotes - Page 26

The manager once called me the 'best freak' in his stable, and, sad as it sounds, I took pride in that. When you are an outcast, even a tossed stone can be cherished.

I tell you, in my opinion, the cornerstone of democracy is free press - that's the cornerstone.

I felt violated after certain scenes in the movie [Stone]. She [Lucetta] is a tough character. The choices she makes, especially her sexual choices... it was hard for me to put myself out there like that.

When graves are covered with stones, the dead can no longer get out. But the dead can't go out anyway! What difference does it make whether they're covered with soil or stones?

Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher, it goes ill with the pitcher.

They must take me for a fool, or even worse, a lunatic. And no wonder ,for I am so intensely conscious of my misfortune and my misery is so overwhelming that I am powerless to resist it and am being turned into stone, devoid of all knowledge or feeling.

No matter what Johnny Rotten and Sid Vicious do, they can't be more disgusting than The Rolling Stones are in an orgy of biting.

I was exactly having fun. I was stone miserable, but I wasn't hating doing it; I was loving doing it, but it's just damaged and warped.

We are nearer neighbours to ourselves than whiteness to snow, or weight to stones.

I was really not familiar at all with Edward Snowden. I like to get that right out of the way and really learned most of what I know from Oliver's [Stones] script.

You were never able to break her. She is the stone of this kingdom.

The future is not set in stone, and even if it was, stone can be broken.

Nothing is written stone, child. Even if it were, the stones can be shattered

As a good man, if you throw a stone to a bad person, you yourself become a bad man!

When a good change is flowing towards you, don't stand like the river stones before it!

In a conservative old town, say something new and be prepared for the stones!

She was the stone-faced queen, then and ever after. She had needed the mask to rule, and she had been glad to have it. She wondered if Eugenides was glad of his.

I can't leave her there all alone, surrounded by stone walls... She's too precious to give up.

I discovered that some things are written for us. It's not that we can't change our ancestral bearings, or that the path or purpose of any of our lives is really written in stone. But what tends to happen sometimes is the path is so deeply inscribed in the birth that it becomes you and every variation away from it brings you back in ways that you are not controlling.

The evil done by oneself, self-begotten, self-bred, crushes the foolish, as a diamond breaks a precious stone.

We dare not trim stones to make God an altar, for if we do we ruin everything. We would spend time bringing people to the altar and saying, "Look at those beautiful stones we trimmed!" We merely need to accept the work that God has done for us in Christ. The object of His restrictions is to help us see how wonderful He is and to spend the rest of our lives rendering true worship to Him.

English rain feels obligatory, like paperwork. It dampens already damn days and slicks the stones.

For the scientists, they're kind of puzzled and pleased that somebody finds their work interesting. It makes it fun for me. I feel like I've sort of turned over a stone that hasn't been turned over.

Everything is important. To the smallest insect, even the mouldering tree, the deepest stone in the drift.

But for now, happiness throws stones. It guards itself. I wait.