Stones Quotes - Page 31

This sadness wasn't a huge part of me--I wasn't remotely depressed--but still, it was like a stone I carried in my pocket. I always knew it was there. [p. 179]

Friends, I was pretty sure, lift their friends up; they don't weigh them down like a sack full of stones

A stone that looks satisfied with its position reflects the sense of ease the waller felt when placing it there.

He felt he had lost it for good, he knew what it was to have been in communication with her, and to be cast off again. In misery, his heart like a heavy stone, he went about unliving.

If only my heart were stone.

But I always kind of knew in the back of my head that I could come back and do Stone Sour.

I will always make music with Stone Sour. Stone Sour will always be here.

He told me once that there was no better faith than a wounded faith and sometimes I wonder if that is what he was doing all along --trying to wound his faith in order to test it--and I was just another stone in the way of his God.

Oliver Stone's strategy is to unnerve the actors so as to make them alert and alive.

The Breath becomes a stone; the stone, a plant; the plant, an animal; the animal, a man; the man, a spirit; and the spirit, a god.

The most outrageous shoe that I had to do was a shoe where the person gave me stones - precious stones - and say that I could do anything with precious stones.

If you purchased the latest Joss Stone CD, what you're saying is that you're an employee of VH1.

Natural Selection never made it come to pass, as a habit of nature, that an unsupported stone should move downwards rather than upwards. It applies to no part of inorganic nature, and is very limited even in the phenomena of organic life.

I mean that I value vision, and dread being struck stone blind.

The poem I want to write is impossible. A stone that floats.

The temple of truth is built indeed of stones of crystal, but, inasmuch as men have been concerned in rearing it, it has been consolidated by a cement composed of baser materials.

In a more universal sense, we only get one thing. You know...a head stone if we're lucky; if not, green grass.

I felt that my views and philosophies had been changed overnight. The philosophies that i had gladly carved in stone, recited and danced upon.

Anytime you feel love for anything, be it stone, tree, lover, or child, you are touched by the Goddess's magick.

Even though language has its richness the relationship between language and the writer is always like a stone and you have to make the stone human.

I would go to newsstands and buy paperbacks they were selling for tourists, usually bestsellers and mass market paperbacks. In the beginning, it was like going to the Rosetta Stone--I didn?t understand anything, I'd get a headache--but I began to figure it out, and I'd read a lot of Stephen King paperbacks. I've always said he was my English professor.

I had to make a confession of faith in stone. That was the beginning of the tower, the house I built for myself at Bollingen.

Football has always been a stepping stone for my education.

I remember that, before John Lennon died, everyone was saying that Rolling Stone couldn't do good reporting anymore. But when he died, they wrote this amazing issue, as they should have about Lennon. They did that when Elvis died, too.

I started wanting to inject more colorful chord phrasings from the music I actually grew up on, which was Hendrix, Rolling Stones, and stuff like that.