Stones Quotes - Page 8

.... all blades of grass, wood, and stone, all things are One.

Stone tools are fossilized human behavior.

Now her eyes meet mine like green lightning-they are green, these eyes of hers, whose power is so indescribable-green, but as are precious stones, or deep unfathomable mountain lakes.

Don't wish for bricks when you can build from stone.

Sculpture is not the mere cutting of the form of anything in stone; it is the cutting of the effect of it. Very often the true form, in the marble, would not be in the least like itself.

For ages happiness has been represented as a huge precious stone, impossible to find, which people seek for hopelessly. It is not so; happiness is a mosaic, composed of a thousand little stones, which separately and of themselves have little value, but which united with art form a graceful design.

The Temple will not be completed until every living stone is there. And then what? The next thing will be that which our Masonic friends make so much of, and which we make so much of namely: the glorification of the temple.

I may be an antique like the Stones, but antiques are valuable.

If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.

The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare.

Sticks and stones may break bones, but the Gat will kill you quicker.

The drop hollows out the stone not by strength, but by constant falling.

Words have weight, something once said cannot be unsaid. Meaning is like a stone dropped into a pool; the ripples will spread and you cannot know what back they wash against.

Every woman deserves diamonds, and even if you can't afford to go out and buy diamonds for yourself or you don't have actual stone diamonds, I think when we look at ourselves we should refer to ourselves as a precious stone.

Could one imagine a stone's having consciousness? And if anyone can do so-why should that not merely prove that such image-mongery is of no interest to us?

As long as there shall be stones, the seeds of fire will not die.

Sticks and stones and small caliber bullets may break my bones... Words will never, et cetera.

We innovate by starting with the customer and working backwards. That becomes the touchstone for how we invent.

He directed that the stone over his grave be inscribed: Hic jacet hujus sententiae primus auctor: DISPUTANDI PRURITUS ECCLESIARUM SCABIES.

I wanted to get out of our thimble of a town, where every stone had eyes.

A man who knows neither how to travel nor how to keep a journal has put together this travel journal. But at the moment of signing he is suddenly afraid. So he casts the first stone. Here.

Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, oh sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me.

When they asked Michelangelo how he made his statue of David he is reported to have said, "It is easy. You just chip away the stone that doesn't look like David.

No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely.