Tone Quotes - Page 6

The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.

Why do you speak to me of the stones? It is only the arch that matters to me.

Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer. Camp out among the grasses and gentians of glacial meadows, in craggy garden nooks full of nature's darlings.

Some archeologists believe that Stonehenge - the mysterious arrangement of enormous elongated stones in England - is actually a crude effort by the Druids to build a computing device.

A Gentle Man and a Gentleman.

Every foundation stone that is laid for a Temple, and every Temple completed according to the order the Lord has revealed for his holy Priesthood, lessens the power of Satan on the earth, and increases the power of God and Godliness.

Natural gas has been sold as clean energy. But when the gas comes from fracturing bedrock with about five million gallons of toxic water per well, the word “clean” takes on a disturbingly Orwellian tone. Don’t be fooled. Fracking for shale gas is in truth dirty energy.

The trick is to smoke a cigarette to calm your nerves and then take a big swig of strong liquor to tone your muscles.

They no longer had nor could find any arrows, javelins or stones with which to attack us.

Education is the cornerstone of liberty.

I never saw daffodils so beautiful. They grew among the mossy stones about and above them; some rested their heads upon these stones, as on a pillow, for weariness.

I can tell that the Greater Yellowstone from the Tetons, to the Lamar Valley where wolves howl and grizzlies roam, acts as my spine, my range of memory that ties me to landscape of Other. And that the ocean from the rocky coast of Maine, to the Florida everglades, to the looming cliffs at Big Sur, sustain me, remind me we are nothing without salt water, wind, and waves.

But which is the stone that supports the bridge?

Now I really feel the landscape, I can be bold and include every tone of pink and blue: it's enchanting, it's delicious, and I hope it will please you.

Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos.

Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.

The essence of higher instrumental music lays herein that one is able to express in tones that what one is unable to say in words.

Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.

In OK Computer, the guitar was already moving towards a tone generator as well as a riff generator.

I've always seen modeling as a stepping stone.

For it is my opinion that we enclose and celebrate the freaks of our nation and our civilization. Yellowstone National Park is no more representative of America than is Disneyland.

I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.' I think I'd like them to remember me by saying, 'She opened government to everyone.'

I'm completely uninterested in the origins of Stonehenge. I don't care about the real story behind it or whether it should be saved or not. What I'm interested in is this: in the Victorian era, you could go there as an early cultural tourist and you were given a chisel to chip off a bit of the stones and take it with you. That's what you did in Victorian times.

Your relationship with yourself sets the tone for every other relationship you have.

Hamburgers! The corner-stone of any nutritious breakfast.