Tone Quotes - Page 9

I rambled all the time. I was just like that, like a rollin' stone.

Look at all the stars. You look up and you think, 'God made all this and He remembered to make a little speck like me.' It's kind of flattering, really.

It is wrong to wear diamonds before luncheon, except on one’s marriage rings. Before, after, and during breakfast, luncheon and dinner, it is vulgar to wear a mixture of colored precious stones. It is always a comfort to know that so many things one can’t afford to do anyway are vulgar.

His voice was handsome and broken, like a cobblestone street.

Life is a lone wolf, scratching out a living with teeth and claws and a heart of stone.

Some sessions are stars and some sessions are stones, but in the end they are all rocks and we build upon them.

Pain is the touchstone of all growth

The Greatest Blues Singer in the World Will Never Stop Singing.

I am just a little tired of the Stones and the Beatles, and I don't care if I ever hear 'Louie Louie' ever again.

No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the shooter of it.

I endorse without reserve the much-abused sentiment of Gov. M'Duffie, that "slavery is the corner stone of our Republican edifice;" while I repudiate, as ridiculously absurd, that much-lauded but nowhere accredited dogma of Mr. Jefferson, that "all men are born equal.

The stone that the builder refused shall be the head corner stone.

Our peasant music, naturally, is invariably tonal, if not always in the sense that the inflexible major and minor system is tonal. (An "atonal" folk-music, in my opinion, is unthinkable.) Since we depend upon a tonal basis of this kind in our creative work, it is quite self-evident that our works are quite pronouncedly tonal in type. I must admit, however, that there was a time when I thought I was approaching a species of twelve-tone music. Yet even in works of that period the absolute tonal foundation is unmistakable.

No outdoor sports can be more elegant than throwing stones at autocracy; no melees can be more exciting than those in cyberspace.

Memories... images and precious thoughts that shall not die and cannot be destroyed.

The stones of a river start out rough, but with the current continually bumping and polishing them, they end up being beautiful.

The past is a stepping stone, not a millstone.

Well, I see I am not designed to the finding out the Philosophers Stone, I have been so unlucky in my first attempts in chemistry.

With all the stones being thrown against me you could build a monument!

The term ‘reconciliation’ describes the atonement as springing from the initiative of God Himself.

And if God choose I shall but love thee better after death.

As creeping ivy clings to wood or stone, And hides the ruin that it feeds upon, So sophistry, cleaves close to, and protects Sin's rotten trunk, concealing its defects.

Constant happiness is the philosopher's stone of the soul.

Shamanism is essentially a living tradition of alchemy that is not seeking the stone but has found the stone.

Little stones that are pelted into the lake of consciousness should not throw the whole lake into commotion.