Quotes about stones
stones outcast contradiction
Be nobody's darling; Be an outcast. Take the contradictions Of your life And wrap around You like a shawl, To parry stones To keep you warm. Alice Walker
stones woods want
I didn’t want to be prideful anymore. I wanted to be as hard as and brittle as the stones I carted into the woods. Stones that could not feel or cry or see. I wished not to feel anything at all. In no time, what I wished for, I became. Alice Hoffman
stones grew weeping
I wept not, so to stone within I grew. Dante Alighieri
stones throw windows
Don't throw stones at your neighbours, if your own windows are glass. Benjamin Franklin
stones fortune fortune-teller
Before you leave, the fortune teller reminds you that the future is never set in stone. Erin Morgenstern
stones unexpected remember
Life takes us to unexpected places sometimes. The future is never set in stone, remember that.
stones matter arches
Why do you speak to me of the stones? It is only the arch that matters to me. Kublai Khan
stones muddy
I rambled all the time. I was just like that, like a rollin' stone. Muddy Waters
stones potters ends
How to read "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone"? Why, very quickly, to begin with, and perhaps also to make an end. Why read it? Presumably, if you cannot be persuaded to read anything better, Rowling will have to do. Harold Bloom
stones way bigger
Australians are very provincial in many ways. If they feel that you've used them as a stepping stone to bigger things, they resent it. Graham Russell
stones prison isolated
That's what prison did for me, it isolated me, you know, it polished me up like a stone.
stones rolling action
Either you pursue or push, O Sisyphus, the stone destined to keep rolling. [Lat., Aut petis aut urgues ruiturum, Sisyphe, saxum.] Ovid
stones sticks bones
..and only sticks and stones can break my bones. Mark Haddon
stones gains moss
A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gains a certain polish. Oliver Herford
stones folly disgrace
To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbial disgrace. [Lat., Culpa enim illa, bis ad eundem, vulgari reprehensa proverbio est.] Marcus Tullius Cicero
stones folly proverbial
To stumble twice against the same stone is a Proverbsial disgrace.
stones projects transport
If transport, housing and Olympic projects do not work, I will crawl away under a stone. Ken Livingstone
stones sake journalism
It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone, and can be made as offensive as the brickbat. They at once sought for the journalist, found him, developed him, and made him their industrious and well-paid servant. It is greatly to be regretted, for both their sakes. Oscar Wilde
stones dropping
Continual dropping wears away a stone. Lucretius
stones tools behavior
Stone tools are fossilized human behavior. Louis Leakey
stones beats courses
I refused to beat my head against stone, of course. Herbert Lom
stones diamond hardest
The diamond is the hardest stone -- to get. Evan Esar
stones pockets sound
Lay me down Let the only sound Be the overflow Pockets full of stones Florence Welch
stones rich virtue
Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set. Francis Bacon
stones way temples
That's always the way with fanatics; they cross themselves at the tavern and throw stones at the temple. Fyodor Dostoevsky
stones crosses creeks
Cross the creek on the stepping stones of your failures. Jerry Spinelli
stones philosopher painting
Decades ago, Gerhard Richter found a painterly philosopher's stone. Like Jackson Pollock before him, he discovered something that had been in painting all along, always overlooked or discounted. Jerry Saltz
stones
Leave no stone unturned. Deeply explore the beauty of your life. Neil Gaiman
stones helping boomerang
I would happily help to turn the stone being thrown at me into a boomerang. Peer Steinbruck
stones cheese peaches
Cheeses crusty, got all musty, got damp on the stone of a peach. Patricia Briggs
stones talent film
The Australian film industry has recognised Tropfest as a place to nurture young talent. It's a stepping stone between amateur and professional. John Polson
stones outcast
When you are an outcast, even a tossed stone can be cherished. Mitch Albom
stones ill pitcher
Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher, it goes ill with the pitcher. Miguel de Cervantes