Stone Quotes

Fiction's essential activity is to imagine how others feel, what a Saturday afternoon in an Italian town in the 2nd Century looked like. My ambition is solely to get some effect, as of light on stone in a forest on a September day. Guy Davenport
Day Light Ambition September Others Solely Some Feel Town Like Looked How Italian Effect Forest Get Stone Essential Fiction Afternoon Century Activity Saturday Imagine
I'm big into the Stone Roses. Guy Martin
Big Stone Roses
Have I ever written anything that has really changed something? What I believe is that you can't change anything without using art. I believe that the drops wear away the stone. I try to be part of that army. Henning Mankell
Art You Change Army Try Believe Changed Wear Something Part Written Drops Without Stone Anything Really Using Away Ever
Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Genius Men Society Earth Only Blazing Meteor Dull Stone Often Descend
It is the parent's job to see how their child learns and to make sure that the children's self confidence is buoyed at all times, or they will plummet like a stone. Henry Winkler
Confidence Will Job See Parent Self Self-Confidence Like Make Sure Learns How Times Child Stone Children
I refused to beat my head against stone, of course. Herbert Lom
Beat Head Course Stone Refused Against
Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is 'The X Factor.' Luck is great, but most of life is hard work. We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work. Iain Duncan Smith
Life Success Work Hard Work Great Celebrate People Money Life Is Hard Made Luck Believe Kids Out Factor Stepping Stepping Stone Most Massive Stone Meant Hard Who Serious
I see The Stone Roses in '89 as Technicolor: we were all about joy and possibilities of life. Ian Brown
Life Joy Possibilities See About Were Stone Roses
With the Stone Roses, I always thought we'd be successful because we had some great songs. Ian Brown
Great Thought Some Had Songs Great Songs Because Always Stone Successful Roses
If I was in the gutter, and my kids lived on the kerb, I'd go and get a job in B&Q before I'd reform the Roses. I gave everything I had to the Stone Roses and ended up hitting a brick wall. I'm never going to give anyone a foothold on that wall again. Ian Brown
Job Before Gave Everything Kids Give Gutter Never Had Go Up Reform Wall Get Ended Hitting Stone Going Anyone Again Roses Brick Brick Wall Lived
As a father and a provider, no stone goes unturned. Ian Ziering
Father Unturned Provider Goes Stone
Water is a beverage which I never enjoyed in purity and perfection before I visited America. It is provided in abundance in the cars, the hotels, the waiting-rooms, the steamers, and even the stores, in crystal jugs or stone filters, and it is always iced. This may be either the result or the cause of the temperance of the people. Isabella Bird
People Water Result Cause Car Before Filters Visited Temperance Purity Never Perfection Abundance Beverage Hotels Crystal Always Provided America Stone May Stores Either Which Even Enjoyed
I am here talking to 'Rolling Stone' because of an iPhone. Music has transformed because of Apple. Jacob Whitesides
Music Talking Because Am iPhone Stone Rolling Rolling Stone Transformed Apple Here
If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age. Jacques Barzun
Age Rise Risen Civilization Stone Stone Age Again
The term 'epitaph' itself means 'something to be spoken at a burial or engraved upon a tomb.' When an epitaph is a poem written for a tomb, and appears in a book, we are aware that we are not reading it in its proper form: we are reading a reproduction. The original of the epitaph is the tomb itself, with its words cut into the stone. James Fenton
Book Words Reading Proper Something Poem Written Spoken Term Itself Stone Burial Form Reproduction Cut Means Epitaph Original Appears Engraved Aware Tomb
A whole army, though they can neither write nor read, are not afraid of a platform, which they know is but earth or stone; nor of a cannon, which, without a hand to give fire to it, is but cold iron; therefore a whole army is afraid of one man. James Harrington
Man Army Fire Cold Earth Though Neither One-Man Give Write Know Read Without Nor Hand Iron Stone Afraid Cannon Which Therefore Whole Platform
Who am I to pass judgment? Judgment has been passed on me, but I adhere to, 'Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.' James Nesbitt
Me First Judgment Adhere Has-Been Cast Sin Him Without Pass Am Passed Been Stone Who Who Am I
And what could be a hotter ticket than the improbable triumph of 'The Book of Mormon,' the musical-comedy moon shot of the season? Its creators, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, of Comedy Central's 'South Park,' are the most unlikely Rodgers and Hammerstein team ever to bowl a thundering strike. James Wolcott
Book Comedy Moon Strike Unlikely Triumph Park Parker Mormon Could Thundering Hotter Ticket Most Bowl Hammerstein South Matt Rodgers South Park Improbable Than Stone Central Shot Team Creators Season Ever
My personal medicine bundle is my backpack that I have at the top of the course. Each person's medicine bundle is different and sacred and not to be spoken of. I have some goodies in my bundle. And my power stone is a quartz crystal that I love and wear almost every day. Jamie Anderson
Love Day Every Day Power Every Medicine Top Backpack Wear Some Sacred Almost Spoken Almost Every Day Crystal Course Bundle Person Personal Stone Different Each
I didn't get into comics as a stepping stone. Jason Aaron
Stepping Stepping Stone Comics Get Stone
Our interest in 'Rolling Stone' is driven by its people, its cultural significance, and the globally recognized brand that has no peer in its areas of influence. Jay Penske
People Peer Our Recognized Significance Area Driven Globally Cultural Brand Stone Rolling Rolling Stone Influence Interest
I feel nervous when the script is set in stone, and I feel nervous when I feel the script is written for mass consumption because I don't see myself that way. Jenny Slate
Myself Nervous Way See Written Consumption Feel Mass Because Stone Script Set
Everybody knows who Gandhi is. Who knows Jesse Stone? Jesse Stone
Everybody Knows Stone Gandhi Who
You've got to turn over every stone; you've got to look for every advantage. You need to make sure you're doing everything you possibly can, not just on the field but off it, to give your team an advantage - from having a sleep expert coming to talk to your team to having an independent analysis of your team done. Jill Ellis
You Field Every Analysis Everything Independent Possibly Give Having Advantage Over Look Talk Make Sure Got Coming Doing Off Stone Done Just Expert Turn Your Team Need Sleep
I love stone crabs. And I love popcorn. Jim Nantz
Love Crabs Stone Popcorn
General McChrystal had to go. Whatever his virtues as a strategist and commander, the 'Rolling Stone' interview fatally compromised his ability to represent the United States in dealing with allies and to act within the circle of people who must make decisions in Afghanistan. Jim Talent
People Circle Whatever Interview Virtues States Must Ability General Compromised Allies Had Make Within Dealing Go Commander His Stone Rolling Rolling Stone Represent Afghanistan Decisions Act Who Strategist United United States
Load more quotes

No more stone quotes

Haven't find the right quote? Try another of these similiar topics.

About
Site pages
Top Quotes
Authors
Today's birthdays
Copyright © Quotesia 2025