Stones Quotes - Page 12

• I am a rock & roll man, and therefore, a denim man. Musicians of any era - whether it be The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Rage Against the Machine, or, of course, Madonna - will inspire fashion. And we in turn will inspire them.

  Renzo Rosso

  Fashion, Men, Rocks

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've always loved black, and I realized that, from the beginning, man went into completely dark caves to paint. They painted with black too. They could have painted with white because there were white stones all over the ground, but no, they chose to paint with black in the dark.

  Pierre Soulages

  Dark, Men, White

  Interview with Zoe Stillpass, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 7, 2014.

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• The Stones, I love the Stones. I watch them whenever I can. Fred, Barney.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Watches

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• Thank you Jesus you are a stone mover. And you can move any stone away.

  Louie Giglio

  Leadership, Christian, Jesus

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• The Stone the Builders Rejected.

  Jack London

  Tombstone, Rejected, Builder

  Jack London (2014). “The People of the Abyss (Illustrated)”, p.42, BookRix

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• 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.

  Nia Long

  Thinking, Precious Stones, Looks

  "Nia Long's Simple Two-Step Trick for Instantly Brighter Skin". Glamour Interview, www.glamour.com. August 14, 2014.

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• Tobacco, divine, rare, superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all the panaceas, potable gold, and philosophers stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases but as it is commonly abused by most men, which take it as tinkers do ale, 'Tis a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, health; hellish, devilish and damned tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul.

  Robert A. Burton

  Men, Land, Smoking

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• Just as old age is creeping on space, And clouds come o'er the sunset of our day, They kindly leave us, though not quite alone, But in good company--the gout or stone.

  Lord Byron

  Sunset, Clouds, Space

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• Today, words. Tomorrow, sticks and stones. And the day after that?

  Phillip Adams

  Leadership, Today, Sticks

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• Observe that noses were made to wear spectacles; and so we have spectacles. Legs were visibly instituted to be breeched, and we have breeches. Stones were formed to be quarried and to build castles; and My Lord has a very noble castle; the greatest Baron in the province should have the best house; and as pigs were made to be eaten, we eat pork all year round; consequently, those who have asserted all is well talk nonsense; they ought to have said that all is for the best.

  Voltaire

  Years, Pigs, Should Have

  Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.154, Penguin

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• In Prison Wearily, drearily, Half the day long, Flap the great banners High over the stone; Strangely and eerily Sounds the wind's song, Bending the banner-poles. While, all alone, Watching the loophole's spark, Lie I, with life all dark, Feet tethered, hands fettered Fast to the stone, The grim walls, square lettered With prisoned men's groan. Still strain the banner-poles Through the wind's song, Westward the banner rolls Over my wrong.

  William Morris

  Life, Song, Wall

  William Morris (1966). “Collected works”

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• The Rolling Stones have been the best of all possible worlds: they have the lack of pretension and sentimentality associated with the blues, the rawness and toughness of hard rock, and the depth which always makes you feel that they are in the midst of saying something. They have never impressed me as being kitsch.

  Jon Landau

  Rocks, Depth, Rolling

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• The proud, the cold untroubled heart of stone, that never mused on sorrow but its own.

  Thomas Campbell

  Heart, Sorrow, Proud

  Thomas Campbell, Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Gray (1872). “The Poetical Works of Campbell, Goldsmith and Gray: With Memoirs of the Authors”, p.52

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• It is as easy to draw back a stone thrown with force from the hand, as to recall a word once spoken.

  Menander

  Hands, Easy, Force

  "Ex Incert. Comæd", (p. 216) in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (p. 902-907), 1922.

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• The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycamores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.

  Isaiah

  Cutting, Cedars, Bricks

  The Bible (King James Version), Isaiah 9:10, quod.lib.umich.edu.

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

  Lu Xun

  Fire, Long, Revolution

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• The early Stones were adolescent rockers. They were self-conscious in an obvious and unpretentious way. And they were committed to a musical style that needed no justification because it came so naturally to them. As they grew musically the mere repetition of old rock and blues tunes became increasingly less satisfying.

  Jon Landau

  Rocks, Self, Musical

  Jon Landau (1972). “It's too late to stop now: a rock and roll journal”

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• The Rolling Stones are constantly changing, but beneath the changes they remain the most formal of rock bands. Their successive releases have been continuous extensions of their approach, not radical redefinitions, as has so often been the case with the Beatles.

  Jon Landau

  Rocks, Rolling, Band

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• It's not set in stone. I like to keep it rolling and changing, and so I am like, "Great, I get to remake my song."

  Andrew Bird

  Song, Rolling, Remakes

  Interview with Genevieve Koski, music.avclub.com. January 20, 2009.

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• In The Godfather, for instance, they say they won't deal drugs because they have a code of behaviour. He is the last remnants of that. So playing someone like that, who is also in pain with his kidney stone, means you're beginning to find a dimension of the guy who is king and all show and the private guy who is in pain.

  David Suchet

  Kings, Pain, Mean

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• All that is sweet, delightful, and amiable in this world, in the serenity of the air, the fineness of seasons, the joy of light, the melody of sounds, the beauty of colors, the fragrancy of smells, the splendor of precious stones, is nothing else but Heaven breaking through the veil of this world.

  William Law

  Sweet, Light, Air

  William Law (1740). “An earnest and serious answer to Dr. Trapp's Discourse of the folly, sin, and danger of being righteous over-much. An appeal to all that doubt, or disbelieve the truths of the Gospels”, p.117

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• Dark pictures, thrones, the stones that pilgrims kiss Poems that take a thousand years to die But ape the immortality of this Red label on a little butterfly .

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Butterfly, Dark, Kissing

  Vladimir Nabokov (2012). “Selected Poems”, p.125, Knopf

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• Everyone knows Newton as the great scientist. Few remember that he spent half his life muddling with alchemy , looking for the philosopher's stone. That was the pebble by the seashore he really wanted to find.

  Fritz Leiber

  Half, Pebbles, Philosopher

  "Poor Superman". Book by Fritz Leiber, 1951.

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• I don't think anything has been set in stone yet.

  Hayden Panettiere

  Thinking, Has Beens

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Show me a man who feels bitterly toward John Brown, and let me hear what noble verse he can repeat. He'll be as dumb as if his lips were stone.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Character, Men, Dumb

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1221, Delphi Classics

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