Stones Quotes - Page 16

• That's the temptation of the devil: "Turn stones into bread! Be relevant!"

  Henri Nouwen

  Temptation, Devil, Bread

  Source: archives.wineskins.org

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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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• I'm a massive fan of the Stones, and I don't think anybody should deny them the right to carry on making music. I just wish they wouldn't wear leggings.

  Noel Gallagher

  Thinking, Wish, Fans

  "Noel Gallagher's post-icon rock star life". Interview with Paul Sexton, www.today.com. August 22, 2005.

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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 trembled and threw herself outward bound, toward Saturn. In her train followed hundreds and thousands and hundreds of thousands of thousands of restless, rolling Stones . . . to Saturn . . . to Uranus, to Pluto . . . rolling on out to the stars . . . outward bound to the ends of the Universe.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Stars, Rolling, Pluto

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• Often the crowd does not recognize a leader until he has gone, and then they build a monument for him with the stones they threw at him in life.

  J. Oswald Sanders

  Leadership, Christian, Doe

  J. Oswald Sanders (2007). “Spiritual Leadership: Principles of Excellence For Every Believer”, p.122, Moody Publishers

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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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• The garden reconciles human art and wild nature, hard work and deep pleasure, spiritual practice and the material world. It is a magical place because it is not divided. The many divisions and polarizations that terrorize a disenchanted world find peaceful accord among mossy rock walls, rough stone paths, and trimmed bushes. Maybe a garden sometimes seems fragile, for all its earth and labor, because it achieves such an extraordinary delicate balance of nature and human life, naturalness and artificiality. It has its own liminality, its point of balance between great extremes.

  Thomas Moore

  Life, Spiritual, Art

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• I have skipped from style to style from film to film, and I love doing that because it's given me the ability to free myself from the past. Perhaps one of the worst feelings that I can have is the feeling that I'm locked in, like a prisoner of myself, which is something we all feel at some point in our lives. So part of making those stylistic jumps is just to free myself up-to get away from the old or the old Oliver Stone.

  Oliver Stone

  Past, Feelings, Style

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Do not ask the stones or the trees how to live, they can not tell you ; they do not have tongues; do not ask the wise man how to live for, if he knows , he will know he cannot tell you; if you would learn how to live , do not ask the question; its answer is not in the question but in the answer, which is not in words; do not ask how to live, but, instead, proceed to do so.

  John Norman

  Wise, Men, Tree

  John Norman (2011). “Marauders of Gor: Gor”, p.8, Hachette UK

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• When I make a new movie, I always get stuck with, "That's not an Oliver Stone film." But I don't know what to do about that except just move on.

  Oliver Stone

  Moving, Film, Stuck

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Obedience is a foundational stepping-stone on the path of God’s will.

  Elizabeth George

  Path, Obedience, God's Will

  Elizabeth George (2015). “A Woman After God's Own Heart®”, p.63, Harvest House Publishers

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• Friends, I was pretty sure, lift their friends up; they don't weigh them down like a sack full of stones

  Dana Reinhardt

  Lifts

  Dana Reinhardt (2011). “The Summer I Learned to Fly”, p.164, Wendy Lamb Books

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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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• 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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• The stone that is thrown into the air is none the worse for falling down, and none the better for going up.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Fall, Air, Down And

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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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• What is left of your dream?
  Just the words on your stone.
  A man who learned how to teach
  then forgot how to learn.

  Brian May

  Dream, Men, Teach

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