Stones Quotes - Page 28

• Could I write all, the world would turn to stone.

  Caterina Sforza

  Writing, World, Turns

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• I'm telling you this - if Stone Cold comes back out, somebody's going to get their ass whipped!

  Stone Cold Steve Austin

  Cold, Ass, Ifs

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• Nobody, especially Vince McMahon, tells Stone Cold Steve Austin what to do, and that's the bottom line!

  Stone Cold Steve Austin

  Lines, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Bottom

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• The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.

  William James

  Block, Data, Mind

  William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.288, Courier Corporation

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• I have a low opinion of books; they are but piles of stones set up to show coming travelers where other minds have been, or at best signal smokes to call attention. No amount of word-making will ever make a single soul to know these mountains. As well seek to warm the naked and frostbitten by lectures on caloric and pictures of flame. One day's exposure to mountains is better than cartloads of books.

  John Muir

  Book, Flames, Soul

  John Muir, Edwin Way Teale, Henry Bugbee Kane (2001). “The Wilderness World of John Muir”, p.318, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• They [Marvel] don't tell you. You never know with them. They have their world, but they don't like to spoil anything, so nobody knows until it's set in stone. You don't know. I actually don't know what they have in store for Wilson Fisk, or my Wilson Fisk, I should say.

  Vincent D'Onofrio

  World, Should, Stores

  "Vincent D'Onofrio Talks BROKEN HORSES, DAREDEVIL, and JURASSIC WORLD". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 10, 2015.

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• People forget I started on TV as a 7-stone 12-year-old - I'm bound to have changed. I've just grown up and filled out. I haven't been hammering it in the gym, and I haven't been thinking, 'Right, I need to look good.'

  Kelvin Fletcher

  Thinking, Filled Out, Years

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• What do you call those things at the bottom of rivers? Frogs? Stones? Unsuccessful gangsters?

  Terry Pratchett

  Rivers, Frogs, Unsuccessful

  Stephen Briggs, Terry Pratchett (2008). “The Wit And Wisdom Of Discworld”, p.44, Random House

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• Architecture is the constant fight between man and nature, the fight to overwhelm nature, to possess it. The first act of architecture is to put a stone on the ground. That act transforms a condition of nature into a condition of culture; it's a holy act.

  Mario Botta

  Fighting, Men, Culture

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• The first step to be a good man is this: You must deeply feel the burden of the stones someone else carrying.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Good Man, Firsts

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• When something is done, it should be done the way a stone bridge that lives thousands of years is done!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Years, Bridges, Done

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• What makes the Stones' arrogance so divine is that we all believe that long ago and far away they weren't rich and famous but poor and struggling, just like us.

  Jon Landau

  Believe, Struggle, Long Ago

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• If what I may believe - about gall-stones, the Constitution, castor oil, or God - is conditioned by law, then I am not a free man.

  H. L. Mencken

  Believe, Men, Law

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.344, Vintage

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• Whether there were organized orders of builders in the early times no one can tell, through there may have been. No matter; man mixed thought and worship with his work, and as he cut his altar stones and fitted them together he thought out a faith by which to live.

  Joseph Fort Newton

  Cutting, Men, Order

  Joseph Fort Newton (2013). “The Builders - A Story & Study of Masonry”, p.24, Lulu Press, Inc

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• My love is like a stone tied round my neck; it's dragging me down to the bottom; but I love my stone. I can't live without it.

  Anton Chekhov

  Love Is, Necks, Bottom

  Anton Chekhov (2012). “The Cherry Orchard”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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• The tiniest criticism or put-down soaks into me and lies in my heart like a stone. Sometimes that spurs me on to work harder, but sometimes it just fills me up with sadness.

  Cathy Cassidy

  Lying, Hard Work, Heart

  Cathy Cassidy (2012). “Chocolate Box Girls: Summer's Dream”, p.40, Penguin UK

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• Every experience deeply felt in life needs to be passed along. Wheather it be through words and music, chiseled in stone, painted with a brush, or sewn with a needle, it is a way of reaching for immortality.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Needs, Way, Immortality

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• Middle class prosperity is lapidary; the flow of cash rounds and smooths a person like water does riverbed stones.

  Neal Stephenson

  Class, Water, Doe

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• A high character might be produced, I suppose, by continued prosperity, but it has very seldom been the case. Adversity, however it may appear to be our foe, is our true friend; and, after a little acquaintance with it, we receive it as a precious thing - the prophecy of a coming joy. It should be no ambition of ours to traverse a path without a thorn or stone.

  Charles Spurgeon

  True Friend, Ambition, Character

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 36: Sermons 2121-2181”, p.764, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• If transport, housing and Olympic projects do not work, I will crawl away under a stone.

  Ken Livingstone

  Projects, Transport, Housing

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• On that Sunday morning the first thing that impressed the people who approached the tomb was the unusual position of the one and a half to two ton stone that had been lodged in front of the doorway.

  Josh McDowell

  Easter, Morning, Sunday

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• A marble cutter, with chisel and hammer, was changing a stone into a statue. A preacher looking on said: "I wish I could deal such changing blows on stony hearts." The workman answered: "Maybe you could, if you worked like me, upon your knees."

  Arthur Tappan Pierson

  Prayer, Heart, Blow

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• She's like a prisoner inside stone walls, and every day the walls get a little thicker, the doorways a little narrower.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Wall, Challenges, Doorways

  "The Queen of Attolia". Book by Megan Whalen Turner, 2000.

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• FABLEHAVEN: None who enter will leave unchanged. Trespassers will be turned to stone.

  Brandon Mull

  Trespassing

  Brandon Mull, Brandon Dorman (2007). “Fablehaven”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• The Stones suggested that if you dabble in decadence, you could turn into a devil-worshipping junkie. Paul McCartney suggested that if you mess around with girl worship, you could turn into a husband. So Paul was a lot scarier.

  Rob Sheffield

  Girl, Husband, Worship You

  Rob Sheffield (2010). “Talking to Girls About Duran Duran: One Young Man's Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut”, p.97, Penguin

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