Stones Quotes - Page 40

• Everybody has the blues. Everybody longs for meaning. Everybody needs to love and be loved. Everybody needs to clap hands and be happy. Everybody longs for faith. In music, especially this broad category called jazz, there is a stepping-stone to all of these.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Memorable, Hands, Needs

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• The Stones are a different kind of group. I realized that when I joined them. It's not really so much their musical ability, it's just they have a certain kind of style and attitude which is unique

  Mick Taylor

  Attitude, Unique, Musical Ability

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• An abstract style is always bad. Your sentences should be full of stones, metals, chairs, tables, animals, men, and women.

  Alain de Lille

  Writing, Animal, Men

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• Many different substances, as distinct to the practiced eye as stone and wood, go to the making of a novel, and it is necessary to see them for what they are.

  Percy Lubbock

  Writing, Eye, Different

  Percy Lubbock (1921). “The Craft of Fiction”

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• Fairytales were maps formed of blood and hair and bones; they were the knots of the sub-conscious unwound. Every word in every tale was real and as true as apples and stones. They all led to the story inside the story.

  Alice Hoffman

  Real, Hair, Blood

  Alice Hoffman (2007). “Skylight Confessions”, Center Point Pub

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• I've never had one of those amazing yoga bodies. My body is what it is. I am sure if I went on a crash diet, lost two stone and toned up I could make loads of money by making fitness videos and selling my story to the tabloids. But I don't want to encourage women to be anything other than what they are. That's very important to me.

  Kelly Brook

  Yoga, Two, Important

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• It would be nonsense to say that it was not in the interests of a stone to be kicked along the road...A stone has no interests because it cannot suffer. The capacity for suffering and enjoyment is, however, not only necessary, but also sufficient for us to say that a being has interests - at an absolute minimum, an interest in not suffering. A mouse, for example, does have an interest in not being kicked along the road because it will suffer if it is.

  Peter Singer

  Animal, Suffering, Example

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• Real suffering bravely borne, melts even a heart of stone. Such is the potency of suffering. And there lies the key to Satyagraha.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Courage, Real, Lying

  Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “The Selected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: Satyagraha in South Africa”

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• The only thing I use the Rolling Stone for is toilet paper when I run out.

  Neal Schon

  Running, Paper, Toilets

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• The Stone Age did not end because humans ran out of stones. It ended because it was time for a re-think about how we live.

  William McDonough

  Thinking, Age, Architecture

  "Eco-designs on future cities" by Jo Twist, news.bbc.co.uk. July 14, 2005.

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• I was out training one black night when I heard a noise. I turned around and saw a leopard. I threw some stones at him and he went away, so I went on my way.

  Filbert Bayi

  Night, Training, Black

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• Imagine if all of life were determined by majority rule. Every meal would be a pizza. Every pair of pants, even those in a Brooks Brothers suit, would be stone-washed denim. Celebrity diet and exercise books would be the only thing on the shelves at the library. And - since women are a majority of the population - we'd all be married to Mel Gibson.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Life, Brother, Book

  P.J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus”, p.207, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• We wanted Nike to be the world's best sports and fitness company. Once you say that, you have a focus. You don't end up making wing tips or sponsoring the next Rolling Stones world tour.

  Phil Knight

  Sports, Nike, Knights

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• Laws, written, if not on stone tables, yet on the azure of infinitude, in the inner heart of God's creation, certain as life, certain as death, are there, and thou shalt not disobey them.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Heart, Science, Law

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Past and Present”, p.198

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• The architect who combines in his being the powers of vision, of imagination, of intellect, of sympathy with human need and the power to interpret them in a language vernacular and time--- is he who shall create poems in stone.

  Louis Sullivan

  Imagination, Vision, Needs

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• Earth Is Enough. We men of Earth have here the stuff Of Paradise - we have enough! We need no other stones to build The Temple of the Unfulfilled - No other ivory for the doors - No other marble for the floors - No other cedar for the beam And dome of man's immortal dream. Here on the paths of every-day - Here on the common human way Is all the stuff the gods would take To build a Heaven, to mold and make New Edens. Ours is the stuff sublime To build Eternity in time!

  Edwin Markham

  Dream, Men, Doors

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• The thing with Catholicism, the same as all religions, is that it teaches what should be, which seems rather incorrect. This is what should be. Now, if you're taught to live up to a what should be that never existed - only an occult superstition, no proof of this should be - then you can sit on a jury and indict easily, you can cast the first stone, you can burn Adolf Eichmann, like that!

  Lenny Bruce

  Religion, Superstitions, Firsts

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• Like a stone on the surface of a still river
  Driving the ripples on forever
  Redemption rips through the surface of time
  In the cry of a tiny babe.

  Bruce Cockburn

  Rip, Rivers, Forever

  Song: Cry Of A Tiny Babe, Album: Nothing But a Burning Light

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• The Stone Age did not end for lack of stone, and the Oil Age will end long before the world runs out of oil.

  Ahmed Zaki Yamani

  Running, Oil, Long

  Interview with George Negus, www.sbs.com.au.

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• Come with me, the river said, close your eyes and quiet your limbs and float with me into the wonder and mystery of the canyons, see the unknown and the little known, look upon the stone gods face to face, see Medusa, drink my waters, hear my song, feel my power, come along and drift with me toward the distant, ultimate and legendary sea.

  Edward Abbey

  Song, Eye, Sea

  Edward Abbey (1996). “The Serpents of Paradise: A Reader”, p.40, Macmillan

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• Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare. Let all who prate of Beauty hold their peace, And lay them prone upon the earth and cease To ponder on themselves, the while they stare At nothing, intricately drawn nowhere In shapes of shifting lineage; let geese Gabble and hiss, but heroes seek release From dusty bondage into luminous air. O blinding hour, O holy, terrible day, When first the shaft into his vision shone Of light anatomized! Euclid alone Has looked on Beauty bare. Fortunate they Who, though once only and then but far away, Have heard her massive sandal set on stone.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Peace, Hero, Air

  "Euclid Alone Has Looked on Beauty Bare" l. 11 (1923)

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• Wind, weather, power, load - gradually these elements stop churning in my mind. It's less a decision of logic than a feeling, the kind of feeling that comes when you gauge the distance to be jumped between two stones across a brook. Something within you disengages itself from your body and travels ahead with your vision to make the test. You can feel it try the jump as you stand looking. Then uncertainty gives way to the conviction that it can or can't be done.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Distance, Wind, Weather

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• With all my heart, and all my soul, I will love you till the winds don't blow. Until the oceans turn to stone, my love is yours and yours alone. My love is forever, until forever's gone.

  Kenny Rogers

  Ocean, Love You, Heart

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• Language is a city, to the building of which every human being brought a stone; yet he is no more to be credited with the grand result than the acaleph which adds a cell to the coral reef which is the basis of the continent.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Cells, Cities, Add

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.160

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• We infer the spirit of the nation in great measure from the language, which is a sort of monument, to which each forcible individual in a course of many hundred years has contributed a stone.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Years, Spirit, Language

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1511, Delphi Classics

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