Stones Quotations | Page 3

We were influenced by classic country acts like Merle Haggard and George Jones and Hank Williams but also by Clapton and the Stones and all the rock acts like that. I mean, what guitar player didn't start out with 'Satisfaction'?

I think a guy who's had just the right amount of booze can sing the blues a hell of a lot better than a guy who is stone sober.

The weakness of most men they do not know how to become a stone or tree.

A censure would put an indelible scar on the president's place in history, .. Monica Lewinsky is not Watergate. Let he who has no sin in this chamber cast the first stone.

I may be an antique like the Stones, but antiques are valuable.

I guess some people in classical music can keep going until they kick (die) and the (Rolling) Stones are definitely pushing the envelope but I wonder if here's a time when you have to face whether you are as good as you used to be.

When the coherence of the parts of a stone, or even that composition of parts which renders it extended; when these familiar objects, I say, are so inexplicable, and contain circumstances so repugnant and contradictory; with what assurance can we decide concerning the origin of worlds, or trace their history from eternity to eternity?

The Rolling Stones are so versatile, they're like the band version of that Infinite Dress they sell on QVC.

These days, the Rolling Stones still have an edge, but that fangs-out ferocity has mellowed considerably.

The stairway is not a thing of gleaming strands a radiant evanescence for angels' feet that only glance in their tread, and need not touch the stone.

"American Idol" has done a lot for me. It's a stepping stone in my life.

In every failure is the seed of success... Our failures are stepping stones in the mechanics of creation, bringing us even closer to our goals. In reality, there is no such thing as failure. What we call failure is just a mechanism through which we can learn to do things right.

Will an intelligent spectator not admire the prodigeous structures of Stone-Henge because he does not know by what law of mechanics they were raised?

If one's conscience be dead as a stone, it is as heavy too.

Irish Catholicism is very much founded on the stone of fear and of punishment.

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.

After all, when a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom.

Even stone can be worn down with enough rain.

My mother once told me I was like water. Water can carve its way even through stone. And when trapped, water makes a new path.

Watching a woman make Russian pancakes, you might think that she was calling on the spirits or extracting from the batter the philosopher's stone.

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.

Often, you'll fail. But, as my mother also taught me, failure isn't the opposite of success - it's a stepping stone to success.

Failure is a stepping stone to success.

My policy is no stone throwing regardless of housing situation.

Leave no stone unturned in your quest to disrupt a rock garden.

[I]n the end this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin.

That you know flag flying over the courthouse Means certain things are set in stone Who we are, what we'll do and what we won't.

A person is full of sorrow the way a burlap sack is full of stones or sand.

Particularly fine is the top-heavy comedienne, Loni Anderson, as the receptionist whose movements turn men to stone...she keeps her head while all the men around her are losing theirs.

The Anasazi did manage to construct in stone the largest and tallest buildings erected in North America until the Chicago steel girder skyscrapers of the 1880s.

If God can do anything he can make a stone so heavy that even he can't lift it. Then there is something God cannot do, he cannot lift the stone. Therefore God does not exist.

We used to think that we were aiming at the head and the heart, rather than the groin. The Stones did (raunchy). You need balance. 'The Other Side of Life' was a try to get a really raunchy, dirty song, and it just didn't come out that way. We can't seem to make the crossover.

Our hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps.

Im the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then theres a few more albums in us.

You don't 'have' a life, you 'are' life. The One Life, the one consciousness that pervades the entire universe and takes temporary form to experience itself as a stone or blade of grass, as an animal, a person, a star or a galaxy.

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

Don't let failure deter you; use it as a stepping-stone and an educational experience towards making your mark on the world.

You have to talk to the stone, and it has to talk to you.

The Devil is precise; the marks of his presence are definite as stone...

Cross the river by feeling for stones.

Zeroes are important. A million seconds ago was last week. A billion seconds ago, Richard Nixon resigned the presidency. A trillion seconds ago was 30,000 BC, and early humans were using stone tools.

See every difficulty as a challenge, a stepping stone, and never be defeated by anything or anyone.

Every experience of love, bliss, belonging, inspiration, and insight provides a stepping stone back to your true self.

Life will throw stones at you, and it's what you do when that happens that counts.

Life is a series of stepping stones followed with a series of stumbling blocks ....

Let any person who hasn't sinned cast the first stone. And the stones still came in like crazy.

She's swollen everywhere. I don't know if it was from laying the same way for so many hours or if it was the weight of the stones that he put on her.

Some days are diamonds Some days are stones Sometimes the hard times won't leave me alone Sometimes the cold wind blows a chill in my soul Some days are diamonds, some days are stone

McCartney and the Stones alone really helped drive up ticket prices.

Multicolored stones and paintings, walkways, and theaters are useless in a city unless it also contains wisdom and law. Such things are the subject of wisdom and law, not equivalent to them.

People will say that they never heard any of those songs before but back then, no one had heard the obscure songs the Stones were doing.

I was the daughter of an immigrant, raised to feel that I needed to get excellent, flawless grades and a full scholarship and a graduate degree and a good job - all the stepping stones to conventional success.

I don't have a problem with green screen at all. I think children invented CGI. We invent worlds. A stick can become a sword. Or a bowl of stones can become a bowl of tomatoes. That's what children do, and that's what CGI enables us to do.

I don't know that my mood is a Rolling Stones mood right now, ... It would be kind of a shame to miss, though.

I don't know why, but I never felt I was gonna stay with the Stones forever, even right from the beginning.

I don t actually believe that stones turn into fairies, but I did once meet someone who had seen a fairy and heard a knocker.

I collect rocks from all over the world. I have a ring of stones that date to 3500 B.C. It's like a little Stonehenge.

I am here because the Stones aren't term-limited and they're just as old as I am.

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come? / Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance: / And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.

But there is also an enthusiasm factor. Stoning the pillars is the last rite of hajj, and throwing the stones can be a physical release. People really want to get into it,

I have my granddad's record collection, which I treasure, and my father's - Rolling Stones to Sidney Bechet.

Growing up in Hitchin was comfortable and easy enough. My parents had some great records - and some not-so-great ones - and that's where I got introduced to Motown and the Stones and Springsteen.

Gigadibs the literary man, / Who played with spoons, explored his plate's design, / And ranged the olive stones about its edge.

FREEMASONS, n. An order with secret rites, grotesque ceremonies and fantastic costumes, which, originating in the reign of Charles II, among working artisans of London, has been joined successively by the dead of past centuries in unbroken retrogression until now it embraces all the generations of man on the hither side of Adam and is drumming up distinguished recruits among the pre-Creational inhabitants of Chaos and Formless Void. The order was founded at different times by Charlemagne, Julius Caesar, Cyrus, Solomon, Zoroaster, Confucious, Thothmes, and Buddha. Its emblems and symbols have been found in the Catacombs of Paris and Rome, on the stones of the Parthenon and the Chinese Great Wall, among the temples of Karnak and Palmyra and in the Egyptian Pyramids --always by a Freemason.

I don't think we should try to do what the Stones do. Hopefully, it will be the best of what we do.

For us, it's always been a concern. Over the years, there's been a number of minor accidents. There are trees and sort of dips in the grass, and stones out there, and so on and so forth. It's pretty dangerous.

Go and see the quality of life of the people on the Chiquita plantations. People living in shacks, people living with tin roofs held on by stones and with earthen floors, people working for 20 U.S. cents a day.

Go and see the quality of life of the people on the Chiquita plantations, ... People living in shacks, people living with tin roofs held on by stones and with earthen floors, people working for 20 U.S. cents a day.

He tried to be very thorough. Every day he'd try to motivate you. Sometimes it was to the point it was overkill, but he tried to not leave any stones unturned.

He has a very old geologic formation, but I can't agree with his interpretation of those stones being man-made.

He is looking after a few bushes and shrubs and has even placed a circle of white stones around a small palm tree,

Keith Richards uses a Telecaster, but he takes the sixth string off and tunes it to G. And that's what The Rolling Stones use all the time.

Katrina is like a very large pile of stones on top of a mountain. Standing by the pile of stones it's a big pile. But when you're looking at the mountain, it's not going to be that dramatic.

I think you're always prepared to listen to peoples' points of view, but when they're not working you've got to speak up as well. I think social comment is very much part of what the Rolling Stones have always done.

I think we just placed our stones better today. We never made a messy shot. We forced a lot of pressure on Canada.

I think we have as much experience in advising and discussing futures of players as anyone in the business. If there's some decisions that need to be made, I guarantee you all the appropriate information will be gathered and there won't be any stones left unturned if a youngster needs our assistance in any areas. But it becomes counterproductive when it becomes a draft watch.

I think between The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and innumerable acts after that... rock music became a huge economic force.

It is only the tree loaded with fruit that the people throw stones at

I resigned myself to this eventuality. After all, it was the musician's name first (he's a lot older than I am, certainly, and perhaps more famous), and . . . But then I remembered. . . . Bill Wyman the Rolling Stone wasn't born Bill Wyman. . . . His real name, Stones fans know, is William George Perks.

People are going to think we're propeller-headed geeks, but it really cleared our thinking and made sure we didn't leave any stones unturned.

People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones

Our marketing plan is changing immensely because of what's going on in the world. I want to stress how hybrid and how eco-friendly we are - the natural stones and the bamboo flooring.

People laugh at the Stones because of their age. Mick, Charlie, Ron and Keith can still play with the best of the young bands today.

Like jewels in a crown, the precious stones glittered in the queen's round metal hat.

Listen to me while I lay a curse upon you and yours! she cries, as she raised her shriveled arms and blighted him with her flashing eyes: ""As you have done to the house of Loring, so may God do to you, until your power is swept from the land of England, and of your great Abbey of Waverley there is nothing left but a pile of grey stones in a green meadow! I see it! With my old eyes I see it! From scullion to abbot and from cellar to tower, may Waverley and all within it droop and wither from this night on!

I was in college and had a group called the Royal Flairs. We opened for the Stones when they appeared in Omaha during their first U.S. tour.

The seed haunted by the sun never fails to find its way between the stones in the ground. And the pure logician, if no sun draws him forth, remains entangled in his logic.

We've thrown around the concept of opening for the Stones forever. I can't believe we're doing it.

I felt that my views and philosophies had been changed overnight. The philosophies that i had gladly carved in stone, recited and danced upon.

German is of stone, limestone, pudding stone, marble, granite even, and so to a considerable degree is English, whereas French is bronze and gives out a metallic resonance with tones that neither German nor English tolerate.

Perhaps creativity is fumbling that dance step, or driving the chisel the wrong way into the stone.

Mick and I share the same philosophy - don't leave any stones unturned - and that's serving us well in our situation.

We had a lot of fun doing it, but it really ties up your weekend and it just was one of those things, to move on. Maybe one day we'll do the Rolling Stones thing in our 50s. But now the time is right to put it down.

We have a memorial hill where people can place etched stones for loved ones whose remains have been scattered.

Keynes did not teach us how to perform the miracle of turning a stone into bread, but the not at all miraculous procedure of eating the seed corn.

We made it on a cheap PC that couldn't get enough power and kept crashing. We'd borrow microphones, cords and pieces, and we made our own kind of soundproofing. That's what I mean about trying to be great with what you've got. ... It gives you a sound that no one else has got because no one else is doing it in that room. It's like the great Stones records where you hear Charlie Watts miss a beat or you hear Mick in the background encouraging the backing singers. It's amazing.

The truthfulness of materials of constructions, concrete, bricks and stone, shall be maintained in all buildings constructed or to be constructed.The seed of Chandigarh is well sown. It is for the citizens to see that the tree flourishes.

Use pain as a stepping stone, not a camp ground.

You don't normally see three huge acts like that out touring in the same year. McCartney and The Stones alone really helped drive up ticket prices.

We would just be learning to play Beatles songs and Rolling Stones songs of that time - of the '60s. That's kinda what inspired me to play.