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I've become friends with Michael Mann and Oliver Stone; I've seen those guys work and that was great to see.

Once upon a time, if you wanted to talk about the notion of child abandonment, of a mother not being a good mother, that's built into the mother who sends the babes into the woods, and they use the bits of bread or stones to come home again.

When I was a kid, we didn't have any blues stations. I never heard Howlin' Wolf or Muddy Waters or any of those people until the Stones had come along, and I took it upon myself to find out who these people were that they were covering.

General McChrystal wanted to be on the cover of Rolling Stone.

The Stones always tried to do the odd smaller gig when they could.

I did tests on small stones before collecting and committing myself to the larger ones.

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

I'm learning Spanish - I got Rosetta Stone for Christmas.

I grew up under the sticks and stones rule. I didn't put my hands on you so why should you put your hands on me or my family.

The Rascals are something else. They're up there with the Beatles, and Stones and Byrds. That level of musicality. They have a real chemistry. It is like magic.

There may be problems we still need to tease out, but we will leave no stone unturned in our bid to make London the host city.

Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.

It's very schizophrenic because I like a lot of very straight pop, like Small Faces, Stones, Kinks; and on the other hand, I like a lot of avant garde things.

Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.

I know Mick Jagger wouldn’t tour without Keith Richards and call it the Rolling Stones.

A small species of pinus was much prized, and, when dwarfed in the manner of the Chinese, fetched a very high price; it is generally grafted on a variety of the stone pine.

I am just a little tired of the Stones and the Beatles, and I don't care if I ever hear 'Louie Louie' ever again.

I didn't want to stay in the Stones, and be stuck in a position having to play a music I didn't like anymore and that restricted me from doing all the others things I'm interested in because of time.

While other girls swooned over The Beatles and the Rolling Stones, I worshipped Rudolf Nureyev and Isadora Duncan.

It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice.

It's frightening and unnerving to watch a stone melt.

I guess I feel like it's a gift to meet those talented artists like George Lucas and Oliver Stone, Spike Lee and Richard Kelly. Even if it's a small role, it's a gift to be working that closely with them.

Once the fired stone is out of the kiln, it is still possible to mentally reconstruct it in its original form.

I wept not, so to stone within I grew.

And it was a very, very fruitful and great relationship between the Stones and The Beatles. It was very, very friendly.

God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole.

If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.

I've got an article where my mum says that I used to run home from school to watch the Stones on TV. Right from when I was at college I wanted to be in that band.

At my Rolling Stones' tour, the camera was a protection. I used it in a Zen way.

I've done the Rolling Stones eating each other.

I sat through Ladies and Gentlemen, the Rolling Stones like three times at the Skyway when it came out.

I've grown up with my parents' music tastes, listening to Fleetwood Mac and the Rolling Stones.

I soon realised that what had happened on a small scale cannot necessarily be repeated on a larger scale. The stones were so big that the amount of heat required was prohibitively expensive and wasteful.

I picked up the Joss Stone album, Josh Groban, and the new Norah Jones. I love, love, love Norah.

I couldn't say I ever dreamt of becoming a composer, a pianist, or anything else for that matter. I have the kind of brain where nothing is set in stone.

In the Scottish Orkneys, the little stone houses with their single large room and central hearth had an extraordinary range of built-in furniture.

I looked at some of the statues of Jesus; they were just stones with no life. When they said that God is three, I was puzzled even more but could not argue. I believed it, simply because I had to have respect for the faith of my parents.

The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.

When I hit 11 so did the careers of Dylan and the Stones. A year later it was the Who and the Kinks.

Maybe Oliver Stone doesn't lend himself well to remakes or sequels, because he does them so well the first time.

Slipknot is the darkness; Stone Sour is the light. Slipknot is chaos; Stone Sour is structure.

I was so busy with my studies that I didn't have a musical idol as a teenager. Later, around my 20s, I suddenly discovered the Beatles and the Rolling Stones but I guess my musical idol has always been Strauss.

I'd rather break stones on the king's highway than hem a handkerchief.

I feel like something magical is going to happen, and I feel like all the stars have finally lined up perfectly for Angie Stone.

The Rolling Stones were one of the best bands ever, and 'Sticky Fingers' is one of the best rock albums I've ever heard.

The stone often recoils on the head of the thrower.

My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.

The reason why the stone is red is its iron content, which is also why our blood is red.

The brain is highly structured, but it is also extremely flexible. It's not a blank slate, but it isn't written in stone, either.

I had a great deal of pressure to move to LA after Romancing the Stone came out and I'd become very popular. But people came to me anyway.

I learned to play piano in a rock n' roll context or band context from country records - you know, Floyd Cramer - and from the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and Stax. And none of those are keyboard records.

We object not to the narration of the deeds of our unregenerate condition, but to the mode in which it is too often done. Let sin have its monument, but let it be a heap of stones cast by the hands of execration - not a mausoleum erected by the hands of affection.

I really love getting hot stone massages. They really help me relax and it's so soothing for your muscles.

I've never tried to achieve anything. I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.

Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts.

The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.

Fashion has become so whatever. I don't think there are any stones left to unturn.

We may be up against a stone wall, but we don't have to bloody our heads against it unless we choose to.

The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.

Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.

Success isn't supposed to happen, no matter how hard you work. There's no guarantee you're going to succeed. There's nothing set in stone.

'Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age' was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant's thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed out of the Stone Age.

I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.

I was so unhealthy. I used to go to 'Cold Stone Creamery,' get a tub of Butterfinger ice cream, and eat it all before bedtime. And my fingers were permanently stained orange from Cheetos.

What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage.

I will always make music with Stone Sour. Stone Sour will always be here.

I don't know many women who can relate to Sharon Stone and the kind of movies she does. I don't know a lot of guys who can relate to Tom Cruise's movies because they're on a kind of fantastic level.

As much as I love Slipknot, I don't want that to carry over into what I do for Stone Sour. I want both bands to stand on their own.

Know everything about the companies and people you are going to be negotiating with. Insist on getting the names of everyone participating in the negotiations. Leave no stone unturned; find out as much as you can.

I finish so many books it's amazing. I'm also doing Rosetta Stone, learning some French.

I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on.

When I started working for Rolling Stone, I became very interested in journalism and thought maybe that's what I was doing, but it wasn't.

I like the Rolling Stones for karaoke. 'Sympathy For The Devil' is a great one.

The very first concert I ever went to on my own was actually Rory Gallagher. In a one-month period in 1973 or '74, I saw him, Thin Lizzy and the Rolling Stones. I wasn't really a big Rory Gallagher fan, but I thought his guitar playing was fabulous. But Thin Lizzy, they were fabulous.

We idolized the Beatles, except for those of us who idolized the Rolling Stones, who in those days still had many of their original teeth.

The Stones also still have a huge following. Mick Jagger leaps around like a crazy dude. And Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood and Charlie Watts are playing great too.

Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.

I have been a gigantic Rolling Stones fan since approximately the Spanish-American War.

I loved the Beatles when they turned up, and the Stones when they turned up, and never really stopped liking them.

It was a challenge, to work with Oliver Stone.

When I'm wearing too-high heels and swaying my hips, I do that Sharon Stone kind of thing - she has the sexiest walk, a New York cool thing that throws you back.

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

The sacred books of all the world are worthless dross and common stones compared with Shakespeare's glittering gold and gleaming gems.

Don't throw stones at your neighbors, if your own windows are glass.

As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.

If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.

In the desert there is no sign that says, Thou shalt not eat stones.

When I was a kid, I found out about Eddie Cochran and Gene Vincent through the Beatles and the Stones doing covers of rockabilly songs,

We found out why the Rolling Stones don't have a day job. Meetings and classes and conflicting schedules chews up a lot of practice time.

Ultimately, 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.

The Beatles were just the beginning of everything music could be, just like the Stones I was Rolling along like a ship lost out on the sea.

Some archeologists believe that Stonehenge - the mysterious arrangement of enormous elongated stones in England - is actually a crude effort by the Druids to build a computing device.

Never Throw Stones At Your Mother

I would go to newsstands and buy paperbacks they were selling for tourists, usually bestsellers and mass market paperbacks. In the beginning, it was like going to the Rosetta Stone--I didn?t understand anything, I'd get a headache--but I began to figure it out, and I'd read a lot of Stephen King paperbacks. I've always said he was my English professor.

I keep telling you the future isn't set in stone. It's not all decided yet. The future is just what's down the road we decided to walk on today. You can change roads anytime. And that changes where you end up.

With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a signet, shalt thou engrave the two stones with the names of the children of Israel: thou shalt make them to be set in ouches of gold.

I mean that I value vision, and dread being struck stone blind.

When you fly high people will throw stones at you. Don't look down. Just fly higher so the stones won't reach you

The poem I want to write is impossible. A stone that floats.

But we weren't a phenomenon like the Beatles or Elvis Presley or the Rolling Stones: We were only as good as our last hit. We lived on our music and couldn't slide on anything - and this show is that story.