Top 1200 Rolling Stone Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Here (Jerusalem), tears do not weaken the eyes, they only polish and shine the hardness of faces like stone.

When sculpting the human figure in stone it is necessary to draw the whole form out of the content of the head.

When roused to rage the maddening populace storms, their fury, like a rolling flame, bursts forth unquenchable; but give its violence ways, it spends itself, and as its force abates, learns to obey and yields it to your will.

If I'd been four feet tall and fifteen stone, I would certainly not have followed the same career

Sly Stone made such a huge contribution to the good feeling in the universe, and I love him as a singer.

I don't really have a lot of hip-hop and all of that, so I have a lot of John Lennon. That's one that I really like, and The Clash, the Rolling Stones, groups that I think are kind of timeless.

If you pinch the sea of its liberty, though it be walls of stone or brass, it will beat them down.

I find it quite funny to see players rolling over trying to win free-kicks or get opponents booked. I've never done that, even at an early age. My friends would have just laughed at me.

In Sweden we have a jazz festival, and I would try to see all these people like Angie Stone there when I was younger.

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.

Embrace the work opportunity you have today. It may be the stepping-stone you need on your way to success.

Our sweetest hopes rise blooming. And then again are gone, They bloom and fade alternate, And so it goes rolling on. I know it, and it troubles My life, my love, my rest, My heart is wise and witty, And it bleeds within my breast.

Not easy to state the change you made. If I'm alive now, I was dead, Though, like a stone, unbothered by it.

As for style of writing, if one has anything to say, it drops from him simply and directly, as a stone falls to the ground.

Perfect typography is certainly the most elusive of all arts. Sculpture in stone alone comes near it in obstinacy.

Up against Goliath, to bring butter home. I'm David on pavement, sling another stone.

So I'm pampering myself to a homemade stone pumice session, to sand down my feet because I'm worth it.

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

Anytime you feel love for anything, be it stone, tree, lover, or child, you are touched by the Goddess's magick.

The truth, she found, felt smooth, like a skipping stone in the palm of your hand.

Avoid kneeling in unheated stone churches. Ecclesiastical dampness causes prematurely grey hair.

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

I got an opportunity to be on a tribute to the Rolling Stones in the late '90s and did a rockin' version of 'Paint It Black' - that's probably the biggest stretch of anything that I've personally done. I listen to a lot of different kinds of music, but I understand where my parameters are.

My house was full of music. My main memories are of the record player at home: it was all Beatles and Rolling Stones, and we danced around the living room; that started me off on instruments, and I've done nothing else ever since.

I remember that first week at the Whisky and the gigs we (The Buffalo Springfield) did with the Byrds, We could really smoke ! That band never got on record as bad, and as hard as we were. Live we sounded like the Rolling Stones.

The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, From earth to heaven.

Life takes us to unexpected places sometimes. The future is never set in stone, remember that.

Stone, steel, dominions pass, Faith too, no wonder; So leave alone the grass That I am under.

Let woman be a plaything, pure and fine, like a precious stone, illumined with the virtues of a world not yet come.

A woman's heart is just like a lithographer's stone; what is once written upon it cannot be rubbed out.

And what can still delight an inert stone except to become, once more, the bed of a raging torrent?

Sometimes people back themselves into corners where they think they have to make kind of an engraved-in-stone decision.

I'm going to die one day. I know it's coming for me, too. I'll be a mountain, I'll be a stone on the beach. I'll be nourishment.

No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the shooter of it.

The stone neither speaks nor gives anything. Therefore its service is fruitless and its worship is of no avail.

The angel rolled away the stone from Jesus' tomb, not to let the living Lord out, but to let unconvinced outsiders in.

Nothing is etched in stone in tennis until the final point has been played. That's why we watch.

Sorrow is a stone that crushes a single bearer to the ground, while two are able to carry it with ease.

The A tour has always given me an opportunity to prove myself in the higher league as this is the stepping stone.

The right attitude can transform a barrier into a blessing, an obstacle into an opportunity or a stumbling block into a stepping stone.

Most of the stone a nation hammers goes toward its tomb only. It buries itself alive.

Hark," he said, his tone very dry. "What stone through yonder window breaks?

I think a football career should be used as a stepping stone to something better - not as an end in Itself.

Flat fields produce mediocre grapes, but rolling hills produce the greatest grapes. Why? Because the vines must struggle for survival.

I'm tired of eating your family's lousy, tasteless recipes," Dad said. "Tasteless recipes? My grandmother's rolling in her grave!" "It's from indigestion.

In the late 1960s, English artists like the Rolling Stones and Joe Cocker began recording in the States, and at that point, they realised, 'We can get real African-American voices on our records; we don't have to pretend any more.'

Five years ago I was a four-stone apology — today I am two separate gorillas.

The alphabet was one thing when applied to clay or stone, and quite another when set down on light papyrus.

I can't leave her there all alone, surrounded by stone walls... She's too precious to give up.

I feel like a stone you have picked up and thrown to the hard rock bottom of your heart.

I love Sly Stone and James Brown and Stevie Wonder, and I want my music to reflect some of that.

Remember, when incited to slander, that it is only he among you who is without sin that may cast the first stone.

I had to make a confession of faith in stone. That was the beginning of the tower, the house I built for myself at Bollingen.

The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.

God is nearer to me than I am to myself; He is just as near to wood and stone, but they do not know it.

Joe Gallager's like a petulant child sometimes. In press conferences, for instance, when we're talking, he's rolling his eyes like a schoolgirl, pretending he's not listening. It's disrespectful and I don't like that.

I must return to my old comrades of the Great War - to the brown, the treeless, the flat and grave-set plain of Flanders - to the rolling, heat-miraged downlands of the Somme - for I am dead with them, and they live in me again.

We exist in a bizarre combination of Stone Age emotions, medieval beliefs, and god-like technology.

I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.

It is as easy to draw back a stone thrown with force from the hand, as to recall a word once spoken.