Top 1200 Stepping Stone Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

It's not like I came out in 'Rolling Stone' and all of a sudden I had a closet full of all the clothes I want.

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.

The rock era, as I clock it, went from '65 to '94, from 'Like a Rolling Stone' to Kurt Cobain's death.

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.

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

I welcome all interviews with 'Rolling Stone' magazine, and I'm sure people will talk to me in the future.

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

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

Acknowledging the unproductive thoughts and ineffective behavior that you've tried to ignore can be uncomfortable. But, stepping out of your comfort zone and choosing to proactively address bad habits will skyrocket your ability to create long-lasting change.

I feel like I always learn when I'm writing, even when I'm not writing about myself. I'm careful not to judge; I try to internalize and empathize with the characters. Stepping into that person's shoes is transformative. It changes you. Looking at my own life, it's also humbling to write.

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.

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

Ha," I said. "Oh, ha-ha. Yeah, ’cause they love me. You see how many vampires are up here? Zero, right?" One," said Eric, stepping out of the stairwell.

It's very difficult to switch back and forth between running rehearsals and then stepping in to dance in rehearsals as a dancer. Just to switch hats in an instant can be a little bit jarring, mostly physically, on the body.

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

How do you pray a prayer so filled with faith that it can move a mountain? By shifting your focus from the size of your mountain to the sufficiency of the Mountain Mover and then stepping forward in obedience.

Sure, jets are fast and economical, but, oh my, what fun we've lost and what leisure we've sacrificed in the race to efficiency. Somehow, stepping onto a plane and zooming across the United States in a matter of hours doesn't hold a candle to the dear, old-fashioned train ride.

All of us technology companies need to create some tools that help diminish the volume of fake news. We must try to squeeze this without stepping on freedom of speech and of the press, but we must also help the reader.

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

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

Besides, if there were no dragons of flesh and blood and fire, whence would come the idea for these stone carvings?

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

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.

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

To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says: Leave no stone unturned.

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

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

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

When I do my own books, I take it as more of my own confessional, but when I illustrate for other people, it is intriguing because I feel like I shouldn't be stepping too much into the limelight. It's like playing the piano while someone else is singing.

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

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

Stepping back into theatre, a childhood dream, I always felt like I would be onstage. I hadn't imagined myself in a composer role... I find it so satisfying to be behind the scenes and writing the music and watching it elevated and characterized by different voices than my own. It's so exciting.

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

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

Everybody in Lynyrd Skynyrd loves different styles of music, and our minds are very open when it comes to writing our songs and making the band true to what the band is, but also stepping out and doing something current.

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

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

The spiritual journey involves going beyond hope and fear, stepping into unknown territory, continually moving forward. The most important aspect of being on the spiritual path may be just to keep moving.

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

For me, Iris West was traditionally white in the comic books. So, you know, comic book fans are very opinionated, very vocal. So it was very scary stepping into that role when I started the show.

Something I don't like seeing in other people is naked ambition, when somebody is really pushing hard to get to where they want to be. That's the way I look at that word - like you must be stepping on someone to get there. And I've never been comfortable with that.

I was in several bands before I joined Judas Priest. Being in those early unknown bands were the stepping stones, really, so I learned a lot in those short few years jumping from one band to another.

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

That's the past for you. Not only does it come back at the most unexpected, and inconvenient, times but it's set in stone.

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

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

As far as the environment is concerned, I am becoming pessimistic because I do not see anybody stepping up and taking the long view approach. It seems like we're stuck in a tragedy of the commons where everyone is trying to contribute as little as possible to get out of this situation.

I don't like the idea of stepping-stones in art forms: that you do your time at a regional theatre, and then you work in London and go to the West End, and then you do films. I've never felt like following that trajectory.

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.

We would like doctors to listen, but the fact is, we better be ready to be able to talk to them. You're going to have to be an active participant in that conversation, so I'd say the American people are going to need ways of stepping up to the conversation.

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

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

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

Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who's in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It's like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven't seen in a long time.

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

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

Boys are easy. I mean, there are just a lot of bruises when they're young. With boys, you get a lot of accidental jabs in the eye and stepping on your feet, and those tantrums they cause when they don't want to leave the toy store.

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

When great loss happens - deaths close to you or your own approaching death - this is an opportunity for stepping completely out of identification with form and realizing the essence of who you are, or that the essence of anyone who is suffering or dying is beyond death.