Top 1200 Written In Stone Quotes & Sayings - Page 11

A good education is a stepping-stone to wealth.

I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem, when I'm writing one. Having written one, then you fall away very rapidly from having been a poet to becoming a sort of poet in rest, which isn't the same thing at all. But I think the actual experience of writing a poem is a magnificent one.

I am the suburb of a non-existent town, the prolix commentary on a book never written. I am nobody, nobody. I am a character in a novel which remains to be written, and I float, aerial, scattered without ever having been, among the dreams of a creature who did not know how to finish me off.

The Imitation of Christ is a cherished treasure of the Christian world. This great book was written by a Roman Catholic monk. "Written", perhaps, is not the proper word. It would be more appropriate to say that each letter of the book is marked deep with the heart's blood of the great soul who had renounced all for his love of Christ.

Total oblivion is the fate of almost everything in this world. I'm very likely to suffer that same fate; my work will probably not be remembered, and if any of it is, if any of those novels is fated to be one of those novels that is still being read 50 or 100 years after it was written, I've probably already written it.

The past is a stepping stone, not a millstone.

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

Everything changes, even stone.

Into a world unknown,-the corner-stone of a nation!

When you are an outcast, even a tossed stone can be cherished.

New York is the great stone desert.

My weight can swing by four stone.

It sure is cool that I was mentioned in 'Rolling Stone.'

Constant dripping hollows out a stone.

The electoral calendar is set in stone, by law.

If something needed to be written, if something needed to be polished, needed to be re-written, I was just handed pages.

I've always seen modeling as a stepping stone.

Thinking is always the stumbling stone to poetry.

If any have a stone to throw It is not I, ever or now.

The BBC is very much in thrall to all this techno cross-fertilisation, in much the same way that print journalists are now encouraged to blog. To the point where there is an emerging breed of sub-editors who take perfectly well-written and punctuated original copy and rewrite it so that it resembles a text message written by a 14-year-old under the influence of Bacardi Breezers.

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

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone.

A covetous man's penny is a stone.

Don't wish for bricks when you can build from stone.

I don't like things set in stone.

Histories in blazonry and poems in stone.

Don't bite till you know if it's bread or stone.

A parable: A man was examining the construction of a cathedral. He asked a stone mason what he was doing chipping the stones, and the mason replied, "I am making stones." He asked a stone carver what he was doing. "I am carving a gargoyle." And so it went, each person said in detail what they were doing. Finally he came to an old woman who was sweeping the ground. She said. "I am helping build a cathedral." ...Most of the time each person is immersed in the details of one special part of the whole and does not think of how what they are doing relates to the larger picture.

However, while being able to think about two things at the same time is a terribly convenient, the training it takes to get there is frustrating at best, and at other times rather disturbing. I remember one time I looked for the stone for almost an hour before I consented to ask the other half of me where I'd hidden it, only to find I hadn't hidden the stone at all. I had merely been waiting to see how long I would look before giving up. Have you ever been annoyed and amused with yourself at the same time? It's an interesting feeling, to say the very least.

You cannot expect stone to be as pliable as clay.

Writing short stories was kind of like I was cheating the whole time, in some way. I went back and forth between writing the novels and sort of sneaking out to work on stories occasionally. These stories were written over the last 10 years or so, as I was taking breaks from the novels I've written.

That author, however, who has thought more than he has read, read more than he has written, and written more than he has published, if he does not command success, has at least deserved it.

As a father and a provider, no stone goes unturned.

My favorite is 'The Last Coyote.' I'm not saying that's the best book I've written; I hope I haven't written my best book yet, but that one was the first book I wrote as a full-time author, with my full-time focus. I have a nostalgic feeling about it.

Traditionally poetry is written in lines. But the prose poem is the kind of poem that isn't written in lines. It is lyrical prose that uses the tricks of poetry, such as dense imagery. This is a big topic of debate in poetry land. There's no perfect definition.

The stone often recoils on the head of the thrower.

.... all blades of grass, wood, and stone, all things are One.

The rolling stone never gathereth mosse.

Anarchy is the stepping stone to absolute power.

Self-respect,--the corner-stone of all virtue.

Constant happiness is the philosopher's stone of the soul.

We'll blast them back into the stone ages!

Love is the stepping stone to new beginnings.

It was a challenge, to work with Oliver Stone.

All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.

Failure is a stepping-stone to greatness.

The teaching which is written on paper is not the true teaching. Written teaching is a kind of food for your brain. Of course it is necessary to take some food for your brain, but it is more important to be yourself by practicing the right way of life.

'Sam Stone' is a song about futility.

Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.

Only idiots or snobs ever really thought less of 'genre books' of course. There are stupid books and there are smart books. There are well-written books and badly written books. There are fun books and boring books. All of these distinctions are vastly more important than the distinction between the literary and the non-literary.

Failing is another stepping-stone to greatness.

The family is the corner stone of our society.

The First Amendment of the Constitution was not written to protect the people from religion; that amendment was written to protect religion from government tyranny. . . But now we're told our children have no right to pray in school. Nonsense. The pendulum has swung too far toward intolerance against genuine religious freedom. It is time to redress the balance.

Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about their own orthodoxy. Good novels are written by people who are not frightened.

A fly, a grape-stone, or a hair can kill.

If only my heart were stone.

I believe that the mainstream publishers, DC and Marvel, need to catch up as well. Out of the fifty-odd books that are published each month, just a handful are written by women, and even less of those are written by women of color. It's not right, and it's not good for the companies in the long-term. It's also not good for fans, for readers.

Voting is the foundation stone for political action.

My plan for the online version of 'Famous Monsters' is to become an online 'uncle' to an entire group of people who have never read or heard of 'Famous Monsters of Filmland.' The site will not be written in a scholarly fashion. It will be written in a playful, 'Hey, check this out!' kind of way.

Dripping water hollows out a stone