Top 1200 Written In Stone Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

If you're asked: What is the silence? Respond: It is the first stone of the Wisdom's temple.

And now my old dog is dead, and another I had after him, and my parents are dead, and that first world, that old house, is sold and lost, and the books I gathered there lost, or sold- but more books bought, and in another place, board by board and stone by stone, like a house, a true life built, and all because I was steadfast about one or two things: loving foxes, and poems, the blank piece of paper, and my own energy- and mostly the shimmering shoulders of the world that shrug carelessly over the fate of any individual that they may, the better, keep the Niles and Amazons flowing.

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

I do think the public want to see politicians acting in a different way. What's brought young people into our campaign is that they were written off by political parties but they had never written off politics, and what we have is a huge number of young people, very enthusiastic and brimming with ideas. Those ideas have got to be heard.

The highest praise a writer can give another is to say he wishes he had written his book. I wish I had written Forty Words for Sorrow. Giles Blunt has a tremendous talent. If you miss Forty Words for Sorrow, you'll miss one of best novels of 2001.

Better Off' is a stone-cold country song.

Instead of Otello being an Italian opera written in the style of Shakespeare, Othello is a play written by Shakespeare in the style of Italian opera.

The idea is there locked inside. All you have to do is remove the excess stone.

A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gains a certain polish.

Seeking knowledge at an Young age is like engraving on a stone.

Actually, diamonds are a very common stone. I prefer emeralds.

The moon was sharp enough to draw blood from a stone

But for the silly chaps, we would still be living in the Stone Age.

...water laughing softly down a black stone wall.

You have no idea how long a year is until you’re stone sober.

I can easily go up to 19 stone or so if I'm not careful.

What shall I do unto this people? they be almost ready to stone me.

I love Amanda Lear, Michelle Pfeiffer, Sharon Stone.

I am a rolling stone, never in one place for very long.

Hamburgers! The corner-stone of any nutritious breakfast.

The heart hid still in the dark, hard as the Philosophers Stone.

To become one of the best stone lifters in the world, you have to have a good trainer.

Devolution will kill Nationalism stone dead.

I'd love to see the Stone Roses do a show but it won't happen.

Each possession I own is but a stone around my neck.

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

Obedience is a foundational stepping-stone on the path of God’s will.

Nobody makes movies like Oliver Stone.

My heart is turned to stone; I strike it, and it hurts my hand.

The drop hollows out the stone not by strength, but by constant falling.

Do you think that civilization advances because of things written in books? Not a bit of what is written in books ever got there until after the thought of it happened in someone's mind. Someone first had to collect it from space, or recollect it from its electrical pattern to which he (or she) had been attuned. The book is but a record of what has already happened.

I can’t talk about my books. I have written them and tried to forget them. I have written once, and readers have read me many times, no? I try to think of what I wrote, it’s very unhealthy to think about the past, the case of elegies is very sad, as much as the case of complaints.

Mortality is but a stepping-stone to a more glorious existence in the future.

We must create a history of India in living terms. Up to the present that history, as written by the English, practically begins with Warren Hastings, and crams in certain unavoidable preliminaries, which cover a few thousands of years...The history of India has yet to be written for the first time. It has to be humanized, emotionalized, made the trumpet-voice and evangel of the race that inhabit India.

THE WRITER can get free of his writing only by using it, that is, by reading oneself. As if the aim of writing were to use what is already written as a launching pad for reading the writing to come. Moreover, what he has written is read in the process, hence constantly modified by his reading. The book is an unbearable totality. I write against a background of facets.

Just because I rock doesn't mean I am made of stone.

There are few things graven in stone, except that you have to squat or you're a pussy.

The people are hungry for the bread of life. Do not offer them a stone.

I really want to work with Emma Stone; she is adorable.

NAFTA is a major stepping stone to the New World Order.

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.

MMA for me was a stepping stone in my life as a man to grow.

Scientific truth will out, you can't hide the sun under a stone.

A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.

The Rosetta Stone of Christian social thought is the Trinity.

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

I was starting to recognize a corner I was driving myself into: that all writing could do was refer to things that had already been written. I'm making the margin, but the margin of a book that already exists. I was having this exhilaration at, but at the same time horror of this recognition that I'd driven myself into the world of only books. This is a world of the previously written, and maybe I don't have to add to it, maybe all I can do is measure it.

If God is all powerful, can He make a stone so big that He Himself can't lift it?

Everybody wants to be on the front cover of 'People' and 'Rolling Stone.'

My policy is 'No stone throwing regardless of housing situation.'

Like a stone That rolls down a hill, I have come to this day.

The seed must grow regardless Of the fact that it’s planted in stone

I don't categorize myself as an 85-year-old woman who has written an erotic novel. I categorize myself as a writer who's written an erotic novel.

Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.

The public has no idea that the deficit has been falling like a stone.

Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.

The story of each stone leads back to a mountain.

The first money I ever earned was for drawing stone tools.

We know that attention acts as a lightning rod. Merely by concentrating on something one causes endless analogies to collect around it, even penetrate the boundaries of the subject itself: an experience that we call coincidence, serendipity – the terminology is extensive. My experience has been that in these circular travels what is really significant surrounds a central absence, an absence that, paradoxically, is the text being written or to be written.

The heart hid still in the dark, hard as the Philosopher's Stone.