Top 1200 Written In Stone Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

The first line (of I Am The Walrus) was written on one acid trip one weekend. The second line was written on the next acid trip the next weekend, and it was filled in after I met Yoko.

Winter changes into stone the water of heaven and the heart of man.

Nothing lasts forever, but old Fords and a natural stone.

To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbsial disgrace.

The Devil is precise; the marks of his presence are definite as stone.

Failure can either be a stepping stone to success or a stumbling to defeat.

I've heard people have written books of me. People don't even know me, but they've written a book on me. You ever heard of hearing it from the horse's mouth? I'm the horse.

When I first saw Emma Stone, it was like I woke up.

Books written by boys are given very different treatment to those written by girls: they're even given very different covers. People also expect, in this YA-booming world, girls to be less experimental than boys: girls are achieving a lot of success, but they're confined.

My feeling is that, and I've been writing about my family over the years, although it might make them feel uncomfortable, people generally like to be written about. If I've written a song about the family, they enjoy being mentioned in the songs. Nobody's confronted me and said 'don't write any songs about me.

She read it again. It was fascinating and surreal, like reading a diary that had been hers when she was a teenager, secret and heartfelt words written by a girl she only vaguely remembered. She wished she'd written more. Her words mad her feel sad and proud, powerful and relieved." p 272

The heathen in his blindness Bows down to wood and stone.

What a joy it is to read a book that shocks one into remembering just how high one's literary standards should be.... a tour de force by one of England's best novelists.... Atonement is a spectacular book; as good a novel - and more satisfying... - than anything McEwan has written....sublimely written narrative.... The Dunkirk passage is a stupendous piece of writing, a set piece that could easily stand on its own.

Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.

I know what Stone Island means to a lot of people in England and Europe.

I want to make sure I leave no stone unturned when it comes to my career.

In eleven or twelve years of writing, Mike, I can lay claim to at least this: I have never written beneath myself. I have never written anything that I didn't want my name attached to. I have probed deeper in some scripts and I've been more successful in some than others. But all of them that have been on, you know, I'll take my lick. They're mine and that's the way I wanted them.

I don't think too much about the past when I am actually playing, I prefer to concentrate on the present. The performance of a piece, no matter how long ago or where it was written, is always a new production, something that comes alive in the present. And it doesn't matter if the piece was written two or three hundred years ago if it is alive in us.

And here I am, strapped into a tree, a stone's throw from the biggest idiot in the games.

Kill two birds with one stone, feed the homeless to the hungry.

Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language. It is essentially a written language, and it endeavors to exemplify in its written structures the patterns which it is its purpose to convey. The pattern of the marks on paper is a particular instance of the pattern to be conveyed to thought. The algebraic method is our best approach to the expression of necessity, by reason of its reduction of accident to the ghostlike character of the real variable.

The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.

White diamonds can get boring, so I love a colored stone.

"Gutta cavat lapidem." (Dripping water carves a stone.)

The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare.

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

I'd like to meet fewer people who say 'Oh, I want to write a book, here are 10 pages I've written,' and more 'Oh, I want to write a book, here are 300 pages I've written.'

God's eternal laws are kind-and break the heart of stone.

Liverpool are not used to playing a 16-and-a-half stone striker.

'Tis hard preaching a stone into tears, or making a rock to tremble.

Become a champion like Stone Cold Steve Austin!

We just want to be remembered before something is set in stone.

When I was writing my first novel, 'Elizabeth is Missing,' I was writing the only novel I had ever written and writing about the only protagonist I'd ever written about. Because of this, I didn't think of her as a construct. Maud was real.

I could teach you how to speak my language, Rosetta Stone.

Everything in my life has been a stepping-stone to something else.

I honored the fallen enemy by placing a stone on his beautiful grave.

I have never written a musical. I have never written a weird, interactive piece of theater. I wanted to do something that would be disturbing. It will be disturbing theater with songs. There will be no people on wires. That's probably the next one of those things on my bucket list of things that I need to write before I get hit by that car.

I do craft songs, that this is designed. It's almost like the song was written to produce this desired effect. And it probably really works for somebody. It's maybe somebody's favorite tune, and it's really hard to come down on that, even if I feel a little embarrassed for it. Because some songs are written like a commercial, and that can be a little strange.

Symbol and metaphor are as much a part of the architectural vocabulary as stone and steel.

Love songs come in many guises and are seemingly written for many reasons – as declarations or to wound – I have written songs for all of these reasons – but ultimately the love songs exist to fill, with language, the silence between ourselves and God, to decrease the distance between the temporal and the divine.

The Sun is a mass of fiery stone, a little larger than Greece.

Write today's worries in sand. Chisel yesterday's victories in stone.

MEDICINE, n. A stone flung down the Bowery to kill a dog in Broadway.

[The Master] doesn't glitter like a jewel... [but is] as rugged and common as a stone.

My father was a stone mason, and a talented amateur pianist and vocalist.

The Stone of Guilt in the River of the Mind, the block in the flow of intelligence.

The first hole made through a piece of stone is a revelation.

The Bible is not primarily a science book. It is not written to tell us how the heavens go; it is written to tell us how to go to heaven. But when it speaks on science, it is accurate.

I always refer to [Stardust Memories] as Sharon Stone's and my first film.

One has to remember that every failure can be a stepping stone to something better.

Once a script is released that doesn't mean it's the final product. It's not set in stone.

I used to envy people who had written books, the way I think women envy other women who've had babies. I was resentful, shy, and inhibited around people who had written books. They'd done things I wanted to do.

The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age.

You can't pretend to be a Sharon Stone or a Marilyn Monroe. You really can't fake that.

The weakness of most men they do not know how to become a stone or tree.

Falling drops will at last wear away stone.

Every obstacle is a stepping stone. My good cannot be stopped.

Cloisters, ancient libraries ... I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.

Oh, you made an impression. Like a stone caught in my boot.

Never treat anything you do as a stepping stone. Do it fully, and follow it completely.