Top 1200 Written In Stone Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

We've got no hate for each other [in the band Stone Roses], and we never have.

Irish Catholicism is very much founded on the stone of fear and of punishment.

Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice?

I'm pretty drunk and bored with yelling at the stone walls that are your minds.

If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.

To be a man is to feel that one's own stone contributes to building the edifice of the world.

If you purchased the latest Joss Stone CD, what you're saying is that you're an employee of VH1.

Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is 'The X Factor.'

When the Dark comes rising six shall turn it back; Three from the circle, three from the track; Wood, bronze, iron; Water, fire, stone; Five will return and one go alone. Iron for the birthday; bronze carried long; Wood from the burning; stone out of song; Fire in the candle ring; water from the thaw; Six signs the circle and the grail gone before. Fire on the mountain shall find the harp of gold Played to wake the sleepers, oldest of old. Power from the Green Witch, lost beneath the sea. All shall find the Light at last, silver on the tree.

The enemy is not the badly written page; it is the empty page the great advantage of a badly written page is that it can be rewritten. It can be improved. A blank page is zero. In fact, it’s worse than zero, because it represents territory you’re afraid, unwilling, or too lazy to explore. Avoid exploring this territory long enough, and you’ll abandon your book.

And I am not one of those women who trips twice over the same stone.

A great city may be seen as the construction of words as well as stone.

But once you throw a stone, there are ripples in the pond, even if you remove the rock.

Theater, at the end of the day, is about ideas. It's about very large ideas. And if the play is beautifully written or smartly written and has incredible characters you follow on the journey, you take home these larger ideas. Whether it's 'Angels in America' or 'Lucky Guy' or 'Normal Heart,' you follow this moment-to-moment journey as an audience.

The specifics of the platform, I don`t think, are necessarily going to be written by Bernie Sanders, but the themes of the platform are going to be written by Bernie Sanders.

The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.

I discovered that I had, in the past two decades, written a far greater amount in the essay form than I remembered. Certainly I have written enough of it to demonstrate that I harbor no disdain for literary journalism or just plain journalism, under whose sponsorship I have been able to express much that has fascinated me, or alarmed me, or amused me, or otherwise engaged my attention when I was not writing a book.

The Buddhists say there are 149 ways to God. I'm not looking for God, only for myself, and that is far more complicated. God has had a great deal written about Him; nothing has been written about me. God is bigger, like my mother, easier to find, even in the dark. I could be anywhere, and since I can't describe myself I can't ask for help.

To those who cite the first amendment as reason for excluding God from more and more of our institutions and everyday life, may I just say: The first amendment of the Constitution was not written to protect the people of this country from religious values; it was written to protect religious values from government tyranny.

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.

I made an airplane out of stone. . . I always did like staying home.

The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.

If you can take the hot lead enema, then you can cast the first stone.

Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage.

Your hand is a warm stone I hold between two words.

"American Idol" has done a lot for me. It's a stepping stone in my life.

Is the NAFTA a stepping stone toward the New World Order? Absolutely!

Leave no stone unturned. Deeply explore the beauty of your life.

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Emma Stone and Jessica Chastain are both very classic beauties.

No philosopher's stone of a constitution can produce golden conduct from leaden instincts.

All you gotta do is think of the song in your head. And it doesn't matter whether you can play it or not, you can get somebody to play it. With songs I've written, there's a song called "The Statue", which I can't play. There are songs that I've written that I've actually just hummed on - there's a song on one of the albums they have there on the Internet called "My Love Was True" and it's almost operatic. I can't play it. But I can sing it.

The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.

He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.

There was a message written in pencil on the tiles by the roller towel. This was it: What is the purpose of life? Trout plundered his pockets for a pen or pencil. He had an answer to the question. But he had nothing to write with, not even a burnt match. So he left the question unanswered, but here is what he would have written, if he had found anything to write with: To be the eyes and ears and conscience of the Creator of the Universe, you fool.

Perhaps my children will live in stone houses and walled towns - Not I

Platonic England, house of solitudes, rests in its laurels and its injured stone

The rules seem to be these: If you have written a successful novel, everyone invites you to write short stories. If you have written some good short stories, everyone wants you to write a novel. But nobody wants anything until you have already proved yourself by being published somewhere else.

I mean that I value vision, and dread being struck stone blind.

The first book ever written in an alphabet was the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament. And the most important passage was the Ten Commandments. The first commandment is the most revolutionary sentence ever written. It states: "I am the Lord thy God there is no other." The second prohibits us from making images. Thus, there is a profound rejection of any goddess influence and a ban of representative art.

The proud, the cold untroubled heart of stone, that never mused on sorrow but its own.

I've always covered some Dylan songs. I do one or two. And I do them because they're great songs. You know some people cover songs they wish they could have written, not me. I like to cover songs I know I could not have ever written.

Chez Panisse is a sensory temple - you might have to be made of stone not to fall for it.

I will leave no stone unturned as far as hard work is concerned.

Love is not something dead, like a stone. When it melts, it encompasses everything.

Everything that moved, I was kicking it. You can ask my mum and dad. A stone, a can, whatever.

I read the text; and then I come to the Shirat ha-Yam, to the Song of the Sea [Exodus 15], to the poetry. Who could have written such a poem except someone who went through it? It is so full of life, so full of truth, of passion, of concern. And the thousands and thousands of commentaries in the Talmudic tradition that have been written on it. It had to have happened. But even if not, I would attribute the same beauty to the text as I do now.

Written words differ from spoken words in being material structures. A spoken word is a process in the physical world, having an essential time-order; a written word is a series of pieces of matter, having an essential space-order.

You were never able to break her. She is the stone of this kingdom.

When I say God it is poetry and not theology. Nothing that any theologian has written about God has helped me much, but everything the poets have written about flowers and birds and skies and seas and saviors of the race, and God - whoever He may be - has at one time or another reached my soul!...The theologians gather dust upon the shelves of my library but the poets are stained with my fingers and blotted by my tears.

Leave no stone unturned in your quest to disrupt a rock garden.

And then simultaneously I don't think they're asking you to necessarily write in stone that this is what you're going to do or what you have to do.

The early bird gathers no moss! The rolling stone catches the worm.

Dialogue that is written in dialect is very tiring to read. If you can do it brilliantly, fine. If other writers read your work and rave about your use of dialect, go for it. But be positive that you do it well, because otherwise it is a lot of work to read short stories or novels that are written in dialect. It makes our necks feel funny.

The past is nothing but a weight. It will build inside of you like a stone.

I'm lucky: whatever I eat, I've never wavered from just under 14 stone.

Some people manage their writing by saying, 'I need to get 2,000 words written today,' others by saying, 'I will write for X hours.' Not me. I start with a plan for the book, break it down into scenes, and I know what scenes need to get written each day. If the scene takes more words than I thought, so be it.

If you're gonna use me as a stepping stone, you'd better step hard!

Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be thyself' shall be written.