Top 1200 Written In Stone Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

No experience in life is set in stone unless we ourselves have unwittingly poured the concrete!

We stone our prophets, then build monuments to them after they're gone.

Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.

I don't like the life here in New York. There is no greenery. It would make a stone sick.

We've played on 'Saturday Night Live' and got not even a Rolling Stone review.

A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.

Nay, in death's hand, the grape-stone proves As strong as thunder is in Jove's.

Africa is cruel...it takes your heart and grinds it into powdered stone - and no-one minds

The only thing I use the Rolling Stone for is toilet paper when I run out.

Just because I look sexy on the cover of Rolling Stone doesn't mean I'm naughty.

One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing.

Truth must be the foundation stone, the cement to solidify the entire social edifice.

The art of stone in a Japanese garden is that of placement. Its ideal does not deviate from that of nature.

Fate rules. You follow the steps and you plan and you work. Then fate slips in laughing and makes fools of us. Sometimes we can trick it or out guess it but most often its already written. For some its written in blood. That doesn't mean we stop, but it does mean we can't comfort ourselves with blame. It's easier to take the blame than to admit there was nothing you could do to stop whatever happened.

I feel that Miss India is a stepping stone for anything you want to do, not just Bollywood.

'A' tours can be considered as a stepping stone to getting into the national team, so they are really important.

There is no such thing as failure; everything is just a stepping stone to a greater lesson or achievement.

I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on.

I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry is shorter than the written history of poetry. It's not true. Poetry has a longer oral tradition than it does written

I would happily help to turn the stone being thrown at me into a boomerang.

If transport, housing and Olympic projects do not work, I will crawl away under a stone.

I would be a liar if I said I don't care [about my appearance]; yes, I care. I found it very difficult, when I first became well known, to read criticism about how I look, how messy my hair was, and how generally unkempt I look. The nastiest thing ever written was written by a man, and I do remember that. I wasn't looking for it either, it was just simply in the newspaper I was reading.

I love Stone Cold. It's a weird obsession, and he should probably get a restraining order.

Classical dancing has always been the stepping stone of every dancer's life.

A girl never cares who casts the first stone at her -- as long as it's a diamond

A poet wants only one small stone on which to carve his life.

Everybody's got their secrets; I carry mine like a jagged stone in my shoe.

They say what doesn't kill the soul will make you stronger, but you can't be a stone-hearted man.

I pride myself on leaving no stone unturned as far as being the most prepared that I can be.

Some stories I write in Swedish, some in English. Short stories I've almost exclusively written in English lately, mostly because there's such a small market for them in Sweden and it doesn't really pay either. So, the translation goes both ways. What also factors in is that I have a different voice in English, which means that a straight translation wouldn't be the same as if I'd written it in English originally.

Before you leave, the fortune teller reminds you that the future is never set in stone.

You better start swimming, or you'll sink like a stone. Because the Time's they are a-changing.

The stone that is rolling can gather no moss;For master and servant oft changing is loss.

A stepping-stone can be a stumbling block if we can't see it until after we have tripped over it.

Deep are the foundations of sincerity. Even stone walls have their foundation below the frost.

I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry is shorter than the written history of poetry. It's not true. Poetry has a longer oral tradition than it does written.

Laughter went on and on, like sunlight and stone, even if the human beings who laughed did not.

Cathedrals, luxury liners laden with souls, Holding to the east their hulls of stone.

The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man.

I cannot say who, precisely, came up with the idea of a Stone Age family.

The first song I wrote and had published was titled "Just As Long As That Someone Is You". It was written in 1959, and recorded in 1965 by Jimmy Ellege. I started writing songs because I wanted something of my own to sing. I, at that time, was not aware that the songs I heard on the radio were not written by the folks singing them. I had always loved poetry, and found it easy to integrate a melody with poetry.

There is a written and an unwritten law. The one by which we regulate our constitutions in our cities is the written law; that which arises from customs is the unwritten law.

Mine, said the stone,mine is the hour.I crush the scissors,such is my power.Stronger than wishes,my power, alone.Mine, said the paper,mine are the wordsthat smother the stonewith imagined birds,reams of them, flownfrom the mind of the shaper.Mine, said the scissors,mine all the knivesgashing through paper'sethereal lives;nothing's so properas tattering wishes.As stone crushes scissors,as paper snuffs stoneand scissors cut paper,all end alone.So heap up your paperand scissor your wishesand uproot the stonefrom the top of the hill.They all end aloneas you will, you will.

A stick or a stone only stings for a minute. A name seems to hurt forever.

We take five, one-week vacations a year, and those dates are set in stone.

Throw a stone into the stream and the ripples that propagate themselves are the beautiful type of all influence.

Well, basically Corey and I were in Stone Sour before we joined Slipknot.

They that censure, should practice. Or else let them have the first stone, and the last too.

I've never written about a situation involving real people that I haven't directly taken part in. I've never made things up about other people. None of my stories were written with ill-intent towards the other people in them, even though I doubt people will believe that about "Adrien Brody."

Rand al'Thor is a mule-headed, stone-willed fool of a...a...a man!

Now I realize it's fashionable in some circles to believe that no one in government should encourage others to read the Bible. That we're told we'll violate the constitutional separation of church and state established by the Founding Fathers and the First Amendment. The First Amendment was not written to protect people and their laws from religious values. It was written to protect those values from government tyranny.

I think, in today's football, you have to have a certain degree of technology. If not, you're living in the stone ages.

I went on the pill when I was 16, put on four stone... so that proved to be a very effective contraceptive.

In my earliest memory, my grandfather is bald as a stone and he takes me to see the tigers.

The way 'The Icarus Girl' came about was by me just basically bragging it with a literary agent and telling him I'd written 150 pages when I'd only written 20. And I think it was when the agent e-mailed me back right the very next day after sending him the 20 pages and asking to see the other 130.

As the sculptor devotes himself to wood and stone, I would devote myself to my soul.

Oliver Stone's strategy is to unnerve the actors so as to make them alert and alive.

The weirdest thing I've been fascinated with nowadays is the new contemporary country music, which to me sounds like very strange '70s pop, and sometimes like rock music. But some of the themes in there - maybe it's because I know how the songs were written, but it really does sound like it was written by two or three people, with the idea to appeal to the most general audience.

Rule books are paper - they will not cushion a sudden meeting of stone and metal.

Only last week I murdered a rock, injured a stone and hospitalized a brick.