Top 1200 Written In Stone Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Affaires meant 'business.' How like the French to kill two birds with one stone.

Life is a lone wolf, scratching out a living with teeth and claws and a heart of stone.

The law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.

Shame on those breasts of stone that cannot melt in soft adoption of another's sorrow.

And when the war is done and youth stone dead, I'd toddle safely home and die--in bed.

My wife says, "You're an idiot! Why do you Google your name and all you're doing is looking for trouble?" Because I'm thin-skinned. Because I don't like to be mischaracterized. I just don't. If someone is going to criticize what you've written and you believe in what you've written then you should respond. Now do I sometimes fall in the gutter myself and look silly doing it? Of course. Some battles I win, some battles I lose.

Sharon Stone. She is one of the most dedicated people I know, but also highly unedited.

Some secrets are like fossils and the stone has become too heavy to turn over.

Would we even recognize an Oliver Stone production if it didn't kick up the usual fuss?

I would write plays for my grandmother, who was stone deaf, my mother and the dog, that was our audience.

Your flag flyin' over the courthouse Means certain things are set in stone. Who we are, what we'll do and what we won't

What I like to do is come in, write the entire program and treat my staff to hot stone massages.

I see The Stone Roses in '89 as Technicolor: we were all about joy and possibilities of life.

I'm telling you this - if Stone Cold comes back out, somebody's going to get their ass whipped!

Nobody, especially Vince McMahon, tells Stone Cold Steve Austin what to do, and that's the bottom line!

I have no desire whatsoever to desecrate the grave of seminal Manchester pop group the Stone Roses.

With the Stone Roses, I always thought we'd be successful because we had some great songs.

No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely.

Everything is important. To the smallest insect, even the mouldering tree, the deepest stone in the drift.

I know that whenever I think about death, I come up against a stone wall.

Whereas to write, all you need is paper and an idea, so I felt that writing might be my stepping stone.

Back in the old days we used to smoke J's and got so blazed we called it the stone age

One doesn't lose a self, like a pair of gloves or a pine. We learn and change, or we harden into stone.

If you're the strongest man on the planet, you ought to be able to pick up a stone or flip a tire.

I've been nine stone for 20 years. I always eat what I want; it's not an issue for me.

My theory is that poems are written because of a state of emotional irritation. It may be present for some time before the poet is conscious of what is tormenting him. The emotional irritation springs, probably, from subconscious combinations of partly forgotten thoughts and feelings. Coming together, like electrical currents in a thunder storm, they produce a poem. ... the poem is written to free the poet from an emotional burden.

A stone is heavy and the sand is weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.

When you start a show, the plans are not set in stone. They're really mutable, cocktail napkin sketches.

Before the work of grace the heart is ‘stony.’ It can do no more than a stone can do to please God.

Idols aren't stone statues. They are thoughts, desires, and longings that we worship in the place of the true God

When you see me on TV as Stone Cold Steve Austin, that's definitely a part of my personality.

may came home with a smooth round stone as small as a world and as large as alone.

Sharon Stone has made a fortune from her movies, so who says you can't get something for nothing?

A stone that looks satisfied with its position reflects the sense of ease the waller felt when placing it there.

The most excellent symbol of the people is the paving stone. One walks on it until it falls on one's head.

Successful people see adversity as a stepping stone rather than a stumbling block.

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

The dream of those who come to Genoa is that they use it as a stepping stone towards a big club.

You can consider this carved in stone: I rule out becoming Herman Van Rompuy's successor.

Shortly after college, I was working in New York City at 'Rolling Stone' magazine.

Perhaps creativity is fumbling that dance step, or driving the chisel the wrong way into the stone.

'Stone Cold' came in with a monster push as 'The Ringmaster' with Ted DiBiase. That didn't work out.

There is something liberating and defiant about going on stage and saying you are 36 and 13 stone.

Walden - all his books, indeed - are packed with subtle, conflicting, and very fruitful discoveries. They are not written to prove something in the end. They are written as the Indians turn down twigs to mark their path through the forest. He cuts his way through life as if no one had ever taken that road before, leaving these signs for those who come after, should they care to see which way he went.

See every difficulty as a challenge, a stepping stone, and never be defeated by anything or anyone.

Beige is atmosphere. It's bisque, it's ivory, it's cream, it's stone, it's toast, it's cappuccino. It;s well, it's magic.

Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil is rightwise king born of all England.

Absolute freedom of the press to discuss public questions is a foundation stone of American liberty.

I can cure the gout or stone in some, sooner than Divinity, Pride, or Avarice in others.

It is often pleasant to stone a martyr, no matter how much we may admire him.

You can tell by looking at most people that the world remains a stone to them and a closed door.

I felt that in time simple stone tools would be found in early Pleistocene in England.

Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone, and irrational as a headless hen.

For many young people, the minimum wage is a stepping stone to higher employment levels.

If my son is not performing well, I would not pelt stone on him - this is not the way a Hindustani behaves.

I've written about illegal immigrants in the United States; I spent a year following migrant farm workers as they were harvesting. I've written about our criminal justice system, and how it treats the victims of crime. I've been working for years now on a book about prisons in America, and I've been going into prisons and traveling around the country and seeing what's going on.

I already did my coming out about a thousand years ago, back in the stone age.

I love songs, Patty Larkin, Sharon Stone, Mae West, and Marilyn Monroe.

If Stone Cold was to become champion, as of now, that would be a public-relations corporate nightmare.

Can we find "The Universe in a grain of sand"? Well perhaps, but a stone seems easier to visualize.