Top 1200 Written In Stone Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Life takes us to unexpected places sometimes. The future is never set in stone, remember that.

When I started working for Rolling Stone, I became very interested in journalism and thought maybe that's what I was doing, but it wasn't.

I believe that what we want to write wants to be written. I believe that as I have an impulse to create, the something I want to create has an impulse to want to be born. My job, then, is to show up on the page and let that something move through me, in a sense, what wants to be written is none of my business.

If you Americans aren't from the stone age then explain to me how your president is a ****ing pterodactyl

When I went to school, it was really just to immerse myself in listening to, studying, and making music. I came out like, "How is this going to be more than a hobby I'm always paying off debt for?" I could've sat at a desk and written pieces for orchestras that never would have been played, or I could've written music for me as a performer. I play electronics, and the places I was gonna be playing were bass clubs and house parties.

My biggest moment was me beating Stone Cold Steve Austin to win the championship.

It's not like I came out in 'Rolling Stone' and all of a sudden I had a closet full of all the clothes I want.

I have written quite a lot of songs about dealing with my feelings surrounding the disease. I have written songs about the fear and anxiety I have around my disease, and the fear of it coming back. Some of my songs might seem like relationship songs, but are more about my relationship with that struggle.

Sorrow is a stone that crushes a single bearer to the ground, while two are able to carry it with ease.

God is nearer to me than I am to myself; He is just as near to wood and stone, but they do not know it.

Remember, when incited to slander, that it is only he among you who is without sin that may cast the first stone.

For the critic, criticism is a form of natural self-expression, as poetry is to the poet. So, for a critic, criticism is a true thing. Criticism isn’t written for poets, it’s written for other readers. One hopes it is true for other readers if it’s true for oneself.

The A tour has always given me an opportunity to prove myself in the higher league as this is the stepping stone.

I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.

Once the fired stone is out of the kiln, it is still possible to mentally reconstruct it in its original form.

Within a year after I write a play I forget the experience of having written it. And I couldn't revise or rewrite it if I wanted to. Up until that point, I'm so involved with the experience of having written the play, and the nature of it, that I can't see what faults it might have. The only moment of clear objectivity that I can find is at the moment of critical heat - of self-critical heat when I'm actually writing.

The alphabet was one thing when applied to clay or stone, and quite another when set down on light papyrus.

Let woman be a plaything, pure and fine, like a precious stone, illumined with the virtues of a world not yet come.

The rock era, as I clock it, went from '65 to '94, from 'Like a Rolling Stone' to Kurt Cobain's death.

The most important thing about the first sale is for the very first time in your life something written has value and proven value because somebody has given you money for the words that you've written, and that's terribly important, it's a tremendous boon to the ego, to your sense of self-reliance, to your feeling about your own talent.

When sculpting the human figure in stone it is necessary to draw the whole form out of the content of the head.

We exist in a bizarre combination of Stone Age emotions, medieval beliefs, and god-like technology.

I wanted to get out of our thimble of a town, where every stone had eyes.

I find that discussing an idea out loud is often the way to kill it stone dead.

Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.

Know that your style will always change and that nothing is ever set in stone.

The right attitude can transform a barrier into a blessing, an obstacle into an opportunity or a stumbling block into a stepping stone.

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

I have written some poetry and two prose books about baseball, but if I had been a rich man, I probably would not have written many of the magazine essays that I have had to do. But, needing to write magazine essays to support myself, I looked to things that I cared about and wanted to write about, and certainly baseball was one of them.

If I'd been four feet tall and fifteen stone, I would certainly not have followed the same career

Every kind of book I've written has been written in a different way. There has not been any set time for writing, any set way, I haven't re-invented the process every time but I almost have.

I think a football career should be used as a stepping stone to something better - not as an end in Itself.

Here (Jerusalem), tears do not weaken the eyes, they only polish and shine the hardness of faces like stone.

Embrace the work opportunity you have today. It may be the stepping-stone you need on your way to success.

Stone, steel, dominions pass, Faith too, no wonder; So leave alone the grass That I am under.

Avoid kneeling in unheated stone churches. Ecclesiastical dampness causes prematurely grey hair.

Sometimes people back themselves into corners where they think they have to make kind of an engraved-in-stone decision.

So I'm pampering myself to a homemade stone pumice session, to sand down my feet because I'm worth it.

The angel rolled away the stone from Jesus' tomb, not to let the living Lord out, but to let unconvinced outsiders in.

No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the shooter of it.

I'm going to die one day. I know it's coming for me, too. I'll be a mountain, I'll be a stone on the beach. I'll be nourishment.

That's the past for you. Not only does it come back at the most unexpected, and inconvenient, times but it's set in stone.

It is as easy to draw back a stone thrown with force from the hand, as to recall a word once spoken.

The elixir of life, the philosopher's stone is yours if you surrender sterile logic, trivial reason.

If you make an error, use it as a stepping stone to a new idea you might not have otherwise discovered.

Leave no stone unturned to help your clients realize maximum profits from their investment.

I finish so many books it's amazing. I'm also doing Rosetta Stone, learning some French.

If you pinch the sea of its liberty, though it be walls of stone or brass, it will beat them down.

I can't leave her there all alone, surrounded by stone walls... She's too precious to give up.

I've always traveled with a picture of my daughter from 1989, her kindergarten school picture, that has 'I love you, Daddy' written on it. She's always made fun of me because I never changed that picture out. It's like my resistance to her getting older. It was the first thing she'd ever written to me and it means the world to me.

I need therapy after writing. It's like leaking blood from a stone. It's brutally difficult but worth it.

The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.

In Sweden we have a jazz festival, and I would try to see all these people like Angie Stone there when I was younger.

The poets scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.

I welcome all interviews with 'Rolling Stone' magazine, and I'm sure people will talk to me in the future.

Disaster beats stasis. Better a rolling stone than a moss-covered rock.

Angus Deaton has written a wonderful book, The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality. . . . Deaton's book is a magisterial overview of health, income, and wealth from the industrial revolution to the present, taking in countries poor and rich. Not just jargon-free but equation-free, the book is written with a beautifully lucid style. . . . [P]owerfully argued and convincing.

Perfect typography is certainly the most elusive of all arts. Sculpture in stone alone comes near it in obstinacy.

To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says: Leave no stone unturned.

Sly Stone made such a huge contribution to the good feeling in the universe, and I love him as a singer.