Top 1200 Written In Stone Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Among twelve apostles there must always be one who is as hard as stone, so that the new church may be built upon him.

Ideas come at any moment -- except when you demand them. Most ideas come while I'm physically active, at the gym, with friends, gardening, so I always carry pen and paper. My first draft is always written in longhand. But once the first dozen chapters, more like short stories, are written, then momentum builds until I can't leave the project until it's done.

The stone neither speaks nor gives anything. Therefore its service is fruitless and its worship is of no avail.

Stone's Rules exist because sometimes the truth is too painful, and the lies will land you in prison.

We who preach and write, do so in a manner different from which the Scriptures have been written. We write while we make progress.We learn something new every day. We speak as we still knock for understanding...If anyone criticizes me when I have said what is right, he does me an injustice. But I would be more angry with the one who praises me and takes what I have written for Gospel truth than I would be with the one who criticizes me unfairly.

Nothing is etched in stone in tennis until the final point has been played. That's why we watch.

I happen to have an expensive clothing habit, so, for me, designing clothes is a way to kill two birds with one stone.

Not easy to state the change you made. If I'm alive now, I was dead, Though, like a stone, unbothered by it.

Jesse Stone did more to develop the basic rock-and-roll sound than anybody else.

Each heart is made of a different stone - no two feel alike nor break the same way.

There is an old American saying 'He who lives in a glass house should not try to kill two birds with one stone.

And what can still delight an inert stone except to become, once more, the bed of a raging torrent?

Any '90s baby, The Rock or Stone Cold Steve Austin had to be your favorite wrestler.

Jesus Christ came into my prison cell last night, and every stone flashed like a ruby.

Look deeply; I arrive in every second to be a bud on a spring branch ... to be a jewel hiding itself in a stone.

Law is twofold -- natural and written. The natural law is in the heart, the written law on tables. All men are under the natural law.

I've become friends with Michael Mann and Oliver Stone; I've seen those guys work and that was great to see.

Hearts with one purpose alone/Through summer and winter seem/Enchanted to a stone/To trouble the living stream.

The path to inspiration starts upon the trails we've known; each stumbling block is not a rock, but just a stepping stone.

The truth, she found, felt smooth, like a skipping stone in the palm of your hand.

I'm in a state of learning, and I don't have any set-in-stone ideas about what shows or even what eras I want to pursue.

For many, the icon of the British Museum is the Rosetta Stone, that administrative by-product of the Greek imperial adventure in Africa.

I had to make a confession of faith in stone. That was the beginning of the tower, the house I built for myself at Bollingen.

Hark," he said, his tone very dry. "What stone through yonder window breaks?

Anytime you feel love for anything, be it stone, tree, lover, or child, you are touched by the Goddess's magick.

I love Sly Stone and James Brown and Stevie Wonder, and I want my music to reflect some of that.

To the man grown the long crowded mile of his boyhood becomes less than the throw of a stone.

To this day, if you ask me how I became a writer, I cannot give you an answer. To this day, if you ask me how a book is written, I cannot answer. For long periods, if I didn't know that somehow in the past I had written a book, I would have given up.

Women are always murdered and maimed, and they’re never given their rightful place as lead characters! And I think [creator Michael Hirst] has just written what should have been written a long time ago. There shouldn’t be anything that different about Vikings, but there is, because there’ve just been so many shows that have not stepped up to the plate and given female actors and female characters equal footing.

I have a show on MTV called 'Zach Stone Is Gonna Be Famous.' I think that's a secret to a vast majority of America.

By the time I was doing "Kill Bill," it was so much filled with prose that, you know, I start seeing why people write a screenplay and make it more like a blueprint, because basically I had written - in "Kill Bill," I had basically written a novel, and basically every day I was adapting my novel to the screen on the fly, you know, on my feet.

I tend to regard the Coase theorem as a stepping stone on the way to an analysis of an economy with positive transaction costs.

Rituparno Ghosh and Bharathirajaa are two directors who were born to direct.They can make even a stone act.

No small thing, a bee's sting When it enters the heart Not so benign, the growing vine When it tears stone apart

No stone should be left unturned to bring home to the family members that untouchability is a sin and a blot on Hinduism.

I met Michael Milken for the first time with Oliver Stone at the Drexel Burnham offices in Los Angeles.

It turned out that the buckyball, the soccer ball, was something of a Rosetta stone of an infinite new class of molecules.

Whenever we tell the truth, nobody believes us. We lie, and people take it as etched-in-stone fact.

It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone and can be made as offensive as a brickbat.

Life hurls us like a stone, and we sail through the air saying, "look at me move.

England, where nobody ever says what they mean: and by denying feeling, kill it off stone-cold at the roots.

I assaulted Stone Cold Steve Austin and got away with it! It was indeed a very special night for me.

After acting for four years, in five languages, theatre became my stepping stone to TV and cinema.

Most of the stone a nation hammers goes toward its tomb only. It buries itself alive.

I feel like a stone you have picked up and thrown to the hard rock bottom of your heart.

Five years ago I was a four-stone apology — today I am two separate gorillas.

One certainty when you travel is the moment you arrive in a foreign country, the American dollar will fall like a stone.

The basis, the corner-stone of this Government, was the perfect equality of the free, sovereign, and independent States which made it.

I go way beyond just the wood and stone but to the process of growth and farming and the tensions between the two.

If a given scientist had not made a given discovery, someone else would have done so a little later. Johann Mendel dies unknown after having discovered the laws of heredity: thirty-five years later, three men rediscover them. But the book that is not written will never be written. The premature death of a great scientist delays humanity; that of a great writer deprives it.

The Sun Stone, the famous Aztec calendar, is unquestionably a perfect summary of science, philosophy, art and religion.

If Beethoven could write his 'Eroica Symphony' stone deaf, then William Wyler can do a musical.

Besides, if there were no dragons of flesh and blood and fire, whence would come the idea for these stone carvings?

Live are a really good band. I like Stone Temple Pilots, Radiohead I love. Even Oasis.

There is so much talent! Now, we may not have at the moment that transcendent next-level 'Stone Cold' or The Rock, but I assure you, they're there.

As for style of writing, if one has anything to say, it drops from him simply and directly, as a stone falls to the ground.

Up against Goliath, to bring butter home. I'm David on pavement, sling another stone.

I am proud of all Army personnel serving in Siachen who are leaving no stone unturned to defend our motherland.

WIDE, the margin between carte blanche and the white page. Nevertheless it is not in the margin that you can find me, but in the yet whiter one that separates the word-strewn sheet from the transparent, the written page from the one to be written in the infinite space where the eye turns back to the eye, and the hand to the pen, where all we write is erased, even as you write it. For the book imperceptibly takes shape within the book we will never finish. There is my desert.

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.