Stone Quotes

The reason why the stone is red is its iron content, which is also why our blood is red.

But when I'm losing a few matches, suddenly 'It's his fault', 'He doesn't want to practice', 'He doesn't need it', 'He doesn't care'. And when everything goes well, there are people coming behind the stone, saying, 'Oh, my God, he's back finally, and I was there to help him out'.

I've always loved War's Low Rider and Sly Stone's Thank You, and I just wanted to put my take on them.

Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.

The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.

Under that heart of stone beat muscles of pure flint.

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

The body is the substance of the stone.

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

People don't understand that that's really what it is. They're looking for a magic phone number or something. And to a certain extent, I understand that, because comedy is treated so much as a stepping stone by a lot of people.

I wanted to know the name of every stone and flower and insect and bird and beast. I wanted to know where it got its color, where it got its life - but there was no one to tell me.

It... is the best opportunity we've had in the last 25 years to bring about a settlement in Northern Ireland, and I think we should leave no stone unturned to achieve that.

A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories.

Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.

In the West there has always been the attempt to try make the religious building, whether it's a Medieval or Renaissance church, an eternal object for the celebration of God. The material chosen, such as stone, brick, or concrete, is meant to eternally preserve what is inside.

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

To me this movie is about what is valuable. To one person it might be a stone; to someone else, a story in a magazine; to another, it is a child. The juxtaposition of one man obsessed with finding a valuable diamond with another man risking his life to find his son is the beating heart of this film.

I stone got crazy when I saw somebody run down them strings with a bottleneck. My eyes lit up like a Christmas tree and I said that I had to learn.

Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

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

The heart hid still in the dark, hard as the Philosopher's Stone.

At the same time the Constitution sets in stone the Stability Pact and risks preventing member States from implementing a policy of growth. So we are not able to do things at the European or the national level.

And what could be a hotter ticket than the improbable triumph of 'The Book of Mormon,' the musical-comedy moon shot of the season? Its creators, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, of Comedy Central's 'South Park,' are the most unlikely Rodgers and Hammerstein team ever to bowl a thundering strike.

It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice.

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

If we can by any method establish a relation of mutual trust between the laborer and the employer, we shall lay the foundation stone of a structure that will endure for all time.

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

I don't see my show as a stepping stone to something else like some people, who get a job then have a foot out the door looking for their next job.

No one should be allowed to make music as if he were made of wood. One must reproduce the musical text exactly, but not play like a stone.