Stone Quotes

I think a guy who's had just the right amount of booze can sing the blues a hell of a lot better than a guy who is stone sober.

Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is 'The X Factor.'

I am not saying that Hitler was a choir boy. But I am saying, let him who was innocent in the Second World War cast the first stone.

The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race.

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

The stone which Jacob consecrated at Bethel the generation of the living continues to anoint, paying the tithes which of old he vowed to the house of God there.

I wish to say to you that the life of an enlightened people and a vibrant nation cannot be measured by the life of an individual. A successful person is one who manages to lay down a new stone, a brick that would help firm up his nation's existence.

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.

My solution to the problem would be to tell the North Vietnamese Communists frankly that they've got to drawn in their horns and stop their aggression or we're going to bomb them into the stone age.

I remember when my mother pointed to a stone, and she said this was the kind of stone people used to place on the feet of the baby girls to stop them trying to climb away and unbind their feet.

Before I was humiliated I was like a stone that lies in deep mud, and he who is mighty came and in his compassion raised me up and exalted me very high and placed me on the top of the wall.

No individual is alone responsible for a single stepping stone along the path of progress, and where the path is smooth progress is most rapid.

You can have a wrestling idea, but you need to have these momentum-shifting moves. We had the Hulkamania movement, then it shifted to the beer-drinking, Stone Cold era, we reinvented the business with growing the black beard and becoming the bad guy, what's that next level.

General McChrystal had to go. Whatever his virtues as a strategist and commander, the 'Rolling Stone' interview fatally compromised his ability to represent the United States in dealing with allies and to act within the circle of people who must make decisions in Afghanistan.

Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.

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

The stones tear like flesh, rather than breaking. Although what happens is violent, it is a violence that is in stone. A tear is more unnerving than a break.

I've always seen modeling as a stepping stone.

And you can tell the writers who do it - Robert Stone, for example, who with each new novel is doing something new. I appreciate that in other writers.

The stone often recoils on the head of the thrower.

I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.

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

Whether I sound like Sammy or not is purely coincidence. You have got to hand it to him, he sings his ass off. There is no moss on that stone.

If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.

At some point around '94 or '95, 'Rolling Stone' said that guitar rock was dead and that the Chemical Brothers were the future. I think that was the last issue of 'Rolling Stone' I ever bought.

Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now.

But which is the stone that supports the bridge?

Then hast our the Red Stone perfect with less labour, expense of time and costs, for the which ever thank God.

It was a challenge, to work with Oliver Stone.