Stones Quotes - Page 11

• Every good band in the world was a cover band first. The Beatles were and the Stones were. Everybody was a cover band.

  Alice Cooper

  Band, World, Firsts

  "Johnny Depp's Rock Supergroup: Alice Cooper and Joe Perry on Hollywood Vampires". Interview with Jeff Slate, www.thedailybeast.com. September 13, 2015.

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

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Becoming, Vans, Successors

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• It's a simplification to say that the men [during Stone Age] went to war to maintain their dominance over the women. The men would help dig agricultural ditches because they were superb farmers. That was very heavy lifting work. But then they just preened themselves, and put bird-of-paradise plumes [in their hair], and smoked dope.

  Peter Matthiessen

  War, Dope, Men

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Every woman deserves diamonds, and even if you can't afford to go out and buy diamonds for yourself or you don't have actual stone diamonds, I think when we look at ourselves we should refer to ourselves as a precious stone.

  Nia Long

  Thinking, Precious Stones, Looks

  "Nia Long's Simple Two-Step Trick for Instantly Brighter Skin". Glamour Interview, www.glamour.com. August 14, 2014.

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• I don't really have an ambition to become the Rolling Stones, or anything like that. For me, it's just playing music is kind of a transcendent, amazing gift, so when people come together and they play, I think it's a real special thing.

  Jonathan Jackson

  Real, Ambition, Thinking

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. October 11, 2002.

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• Think that you are part of a big construction called science and you are not just a chemist but you are scientist. Be modest but proud. Modest because you know you will not be able to solve other problems because your life is too short. But be proud because you are contributing to it. Some people will bring a small stone to the building and some people will bring a big one but nevertheless no one can take that stone away from you.

  Jean-Marie Lehn

  Life Is Too Short, Thinking, People

  Source: www.lindau-nobel.org

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• Language changes only those aspects of our consciousness which are based on information, but not the feelings themselves. The words are as stones that can cause wounds or as caresses that becalm and that guide us, but the content of consciousness is intrinsic.

  Rodolfo Llinas

  Feelings, Information, Causes

  Source: www.cerebromente.org.br

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• I am a rock & roll man, and therefore, a denim man. Musicians of any era - whether it be The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Rage Against the Machine, or, of course, Madonna - will inspire fashion. And we in turn will inspire them.

  Renzo Rosso

  Fashion, Men, Rocks

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• That's the temptation of the devil: "Turn stones into bread! Be relevant!"

  Henri Nouwen

  Temptation, Devil, Bread

  Source: archives.wineskins.org

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• I've always loved black, and I realized that, from the beginning, man went into completely dark caves to paint. They painted with black too. They could have painted with white because there were white stones all over the ground, but no, they chose to paint with black in the dark.

  Pierre Soulages

  Dark, Men, White

  Interview with Zoe Stillpass, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 7, 2014.

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• The world was held in a savage gloom - cold and intolerable. Outside, all was quiet - quiet! From the dark room behind me, came the occasional, soft thud of falling matter - fragments of rotting stone. So time passed, and night grasped the world, wrapping it in wrappings of impenetrable blackness.

  William Hope Hodgson

  Fall, Dark, Night

  William Hope Hodgson (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of William Hope Hodgson (Illustrated)”, p.218, Delphi Classics

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• I heard once that I'm considering having liposuction. And the reason I find that so ridiculous is I've gone out of my way to train really hard the last eight months. I want to prove you don't need surgery, you don't need steroids and you don't even need to diet. I've lost over a stone and that's all been down to good old-fashioned exercise. Once your metabolism gets going you can enjoy your life.

  Peter Andre

  Exercise, Eight, Gone

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• I'm a massive fan of the Stones, and I don't think anybody should deny them the right to carry on making music. I just wish they wouldn't wear leggings.

  Noel Gallagher

  Thinking, Wish, Fans

  "Noel Gallagher's post-icon rock star life". Interview with Paul Sexton, www.today.com. August 22, 2005.

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• Thank you Jesus you are a stone mover. And you can move any stone away.

  Louie Giglio

  Leadership, Christian, Jesus

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• The Stone trembled and threw herself outward bound, toward Saturn. In her train followed hundreds and thousands and hundreds of thousands of thousands of restless, rolling Stones . . . to Saturn . . . to Uranus, to Pluto . . . rolling on out to the stars . . . outward bound to the ends of the Universe.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Stars, Rolling, Pluto

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• Often the crowd does not recognize a leader until he has gone, and then they build a monument for him with the stones they threw at him in life.

  J. Oswald Sanders

  Leadership, Christian, Doe

  J. Oswald Sanders (2007). “Spiritual Leadership: Principles of Excellence For Every Believer”, p.122, Moody Publishers

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• Tobacco, divine, rare, superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all the panaceas, potable gold, and philosophers stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases but as it is commonly abused by most men, which take it as tinkers do ale, 'Tis a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, health; hellish, devilish and damned tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul.

  Robert A. Burton

  Men, Land, Smoking

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• The Stone the Builders Rejected.

  Jack London

  Tombstone, Rejected, Builder

  Jack London (2014). “The People of the Abyss (Illustrated)”, p.42, BookRix

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• The garden reconciles human art and wild nature, hard work and deep pleasure, spiritual practice and the material world. It is a magical place because it is not divided. The many divisions and polarizations that terrorize a disenchanted world find peaceful accord among mossy rock walls, rough stone paths, and trimmed bushes. Maybe a garden sometimes seems fragile, for all its earth and labor, because it achieves such an extraordinary delicate balance of nature and human life, naturalness and artificiality. It has its own liminality, its point of balance between great extremes.

  Thomas Moore

  Life, Spiritual, Art

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• Just as a stone, a tree, a straw, grain, a mat, a cloth, a pot, and so on, when burned, are reduced to earth (from which they came), so the body and its sense organs, on being burned in the fire of Knowledge, become Knowledge and are absorbed in Brahman, like darkness in the light of the sun.

  Adi Shankara

  Spiritual, Fire, Light

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• While sticks and stones break bones, words can never hurt? Manifestly untrue. Politics everywhere are holistic, interconnected, and the rhetoric of right or left can produce toxic atmospheres in which lunacy thrives.

  Phillip Adams

  Leadership, Hurt, Atmosphere

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• Today, words. Tomorrow, sticks and stones. And the day after that?

  Phillip Adams

  Leadership, Today, Sticks

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• Write what you know. Every guide for the aspiring author advises this. Because I live in a long-settled rural place, I know certain things. I know the feel of a newborn lamb's damp, tight-curled fleece and the sharp sound a well-bucket chain makes as it scrapes on stone. But more than these material things, I know the feelings that flourish in small communities. And I know other kinds of emotional truths that I believe apply across the centuries.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Believe, Writing, Emotional

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• Observe that noses were made to wear spectacles; and so we have spectacles. Legs were visibly instituted to be breeched, and we have breeches. Stones were formed to be quarried and to build castles; and My Lord has a very noble castle; the greatest Baron in the province should have the best house; and as pigs were made to be eaten, we eat pork all year round; consequently, those who have asserted all is well talk nonsense; they ought to have said that all is for the best.

  Voltaire

  Years, Pigs, Should Have

  Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.154, Penguin

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• In Prison Wearily, drearily, Half the day long, Flap the great banners High over the stone; Strangely and eerily Sounds the wind's song, Bending the banner-poles. While, all alone, Watching the loophole's spark, Lie I, with life all dark, Feet tethered, hands fettered Fast to the stone, The grim walls, square lettered With prisoned men's groan. Still strain the banner-poles Through the wind's song, Westward the banner rolls Over my wrong.

  William Morris

  Life, Song, Wall

  William Morris (1966). “Collected works”

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