Stones Quotes - Page 13

• Everyone knows Newton as the great scientist. Few remember that he spent half his life muddling with alchemy , looking for the philosopher's stone. That was the pebble by the seashore he really wanted to find.

  Fritz Leiber

  Half, Pebbles, Philosopher

  "Poor Superman". Book by Fritz Leiber, 1951.

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• I don't think anything has been set in stone yet.

  Hayden Panettiere

  Thinking, Has Beens

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• In The Godfather, for instance, they say they won't deal drugs because they have a code of behaviour. He is the last remnants of that. So playing someone like that, who is also in pain with his kidney stone, means you're beginning to find a dimension of the guy who is king and all show and the private guy who is in pain.

  David Suchet

  Kings, Pain, Mean

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• It's not set in stone. I like to keep it rolling and changing, and so I am like, "Great, I get to remake my song."

  Andrew Bird

  Song, Rolling, Remakes

  Interview with Genevieve Koski, music.avclub.com. January 20, 2009.

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• I have skipped from style to style from film to film, and I love doing that because it's given me the ability to free myself from the past. Perhaps one of the worst feelings that I can have is the feeling that I'm locked in, like a prisoner of myself, which is something we all feel at some point in our lives. So part of making those stylistic jumps is just to free myself up-to get away from the old or the old Oliver Stone.

  Oliver Stone

  Past, Feelings, Style

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I make a new movie, I always get stuck with, "That's not an Oliver Stone film." But I don't know what to do about that except just move on.

  Oliver Stone

  Moving, Film, Stuck

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• ...many foolish persons, wanderers from other parts, have the vain fashion of graving their names and the obscure places whence they come, upon its stones, which is silly and marketh the doer for a fool.

  Mark Twain

  Fashion, Silly, Names

  Mark Twain, Howard G. Baetzhold, Joseph B. Mccullough (1996). “The Bible According to Mark Twain”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• No two electrons in the same state? That is why atoms are so unnecessarily big, and why metal and stone are so bulky.

  Paul Ehrenfest

  Two, Atoms, Why Me

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• People like Howlin' Wolf, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, John Lee Hooker, Nina Simone, Captain Beefheart - all of these artists were what I grew up listening to every day of my life. And there's a very healthy music scene in the west country of England, where I grew up.

  PJ Harvey

  Country, Artist, People

  "PJ Harvey: On War And The New 'England'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 15, 2011.

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• I think when I was a kid, and I was in England and it was all about The Stones, The Who, The Kinks and The Beatles and that's what my dad was into.

  Slash

  Dad, Kids, Thinking

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• I couldn't think of another city in the world that lined its streets with stone leviathans honoring failed rebels against the state.

  Tony Horwitz

  Thinking, Cities, Rebel

  Tony Horwitz (2010). “Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War”, p.247, Vintage

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• We are stone enemies when the bell rings

  Muhammad Ali

  Enemy, Bells, Rings

  Twitter post from Dec 04, 2012

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• Civilisation is only a pretense. In crisis we have become mere apes again, forgetting the rational biped of our pretensions and instead becoming the hairy primate at the mouth of the cave, screeching at the enemy wishing it would go away, fingering the heavy stone we will use the moment it comes close enough

  Orson Scott Card

  Enemy, Going Away, Wish

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• That's always been in my mind my metaphor for a team working really hard on something they're passionate about. It's that through the team, through that group of incredibly talented people bumping up against each other, having arguments, having fights sometimes, making some noise, and working together they polish each other and they polish the ideas, and what comes out are these really beautiful stones.

  Steve Jobs

  Beautiful, Team, Fighting

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• Human intelligence discovered a way of perpetuating itself, one not only more durable and more resistant than architecture, but also simpler and easier. Architecture was dethroned. The stone letters of Orpheus gave way to the lead letters of Gutenburg. The book will kill the edifice.

  Victor Hugo

  Book, Letters, Way

  Victor Hugo (1988). “The Hunchback of Notre Dame: 2”, Signet Classics

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• Wikipedia is forcing people to accept the stone-cold bummer that knowledge is produced and constructed by argument rather than by divine inspiration.

  Clay Shirky

  Inspiration, People, Wikipedia

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• Mutual tolerance is the stepping stone to mutual respect. A hospitable mind is the key to a neighboring or an alien spirit, looked by dogma and guarded by tradition.

  Ameen Rihani

  Keys, Tolerance, Mind

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• Never be afraid to fail. Failure is only a stepping stone to improvement. Never be overconfident because that will block your improvement.

  Tatchakorn Yeerum

  Block, Improvement, Failing

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• I guess it really didn't even dawn on me that you could be a rock critic as a job until I was maybe almost out of college. I knew criticism existed. I read Rolling Stone and Spin. Siskel and Ebert were on television. But I had absolutely no idea how to get that kind of life. And moreover, it didn't interest me that much. I just sort of read normal books growing up. I wasn't that media-conscious. I felt like the one thing I was able to do was to listen to a record and decide whether I liked it.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Jobs, Growing Up, Book

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. November 15, 2006.

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• What are stumbling blocks and defeat to the weak and vacillating are but stepping stones to victory to the determined soul.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Block, Soul, Victory

  Orison Swett Marden (1997). “Exceptional Employee”, p.10

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• I don't need a Rolls-Royce, I don't need a house in the country, I don't need to live in the south of France. I'm quite happy as I am.

  John Lydon

  Country, Hero, Mean

  "What's up? Docs!" by Sam Delaney, www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2005.

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• My father had osteomyelitis-his left arm was withered between his elbow and his shoulder ... . But the amputation of a Stone Age man called Leaf, a stoneworker, does not relate to my father at all.

  Jim Crace

  Father, Men, Age

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• As I view it, in every family a record should be kept...that record should be the first stone, if you choose, in the family altar. It should be a book known and used in the family circle; and when the child reaches maturity and goes out to make another household, one of the first things that the young couple should take along should be the records of their families, to be extended by them as life goes on...each one of us carries, individually, the responsibility of record keeping, and we should assume it.

  John Andreas Widtsoe

  Children, Couple, Book

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• What is left of your dream?
  Just the words on your stone.
  A man who learned how to teach
  then forgot how to learn.

  Brian May

  Dream, Men, Teach

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

  E. O. Wilson

  Technology, Age, Belief

  "The Great Matrix of Being" by William Grassie, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 26, 2013.

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