Stones Quotes - Page 29

• We idolized the Beatles, except for those of us who idolized the Rolling Stones, who in those days still had many of their original teeth.

  Dave Barry

  Teeth, Rolling, Literature

  Dave Barry (2013). “My Teenage Son's Goal in Life Is to Make Me Feel 3,500 Years Old: and Other Thoughts on Parenting from Dave Barry”, p.59, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• I have been a gigantic Rolling Stones fan since approximately the Spanish-American War.

  Dave Barry

  War, Fans, Rolling

  Dave Barry (2011). “Dave Barry Is Not Taking This Sitting Down”, p.123, Ballantine Books

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• 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.

  Todd Barry

  Phones, Numbers, People

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

  Nuno Bettencourt

  Oasis, Band, Pilots

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• I went to see Oliver Stone's 'Heaven & Earth,' which I thought was a wonderful movie, but I walked out because I was so moved. It was too painful to watch.

  Jacqueline Bisset

  Heaven, Watches, Earth

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• I'm not into that Keith Richard trip of having all those guitars in different tunings. I never liked the Rolling Stones much anyway.

  Ritchie Blackmore

  Journey, Guitar, Rolling

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• On the wagon sped, and I, as well as my comrades, gave a despairing farewell glance at freedom as we came in sight of the long stone buildings.

  Nellie Bly

  Funny, Farewell, Sight

  Nellie Bly (2016). “Ten Days in a Mad-House”, p.44, Nellie Bly

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• The great music for so many artists - the Beatles, the Rolling Stones - was always at the moment when they were closest to pop. It would be easy for U2 to go off and have a concept album, but I want us to stay in the pop fray.

  Bono

  Artist, Rolling, Albums

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• I went on the pill when I was 16, put on four stone... so that proved to be a very effective contraceptive.

  Jo Brand

  Pills, Four, Contraceptives

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• School boards are, for the most part ,made up of political wannabes who see a board seat as a stepping stone for political office, or well-meaning parents who represent an ethnic group or geography, or have some other narrow interests. Few people on them understand what governance is about.

  Eli Broad

  School, People, Office

  "Online Extra: Q&A with Eli Broad". Interview with John A. Byrne, www.bloomberg.com. December 2, 2002.

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• If you can take the hot lead enema, then you can cast the first stone.

  Lenny Bruce

  Firsts, Hot, Casts

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• I wasn't trying to work out my own ancestry. I was trying to get people to feel slavery. I was trying to get across the kind of emotional and psychological stones that slavery threw at people.

  Octavia Butler

  Emotional, People, Work Out

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• I don't know many women who can relate to Sharon Stone and the kind of movies she does. I don't know a lot of guys who can relate to Tom Cruise's movies because they're on a kind of fantastic level.

  Kim Cattrall

  Guy, Levels, Doe

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've been meaning to write about the Rolling Stones, but I am the furthest thing from a hipster rock journalist.

  Diablo Cody

  Hipster, Writing, Rocks

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• The Rolling Stones are so versatile, they're like the band version of that Infinite Dress they sell on QVC.

  Diablo Cody

  Rolling, Dresses, Band

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• These days, the Rolling Stones still have an edge, but that fangs-out ferocity has mellowed considerably.

  Diablo Cody

  Rolling, These Days, Stills

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• Whether it's a blatant homage or unconscious mimicry, the Rolling Stones have permanently, indelibly influenced how rock stars look and behave.

  Diablo Cody

  Stars, Rocks, Rolling

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• It's like this - these five members have been influenced of course by other groups, because that's where this generation's groups came from - an environment like the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Yardbirds, and The Who. People like that.

  Alice Cooper

  People, Groups, This Generation

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• What do you think Jesus would twitter, 'Let he who is without sin cast the first stone' or 'Has anyone seen Judas? He was here a minute ago.'

  Chris Cornell

  Jesus, Thinking, Firsts

  Twitter post from Mar 13, 2009

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• Oliver Stone's strategy is to unnerve the actors so as to make them alert and alive.

  Claire Danes

  Actors, Alive, Strategy

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• Native Americans had only stone and wooden weapons and no animals that could be ridden. Those military advantages repeatedly enabled troops of a few dozen mounted Spaniards to defeat Indian armies numbering in the thousands.

  Jared Diamond

  Military, Native American, Army

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• I think it's really cool that there are people like Adele on the cover of 'Vogue' and 'Rolling Stone,' and like I think it's really important that people are talking about your body, because if they don't, then you'll never be able to break that barrier.

  Beth Ditto

  Thinking, Talking, People

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• There are two kinds of stones, as everyone knows, one of which rolls.

  Amelia Earhart

  Leadership, Two, Hypocrisy

  Amelia Earhart (1928). “20 hrs. 40 min”, Ayer Co Pub

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• 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.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Men, House

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.221, Penguin

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• Touch was important. The evening of the Third of July we would go around the neighborhood and look at the fireworks others had bought, taking them out of the brown paper sack and handling them cautiously as if they were precious stones. There was envy when we saw sacks with more in them than we had.

  Paul Engle

  July, Precious Stones, Envy

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