Stones Quotes - Page 33

• Decades ago, Gerhard Richter found a painterly philosopher's stone. Like Jackson Pollock before him, he discovered something that had been in painting all along, always overlooked or discounted.

  Jerry Saltz

  Philosopher, Painting, Found

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• Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they even roll a few more upon it.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Inspirational, Business, Apology

  "A Selection of Writings of and about Albert Schweitzer".

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• I've built my whole life around loving music. I'm a writer for 'Rolling Stone,' so I am constantly searching for new bands and soaking up new sounds.

  Rob Sheffield

  Sound, Rolling, Band

  Rob Sheffield (2010). “Talking to Girls About Duran Duran: One Young Man's Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut”, p.11, Penguin

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• When punk came along, I found my generation's music. I grew up listening to the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd, 'cause that was what got played in the house. But when I first saw the Stranglers, I thought, 'This is it.'

  Robert Smith

  House, Listening, Rolling

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• What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage.

  Gertrude Stein

  Marriage, Literature, Protection

  Gertrude Stein, Carl Van Vechten (1995). “Last Operas and Plays”, p.74, Taylor & Francis

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• I looked at some of the statues of Jesus; they were just stones with no life. When they said that God is three, I was puzzled even more but could not argue. I believed it, simply because I had to have respect for the faith of my parents.

  Cat Stevens

  Jesus, Parent, Three

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• I feel like something magical is going to happen, and I feel like all the stars have finally lined up perfectly for Angie Stone.

  Angie Stone

  Stars, Feels, Like Something

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• In the language of poetry, where every word is weighed, nothing is usual or normal. Not a single stone and not a single cloud above it. Not a single day and not a single night after it. And above all, not a single existence, not anyone's existence in this world.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Night, Clouds, Usual

  Wislawa Szymborska (2015). “Poems New and Collected”, p.18, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Bob Dylan did the first really long record - Like A Rolling Stone - I think it was four minutes.

  Pete Townshend

  Thinking, Long, Rolling

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• I had a great deal of pressure to move to LA after Romancing the Stone came out and I'd become very popular. But people came to me anyway.

  Kathleen Turner

  Moving, People, Pressure

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• The only band that we have never played with but have always wanted to is the Rolling Stones.

  Lars Ulrich

  Rolling, Band, Wanted

  "Metallica Opening For Rolling Stones In San Francisco" by Gil Kaufman, www.mtv.com. August 03, 2005.

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• I believe that the Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin are two of the greatest rock bands ever!

  Jesse Ventura

  Believe, Rocks, Two

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• The original lists were probably carved in stone and represented longer periods of time. They contained things like 'Get More Clay. Make Better Oven.'

  David Viscott

  Clay, Lists, Periods

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• In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

  Earl Warren

  Heart, Men, Age

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• Fashion has become so whatever. I don't think there are any stones left to unturn.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Fashion, Thinking, Left

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• The Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Phil Spector. Those were my idols.

  Brian Wilson

  Idols, Rolling, Rolling Stones

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• 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.

  James Wolcott

  Team, Book, Moon

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• In the first weeks of the Obama administration, 'bipartisanship' was the reigning buzzword, and when the Beltway thinks 'bipartisan,' it pictures President Reagan and Democratic Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill putting aside their differences and forging a legislative partnership, a ruddy pair of genial patriarchs bonding over the Blarney Stone.

  James Wolcott

  Thinking, Differences, House

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• Miami is a melting pot in which none of the stones melt. They rattle around.

  Tom Wolfe

  Melting, Miami, Pot

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• Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice?

  William Butler Yeats

  Broken Heart, Sacrifice, Long

  "Easter 1916" l. 57 (1921)

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• Although prefabrication has a long history - the ancient Romans shipped pre-cut stone columns, pediments, and other architectural elements to their colonies in North Africa, where the numbered parts were reassembled into temples - the idea took on a new impetus with the technological advances of the Industrial Revolution.

  Martin Filler

  Cutting, Ideas, Long

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• In business, standards establish the rules of the game, creating path dependencies as investments are made and corresponding designs are set in stone and plastic. Inferior standards can prevail due to smart marketing or industry collusion.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Smart, Creating, Games

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• As my mother once said: The boys throw stones at the frog in jest. But the frogs die in earnest.

  Joanna Russ

  Mother, Boys, Frogs

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• After the bare requisites to living and reproducing, man wants most to leave some record of himself, a proof, perhaps, that he has really existed. He leaves his proof on wood, on stone or on the lives of other people. This deep desire exists in everyone, from the boy who writes dirty words in a public toilet to the Buddha who etches his image in the race mind. Life is so unreal. I think that we seriously doubt that we exist and go about trying to prove that we do.

  John Steinbeck

  Dirty, Writing, Boys

  John Steinbeck (1995). “The Pastures of Heaven”, p.59, Penguin

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• Mankind flung its advance agents ever outward, ever outward. Eventually it flung them out into space, into the colorless, tasteless, weightless sea of outwardness without end. It flung them like stones.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Science, Sea, Space

  Kurt Vonnegut (2007). “The Sirens of Titan”, p.1, Dial Press

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