Stones Quotes - Page 36

• Fat realized that one of two possibilities existed and only two; either Dr. Stone was totally insane – not just insane but totally so – or else in an artful, professional fashion he had gotten Fat to talk; he had drawn Fat out and now knew that Fat was totally insane.

  Philip K. Dick

  Fashion, Two, Insane

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “The VALIS Trilogy”, p.61, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We stone our prophets, then build monuments to them after they're gone.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Gone, Prophet, Monument

  Richard Paul Evans (2007). “The Gift: A Novel”, p.331, Simon and Schuster

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• Pleasures may turn a heart to stone, riches may make it callous, but sorrows cannot break it. Hearts live by being wounded.

  Oscar Wilde

  Heart, Sorrow, May

  Oscar Wilde, Peter Raby (2008). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; Salome; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.151, Oxford Paperbacks

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• Our shouting is louder than our actions, Our swords are taller than us, This is our tragedy. In short We wear the cape of civilisation But our souls live in the stone age

  Nizar Qabbani

  Soul, Tragedy, Capes

  Nizar Qabbani, “Verse”

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• Hy gododin catann hue Hud a lledrith mal wyddan Gaunce ae bellawn wen cabri Varigal don Fincayra Dravia, dravia Fincayra (Talking trees and walking stones, Giants aare the island's bones. While this land our dance still knows, Varigal crowns Fincayra. Live long, live long Fincayra.

  T.A. Barron

  Islands, Talking, Long

  T. A. Barron (2011). “The Seven Songs”, p.187, Penguin

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• That wind. I see it's blowing now. Furtive but commanding, it has dictated every move we've ever made. My mother felt it, and so do I - even here, even now - as it sweeps us like leaves into his backseat corner, dancing us to shreds against the stones. V'la l'bon vent, v'a l'joli vent. I though we'd silenced it for good. But the smallest thing can wake the wind@ a word, a sign, even a death. There's no such thing as a trivial thing. Everything costs; it all adds up until finally the balance shifts and we're gone again, back on the road, telling ourselves - well maybe next time

  Joanne Harris

  Mother, Moving, Wind

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• Andy Dufresne: 'That's the beauty of music. They can't get that from you...haven't you ever felt that way about music?' Red: 'I played a mean harmonica as a younger man. Lost interest in it though. Didn't make much sense in here.' Andy: 'Here's where it makes the most sense. You need it so you don't forget.' Red: 'Forget?' Andy: 'Forget that...there are places in this world that aren't made out of stone. That there's something inside...that they can't get to, that they can't touch. That's yours.' Red: 'What're you talking about?' Andy: 'Hope.'

  Stephen King

  Mean, Men, Talking

  "Fictional characters: Andy Dufresne and Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding". "The Shawshank Redemption", www.imdb.com. 1994.

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• Don't bite till you know if it's bread or stone.

  Anne Sexton

  Bread, Bites, Knows

  Anne Sexton (1975). “The Awful Rowing Toward God”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

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• The reason they invented coffins, to lock the dead in, preserve them, they put makeup on them; they didn't want them spreading or changing into anything else. The stone with the name and date was on them to weight them down.

  Margaret Atwood

  Makeup, Names, Want

  Margaret Atwood (2012). “Surfacing”, p.231, Simon and Schuster

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• I always carry a pistol when I go [to the New York Public Library]. Never did trust those stone lions.

  Robert Bloch

  New York, Library, Lions

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• Affaires meant 'business.' How like the French to kill two birds with one stone.

  Katherine Neville

  Two, Bird, Two Birds

  Katherine Neville (2015). “The Eight”, p.176, Open Road Media

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• We can be hindered in our development and our personal growth by political conditions. Outer circumstances can constrain us. Only when we are free to develop our innate abilities can we live as free beings. But we are just as much determined by inner potential and outer opportunities as the Stone Age boy on the Rhine, the lion in Africa, or the apple tree in the garden.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Boys, Opportunity, Garden

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• Out of the closets and into the museums, libraries, architectural monuments, concert halls, bookstores, recording studios and film studios of the world. Everything belongs to the inspired and dedicated thief…. Words, colors, light, sounds, stone, wood, bronze belong to the living artist. They belong to anyone who can use them. Loot the Louvre! A bas l’originalité, the sterile and assertive ego that imprisons us as it creates. Vive le vol-pure, shameless, total. We are not responsible. Steal anything in sight.

  William S. Burroughs

  Artist, Color, Museums

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• There is a moon shaped rictus in the streetlamp's globe where a stone has gone and from this aperture there drifts down through the constant helix of aspiring insects a faint and steady rain of the same forms burnt and lifeless.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Rain, Moon, Gone

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Suttree”, p.4, Pan Macmillan

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• In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, Snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, Long ago.

  Christina Rossetti

  Nature, Travel, Winter

  'Mid-Winter'

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• The alchemist of the West has turned stone into glass But my alchemy has transmuted glass into flint Pharaohs of today have stalked me in vain

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Glasses, Alchemist, Pharaohs

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• Lay down these words Before your mind like rocks. placed solid, by hands In choice of place, set Before the body of the mind in space and time: Solidity of bark, leaf, or wall riprap of things: Cobble of milky way. straying planets, These poems, people, lost ponies with Dragging saddles -- and rocky sure-foot trails. The worlds like an endless four-dimensional Game of Go. ants and pebbles In the thin loam, each rock a word a creek-washed stone Granite: ingrained with torment of fire and weight Crystal and sediment linked hot all change, in thoughts, As well as things.

  Gary Snyder

  Wall, Fire, Space

  Gary Snyder (1992). “No nature: new and selected poems”, Pantheon

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• We could go back," he said. In the dome light of the car, his face looked hard as stone. "We could go back to your house. I can stay with you always. We can know each other's bodies in every way, night after night. I could love you." His nostrils flared, and he looked suddenly proud. "I could work. You would not be poor. I would help you." "Sounds like a marriage," I said, trying to lighten the atmosphere. But my voice was too shaky. "Yes," he said.

  Charlaine Harris

  Love You, Night, Light

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set”, p.941, Penguin

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• Dear to me is sleep: still more, being made of stone, While pain and guilt still linger here below, Blindness and numbness--these please me alone; Then do not wake me, keep your voices low.

  Michelangelo

  Pain, Inspiration, Sleep

  Michelangelo (2017). “Sonnets of Michelangelo”, p.78, Routledge

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• Here and there one sees the blush of wild rose haws or the warmth of orange fruit on the bittersweet, and back in the woods is the occasional twinkle of partridgeberries. But they are the gem stones, the rare decorations which make the grays, the browns and the greens seem even more quiet, more completely at rest.

  Hal Borland

  Wild Roses, Orange, Here And There

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• Prophet may you be! If I be false, or swerve a hair from truth, when time is old and hath forgot itself, when waterdrops have worn the stones of Troy, and blind oblivion swallowed cities up, and mighty states characterless are grated to dusty nothing, yet let memory, from false to false, among false maids in love, upbraid my falsehood!

  William Shakespeare

  Memories, Hair, Cities

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.1172, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Kill two birds with one stone, feed the homeless to the hungry.

  Ray Bradbury

  Two, Bird, Homeless

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• Like a sculptor, if necessary, carve a friend out of stone. Realize that your inner sight is blind and try to see a treasure in everyone.

  Rumi

  Sight, Unity, Trying

  Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana), Jelaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski, Andrew Harvey (2005). “The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi”, p.205, Shambhala Publications

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• maggie and milly and molly and may went down to the beach (to play one day) and maggie discovered a shell that sang so sweetly she couldn't remember her troubles, and milly befriended a stranded star whose rays five languid fingers were and molly was chased by a horrible thing which raced sideways while blowing bubbles and may come home with a smooth rounded stone as small as a world and as big as alone. for whatever we loose (like a you or a me) it is always ourselves we find in the sea.

  e. e. cummings

  Beach, Stars, Home

  E. E. Cummings (1983). “Hist Whist: And Other Poems for Children”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

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• He tunneled into stories where weak men changed into strong half-animals or used eye beams or magic hammers to power through steel or climb up the sides of skyscrapers. He was the Hulk when angry and Spidey the rest of the time. When he felt his heart hurt he turned into something stronger than a little boy, and he grew up this way. A heart that flashed from heart to stone, heart to stone. As I watched I thought of what Grandma Lynn liked to say when Lindsey and I rolled our eyes or grimaced behind her back. "Watch out what faces you make. You'll freeze that way.

  Alice Sebold

  Strong, Hurt, Grandma

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.154, Pan Macmillan

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