Stones Quotes - Page 37

• From the biography of Freud, by Irving Stone, said by Freud's fiance after he teased her for being sweet, "Beware of truly sweet people. They have will of iron.

  Irving Stone

  Sweet, Iron, People

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• Laughter went on and on, like sunlight and stone, even if the human beings who laughed did not.

  Robin McKinley

  Laughter, Sunlight, Humans

  Robin Mckinley (2008). “Chalice”, p.55, Penguin

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• Logic is a feeble reed, friend. "Logic" proved that airplanes can't fly and that H-bombs won't work and that stones don't fall out of the sky. Logic is a way of saying that anything which didn't happen yesterday won't happen tomorrow.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Fall, Airplane, Sky

  Robert A. Heinlein (1982). “Glory Road”, Berkley

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• A man seeks his own destiny and no other, said the judge. Wil or nill. Any man who could discover his own fate and elect therefore some opposite course could only come at last to that selfsame reckoning at the same appointed time, for each man's destiny is as large as the world he inhabits and contains within it all opposites as well. The desert upon which so many have been broken is vast and calls for largeness of heart but it is also ultimately empty. It is hard, it is barren. Its very nature is stone.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Heart, Fate, Destiny

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• What is remembered is not a deed in stone but a metaphor. Meta = above. Pheren = to carry. That which is carried above the literalness of life. A way of thinking that avoids the problems of gravity. The word won't let me down. The single word that can release me from all that unuttered weight.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Thinking, Weight, Deeds

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• Everybody's got their secrets; I carry mine like a jagged stone in my shoe.

  Patrick Jones

  Shoes, Secret, Mines

  Patrick Jones (2009). “Chasing Tail Lights”, p.3, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• You have made a place in my heart where I thought there was no room for anything else. You have made flowers grow where I cultivated dust and stones. Remember this, on this journey you insist on making. If you die, I will not survive you long.

  Robert Jordan

  Flower, Heart, Journey

  Robert Jordan (2010). “The Shadow Rising: Book Four of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.253, Macmillan

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• To a gargoyle on the ramparts of Notre Dame as Esmeralda rides off with Gringoire Quasimodo says. "Why was I not made of stone like thee?

  Victor Hugo

  Dames, Gargoyles, Made

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• You use the word "Infinity" very glibly.... Have you ever been there? Time and space are extensions of the mind, the will. Which means that infinity is a purely local phenomenon. You can turn over a stone and find it crawling there. Or you can make it yourself out of whatever materials are at hand.

  Mike Carey

  Mean, Hands, Space

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• I too love everything that flows: rivers, sewers, lava, semen, blood, bile, words, sentences. I love the amniotic fluid when it spills out of the bag. I love the kidney with it's painful gall-stones, it's gravel and what-not; I love the urine that pours out scalding and the clap that runs endlessly; I love the words of hysterics and the sentences that flow on like dysentery and mirror all the sick images of the soul.

  Henry Miller

  Running, Mirrors, Blood

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• Fear is like the wilderland - Stepping stones or sinking sand

  Joni Mitchell

  Sand, Stepping Stones, Sinking

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• The direction of a big act will warp history, but probably all acts do the same in their degree, down to a stone stepped over in the path or the breath caught at sight of a pretty girl or a fingernail nicked in the garden soil.

  John Steinbeck

  Girl, Garden, Sight

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.33, Penguin

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• Things shouldn't hinge on so very little. Sneeze and you're highway carnage. Remove one tiny stone and you're an avalanche statistic. But I guess if you can die without ever understanding how it happened then you can also live without a complete understanding of how. And in a way that's kind of relaxing.

  Miriam Toews

  Life, Understanding, Littles

  FaceBook post by Miriam Toews from Jul 07, 2011

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• Had I known but yesterday what I know today, I’d have taken out your two grey eyes and put in eyes of clay. And had I known but yesterday you’d be no more my own, I’d have taken out your heart of flesh and put in one of stone.

  Carolyn Parkhurst

  Taken, Heart, Eye

  Carolyn Parkhurst (2003). “The Dogs of Babel: A Novel”, p.31, Hachette UK

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• And yet every so often, the heart of America, shuddering with indignation, sends a nervous spasm through the gentle back of the Andes, and tumultuous shock waves assault the surface of the land. Three times the cuppola of proud Santo Domingo has collapsed from on high to the rhythm of broken bones and its worn walls have opened and fallen too. But the foundations they rest on are unmoved, the great blocks of the Temple of the Sun exhibit their gray stone indifferently; however colossal the disaster befalling its oppressor, not one of its huge rocks shifts from its place.

  Che Guevara

  Wall, Block, Heart

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• Since the first human eye saw a leaf in Devonian sandstone and a puzzled finger reached to touch it, sadness has lain over the heart of man. By this tenuous thread of living protoplasm, stretching backward into time, we are linked forever to lost beaches whose sands have long since hardened into stone. The stars that caught our blind amphibian stare have shifted far or vanished in their courses, but still that naked, glistening thread winds onward. No one knows the secret of its beginning or its end. Its forms are phantoms. The thread alone is real; the thread is life.

  Loren Eiseley

  Beach, Stars, Real

  Loren Eiseley (2016). “The Firmament of Time: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.39, Library of America

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• He did a very good impression of a stone column.

  Shannon Hale

  Columns, Impression, Very Good

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• These people were not only cheering, they were throwing flowers and hats. The hats were made of stone, but the thought was there.

  Terry Pratchett

  Cheer, Flower, People

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• They wanted to carry her, but she jumped to the stones of the plaza and strode away from the building, toward her ranks, which parted to make way for her. The streets of Pudong were filled with hungry and terrified refugees, and through them, in simple peasant clothes streaked with the blood of herself and of others, broken shackles dangling from her wrists, followed by her generals and ministers, walked the barbarian Princess with her book and her sword.

  Neal Stephenson

  Book, Princess, Simple

  Neal Stephenson (1998). “The Diamond Age”, p.468, Penguin UK

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• This was something she would keep hidden within herself, maybe in place of the knot of pain and anger she had been carrying under her breastbone...a security blanket, an ace up her sleeve. She might never use it, but she would always feel its presence like a swelling secret stone, and that way when she let go of the rage, she would not feel nearly as empty.

  Jodi Picoult

  Heartbreak, Letting Go, Pain

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• If a few minutes of suffering could make me so angry, what would years of it do? Even a stone can be worn down with enough rain.

  Arthur Golden

  Rain, Years, Suffering

  Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.94, Random House

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• I didn’t feel anything but a bone-deep weariness. Like I was suddenly a hundred years old, and I knew at that moment I would have to live a hundred more years, carrying my grief around like a backpack full of stones.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Grief, Years, Bones

  Jennifer Weiner (2008). “Good In Bed”, p.442, Simon and Schuster

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• I wish there really was such a thing as a Time-Clock Puncher, though. I wish some gigantic, surly, stone-fisted Soap Mahoney-type guy went around the world smashing every clock in sight till there weren't any more and people got so confused about when to go to the mill or school or church that they gave up and did something interesting instead.

  David James Duncan

  Confused, School, Sight

  David James Duncan (2010). “The Brothers K”, p.94, Dial Press

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• Everything we knew condemned us, and our questioning condemned us most of all. Knowledge was the way of our people, and knowledge was dangerous. It was the first thing that freed you and the thing that put you in peril. It was the key to the ten gates. I saw them clearly now, each and every one, the gates that were there for me. Ashes, Bones, Grass, Heart, Stone, Love, Sorrow, Blood, Earth, Sky.

  Alice Hoffman

  Heart, Keys, Blood

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• I didn’t want to be prideful anymore. I wanted to be as hard as and brittle as the stones I carted into the woods. Stones that could not feel or cry or see. I wished not to feel anything at all. In no time, what I wished for, I became.

  Alice Hoffman

  Want, Woods, Cry

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