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Stone Quotes
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Choose
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- Nov 07, 2020
We may be up against a stone wall, but we don't have to bloody our heads against it unless we choose to.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first workshop was in Rome, and that was the start of House of Waris. In a little magical atelier, a goldsmith, his apprentice, his stone setter - and that was where it began.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
I only halfway paid attention in high school Spanish class, and it may be too late now to catch up, no matter how many levels of Rosetta Stone I order.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in rural Oregon in a log house with bark left on inside and out. We had no electricity, a massive stone fireplace, a grand piano, and tons of books.
- Ice Cream
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was so unhealthy. I used to go to 'Cold Stone Creamery,' get a tub of Butterfinger ice cream, and eat it all before bedtime. And my fingers were permanently stained orange from Cheetos.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
Get your education, and if you see small opportunities, take them. Each one could be a stepping stone to something bigger.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been nine stone for 20 years. I always eat what I want; it's not an issue for me.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My input for the first 16, 17 years of my life was AM radio, FM radio - pretty mainstream stuff. Rolling Stone was probably as edgy as it got.
- Magic
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Gout
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- Nov 07, 2020
Gout produces calculus in the kidney... the patient has frequently to entertain the painful speculation as to whether gout or stone be the worst disease. Sometimes the stone, on passing, kills the patient, without waiting for the gout.
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil is rightwise king born of all England.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to create an economy where minimum wage is a very brief stepping stone to higher-paying jobs so people can realize their dreams.
- Modeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've wanted to be an actor since I was 6 years old. I was literally picked off the streets of Paris... while I was modeling there. I was asked to audition for Oliver Stone's 'Alexander.' I didn't get the part, but that led to commercials and roles in South Africa.
- Church
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the West there has always been the attempt to try make the religious building, whether it's a Medieval or Renaissance church, an eternal object for the celebration of God. The material chosen, such as stone, brick, or concrete, is meant to eternally preserve what is inside.
- Carved
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- Nov 07, 2020
My exit strategy from pro wrestling wasn't carved in stone. I retired because of a few neck issues, some neurological issues.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
When that glass broke and 'Stone Cold' was making an entrance, and that roof blew off that building, that sends you higher than life or anything that I know of. It's an adrenaline rush you can't explain.
- Personality
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you see me on TV as Stone Cold Steve Austin, that's definitely a part of my personality.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most enduring Top 10 ever written wasn't written at all, but chiseled onto stone tablets and conveyed down Mount Sinai by Moses, who introduced to the world not just a set of Biblical precepts but also a new format for starting arguments: the list of 10 things.
- Hearth
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the Scottish Orkneys, the little stone houses with their single large room and central hearth had an extraordinary range of built-in furniture.
- Insult
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
There may be problems we still need to tease out, but we will leave no stone unturned in our bid to make London the host city.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
At some point around '94 or '95, 'Rolling Stone' said that guitar rock was dead and that the Chemical Brothers were the future. I think that was the last issue of 'Rolling Stone' I ever bought.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
We love a lot of vampire fiction - both fiction in which the vampires are enemies to be battled or stone cold foxes to be dated.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jesus Christ came into my prison cell last night, and every stone flashed like a ruby.
- Maturity
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- Nov 07, 2020
While other stone fruits grow tender on the surface as they ripen, apricots take an alternate path to maturity, softening from the inside out.
- Nov 07, 2020
Chez Panisse is a sensory temple - you might have to be made of stone not to fall for it.
- Exalted
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before I was humiliated I was like a stone that lies in deep mud, and he who is mighty came and in his compassion raised me up and exalted me very high and placed me on the top of the wall.
- Craft
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- Nov 07, 2020
It wasn't stone. It wasn't welded steel. It wasn't traditional sculpture. They thought it was craft, or something else, but not art. They couldn't define it in the early Fifties when I was starting out.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did a cover for 'Rolling Stone' the other day and it was a kind of crazy lack of outfit. I thought, 'Oh, Lord. I'm never going to be Jane Austen in a film now!' 'Cause that's what I'd really like to do.
- Positive
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tend to regard the Coase theorem as a stepping stone on the way to an analysis of an economy with positive transaction costs.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you make an error, use it as a stepping stone to a new idea you might not have otherwise discovered.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to be the cranky old guy, but a lot of critics are too forgiving of mediocre artists. When you see these 'American Idol' people on the cover of 'Rolling Stone' being written about as serious artists, there's something wrong with that. You can erase them from the history of rock n' roll, and you wouldn't notice.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
I took a musician friend of mine to a Rolling Stone concert once, and all he did was cringe. I asked him what was wrong, and he said, 'Keith Richards' guitar is out of tune.' But 'Tumbling Dice' still sounded great to me.
- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020
The real sustains the same relation to the ideal that a stone does to a statue - or that paint does to a painting. Realism degrades and impoverishes.
- Price
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- Nov 07, 2020
A small species of pinus was much prized, and, when dwarfed in the manner of the Chinese, fetched a very high price; it is generally grafted on a variety of the stone pine.
- Economic Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is a canonizing institution. Jann Wenner has worked to make Rolling Stone the keeper of the canon since 1970. I don't like that, because he uses institutional power and he uses economic power to enforce those standards.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never been a big person. I was about 14 stone when I was working, but when you go up to 18 stone then you know you've got issues.
- Jump
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- Nov 07, 2020
At one time, I wanted to be a WWE wrestler. I still do. I want to go in the ring once and mess around and jump off the ropes and do a Stone Cold stunt.
- Argument
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- Nov 07, 2020
The argument that John F. Kennedy was a closet peacenik, ready to give up on what the Vietnamese call the 'American War' upon re-election, received its most farcical treatment in Oliver Stone's 'JFK.'
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hoods are good parts because they're always flashy and attract attention. If you've got any ability, you can use that as a stepping stone.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
It turned out that the buckyball, the soccer ball, was something of a Rosetta stone of an infinite new class of molecules.
- Prison
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- Nov 07, 2020
Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Stone Age. Bronze Age. Iron Age. We define entire epics of humanity by the technology they use.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Meadowland' was the reason I got 'The Handmaid's Tale,' and probably my experience in cinematography helped. Everything was like a stepping stone to the next thing.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am proud of all Army personnel serving in Siachen who are leaving no stone unturned to defend our motherland.
- Cinema
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- Nov 07, 2020
After acting for four years, in five languages, theatre became my stepping stone to TV and cinema.
- Child
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because I was always a fat child, I got fatter and fatter, and I ended up 18 stone and with a 40-inch waist.
- Design
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always design a landscape with fixed horizons whether it be mountains or a stone wall around a 20-foot-square plot.
- Head
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- Nov 07, 2020
Freud was a hero. He descended to the Underworld and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head which turned these terrors to stone.
- Birds
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- Nov 07, 2020
I carve stone. I've got hammers and chisels and I carve from sandstone. I just did a big mural of birds and trees.
- Edward
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was very happy to learn Oliver Stone had decided to make a film about Edward Snowden and believe this is a powerful and inspiring film.
- Friendless
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're chipping away at our capacity for wonder. When hologram TVs eventually go on sale, they'll cost £20,000 and be bought only by those strange, heroic, friendless men who live in flats piled high with giant 80s mobiles and DVD players weighing eight stone.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bob Dylan did the first really long record - Like A Rolling Stone - I think it was four minutes.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given only on stone over their clay but abides everywhere without visible symbol woven into the stuff of other mens lives.
- Leave
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- Nov 07, 2020
What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one should be allowed to make music as if he were made of wood. One must reproduce the musical text exactly, but not play like a stone.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ayrton was our toughest rival. He would leave no stone unturned to get the utmost out of his car and his team.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Africa
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- Nov 07, 2020
For many, the icon of the British Museum is the Rosetta Stone, that administrative by-product of the Greek imperial adventure in Africa.
- Glass
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- Nov 07, 2020
Become dust - and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone - and they will throw thee on glass.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in school, I used to go to the Pangode army camp, a stone's throw away from where I was staying in Mudavanmugal in Poojapura, just to watch the army parade.
- Nov 07, 2020
Never treat anything you do as a stepping stone. Do it fully, and follow it completely.
- Inside
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
- First Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
I met Michael Milken for the first time with Oliver Stone at the Drexel Burnham offices in Los Angeles.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I graduated, I was my biggest ever: 15 stone, with a boyfriend - my first - of just 11 stone. I was 23 years old. It wasn't just affecting my career: it was a health issue as well.
- Dies
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fling but a stone, the giant dies.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
As far as rock groups, I really like Stone Temple Pilots. As for classical composers, it's Bach. I love Paganini, too, the Italian composer who would break strings during a performance and finish playing on just one string. Someone I would have loved to play with is Jimi Hendrix.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Human brains - in terms of cognition and emotion and consciousness - are essentially the same as they were at the time of Shakespeare or Jesus or Cleopatra or the Stone Age. They are not evolving with the pace of change.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For the scientists, they're kind of puzzled and pleased that somebody finds their work interesting. It makes it fun for me. I feel like I've sort of turned over a stone that hasn't been turned over.
- Gave
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- Nov 07, 2020
No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first money I ever earned was for drawing stone tools.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not one of those people who sees documentaries as a stepping stone to doing fiction. I love documentaries and watch tons of documentaries. But, I like fiction films a lot, too.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we can by any method establish a relation of mutual trust between the laborer and the employer, we shall lay the foundation stone of a structure that will endure for all time.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Clearly, Donald Trump's victory is an additional stone in the building of a new world, destined to replace the old one.
- Conquer
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- Nov 07, 2020