Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anna Akhmatova

The word dropped like a stone on my still living breast. Confess: I was prepared, am somehow ready for the test.

Thomas Jefferson

Every experience deeply felt in life needs to be passed along. Wheather it be through words and music, chiseled in stone, painted with a brush, or sewn with a needle, it is a way of reaching for immortality.

Robert Boyle

Well, I see I am not designed to the finding out the Philosophers Stone, I have been so unlucky in my first attempts in chemistry.

Stephenie Meyer

She sees things — things that might happen, things that are coming. But it’s very subjective. The future isn’t set in stone. Things change.

Victor Hugo

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

If you are stone, be magnetic; if a plant, be sensitive; but if you are human be love.

Vanessa Paradis

I don't like things set in stone.

Vachel Lindsay

Factory windows are always brokenOther windows are let alone.No one throws through the chapel-windowThe bitter, snarling, derisive stone.

Stacy Keibler

Everything in my life has been a stepping-stone to something else.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Fame, that public destruction of one in process of becoming, into whose building-ground the mob breaks, displacing his stones.

Mitch Albom

When you are an outcast, even a tossed stone can be cherished.

Miguel de Cervantes

Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher, it goes ill with the pitcher.

Neil Gaiman

Leave no stone unturned. Deeply explore the beauty of your life.

Patricia Briggs

Cheeses crusty, got all musty, got damp on the stone of a peach.

Peer Steinbruck

I would happily help to turn the stone being thrown at me into a boomerang.

John Polson

The Australian film industry has recognised Tropfest as a place to nurture young talent. It's a stepping stone between amateur and professional.

Michael Hastings

General McChrystal wanted to be on the cover of Rolling Stone.

Oscar Wilde

It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone, and can be made as offensive as the brickbat. They at once sought for the journalist, found him, developed him, and made him their industrious and well-paid servant. It is greatly to be regretted, for both their sakes.

Lucretius

Continual dropping wears away a stone.

Louis Leakey

Stone tools are fossilized human behavior.

Michel de Montaigne

We ought to love temperance for itself, and in obedience to God who has commanded it and chastity; but what I am forced to by catarrhs, or owe to the stone, is neither chastity nor temperance.

Jerry Spinelli

Cross the creek on the stepping stones of your failures.

Jerry Saltz

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.

Herbert Lom

I refused to beat my head against stone, of course.

Evan Esar

The diamond is the hardest stone -- to get.

Florence Welch

Lay me down Let the only sound Be the overflow Pockets full of stones

Francis Bacon

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

That's always the way with fanatics; they cross themselves at the tavern and throw stones at the temple.

George Ripley

The body is the substance of the stone.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The seed haunted by the sun never fails to find its way between the stones in the ground. And the pure logician, if no sun draws him forth, remains entangled in his logic.

Bill Dana

We just want to be remembered before something is set in stone.

That's what prison did for me, it isolated me, you know, it polished me up like a stone.

Erin Morgenstern

Before you leave, the fortune teller reminds you that the future is never set in stone.