Stones Quotes

Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.
Henri Poincare

Science, House, Facts

I've been meaning to write about the Rolling Stones, but I am the furthest thing from a hipster rock journalist.
Diablo Cody

Rock, Write, Meaning

The Rolling Stones are so versatile, they're like the band version of that Infinite Dress they sell on QVC.
Diablo Cody

Band, Dress, Sell

These days, the Rolling Stones still have an edge, but that fangs-out ferocity has mellowed considerably.
Diablo Cody

Days, Edge, Rolling

Whether it's a blatant homage or unconscious mimicry, the Rolling Stones have permanently, indelibly influenced how rock stars look and behave.
Diablo Cody

Rock, Stars, Whether

Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect obedience to an absolute geometry that even stones - maybe only the stones - understood.
Annie Dillard

Rock, Perfect, Flowers

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.
Eric Idle

May, Words, Cry

I see no reason why I should tickle stones or waste time on polishing bronze.
Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

Time, Why, Reason

At my Rolling Stones' tour, the camera was a protection. I used it in a Zen way.
Annie Leibovitz

Used, Camera, Protection

The Rolling Stones set the bar to where I look to as a band. But I don't envision myself touring in the way they do. My knees won't hold out.
Jon Bon Jovi

Won, Band, Hold

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones.
Charlotte Bronte

Education, Heart, Difficult

I feel like my peers now are artists like Madonna and the Stones, Michael Jackson and Prince. These are people who were able to take their careers beyond the normal here-today-gone-tomorrow life span.
LL Cool J

Life, Able, Normal

The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.
Erica Jong

History, Famous, Through

The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a freer and wiser humanity.
Thomas Mann

Future, Important, Humanity

For one country is different from another; its earth is different, as are its stones, wines, bread, meat, and everything that grows and thrives in a specific region.
Paracelsus

Everything, Different, Country

There's a lot of bands that get to a certain level, and it just stops. They scrap it. Compare this to, say, The Rolling Stones or The Who, where they just continued on forever and are still playing, or they quit after 20 years.
Eddie Vedder

After, Playing, Forever

It's like this - these five members have been influenced of course by other groups, because that's where this generation's groups came from - an environment like the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Yardbirds, and The Who. People like that.
Alice Cooper

Generation, Five, Beatles

I'm not into that Keith Richard trip of having all those guitars in different tunings. I never liked the Rolling Stones much anyway.
Ritchie Blackmore

Different, Liked, Trip

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Success, Minds, Failures

What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.
Paracelsus

Eyes, Trees, Perceive

If you would have your son to walk honourably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach him to walk firmly over them - not insist upon leading him by the hand, but let him learn to go alone.
Anne Bronte

Alone, Him, Through

Adam Levine and I remade the Rolling Stones' classic Wild Horses, and it is right up my alley, that whole style. It has a style of its own but still stays very true to the classic arrangement, and I love it.
Alicia Keys

Love, True, Whole

Mick Jagger can't even make a successful solo album, and the Stones are the biggest rock group that ever was.
Don Henley

Rock, Successful, Group

Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts.
Henri Poincare

Science, Made, Facts

When I hit 11 so did the careers of Dylan and the Stones. A year later it was the Who and the Kinks.
Bob Geldof

Year, Hit, Later

I kind of look at my modeling career and the Hitchcock years as stepping stones to what I'm doing now.
Tippi Hedren

Career, Modeling, Stepping

The early firings contained many stones.
Andy Goldsworthy

Early, Contained

The stones tear like flesh, rather than breaking. Although what happens is violent, it is a violence that is in stone. A tear is more unnerving than a break.
Andy Goldsworthy

Violence, Rather, Happens

The hardened mass of liquid stones had much stronger qualities than those which had simply torn. The skin remained a recognisable part of the molten stone.
Andy Goldsworthy

Simply, Stronger, Skin

I did tests on small stones before collecting and committing myself to the larger ones.
Andy Goldsworthy

Small, Before, Tests

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