Quotes of: Rolling-stone Keyword

I have seen it over and over, the same sea, the same, slightly, indifferently swinging above the stones, icily free above the stones, above the stones and then the world. If you should dip your hand in, your wrist would ache immediately, your bones w...

North and South

It is better to carry stones with a wise man than accept the meal of a madman.

Armenian

A jade stone is useless before it is processed; a man is good-for-nothing until he is educated.

Chinese

Small ills are the fountains of most of our groans. Men trip not on mountains, they stumble on stones.

Chinese

A blind man sat behind a pile of stones and thought that nobody could see him.

Indian

If an ox doesn't know the size of his arse he won't eat an apricot stone.

Martiniquais

If a blind man says, "Let's throw stones," be assured that he has stepped on one.

Nigerian

Man is harder than iron, stronger than stone and more fragile than a rose.

Turkish

From my Facebook Page: "You spend the first 50 years acquiring and the second 50 years getting rid of

Children of Stone: Voices in Crystal

The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not." -Cutting for Stone

Cutting for Stone

The mind can forget what the body, defined by each breath, subject to the heart beating, does not.

A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War

Because she deserved more than me. She deserved someone who could give her the whole universe.

Doctor Who: The Stone Rose

A stone thrown up into the air is bound to fall down, and absolute power is like a huge stone thrown up into the air.

Galileo Galilei

'Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age' was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant's thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed out of the Stone Age.

Christopher Hitchens

The Scientist must set in order. Science is built up with 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.

Science and Hypothesis

After all, when a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom.

Memoirs of a Geisha

The virtue of maps, they show what can be done with limited space, they foresee that everything can happen therein.

The Stone Raft

Silence is not our heritage but our destiny; we live where we want to live.

Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters

I set up and staged hundreds of ends-of-the-world and watched, enthralled, as they played themselves out.

Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters

Remember that on any world the wind eventually wears away the stone, because the stone can only crumble; the wind can change.

Time for Yesterday

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.

Thomas Sydenham