'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.
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.
After all, when a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom.
The virtue of maps, they show what can be done with limited space, they foresee that everything can happen therein.
Silence is not our heritage but our destiny; we live where we want to live.
I set up and staged hundreds of ends-of-the-world and watched, enthralled, as they played themselves out.
Remember that on any world the wind eventually wears away the stone, because the stone can only crumble; the wind can change.
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.
If you look in my CD case, you'll see it's Pink Floyd, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, now I can't think of anyone else, but all that stuff.
Neither the stone that made you stumble is your enemy, nor the stone that helped you cross the river is your friend! Universe just lives its own life!
When I was a rolling stone my tears roll down on my checks when I became rigid my tears do the same.
Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it.
The Palestinian must stop throwing stones, and the Israelis must stop firing rockets. And in the view of the Sharm el-Sheikh summit, rockets are equal to stones.
We idolized the Beatles, except for those of us who idolized the Rolling Stones, who in those days still had many of their original teeth.
I've been meaning to write about the Rolling Stones, but I am the furthest thing from a hipster rock journalist.
Whether it's a blatant homage or unconscious mimicry, the Rolling Stones have permanently, indelibly influenced how rock stars look and behave.
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.
And what of the dead? They lie without shoes in the stone boats. They are more like stone than the sea would be if it stopped. They refuse to be blessed, throat, eye and knucklebone.
I don't want to offend people.
You can't look at the stars while you are walking if you have a stone in your shoe.
If you tell the truth too early, you are laughed at -- too late and you are stoned.
