Quotes About Stones

I wonder if those in Silicon Valley who shave stones to their essence and put them in machines of memory perhaps already know somehow that stones have always managed information.

And I think that it is certainly possible that the objective universe can be affected by the poet. I mean, you recall Orpheus made the trees and the stones dance and so forth, and this is something which is in almost all primitive cultures. I think it has some definite basis to it. I'm not sure what. It's like telekinesis, which I know very well on a pinball machine is perfectly possible.

Here, in a few words, you've said all you need to say. People stand by each other, but they don't talk. It's remarkable. I've investigated the extraordinary history of these walls. I think I'm the only person who knows that it's the stones, the stones alone that set the tone here.

When he saw the child of some prostitute throw stones at a crowd, Diogenes shouted to him, "Take care that you don't hit your father!

I sat on the rocks and thought of the stories I knew of nymphs who wept until they turned into stones and crying birds, into dumb beasts and slender trees, thoughts barked up for eternity. I could not even do that, it seemed. My life closed me in like granite walls.

For those who live by faith, the cross is a treasure more valuable than gold and precious stones.

Sticks and stones are hard on bones aimed with angry art, words can sting like anything but silence breaks the heart.

Sticks and stones make broken bones, And empty words make broken homes, But its love that broke our hearts.

Success belongs to those who accept mistakes as stepping stones.

Jones's crime was "lithobolia"—hurling stones supernaturally.

I hadn't fully realized just how powerful words could be before this. Whoever came up with the saying 'sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me' was talking out of his or her armpit.

in the cry of a well that slips from dark the earth began to dream you; how it would polish from precious stones dust for a face, from tears of sycamores tone for your eyes.

Evening of a hot day started the little wind to moving among the leaves. The shade climbed up the hills toward the top. On the sand banks the rabbits sat as quietly as little gray, sculptured stones.

And even childhood was no good any more—not the way it was. No worry then but how to find a good stone, not round exactly but flattened and water-shaped, to use in a sling pouch cut from a discarded shoe. Where did all the good stones go, and all simplicity?

She felt the State of Rock was symbolised by the stadium-type concerts given earlier that summer by the likes of the Who the Stones and Elton John, causing her to opine, 'The time is right for an aggressive infusion of life blood.' She also claimed the new London punk scene had not been inspired by the New York new wave, but was instead developing parallel to it.

Everybody," he said, "who goes to church gets ill. You must listen to the plants and stones because God is in them, and all the rest is junk.

La realidad es un manojo de poemas sobre los cuales nadie reclama derechos de autor. Debajo de cada piedra, de cada baldosa, se esconde un poema.

Most druids fall into two groups: sticks or stones. Wood has some wonderful properties, but it has a tendency to react too much with the user for my particular taste. Because they retain some of their own innate essence, using wands becomes almost a partnership. You have to be very nature-oriented to use them to their best advantage.

The Stones, I love the Stones. I watch them whenever I can. Fred, Barney.

I remember the evacuee children from towns and cities throwing stones at the farm animals. When we explained that if you did that you wouldn't have any milk, meat or eggs, they soon learned to respect the animals.

Analogical thinking makes what is alien intelligible or what is insignificant significant, by bringing it within the sphere of the already known-as stones to teeth.

And then without any signal or obvious sign of tansformation, the beach was suddenly alight with fiery stones.

A minha mãe costuma dizer que a água arredonda as pedras como a mulher molda a alma dos homens.

Reading is really like trying to hit one tossed stone with another; the consonants are the stones, the vowels their velocity.