We've got no hate for each other [in the band Stone Roses], and we never have.
A stick or a stone only stings for a minute. A name seems to hurt forever.
Use pain as a stepping stone, not a camp ground.
Knowledge without devotion is like a stone in water.
With useless endeavour Forever, forever, Is Sisyphus rolling His stone up the mountain!
By what strange law of mind is it that an idea long overlooked, and trodden under foot as a useless stone, suddenly sparkles out in new light, as a discovered diamond?
Iris all hues, roses, and jessamine Reared high their flourished heads between, and wrought Mosaic; underfoot the violet, Crocus, and hyacinth with rich inlay Broidered the ground, more coloured than with stone Of costliest emblem: other creature here Beast, bird, insect, or worm durst enter none; Such was their awe of man.
On the stone that remains carved next to his name, his epitaph plain, only a pawn in their game.
As nonhuman animals, plants, and even 'inanimate' rivers once spoke to our oral ancestors, so the ostensibly “inert” letters on the page now speak to us! This is a form of animism that we take for granted, but it is animism nonetheless - as mysterious as a talking stone.
You have to talk to the stone, and it has to talk to you.
Maybe Oliver Stone doesn't lend himself well to remakes or sequels, because he does them so well the first time.
If you want to see Chris Jericho drink a beer with Stone Cold Steve Austin, give me a doo-a dee-dee-dam, dee-dee-doo.
Now the church is not wood and stone, but the company of people who believe in Christ.
Is a mountain only a huge stone? Is a planet an enormous mountain?
Our horizon is the creation of a noble society to which, like the medieval builder of those glorious cathedrals, you will have added your conception, your artful piece of stone.
For athletes traditionally it's such a fantastic stepping stone to greater things down the track and in the future. Don't undermine the Commonwealth Games!
A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.
Everyone knows Newton as the great scientist. Few remember that he spent half his life muddling with alchemy , looking for the philosopher's stone. That was the pebble by the seashore he really wanted to find.
In my earliest memory, my grandfather is bald as a stone and he takes me to see the tigers.
FABLEHAVEN: None who enter will leave unchanged. Trespassers will be turned to stone.