Failure is a stepping-stone to greatness.
This sadness wasn't a huge part of me--I wasn't remotely depressed--but still, it was like a stone I carried in my pocket. I always knew it was there. [p. 179]
The word dropped like a stone on my still living breast. Confess: I was prepared, am somehow ready for the test.
Life takes us to unexpected places sometimes. The future is never set in stone, remember that.
I guess I feel like it's a gift to meet those talented artists like George Lucas and Oliver Stone, Spike Lee and Richard Kelly. Even if it's a small role, it's a gift to be working that closely with them.
Is a mountain only a huge stone? Is a planet an enormous mountain?
I love pop culture -- the Rolling Stones, the Doors, David Lynch, things like that. That's why I said I don't like elitism.
Remember, when incited to slander, that it is only he among you who is without sin that may cast the first stone.
People throw stones at you and you convert them into milestones.
A man who knows neither how to travel nor how to keep a journal has put together this travel journal. But at the moment of signing he is suddenly afraid. So he casts the first stone. Here.
Oliver Stone's strategy is to unnerve the actors so as to make them alert and alive.
She was the stone-faced queen, then and ever after. She had needed the mask to rule, and she had been glad to have it. She wondered if Eugenides was glad of his.
How glad the heathens would have been, That worship idols, wood and stone, If they the book God had seen.
It is freezing fit to split a stone.
Centres, or centre-pieces of wood, are put by builders under an arch of stone while it is in the process of construction till the keystone is put in. Just such is the use Satan makes of pleasures to construct evil habits upon; the pleasure lasts till the habit is fully formed; but that done the habit may stand eternal. The pleasures are sent for firewood, and the hell begins in this life.
When the coherence of the parts of a stone, or even that composition of parts which renders it extended; when these familiar objects, I say, are so inexplicable, and contain circumstances so repugnant and contradictory; with what assurance can we decide concerning the origin of worlds, or trace their history from eternity to eternity?
Slipknot is the darkness; Stone Sour is the light. Slipknot is chaos; Stone Sour is structure.
Particularly fine is the top-heavy comedienne, Loni Anderson, as the receptionist whose movements turn men to stone. . . she keeps her head while all the men around her are losing theirs.
Some archeologists believe that Stonehenge - the mysterious arrangement of enormous elongated stones in England - is actually a crude effort by the Druids to build a computing device.
Maybe Oliver Stone doesn't lend himself well to remakes or sequels, because he does them so well the first time.