God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole.
Bob Dylan did the first really long record - Like A Rolling Stone - I think it was four minutes.
Jesus Christ came into my prison cell last night, and every stone flashed like a ruby.
A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.
I don't like things set in stone.
That's what prison did for me, it isolated me, you know, it polished me up like a stone.
For too long, decisions have been taken behind closed doors - tablets of stone have simply been past down to people without bothering to involve people, listen to their views or give them information about what we are doing and why.
If any have a stone to throw It is not I, ever or now.
As with all my work, whether it's a leaf on a rock or ice on a rock, I'm trying to get beneath the surface appearance of things. Working the surface of a stone is an attempt to understand the internal energy of the stone.
We may be up against a stone wall, but we don't have to bloody our heads against it unless we choose to.
Become dust - and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone - and they will throw thee on glass.
The beauty of Maine is such that you can't really see it clearly while you live there. But now that I've moved away, with each return it all becomes almost hallucinatory: the dark blue water, the rocky coast with occasional flashes of white sand, the jasper stone beaches along the coast, the pine and fir forests somehow vivid in their stillness.
Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.
The stones tear like flesh, rather than breaking. Although what happens is violent, it is a violence that is in stone. A tear is more unnerving than a break.
Whether I sound like Sammy or not is purely coincidence. You have got to hand it to him, he sings his ass off. There is no moss on that stone.
Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again.
The first money I ever earned was for drawing stone tools.
Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil is rightwise king born of all England.
It was a challenge, to work with Oliver Stone.
I don't see my show as a stepping stone to something else like some people, who get a job then have a foot out the door looking for their next job.
As far as criticism, I don't mind critics. I mean, I wrote for 'Rolling Stone' for a hot minute. I like criticism. I enjoy criticism. The thing I don't like is cruelty for cruelty's sake. You don't have to be a jerk to say something negative. You can say something in the negative sense and have class.
On that Sunday morning the first thing that impressed the people who approached the tomb was the unusual position of the one and a half to two ton stone that had been lodged in front of the doorway.
Stone Temple Pilots, Bush, and Silverchair are taking the simplest elements of Soundgarden, Nirvana, and Pearl Jam and melding them into one homogenous thing.
If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.
It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice.
Sly Stone made such a huge contribution to the good feeling in the universe, and I love him as a singer.
My father was a stone mason, and a talented amateur pianist and vocalist.
I would write plays for my grandmother, who was stone deaf, my mother and the dog, that was our audience.
The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race.
A hundred years ago, when Richard Strauss, who has already been quoted and already been heard today, and other creative people, laid the foundation stone for the joint assertion of their rights and interests, they had pioneering work ahead of them in Germany.
Sly Stone doesn't make good albums: only good records. His style is so infinite and revolves around so many crucial aspects that it has only come together perfectly on a handful of his singles.
Stone Age. Bronze Age. Iron Age. We define entire epics of humanity by the technology they use.
We should bomb Vietnam back into the stone age.
I had a great deal of pressure to move to LA after Romancing the Stone came out and I'd become very popular. But people came to me anyway.
My grandfather was the king of a region in western Nigeria, where I had the privilege to live for seven years while growing up. But what we think of as royalty in the U.K. is very different to royalty in Nigeria: if you were to throw a stone there, you would hit about 30 princes.
A small species of pinus was much prized, and, when dwarfed in the manner of the Chinese, fetched a very high price; it is generally grafted on a variety of the stone pine.
