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“The idea of some kind of objectively constant, universal literary value is seductive. It feels real. It feels like a stone cold fact that In Search of Lost Time, by Marcel Proust, is better than A Shore Thing, by Snooki. And it may be; Snooki definitely has more one-star reviews on Amazon. But if literary value is real, no one seems to be able to locate it or define it very well. We're increasingly adrift in a grey void of aesthetic relativism.”

“Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, oh sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me.”

Break Sea Cold Ocean Stones Tongue Arise Gray

Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson

“Many a fervid man writes books as cold and flat as graveyard stones.”

Men Writing Book Cold Stones Flats Graveyard

Book:Poetical works

Source: Poetical works

“Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold; Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones Forget not.”

Lying Father Forget Lord Cold Pure Mountain Stones Saint Bones Our Father Alpine

Book:The Complete Poems

Source: The Complete Poems

“It was cold and clammy in the stone cell; they called it the "cooler," and used it to reduce the temperature of the violent and intractable. It was a trouble-saving device; they just left the man there and forgot him, and his own tormented mind did the rest.”

Men Mind Used Left Trouble He Man Cold Stones Violent Saving Cells Devices Temperature

Book:100%: The Story of a Patriot

Source: 100%: The Story of a Patriot

“At one time, I wanted to be a WWE wrestler. I still do. I want to go in the ring once and mess around and jump off the ropes and do a Stone Cold stunt.”

Want Stills Wanted Cold Stones Rings Mess One Time Wwe Rope Wrestler Stone Cold

Author:Rob Gronkowski

“If so men's memories not a monument be, None shalt thou have. Warm hearts, and not cold stone, Must mark thy grave, or thou shalt lie, unknown. Marbles keep not themselves; how then, keep thee?”

Ifs Men Heart Lying Memories Cold Stones Mark Warm Graves Thee Monument Marble Warm Heart

Author:John Vance Cheney

“England is the only civilised country in the world where it is etiquette to fall on the food like a wolf the moment it is served. Elsewhere it is comme il faut to wait until everybody has helped himself to everything and until everything on everybody's plate is stone cold.”

World Country Moments Fall Waiting Cold Stones England Manners Elsewhere Plates Etiquette Civilised Stone Cold

Author:Virginia Graham

“England, where nobody ever says what they mean: and by denying feeling, kill it off stone-cold at the roots.”

Mean Feelings Cold Stones Roots England Stone Cold

Author:Caitlin Thomas

“Where I lived - winter and hard earth.I sat in my cold stone roomchoosing tough words, granite, flint,to break the ice. My broken heart -I tried that, but it skimmed,flat, over the frozen lake.She came from a long, long way,but I saw her at last, walking,my daughter, my girl, across the fields,In bare feet, bringing all spring's flowersto her mother's house. I swearthe air softened and warmed as she moved,the blue sky smiling, none too soon,with the small shy mouth of a new moon.”

“Not only is the day waning, but the year. The low sun is fiery and yet cold behind the monastery ruin, and the Virginia creeper on the Cathedral wall has showered half its deep-red leaves down on the pavement. There has been rain this afternoon, and a wintry shudder goes among the little pools on the cracked, uneven flag-stones, and through the giant elm-trees as they shed a gust of tears.”

Source: The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: Edwin Drood and Miscellaneous

“The cold hoarfrost glistened on the tombstones, and sparkled like rows of gems, among the stone carvings of the old church. The snow lay hard and crisp upon the ground; and spread over the thickly-strewn mounds of earth, so white and smooth a cover, that it seemed as if corpses lay there, hidden only by their winding sheets.”

Ifs Hard Earth Church White Cold Stones Lays Spread Snow Smooth Sheets Corpses Gems Spooky Tombstone Crisps Carving Old Churches

Book:The posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club

Source: The posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club

“O naked flower of my lips, you lie! I await a thing unknown or perhaps, unaware of the mystery and your cries you give, O lips, the supreme tortured moans of a childhood groping among its reveries to sort out finally its cold precious stones.”

Giving Lying Mystery Childhood Cry Flower Cold Stones Lips Supreme Naked Reverie Precious Stones

Author:Stephane Mallarme

“I don't know where "bro country" came from or what it really means, but a lot of those guys are my buddies and I support their music. Within country there are lots of styles: stone-cold country, like Brandy Clark, and there's Florida Georgia Line with what they do, which is completely different and bringing a whole new audience. There's room for everyone.”

Knows Mean Different Country Whole Guy Lines Rooms Music Support Audience Style Cold Stones Florida Buddy Really Mean Georgia Bros Brandy Stone Cold

Author:Miranda Lambert

“The world was held in a savage gloom - cold and intolerable. Outside, all was quiet - quiet! From the dark room behind me, came the occasional, soft thud of falling matter - fragments of rotting stone. So time passed, and night grasped the world, wrapping it in wrappings of impenetrable blackness.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of William Hope Hodgson (Illustrated)

“The proud, the cold untroubled heart of stone, that never mused on sorrow but its own.”

Heart Cold Proud Sorrow Stones Cold Heart Heart Of Stone

Book:The Poetical Works of Campbell, Goldsmith and Gray: With Memoirs of the Authors

Source: The Poetical Works of Campbell, Goldsmith and Gray: With Memoirs of the Authors

“Wikipedia is forcing people to accept the stone-cold bummer that knowledge is produced and constructed by argument rather than by divine inspiration.”

People Inspiration Accepting Divine Cold Argument Stones Wikipedia Divine Inspiration Bummer Stone Cold

Author:Clay Shirky

“You can have a wrestling idea, but you need to have these momentum-shifting moves. We had the Hulkamania movement, then it shifted to the beer-drinking, Stone Cold era, we reinvented the business with growing the black beard and becoming the bad guy, what's that next level.”

Needs Ideas Moving Guy Next Black Levels Growing Movement Cold Becoming Stones Drinking Eras Beer Wrestling Bad Guys Shifting Momentum Beard Next Level Beer Drinking Stone Cold

Author:Hulk Hogan

“I'm telling you this - if Stone Cold comes back out, somebody's going to get their ass whipped!”

Ifs Cold Stones Ass Stone Cold

Author:Stone Cold Steve Austin

“Nobody, especially Vince McMahon, tells Stone Cold Steve Austin what to do, and that's the bottom line!”

Lines Cold Stones Bottom Bottom Line Austin Stone Cold Steve Austin Stone Cold Steve Austin

Author:Stone Cold Steve Austin

“Berlin is a skeleton which aches in the cold: it is my own skeleton aching. I feel in my bones the sharp ache of the frost in the girders of the overhead railway, in the iron-work of balconies, in bridges, tramlines, lamp-standards, latrines. The iron throbs and shrinks, the stone and the bricks ache dully, the plaster is numb.”

Source: The Berlin Stories: The Last of Mr. Norris [and] Goodbye to Berlin

“I was so unhealthy. I used to go to 'Cold Stone Creamery,' get a tub of Butterfinger ice cream, and eat it all before bedtime. And my fingers were permanently stained orange from Cheetos.”

Used Cold Stones Fingers Ice Cream Orange Ice Cream Unhealthy Bedtime Tubs

Author:Vanessa Hudgens

“We can preach the Gospel all day long, but that won't win souls. That won't win the hearts of the people. We can talk, try to theorize, theologize, reason, argue, debate, and spend time trying to prove that Jesus lived, but that won't win a heart. How often do we see the religious mindset that believes that the more Scripture quoting, the more yelling, the more hell fire and brimstone preaching, the greater the chance to win someone over for the Kingdom? Likewise, how often do we see people sitting or standing there listening in stone-cold silence or indifference?”

Source: Kingdom Rising: Making the Kingdom Real in Your Life

“I was imagining a long life of being a stone cold loser. Then I got a job, which was really nice, then I got a great agent, a great manager, which was really nice. I was doing a lot of set ups, and, you know, I got to start working in L.A.”

Knows Long Jobs Nice Cold Stones Agents Managers Great Men Loser Long Life Really Nice Stone Cold Great Managers

Author:Mackenzie Davis

“My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.”

Mind Cold Stones Sinking Polished Cold Heart Quagmire

Book:The Complete Works of James Joyce: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Poetry, Essays & Letters: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegan’s Wake, Dubliners, The Cat and the Devil, Exiles, Chamber Music, Pomes Penyeach, Stephen Hero, Giacomo Joyce, Critical Writings & more

Source: The Complete Works of James Joyce: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Poetry, Essays & Letters: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegan’s Wake, Dubliners, The Cat and the Devil, Exiles, Chamber Music, Pomes Penyeach, Stephen Hero, Giacomo Joyce, Critical Writings & more

“... without it (love), without, anyhow, the capacity for it, people didn't seem to be much good. Dry as old bones, cold as stones, they seemed to become, when love was done; inhuman, indifferent, self-absorbed, numb.”

People Love Self Done Seems Cold Capacity Stones Bones Dry Indifferent Numb Inhuman Self Absorbed

Author:Elizabeth von Arnim

“Seriously. It was running out at Rolling Stone. First of all, they didn't feel the need for a dissident conservative voice in a world where certain conservative aspects had become intellectually dominant. I would actually argue against that, but on the surface of it, in the [Bill] Clinton years the market economy triumphed, certain libertarian ideas became ordinary, and certain early-20th-century ideas about centralization of government and economic planning and socialism with a small "s" had obviously gone out the window. The Cold War was over, blah blah blah.”

“Eazy-E was not a rapper! He was a stone cold businessman. EAZY use to say that out of His own mouth. But one thing that he did have when it came to his artistry , is that voice. At least Eazy-E admitted he had ghost writers & people that wrote for him. Some of today's super star rappers will not admit they have ghost writers. Eazy-E always kept it 1000.”

People Use Today Stars Voice One Thing Cold Mouths Stones Ghost Rapper Businessman Artistry Stone Cold Super Star Eazy E

Author:Kokane

“Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.”

Mind Firsts Heart Wall Cold Musician Stones Iron Witch Heart And Mind Cold Heart Stone Walls

Author:Charles de Lint

“He lay listening to the water drip in the woods. Bedrock, this. The cold and the silence. The ashes of the late world carried on the bleak and temporal winds to and fro in the void. Carried forth and scattered and carried forth again. Everything uncoupled from its shoring. Unsupported in the ashen air. Sustained by a breath, trembling and brief. If only my heart were stone.”

Ifs World Heart Water Silence Air Wind Listening Cold My Heart Late Stones Breaths Lays Woods Void Ashes Trembling Bleak Bedrock

Book:The Road

Source: The Road

“Sometimes I wonder if he wasn't born dead. I never met a man who was less interested in the living. Sometimes I think that's the trouble with the world: too many people in high places who are stone-cold dead.”

People Ifs Thinking Men World Sometimes Born Wonder Trouble Cold Mets Stones Cradle High Places Sometimes I Wonder Cats Cradle Stone Cold

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“Think of the sound you make when you let go after holding your breath for a very, very long time. Think of the gladdest sound you know: the sound of dawn on the first day of spring break, the sound of a bottle of Coke opening, the sound of a crowd cheering in your ears because you're coming down to the last part of a race--and you're ahead. Think of the sound of water over stones in a cold stream, and the sound of wind through green trees on a late May afternoon in Central Park. Think of the sound of a bus coming into the station carrying someone you love. Then put all those together.”

Source: The Wednesday Wars

“I'm somewhat socially inept. Slide me between two strangers at any light-hearted jamboree and I'll either rock awkwardly and silently on my heels, or come out with a stone-cold conversation-killer like, "This room's quite rectangular, isn't it?" I glide through the social whirl with all the elegance of a dog in high heels”

Two Light Social Rooms Rocks Dog Cold Conversation Stones Stranger Killers Heels Elegance Slides Hearted High Heels Light Hearted Stone Cold

Book:Dawn of the Dumb

Source: Dawn of the Dumb

“There’s only one question that matters, Ms. Lane, and it’s the one you never get around to asking. People are capable of varying degrees of truth. The majority spend their entire lives fabricating an elaborate skein of lies, immersing themselves in the faith of bad faith, doing whatever it takes to feel safe. The person who truly lives has precious few moments of safety, learns to thrive in any kind of storm. It’s the truth you can stare down stone-cold that makes you what you are. Weak or strong. Live or die. Prove yourself. How much truth can you take, Ms. Lane?”

Source: The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned

“You think of me as a... living stone - hard and cold. That's true. We are set the way we are, and it is very rare for us to experience a real change. When that happens, as when Bella entered my life, it is a permanent change. There's no going back.”

Thinking Way Real Hard Happens Cold Stones Permanent Think Of Me Real Change Permanent Change

Book:Eclipse

Source: Eclipse

“but, he also said it because part of him wanted more of her, this cold woman who was not exactly cold, this rock who was not stone.”

Said Wanted Rocks Cold Stones

Book:The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic

Source: The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic

“Cloisters, ancient libraries ... I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.”

Cold Stones Library Ancient Smell Confusing

Book:The History Boys: With GCSE and A Level study guide

Source: The History Boys: With GCSE and A Level study guide

“As I descend the stairs, I can’t help brushing my fingers along the unblemished white marble walls. So cold and beautiful. Even in the Capitol, there’s nothing to match the magnificence of this old building. But there is no give to the surface - only my flesh yields, my warmth taken. Stone conquers people every time.”

Source: Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)

“He has resisted Temptation for Centuries, A stone cold warrior whose frozen heart refuses to thaw- Until Her.”

Heart Century Cold Stones Refuse Temptation Warrior Frozen Stone Cold

Author:Tina St. John

“A sudden understanding, a pity mixed with horror, welled up in Bilbo's heart: a glimpse of endless unmarked days without light or hope of betterment, hard stone, cold fish, sneaking and whispering. All these thoughts passed in a flash of a second. He trembled. And then quite suddenly in another flash, as if lifted by a new strength and resolve, he leaped.”

Ifs Heart Hard Light Understanding Cold Horror Stones Fishes Endless Pity Resolve Flash Glimpse Whispering Betterment Stone Cold

Book:The Hobbit

Source: The Hobbit

“Thus Aragorn for the first time in the full light of day beheld Éowyn, Lady of Rohan, and thought her fair, fair and cold, like a morning of pale spring that is not yet come to womanhood. And she was now suddenly aware of him: tall heir of kings, wise with many winters, greycloaked, hiding a power that yet she felt. For a moment still as stone she stood, then turning swiftly she was gone.”

Source: The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings

“Tie your heart at night to mine, love, and both will defeat the darkness like twin drums beating in the forest against the heavy wall of wet leaves. Night crossing: black coal of dream that cuts the thread of earthly orbs with the punctuality of a headlong train that pulls cold stone and shadow endlessly. Love, because of it, tie me to a purer movement, to the grip on life that beats in your breast, with the wings of a submerged swan, So that our dream might reply to the sky's questioning stars with one key, one door closed to shadow.”

“At Blackwater Pond the tossed waters have settled after a night of rain. I dip my cupped hands. I drink a long time. It tastes like stone, leaves, fire. It falls cold into my body, waking the bones. I hear them deep inside me, whispering oh what is that beautiful thing that just happened?”

Long Body Hands Beautiful Night Fall Water Fire Happened Cold Drink Taste Long Time Rain Stones Bones Waking Beautiful Things Whispering Ponds Deep Inside Dip

Book:New and Selected Poems, Volume One

Source: New and Selected Poems, Volume One

“How little we have, I thought, between us and the waiting cold, the mystery, death--a strip of beach, a hill, a few walls of wood or stone, a little fire--and tomorrow's sun, rising and warming us, tomorrow's hope of peace and better weather . . . What if tomorrow vanished in the storm? What if time stood still? And yesterday--if once we lost our way, blundered in the storm--would we find yesterday again ahead of us, where we had thought tomorrow's sun would rise?”

Ifs Way Littles Stills Lost Waiting Sun Fire Mystery Wall Cold Tomorrow Stones Woods Storm Yesterday Weather Hills Beach Rising What If

Author:Robert Nathan

“I have an impulse to write all over the orange walls- I need an alphabet of endings ripped out of books, of hands pulled off of clocks, of cold stones, of shoes filled with nothing but wind.”

Needs Writing Book Hands Wind Wall Cold Stones Filled Shoes Impulse Clock Orange Ripped Alphabet

Book:The Sky Is Everywhere

Source: The Sky Is Everywhere

“Cold be hand and heart and bone, and cold be sleep under stone: never more to wake on stony bed, never, till the Sun fails and the Moon is dead. In the black wind the stars shall die, and still on gold here let them lie, till the dark lord lifts his hand over dead sea and withered land.”

Heart Stills Hands Lying Dies Stars Black Dark Sleep Lord Sun Failing Sea Land Wind Cold Bed Moon Stones Gold Bones Lifts Withered

Book:The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings

Source: The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings

“Startled, he loosed his grasp and she pulled free. He clutched her arm, but she spun around and pressed her mouth to his. His lips were rough, chapped. She felt the sting of fangs against her bottom lip. He made a sharp sound in the back of his throat and closed his eyes. Mouth opening under hers. The smell of him- of cold, damp stone- made her head swim. One kiss slid into another and it was perfect, was exactly right, was real.”

Made Real Eye Felt Sound Perfect Arms Cold Kissing Mouths Stones Bottom Lips Smell Opening His Eyes Rough Swim Throat Fangs Damp Spun

Book:Valiant: A Modern Tale of Faerie

Source: Valiant: A Modern Tale of Faerie

“Jesus watches from the wall, But his face is cold as stone, And if he loves me As she tells me Why do I feel so all alone?”

Ifs Feels Faces Jesus Watches Wall Cold Stones All Alone

Book:Carrie

Source: Carrie

“Then Aragorn stooped and looked in her face, and it was indeed white as a lily, cold as frost, and hard as graven stone. But he bent and kissed her on the brow, and called her softly, saying: 'Éowyn Éomund's daughter, awake! For your enemy has passed away!' - Aragorn & Éowyn”

Hard Faces White Enemy Cold Daughter Stones Awake Bent Lilies Brows Frost Passed Away Return Of The King

Book:The Lord of the Rings: One Volume

Source: The Lord of the Rings: One Volume

“When stones lying warm in the sun were turned over, they exposed the cold, damp earth underneath; and that was where Masako had burrowed deep. There was no trace of warmth in this dark earth, yet for a bug curled up tight in it, it was a peaceful and familiar world.”

World Earth Lying Dark Sun Cold Stones Warm Familiar Peaceful Warmth Exposed Bugs Damp

Author:Natsuo Kirino