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“It's very schizophrenic because I like a lot of very straight pop, like Small Faces, Stones, Kinks; and on the other hand, I like a lot of avant garde things.”

Hands Faces Stones Pops Avant Garde Schizophrenic Kink

Author:Andy Partridge

“Now as at all times I can see in the mind's eye, In their stiff, painted clothes, the pale unsatisfied ones Appear and disappear in the blue depth of the sky With all their ancient faces like rain- beaten stones, And all their helms of silver hovering.”

Mind I Can Eye Faces Sky Clothes Rain Stones Blue Depth Ancient Disappear All Time Silver Pale Beaten Unsatisfied Hovering Helm

Book:Later Poems

Source: Later Poems

“There is something elegantly sinister about the Rolling Stones. They sit before you at a press conference like five unfolding switchblades; their faces set in rehearsed snarls; their hair studiously unkempt and matted; their clothes part of some private conceit; and the way they walk and talk and the songs they sing all become part of some long mean reach for the jugular.”

Way Mean Long Faces Song Walks Five Hair Clothes Stones Presses Rolling Conferences Conceit Unfolding Rolling Stones Sinister Press Conferences

Author:Pete Hamill

“This little patch of earth and this little pile of stones I can wash the dust from off my face and skin But this earth is in my bones”

Littles I Can Earth Faces Land Stones Skins Bones Dust Patches

Author:Ralph McTell

“See thou, whatsoever be thy name -- whether Fate, Life, or Devil! I cast thee down my gauntlet, I challenge thee to battle! Men of faint heart may bow before thy mysterious power, thy face of stone may inspire them with dread, in thy unbroken silence they may discern the birth of calamity and an impending avalanche of woe. But I am daring and strong, and I challenge thee to battle! Let us draw our swords, and join our bucklers, and rain such blows upon each other's crests as shall cause the very earth to shake again! Ha! Come forth and fight with me!”

“I want to be alone. I need to touch each stone, face the grave that I have grown. I want to be alone.”

Want Needs Faces Stones Graves Wants To Be Alone

Author:Jackson C. Frank

“Oh! to be a child again. My only treasures, bits of shell and stone and glass. To love nothing but maple sugar. To fear nothing but a big dog. To go to sleep without dreading the morrow. To wake up with a shout. Not to have seen a dead face. Not to dread a living one. To be able to believe.”

Believe Children Bigs Able Faces Bits Sleep Childhood Dog Stones Wake Up Longing Glasses Nostalgia Treasure Sugar Dread Shells Going To Sleep Fear Not Morrow Fear Nothing Maple

Book:Ginger-Snaps

Source: Ginger-Snaps

“Out of the debris of a statue thoroughly shattered a new art work is born: a naked foot unforgettably resting on a stone; a candid hand; a bent knee which contains all the speed of the foot race; a torso which has no face to prevent us from loving it.”

Art Hands Faces Born Race Feet Stones Speed Naked Knees Bent Statues Shattered Candid Debris Torso

Author:Stephanie Crayencour

“Any high school boy or girl knows how to calculate the force with which a stone he or she throws will hit someone in the face, but nothing in those equations they use will tell them whether or not to throw it...To solve the problem of values we must know what is valuable. Consciousness is the most valuable commodity...To bring values into science, we need to connect science with what is valuable consciousness.”

Knows Needs Use Problem School Faces Values Girl Force Consciousness Boys Know How High School Stones Valuable Solve Commodity Equations

Author:Ravi Gomatam

“I used to refer to my drug use as putting the monster in the box. I wanted to be less, so I took more - simple as that. Anyway, I eventually decided that the reason Dr. Stone had told me I was hypomanic was that he wanted to put me on medication instead of actually treating me. So I did the only rational thing I could do in the face of such as insult - I stopped talking to Stone, flew back to New York, and married Paul Simon a week later.”

Reason Use Wanted Faces Used Simple Talking Week New York Drug Married Stones Decided Addiction Boxes Monsters Rational Insult Drs Flew Medication Drug Use

Book:Wishful Drinking

Source: Wishful Drinking

“Château and hut, stone face and dangling figure, the red stain on the stone floor, and the pure water in the village well-thousands of acres of land-a whole province of France-all France itself-lay under the night sky, concentrated into a faint hairbreadth line. So does a whole world, with all its greatnesses and littlenesses, lie in a twinkling star.”

Source: A Tale of Two Cities (Illustrated)

“My safe, safe psychosis is broken. It was hard. It was made of stone. It covered my face like a mask. But it has cracked.”

Made Hard Faces Broken Safe Stones Revelations Mask Covered Cracked Psychosis

Book:Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories

Source: Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories

“Leave a cavity behind the [wall] facings, and on the inside build walls two feet thick, made of red dimension stone or burnt brick or lava in courses, and then bind them to the fronts by means of iron clamps and lead. The beds and builds, all settling equally and bonded at the joints, will not let the work bulge out, nor allow the fall of the face walls which have been tightly fastened together.”

Mean Has Beens Made Two Together Faces Fall Courses Behinds Feet Fronts Wall Bed Red Stones Settling Dimensions Iron Thick Bricks Joints Lava

Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“Sharon Stone has the kind of face I'd leave my wife for. Since I'm not married, I'll have to leave someone else's wife.”

Kind Faces Wife Married Stones My Wife Sharon

Author:Buck Henry

“You may be perfect in playing the piano, and not be creative; you may play the piano most brilliantly, and not be a musician. You may be able to handle color, to put paint on canvas most cleverly, and not be a creative painter. You may create a face, an image out of a stone, because you have learned the technique, and not be a master creator. Creation comes first, not technique.”

Source: The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti: 1948-1949, Choiceless awareness

“I guess some people in classical music can keep going until they kick (die) and the (Rolling) Stones are definitely pushing the envelope but I wonder if here's a time when you have to face whether you are as good as you used to be.”

People Ifs Faces Used Dies Wonder Stones Used To Be Kicks Pushing Keep Going Rolling Classical Music Rolling Stones Envelopes Pushing The Envelope

Author:Billy Joel

“The stone throwing and house burning is no longer a face of Kenya . Kenya is now a destination for investment and tourism.”

Faces House Stones Investment Burning Destination Throwing Tourism Kenya

Author:Raila Odinga

“Saudi Arabia is militant Islamic extremism, Wahhabi Islam is extreme and violent. These are the people that execute gays. These are the people that stone women who show their face in public. You don’t hear much about it, but it happens.”

People Shows Happens Faces Gay Stones Islam Extremes Violent Islamic Extremism Arabia Saudi Arabia Saudis Militant

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“There is no such thing as failure; everything is just a stepping stone to a greater lesson or achievement. I have found that to be absolutely true. My so-called failures have been some of my greatest learning tools. I just make sure to fail up. I'm not afraid to fall on my face while I attempt new things.”

Has Beens Faces Fall Found Greater Failing Lessons Achievement Tools Stones Not Afraid New Things Stepping Stones

Author:Idara Victor

“The Faces do not, as some have recently alleged, play badly. They are more than competent, especially at creating a mid-Sixties Rolling Stones-styled groove, as their excellent version of 'Memphis' proves.”

Play Faces Prove Creating Stones Versions Excellent Sixty Rolling Competent Rolling Stones Groove Memphis

Author:Jon Landau

“Every now and then, I have blissful moments of thanking God for all the amazing things that are happening. When I leave the White House after just meeting Obama or when I see my face on the cover of 'Rolling Stone' or when I meet someone who tells me that their daughter is inspired by me, those are moments that are incredibly joyful.”

Moments Faces Mother House White Happenings Daughter Stones Meetings Inspired White House Thank God Now And Then Joyful Rolling Amazing Things Rolling Stones

Author:Lea Michele

“I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on stone are worn down by water.”

Way Love Years Pain Faces Water Loses Ability Stones Worn Washing Carving Washing Away

Book:The Joy Luck Club

Source: The Joy Luck Club

“He stood beneath the white tower, and looked up at it with that mournful expression which his face always carried in repose: for one moment he thought of climbing up its cracked and broken stone, and then from its summit screaming down at the silent city as a child might scream at a chained animal.”

Children Moments Might Faces White Animal Cities Expression Broken Stones Silent Climbing Scream Towers Summit Repose Cracked Chained Climbing Up

Author:Peter Ackroyd

“Every stone here sweats with suffering, I know that. I have never looked at them without a feeling of anguish. But deep in my heart I know that the most wretched among you have seen a divine face emerge from their darkness. That is the face you are asked to see.”

Knows Heart Feelings Faces Suffering Darkness Divine My Heart Stones Sweat Anguish Wretched

Author:Albert Camus

“But...you could have whatever you wished." "Exactly," he says, nuzzling my neck. "But," I say, "you could turn stones to rubies or ride in a fine gentleman's carriage." Kartik puts his hands on either side of my face. "To each his own magic," he says and kisses me again.”

Hands Faces Turns Sides Magic Fine Kissing Stones Gentleman Necks Kiss Me Carriages Rubies

Book:The Sweet Far Thing

Source: The Sweet Far Thing

“We could go back," he said. In the dome light of the car, his face looked hard as stone. "We could go back to your house. I can stay with you always. We can know each other's bodies in every way, night after night. I could love you." His nostrils flared, and he looked suddenly proud. "I could work. You would not be poor. I would help you." "Sounds like a marriage," I said, trying to lighten the atmosphere. But my voice was too shaky. "Yes," he said.”

Knows Way Trying Said I Can Hard Helping Body Light Faces Night House Sound Voice Poor Love You Car Proud Stones Atmosphere Domes Sookie Stackhouse Eric Northman

Book:Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set

Source: Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set

“He tunneled into stories where weak men changed into strong half-animals or used eye beams or magic hammers to power through steel or climb up the sides of skyscrapers. He was the Hulk when angry and Spidey the rest of the time. When he felt his heart hurt he turned into something stronger than a little boy, and he grew up this way. A heart that flashed from heart to stone, heart to stone. As I watched I thought of what Grandma Lynn liked to say when Lindsey and I rolled our eyes or grimaced behind her back. "Watch out what faces you make. You'll freeze that way.”

Source: The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic

“And Hermione was struggling to her feet in the wreckage, and three red-headed men were grouped on the ground where the wall had blasted apart. Harry grabbed Hermione's hand as they staggered and stumbled over stone and wood. 'No - no - no!' someone was shouting. 'No! Fred! No!' And Percy was shaking his brother, and Ron was kneeling beside them, and Fred's eyes stared without seeing, the ghost of his last laugh still etched upon his face.”

Men Stills Hands Eye Lasts Faces Three Laughing Struggle Seeing Feet Brother Wall Red Stones Woods Ghost Shaking Shouting Hermione Kneeling Wreckage Fred Weasley

Author:J. K. Rowling

“Hard weather, says the old man. So let it be. Wrap me in the weathers of the earth, I will be hard and hard. My face will wash rain like the stones.”

Men Hard Earth Faces Rain Stones Weather Old Man Wraps

Author:Cormac McCarthy

“You shouldn't throw stones if you live in a glass house And if you got a glass jaw, you should watch your mouth Cause I'll break your face...”

Ifs Should Faces House Causes Watches Break Mouths Stones Glasses Rap Cents Glass Houses

Author:Curtis Jackson

“What term do you employ when you speak of your progenitor?" I answered with the term I'd always wanted to employ. "Sonovabitch." "To his face?" she asked. "I never see his face." "He wears a mask?" "In a way, yes. Of stone. Of absolute stone.”

Way Wanted Faces Speak Term Stones Absolutes Mask

Book:Love Story

Source: Love Story

“And what are you doing here, Nicholas? Decided to watch me sleep?" "Yes," said Nick, and bowed is head over his sword again. He had tissues, oil, and sandpaper laid out on the windowsill in front of him, and a little stone block he was passing his sword up and down, very carefully. "I came to gaze upon your sleeping face. Only you had the blanket over your head, so I just had to gaze at a lump I thought was your sleeping face, and that turned out to be your shoulder. Which just wasn't as special." ~Nick and Mae”

Littles Said Faces Sleep Watches Special Fronts Stones Decided Oil Shoulders Passing Passings Block Up And Down Blanket Tissues Lumps Watch Me Mae Sandpaper

Author:Sarah Rees Brennan

“I was born to love - but none of you wanted to believe it, and that misunderstanding was crucial in forming my character. It's true that nature was strangely inconsistent in giving me a warm heart, but also a face that was like a stone mask and a tongue that was heavy and slow. She refused me what she bestowed freely on even the most loutish of my fellow men. . . . People judged my inner character by my outer covering, and like a sterile fruit, I withered under the rough husk I couldn't slough off.”

“Question four: What book would you give to every child? Answer: I wouldn't give them a book. Books are part of the problem: this strange belief that a tree has nothing to say until it is murdered, its flesh pulped, and then (human) people stain this flesh with words. I would take children outside and put them face to face with chipmunks, dragonflies, tadpoles, hummingbirds, stones, rivers, trees, crawdads. That said, if you're going to force me to give them a book, it would be The Wind In The Willows, which I hope would remind them to go outside.”

“Leicester stared fixedly at the image before him, the color bleached from his face by its brilliance. Seph sensed the headmaster's mind questing out, trying to discover and destroy the wizard behind the image, but finding nothing, no trail of magic, no stone, no flesh and blood to focus on. Jason Haley, the puppeteer, was safely ensconced in the gallery above.”

Trying Mind Faces Behinds Focus Magic Blood Color Findings Stones Flesh Trails Wizards Gallery Brilliance Jason Flesh And Blood Haley Puppeteer Headmasters Leicester

Author:Cinda Williams Chima

“Christians. They’re determined to rid the land of any who worship the Horned One. Murdering all the druids, burning the temples, sometimes whole villages, and knocking over the standing stones.” The Lady’s face hardened. “This god of peace and love certainly likes to bathe the land in blood.”

Love Sometimes Whole Age Christian Faces Blood Land Worship Standing Stones And Love Determined Likes Burning Temples Village Knocking Peace And Love Hardened Druids

Author:Brom

“There was movement along the fringe of Chauncey's vision, and he snapped his head to the left. At first glance what appeared to be a large angel topping a nearby monument rose to full height. Neither stone nor marble, the boy had arms and legs. His torso was naked, his feet were bare, and peasant trousers hung low on his waist. He hopped down from the monument, the ends of his hair dripping rain. It slid down his face, which was dark as a Spaniard's.”

Source: Hush, Hush

“There where hundreds of graves. There where hundreds of women. There were hundreds of daughters. There were hundreds of sons. And hundreds upon hundreds upon thousands of candles. The whole graveyard was one swarm of candleshine as if a population of fireflies had heard of a Grand Conglomeration and had flown here to settle in and flame upon the stones and light the brown faces and the dark eyes and the black hair.”

Ifs Whole Light Eye Faces Black Dark Heard Son Hair Daughter Stones Population Graves Settling Flames Brown Candle Graveyard Firefly Swarms Black Hair Dark Eyes

Book:The Halloween Tree

Source: The Halloween Tree

“Down through the years my face has been called a sour puss, a dead pan, a frozen face, The Great Stone Face, and, believe it or not, "a tragic mask." On the other hand that kindly critic, the late James Agee, described my face as ranking "almost with Lincoln's as an early American archetype, it was haunting, handsome, almost beautiful." I can't imagine what the great rail splitter's reaction would have been to this, though I sure was pleased.”

Years Believe Has Beens I Can Hands Beautiful Faces Imagine Late Stones Critics Reactions Mask Tragic Frozen Handsome Haunting Sour Rail Through The Years Archetype Ranking

Author:Buster Keaton

“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

“If, on thinking this, I look up to see if reality can quench my thirst, I see inexpressive facades, inexpressive faces, inexpressive gestures. Stones, bodies, ideas - all dead. All movements are one great standstill. Nothing means anything to me, not because it's unfamiliar but because I don't know what it is. The world has slipped away. And in the bottom of my soul - as the only reality of this moment - there's an intense and invisible grief, a sadness like the sound of someone crying in a dark room.”

“I want to be with you.” My words brought a hugegrin to his incredibly beautiful face. “You’re my present and my future,Sadie, I will use whatever power I have to make you happy.” He leaned down and touched his perfect lips to mine, and my heart took flight. I would never get tired of his kiss. Jax Stone was my everything.”

“I thought you'd gotten over your whoring when you left him, Catherine, but it seems you only postponed it." Bones' face turned to stone, and he answered her even before I could snap out an indignant response. "Don't you ever speak to her that way again." There was pure warning in the whip of his words. "You can call me any name you like and more, but I will not stand by while you slander her out of your own ignorance.”

Way Seems Faces Names Left Speak Ignorance Pure Stones Response Bones Call Me Warning Whips Snaps Slander Indignant

Author:Jeaniene Frost

“You forgot to cough!” he said. “Sorry.” She coughed. “Your sneakiness is dangerous. Next time that chisel will lodge itself in my head.” “Now, Peder, there’s plenty of stone around here for carving. No need to practice on your own face.” He stroked his chin. “You’re right, my jaw is already chiseled to perfection.” She agreed, but she felt too silly to say so aloud.”

Needs Said Faces Next Felt Practice Dangerous Stones Perfection Sorry Silly Plenty Next Time Chins Lodges Carving Chisels

Author:Shannon Hale

“We are here to witness the creation and to abet it. We are here to notice each thing so each thing gets noticed. Together we notice not only each mountain shadow and each stone on the beach but, especially, we notice the beautiful faces and complex natures of each other. We are here to bring to consciousness the beauty and power that are around us and to praise the people who are here with us. We witness our generation and our times. We watch the weather. Otherwise, creation would be playing to an empty house.”

“When the uncultured man sees a stone in the road it tells him no story other than the fact that he sees a stone ... The scientist looking at the same stone perhaps will stop, and with a hammer break it open, when the newly exposed faces of the rock will have written upon them a history that is as real to him as the printed page.”

Men Real Facts Stories Reality Faces Science Culture Break History Written Rocks Pages Stones Scientist Exposed Hammers Printed

Book:Nature's Miracles: Familiar Talks on Science

Source: Nature's Miracles: Familiar Talks on Science

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