Best stones & form Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“In creation myths, a god shapes mud or clay into living form, much like a potter throws a pot or a sculptor reveals the statue within a block of marble. But a writer has to create his own clay or stone before he can begin shaping life from it.”

Writing Form Creation Shapes Stones Myth Block Pot Mud Clay Statues Potters Marble Sculptors Creation Myths

Author:Stuart Dybek

“The '60s in London obviously brought about the explosion of music, the Beatles especially, and then the Rolling Stones and other forms of music, and then fashion and photography and films - kitchen-sink dramas we called them at that time, which was our nouvelle vague in Britain, films that talk about real life.”

Real Film Form Fashion Drama Photography Stones London Real Life Kitchen Britain Rolling Vague Explosions Rolling Stones Kitchen Sinks Photography And Film

Author:Charlotte Rampling

“I know that in many things I am not like others, but I do not know what I really am like. Man cannot compare himself with any other creature; he is not a monkey, not a cow, not a tree. I am a man. But what is it to be that? Like every other being, I am a splinter of the infinite deity, but I cannot contrast myself with any animal, any plant or any stone. Only a mythical being has a range greater than man's. How then can man form any definite opinions about himself?.”

Knows Men Form Animal Opinion Greater Tree Creatures Stones Infinite Plant Compare Range Cows Contrast Definite Monkeys Deities Splinters

Book:Memories, dreams, reflections

Source: Memories, dreams, reflections

“Then sculpture and her sister arts revived; stones leaped to form, and rocks began to live.”

Art Form Rocks Stones Sculpture

Book:The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials

Source: The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials

“Sculpture is not the mere cutting of the form of anything in stone; it is the cutting of the effect of it. Very often the true form, in the marble, would not be in the least like itself.”

Form Cutting Effects Stones Mere Sculpture Marble

Book:The seven lamps of architecture

Source: The seven lamps of architecture

“When sculpting the human figure in stone it is necessary to draw the whole form out of the content of the head.”

Humans Whole Form Figures Draws Stones Sculpture Sculpting

Author:Rudolf Steiner

“The work of the painter, the poet or the musician, like the myths and symbols of the savage, ought to be seen by us, if not as a superior form of knowledge, at least as the most fundamental and the only one really common to us all; scientific thought is merely the sharp point more penetrating because it has been whetted on the stone of fact, but at the cost of some loss of substance and its effectiveness is to be explained by its power to pierce sufficiently deeply for the main body of the tool to follow the head.”

Ifs Has Beens Facts Body Form Loss Common Poet Ought Cost Musician Tools Stones Fundamentals Myth Superiors Painter Symbols Substance Savages Effectiveness Pierce

Book:Tristes Tropiques

Source: Tristes Tropiques

“You can really bring so much more to rock'n'roll. Rock'n'roll is the most accepting, is the most fertile ground for creating hybrid forms of music and hybrid forms of show, if you draw from many, many different wells. It's just unfortunate so many rock'n'roll stars only bother to learn how to play like Led Zeppelin and/or the Rolling Stones and that's what you get, disc after disc and show after show.”

Ifs Wells Different Play Shows Form Stars Accepting Rocks Creating Draws Stones Bother Rock N Roll Unfortunate Rolling Fertile Rolling Stones Hybrid Zeppelins Discs Fertile Ground

Author:David Lee Roth

“If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood or stone? You must seek without seeking.”

Ifs Different Earth Form Sound Stones Seeking Woods

Author:Wumen Huikai

“Trout fishing. One must be a stickler for proper form. Use nothing but #4 blasting caps, or a hand grenade, if handy, or at a pool well-lined with stone, one blast from a .44 magnum will bring a few stunned brookies quietly to the surface.”

Ifs Wells Use Hands Form Sea Rivers Stones Fishes Surface Boat Lakes Fishing Pool Caps Blast Handy Trout Stunned Grenade Trout Fishing

Book:A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

“Oh how will crime engender crime! throw guilt Upon the soul, and like a stone cast on The troubled waters of a lake, 'Twill form in circles round succeeding round; Each wider than the first.”

Firsts Soul Form Water Crime Succeed Stones Guilt Rounds Casts Circles Lakes Troubled Waters

Author:George Colman the Elder

“Some springs are acid, as at Lyncestus and in Italy in the Velian country, at Teano in Campania, and in many other places. These when used in drinks have the power of breaking up stones in the bladder, which form in the human body.”

Humans Country Body Form Used Drink Spring Stones Human Body Acid Bladder

Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“I'm actually a 'Witch' not Wiccan...justa Witch. I started reading Tarot when I was 8 years old. I dabble in astrology, Candle Magick, gems/stone Magick and I mainly use herbs for cooking. But cooking is it's own Magick-when done right. Actually, when I colour Tarot...I do use a form of Colour Magick..colours do influence mood...so I conscienciously choose certain colours for certain scenes.”

Years Done Use Form Certain Reading Influence Scene Stones Cooking Mood Colour Witch Candle Astrology Herbs Gems Tarot Wiccan

Author:Holly Golightly

“The true church is not made of creeds and forms, nor is it contained in walls of wood and stone; the heart of man is its temple and the Spirit of truth is the one guide into all Truth. When men learn to turn within to the Spirit of truth, who is in each one for his light and inspiration, the differences between the churches of man will be eliminated, and the one church will be recognized.”

Men Heart Made Light Inspiration Form Spirit Turns Differences Church Wall Truth Is Stones Woods Guides Temples Creeds

Author:Charles Fillmore

“My favorite place that I've been to that most people haven't been to is the Golden Triangle in the northeast of Thailand, which is inhabited by people as if in the Stone Age, without any form of power, without running water, simply living in huts on stilts.”

People Ifs Running Age Form Water Havens Stones My Favorite Golden Huts Triangles Thailand Favorite Places Running Water Stone Age Stilts

Author:Arthur Frommer

“If you are really spontaneous, people will think you are mad. If you go to a tree and start talking, or to a flower, people will think you are mad. If you go to a church and talk to a cross or to an image, nobody will think your are mad, they will think that you are religious. You are talking to a stone in a temple and everybody thinks you are religious because this is the authorized form.”

People Ifs Thinking Form Church Religious Talking Tree Flower Stones Crosses Mad Temples Spontaneous

Author:Rajneesh

“I suggest to you that it is because God loves us that he gives us the gift of suffering. Pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world. You see, we are like blocks of stone out of which the Sculptor carves the forms of men. The blows of his chisel, which hurt us so much are what make us perfect.”

Men World Giving Pain Form Suffering Hurt Perfect Stones Blow Block God Love Deaf Sculptors God Loves Us Chisels Suffering Pain

Author:C. S. Lewis

“An excellent monument might be erected to the Unknown Stockholder. It might take the form of a solid stone ark of faith apparently floating in a pool of water.”

Might Form Water Stones Excellent Pool Floating Monument Ark

Author:Felix Riesenberg

“These Greek capitals, black with age, and quite deeply graven in the stone, with I know not what signs peculiar to Gothic calligraphy imprinted upon their forms and upon their attitudes, as though with the purpose of revealing that it had been a hand of the Middle Ages which had inscribed them there, and especially the fatal and melancholy meaning contained in them, struck the author deeply.”

Knows Hands Age Form Purpose Black Attitude Middle Stones Greek Melancholy Peculiar Revealing Middle Ages Gothic Calligraphy

Author:Victor Hugo

“Cremation has become the most popular form of burial in the United States... People used to want a big, thick granite stone, their names carved into with a chisel. I was here dammit! Cremation is like you're trying to cover up a crime. Burn the body. Scatter the ashes around. As far as anyone's concerned this whole thing never happened.”

People Want Trying States Whole Body Bigs Form Used Names United United States Happened Crime Like You Concerned Stones Thick Ashes Cover Ups Burial Granite Chisels Cremation

Author:Jerry Seinfeld

“Lightnin' Hopkins was something of a fixture on the Houston coffee house scene so we were witness to eccentric blues brilliance close up. Then, believe it or not, along came the wave of the English cats like John Mayall, Eric Clapton and the Stones embracing the great American art form - the blues.”

Believe Art Form House Scene Stones Cat Wave Coffee Witness Brilliance Eccentric Eric Great American Houston Hopkins Fixture Coffee Houses

Author:Billy Gibbons

“So by the time the 60s rolled in that became a huge art form in its own right with bands like the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and Hendrix doing total concept albums, same thing with Pink Floyd.”

Art Form Huge Band Concepts Stones Albums Rolling Rolling Stones Hendrix

Author:DJ Spooky

“Everyone's going to have a racist tweet, a homophobic tweet, a xenophobic tweet, a misogynist tweet. Everyone's going to have a tweet or a post or something that's not going to be ideal, and because of that, you can't really throw stones too hard at the people that do, because if we examined your life in every way, shape, or form, went through every single post with a fine-toothed comb and under that microscope, would it come out all sunshine and lollipops?”

People Ifs Way Hard Form Fine Shapes Ideals Stones Posts Racist Sunshine Tweet Microscopes Combs Homophobic Lollipop

Author:Brad Williams

“Plato in his dialogue The Phaedo says that whereas sticks and stones are both equal and unequal, (so maybe what that means is that each stick is going to be equal to some other sticks and unequal to some other sticks, so equal to the stick on the left maybe but shorter than the stick on its right) the form of equal is going to be just equal, and it won't partake of inequality at all. And it will be the cause of equality in things that are equal, for example, equal sticks and stones.”

Mean Form Left Causes Example Equal Stones Sticks Dialogue Inequality Plato Sticks And Stones

Author:Peter Adamson

“It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good.”

Form Law Evil Impossible Stones Stronger Gravity Alliances

Author:Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

“I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain. One always finds one's burden again. But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and raises rocks. He too concludes that all is well. This universe henceforth without a master seems to him neither sterile nor futile. Each atom of that stone, each mineral flake of that night-filled mountain, in itself, forms a world. The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”

“In an ideal world the scientist should find a method to prevent the most severe forms of autism but allow the milder forms to survive. After all, the really social people did not invent the first stone spear. It was probably invented by an Aspie who chipped away at rocks while the other people socialized around the campfire. Without autism traits we might still be living in caves.”

People World Should Firsts Stills Might Form Social Rocks Ideals Stones Scientist Method Traits Autism Severe Caves Spears Campfire Ideal World

Book:Thinking in Pictures

Source: Thinking in Pictures

“There is a moon shaped rictus in the streetlamp's globe where a stone has gone and from this aperture there drifts down through the constant helix of aspiring insects a faint and steady rain of the same forms burnt and lifeless.”

Form Gone Moon Rain Stones Constant Steady Globes Insects Lifeless Aperture

Book:Suttree

Source: Suttree

“Since the first human eye saw a leaf in Devonian sandstone and a puzzled finger reached to touch it, sadness has lain over the heart of man. By this tenuous thread of living protoplasm, stretching backward into time, we are linked forever to lost beaches whose sands have long since hardened into stone. The stars that caught our blind amphibian stare have shifted far or vanished in their courses, but still that naked, glistening thread winds onward. No one knows the secret of its beginning or its end. Its forms are phantoms. The thread alone is real; the thread is life.”

Source: The Firmament of Time: A Library of America eBook Classic

“If there is such a thing as being conditioned by climate and geography, and I think there is, it is the West that has conditioned me. It has the forms and lights and colors that I respond to in nature and in art. If there is a western speech, I speak it; if there is a western character or personality, I am some variant of it; if there is a western culture in the small-c , anthropological sense, I have not escaped it. It has to have shaped me. I may even have contributed to it in minor ways, for culture is a pyramid to which each of us brings a stone.”

Ifs Thinking Way May Art Character Light Form Culture Speak Color Personality Speech Stones West Climate Western Minors Geography Pyramids Western Culture Light And Color

Book:The American West as Living Space

Source: The American West as Living Space

“The physical reinvention of the world is endless, relentless, fascinating, exhaustive; nothing that seems solid is. If you could stand at just a little distance in time, how fluid and shape-shifting physical reality would be, everything hurrying into some other form, even concrete, even stone.”

Ifs World Littles Reality Seems Would Be Form Shapes Stones Distance Endless Fascinating Concrete Shifting Relentless Fluid Hurrying Reinvention

Author:Mark Doty

“If we are indeed contending for truth and righteousness, let us not tarry till we have talent, or wealth, or any other form of visible power at our disposal; but with such stones as we find in the brook, and with our own usual sling, let us run to meet the enemy.”

Ifs Wisdom Running Form Wealth Enemy Talent Stones Visible Righteousness Usual Brooks Contending

Book:Daily Devotion - 365 Days With Jesus

Source: Daily Devotion - 365 Days With Jesus

“From my stone pillow I have dreamed dreams of the mortal world above. I have heard its voices, its new music, as lullabies as I lie in my grave. I have envisioned its fantastical discoveries. I have known its courage in the timeless sanctum of my thoughts. And though it shuts me out with its dazzling forms, I long for one with the strength to roam it fearlessly, to ride the Devil's Road through its heart.”

World Heart Long Dream Form Lying Voice Known Heard Devil Discovery Stones Graves Mortals Timeless My Thoughts Pillow Dazzling New Music Lullaby

Book:The vampire Lestat

Source: The vampire Lestat

“For ages happiness has been represented as a huge precious stone, impossible to find, which people seek for hopelessly. It is not so; happiness is a mosaic, composed of a thousand little stones, which separately and of themselves have little value, but which united with art form a graceful design.”

People Littles Has Beens Art Age Happiness Form Values United Impossible Design Huge Thousand Stones Mosaics Precious Stones

Author:Delphine de Girardin

“Our patriotism comes straight from the Romans. This is why French children are encouraged to seek inspiration for it in Corneille. It is a pagan virtue, if these two words are compatible. The word pagan, when applied to Rome, early possesses the significance charged with horror which the early Christian controversialists gave it. The Romans really were an atheistic and idolatrous people; not idolatrous with regard to images made of stone or bronze, but idolatrous with regard to themselves. It is this idolatry of self which they have bequeathed to us in the form of patriotism.”

People Ifs Children Made Two Self Inspiration Christian Form Virtue Horror Stones Regard Patriotism Significance Rome Pagan Idolatry Atheistic Compatible Bronze

Author:Simone Weil

“The geologist, in those tables of stone which form his records, finds no examples of dynasties once passed away again returning. There has no repetition of the dynasty of the fish, of the reptile, of the mammal. The dynasty of the future is to have glorified man for its inhabitant; but it is to be the dynasty-"the kingdom"-not of glorified man made in the image of God, but of God himself in the form man.”

Source: The Testimony of the Rocks: Or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed

“Of what use are the great number of petrifactions, of different species, shape and form which are dug up by naturalists? Perhaps the collection of such specimens is sheer vanity and inquisitiveness. I do not presume to say; but we find in our mountains the rarest animals, shells, mussels, and corals embalmed in stone, as it were, living specimens of which are now being sought in vain throughout Europe. These stones alone whisper in the midst of general silence.”

Different Use Form Science Animal Numbers Existence Silence Shapes Mountain Europe Stones Species Vanity Vain Collections Midst Shells Sheer Fossils Naturalist

Author:Carl Linnaeus

“I roamed the countryside searching for the answers to things I did not understand. Why shells existed on the tops of mountains along with the imprints of coral and plant and seaweed usually found in the sea. Why the thunder lasts a longer time than that which causes it and why immediately on its creation the lightening becomes visible to the eye while thunder requires time to travel. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone and why a bird sustains itself in the air. These questions and other strange phenomena engaged my thought throughout my life.”

“Every spoken word double-crosses us. The written word is the only tolerable form of communication, as it isn't a stone in a bridge between souls but a ray of light between stars.”

Soul Light Form Stars Written Communication Stones Crosses Philosophical Bridges Rays Written Word Spoken Word Tolerable Rays Of Light

Author:Fernando Pessoa

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