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“When I get old and slow down I want to look behind me and see all the fire and the wreckage and no stone left unturned.”

Want Looks Left Behinds Fire Stones Slow Down Wreckage

Author:Aisha Tyler

“For piety lies not in being often seen turning a veiled head to stones, nor in approaching every altar, nor in lying prostratebefore the temples of the gods, nor in sprinkling altars with the blood of beastsbut rather in being able to look upon all things with a mind at peace.”

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Author:Lucretius

“One begins to realize that art... in setting out to express nature with ever growing accuracy, teaches us to look, to perceive, to feel. The stone itself becomes an organic substance, and one can feel it being transformed as one moment in its life succeeds another.”

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Author:Georges Clemenceau

“If thou shouldst paint mountains in a good style and to look natural, take some large stones full of cracks and copy them.”

Ifs Looks Natural Style Mountain Models Stones Paint Copies Cracks

Author:Cennino Cennini

“I suppose some people find their voice later than others, but it's interesting to look back at really early work to see that there's some kernel or a Rosetta Stone, in a way.”

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Author:Joe Bradley

“All snowmen look to the sky, knowing their death will be delivered by the horizon. Before dawn, their life becomes the darkest. The moment before the sun burns all. The Snowmen go mental. Kill or be killed. I only just escaped the violent puddles, the sticks and stones. The broken carrot noses.”

Looks Moments Sun Knowing Sky Broken Stones Sticks Violent Noses Dawn Horizon Carrots Puddles Sticks And Stones Snowman

Author:Craig Stone

“It is permissible even for a dying hero to think before he dies how men will speak of him hereafter. His fame lasts perhaps two thousand years. And what are two thousand years?... What, indeed, if you look from a mountain top down the long wastes of the ages? The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

“Fear was my father, Father Fear. His look drained the stones.”

Looks Father Fear Stones Drained

Book:The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke

Source: The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke

“I'm interested in the sculptural experience, glass, marble, colored bricks, stones, wood. There's no stadium out there that approximates it [the Marlins'] because it will be so white and with primary colors all around. It sort of looks like a spaceship that just landed, something different, something people can call their own.”

People Looks Different White Color Stones Glasses Woods Architecture Primaries Bricks Marble Stadiums Spaceships Primary Colors

Author:Jeffrey Loria

“I think it's always hard for children to talk about abuse because it is only memory. I didn't carry around a tape recorder … I didn't chisel anything in stone … Anybody can look and say, 'Well how do you know for sure?' And that's one of the most painful things about it. You don't.”

Thinking Knows Wells Looks Children Hard Memories Stones Abuse Painful Do You Know Tape Recorders Chisels Painful Things

Author:Anne Heche

“Shepperton Church was a very different looking building five-and-twenty years ago. To be sure, its substantial stone tower looks at you through its intelligent eye, the clock, with the friendly expression of former days; but in everything else what changes!”

Years Looks Book Different Eye Church Five Building Expression Years Ago Stones Twenties Intelligent Former Clock Friendly Towers

Book:Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life

Source: Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life

“When they asked Michelangelo how he made his statue of David he is reported to have said, "It is easy. You just chip away the stone that doesn't look like David.”

Looks Made Said Easy Stones Chips Statues

Author:Michelangelo

“So it is useless to evade reality, because it only makes it more virulent in the end. But instead, look steadfastly into the slit, pin-pointed, malignant eyes of reality: as an old-hand trainer dominates his wild beasts. Take it by the scruff of the neck, and shake the evil intent out of it; till it rattles out harmlessly, like gall bladder stones, fossilized on the floor.”

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Author:Caitlin Thomas

“If you're feeling alone, and your weariness has grown, look up above, and thank God for His love. There's nothing you can do, to change His love for you; hold on friend, it's not the end. Something beautiful will come, the clouds will part for the sun, the skies will break for the Son, and the Father will say 'Well done.' But until then, until then, you're not alone. He can make bread from stone. Hold on to Him, and He'll hold on to you. Take one day at a time, pray for faith and be kind, and when forgetful becomes your mind, remember what He said, 'You are mine.'”

“And when I raised myself to look at the man who'd spoken, I had a feeling of leaving my misery behind me there on the stone wall.”

Men Looks Feelings Behinds He Man Wall Stones Misery Raised Leaving Stone Walls

Book:Memoirs Of A Geisha

Source: Memoirs Of A Geisha

“Do not say that I'll depart tomorrow because even today I still arrive. Look at me: I arrive in every second to be a bud on a spring branch, to be a tiny bird whose wings are still fragile, learning to sing in my new nest, to be a caterpillar in the heart of a flower, to be a jewel hiding itself in a stone.”

Looks Heart Stills Today Learning Flower Tomorrow Spring Bird Stones Wings Tiny Branches Hiding Fragile Look At Me Jewels Nests Bud Every Second Caterpillars

Author:Nhat Hanh

“I kind of look at my modeling career and the Alfred Hitchcock years as stepping stones to what I'm doing now.”

Years Looks Kind Careers Stones Modeling Stepping Stones Hitchcock

Author:Tippi Hedren

“Every woman deserves diamonds, and even if you can't afford to go out and buy diamonds for yourself or you don't have actual stone diamonds, I think when we look at ourselves we should refer to ourselves as a precious stone.”

Ifs Thinking Should Looks Deserve Stones Diamond Precious Stones

Author:Nia Long

“Look deeply; I arrive in every second to be a bud on a spring branch ... to be a jewel hiding itself in a stone.”

Looks Spring Stones Branches Hiding Jewels Bud Every Second

Author:Nhat Hanh

“I have no wit, no words, no tears; My heart within me like a stone Is numb'd too much for hopes or fears; Look right, look left, I dwell alone; I lift mine eyes, but dimm'd with grief No everlasting hills I see; My life is in the falling leaf: O Jesus, quicken me.”

Looks Heart Eye Life Is Fall Jesus Left Grief Too Much Tears Mines My Heart Stones Wit Hills Lifts Leafs Everlasting Numb Falling Leaves

Author:Christina Rossetti

“People forget I started on TV as a 7-stone 12-year-old - I'm bound to have changed. I've just grown up and filled out. I haven't been hammering it in the gym, and I haven't been thinking, 'Right, I need to look good.'”

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Author:Kelvin Fletcher

“We dare not trim stones to make God an altar, for if we do we ruin everything. We would spend time bringing people to the altar and saying, "Look at those beautiful stones we trimmed!" We merely need to accept the work that God has done for us in Christ. The object of His restrictions is to help us see how wonderful He is and to spend the rest of our lives rendering true worship to Him.”

People Ifs Needs Looks Done Helping Beautiful Christ Accepting Our Lives Wonderful Objects Worship Stones Dare Ruins End Times Spend Time Restriction Altars Rendering True Worship

Author:Max Anders

“The Beatles looked like they were in show business, and that was the important thing. And the important thing for the Rolling Stones was to look as if they were not.”

Ifs Looks Important Shows Stones Important Things Rolling Show Business Rolling Stones

Author:Andrew Loog Oldham

“I can look back on my life, where there have been moments where things might have gone the other way. Everything is like stepping stones, and I've seen people I admire falter. We're all vulnerable.”

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Author:Hugh Jackman

“I know, when I look into the eyes of my own children, the look of wonder when I speak of life back in the '60s. That's why the Rolling Stones are such a hit even in their 60s, why Dennis Hopper is so compelling, even when he's making pitches for something unhip as long-term financial planning.”

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Author:Chris Matthews

“What's the big deal? I have really strong morals, and just because I look sexy on the cover of Rolling Stone doesn't mean I'm a naughty girl. I'd do it again. I thought the pictures were fine. And I was tired of being compared to Debbie Gibson and all of this bubblegum pop all the time.”

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Author:Britney Spears

“We do what we want to do. We write songs. We try not to repeat ourselves too much. We have our own sound and our own way of doing things. Up until now it has always been enjoyable. None of the members have ever got to the point where they don't want to be involved in it ... It's not entirely possible for me to stand back and look at the Rolling Stones because being a part of it you can't. I wish that I could just sit in the audience for one night and see the show. Everyone in the band has said that at some point. But then you wouldn't be seeing the whole band. And that's the problem with that.”

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Author:Keith Richards

“If you look at the history of popular music, the most successful musicians have started out being really marginal and esoteric. The Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Madonna. Prince. Bruce Springsteen. Fleetwood Mac. David Bowie. Public Enemy. Nirvana.”

Ifs Looks Enemy Successful Musician Stones Being Real Rolling Macs Rolling Stones Esoteric Bowie Popular Music Springsteen Public Enemies Fleetwood Mac

Author:Moby

“So Bach, Beethoven, Duke Ellington, Thelonius Monk, these are all people who would sort of rearrange or take riffs from people. Same thing with rock, if you look at the Rolling Stones doing a cover of Otis Redding or you know if you look at literature James Joyce is pulling fragments of text from other people.”

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Author:DJ Spooky

“Pompeii is an extraordinary place to be because it was preserved exactly as it was. There are many other sites. If you visit any other antiquity-type sites throughout the world, they're very damaged with what's gone on over the centuries since they were abandoned. But this one was just, like, sealed, so you're looking at rock surfaces and the carving of letters and names in the stones looks like it was done yesterday.”

Ifs World Looks Done Names Gone Rocks Century Type Stones Letters Extraordinary Surface Yesterday Abandoned Site Antiquity Carving Pompeii

Author:David Gilmour

“The Rolling Stones set the bar to where I look to as a band. But I don't envision myself touring in the way they do. My knees won't hold out.”

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Author:Jon Bon Jovi

“That might be the old model: to get a fixed fee. You have to start to think about other models and how they can generate interest - what it can do for a brand in the future - and about the fact that revenue can also be generated in many other ways... Just look at the one and a half million people at the free Rolling Stones concert in Cuba. And Cuba is not Central Park! So just use your imagination as to what kind of revenue can be made.”

People Thinking Way Looks Kind Made Facts Use Might Interest Can Do Imagination Half Millions Models Stones Brands Fixed Parks Concerts Rolling Revenue Cuba Fees Rolling Stones Central Park

Author:Martin Sorrell

“I don't see anyone avoiding the Stones because DJs make jokes about them being a part of the Geritol set. All it does is make the DJs look stupid.”

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Author:Joe Perry

“Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.”

“Just because I look sexy on the cover of Rolling Stone doesn't mean I'm naughty.”

Looks Mean Stones Sexy Rolling Naughty Rolling Stones Naughty Girl

Author:Britney Spears

“We look for the Secret - the Philosopher's Stone, the Elixir of the Wise, Supreme Enlightenment, 'God' or whatever...and all the time it is carrying us about...It is the human nervous system itself.”

Humans Looks Secret Wise Enlightenment Stones Philosopher Supreme Nervous Nervous System Elixir

Author:Robert Anton Wilson

“Even a stone, and more easily a flower or a bird, could show you the way back to God, to the Source, to yourself. When you look at it or hold it & let it be without imposing a word of mental label on it, a sense of awe, of wonder, arises within you. Its essence silently communicates itself to you and reflects your own essence back to you.”

Way Looks Shows Wonder Flower Source Bird Stones Essence Communicate Arise Labels Awe Within You Imposing

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“When you do your research write down whatever interests you. Whatever stimulates your imagination. Whatever seems important. A story is built like a stone wall. Not all the stones will fit. Some will have to be discarded. Some broken and reshaped. When you finish the wall it may not look exactly like the wall you envisioned, but it will keep the livestock in and the predators out. (pg. 144)”

Writing Looks May Important Stories Seems Interest Imagination Broken Wall Fit Research Built Stones Predator Discarded Livestock Stone Walls

Author:Roland Smith

“Maybe the first time you saw her you were ten. She was standing in the sun scratching her legs. Or tracing letters in the dirt with a stick. Her hair was being pulled. Or she was pulling someone's hair. And a part of you was drawn to her, and a part of you resisted--wanting to ride off on your bicycle, kick a stone, remain uncomplicated. In the same breath you felt the strength of a man, and a self-pity that made you feel small and hurt. Part of you thought: Please don't look at me. If you don't, I can still turn away. And part of you thought: Look at me.”

Source: The History of Love: A Novel

“The joke's on them. One little hypodermic wont' be enough. Split a piece of wood, and they'll find me. Lift up a stone, and they'll find me. Look in the mirror, and they'll find me...If you really want to know what makes someone a killer, ask yourself what would make you do it.”

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Book:Change of Heart: A Novel

Source: Change of Heart: A Novel

“Sidonie, I know you don't remember it, but you once promised to trust me beyond all reason. And I swear to you that all that I am, all that I possess, including this gem-stone, is yours. I need you. I can't do this alone. Forget your memories. Look into your heart. And if you can find somewhere there, some lingering spark of trust that owes naught to reason, I beg you to speak the word written here.”

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Author:Jacqueline Carey

“However, while being able to think about two things at the same time is a terribly convenient, the training it takes to get there is frustrating at best, and at other times rather disturbing. I remember one time I looked for the stone for almost an hour before I consented to ask the other half of me where I'd hidden it, only to find I hadn't hidden the stone at all. I had merely been waiting to see how long I would look before giving up. Have you ever been annoyed and amused with yourself at the same time? It's an interesting feeling, to say the very least.”

“Be nobody's darling; Be an outcast. Take the contradictions Of your life And wrap around You like a shawl, To parry stones To keep you warm. Watch the people succumb To madness With ample cheer; Let them look askance at you And you askance reply. Be an outcast; Be pleased to walk alone (Uncool) Or line the crowded River beds With other impetuous Fools. Make a merry gathering On the bank Where thousands perished For brave hurt words They said. Be nobody's darling; Be an outcast. Qualified to live Among your dead.”

Source: Alice Walker: Collected Poems: Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems 1965-1990

“My niceness has a very low threshold and that little girl just sucked it dry, so don’t push me, Olympain. I don’t want so much as a single Atlantean stone overturned. Guard it with your life because the next time I come here, that’s the price I’m going to demand for your incompetence. (ZT) Nice talking to you, ZT. I so look forward to your visits. Next time we’ll do pastries, ‘kay? (Kat)”

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Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

“Why are you talking to the King Loser Dork? You want to talk about ugly? Look at what he’s wearing. (Stone) I like a man who takes fashion chances. It’s the mark of someone who lives by his own code. A rebel. A real lone wolf is a lot sexier than a pack animal who follows orders and can’t have an opinion unless someone else gives it to him. (Nekoda)”

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Book:Infinity: Chronicles of Nick

Source: Infinity: Chronicles of Nick

“Orion brightened. "I have an idea." "Yes?" said Foaly, daring to hope that a spark of Artemis remained. "Why don't we look for some magic stones that can grant wishes? Or, if that doesn't work, you could search my naked body for some mysterious birthmark that means I am actually the prince of somewhere or other.”

Ifs Looks Mean Said Ideas Body Wish Magic Stones Naked Mysterious Grants Sparks Daring Artemis Fowl Artemis Fowl Orion Birthmarks

Author:Eoin Colfer

“Roads go ever ever on, Over rock and under tree, By caves where never sun has shone, By streams that never find the sea; Over snow by winter sown, And through the merry flowers of June, Over grass and over stone, And under mountains of the moon. Roads go ever ever on Under cloud and under star, Yet feet that wandering have gone Turn at last to home afar. Eyes that fire and sword have seen And horror in the halls of stone Look at last on meadows green And trees and hills they long have known”

“The woods always look different at night...as if the daytime trees and flowers and stones had gone to bed and sent slightly more ominous versions of themselves to take their places.”

Ifs Looks Different Night Gone Tree Flower Bed Stones Woods Versions Daytime Ominous

Author:Suzanne Collins

“Let me explain: there are dragons, and then there are drakons. Drakons are several millennia older than dragons, andmuch larger. They look like giant serpents. Most don't have wings. Most don't breathe fire (though some do). All are poisonous. All are immensely strong, with scales harder than titanium. Their eyes can paralyze you; not the turn-you~to-stone Medusa-type paralysis, buttheoh~my~gods-that~big~snake~is~going~to~eat~me type of paralysis, which is just as bad.”

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Book:Percy Jackson: The Complete Series

Source: Percy Jackson: The Complete Series

“Then they grow away from the earth then they grow away from the sun then they grow away from the plants and the animals. They see no life. When they look they see only objects. The world is a dead thing for them the trees and the rivers are not alive. the mountains and stones are not alive. The deer and bear are objects. They see no life. They fear. They fear the world. They destroy what they fear. They fear themselves.”

World Looks Earth Grows Animal Sun Alive Tree Objects Bears Mountain Rivers Stones Plant Deer

Author:Leslie Marmon Silko

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