Best stones & turns Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“For years I was an undiagnosed anorexic, suffering from a little-known variant of the disease, where, freakishly, the appetite turns in on itself and demands more and more food, forcing the sufferer to gain several stones in weight and wear men's V-necked pullovers. My condition has stabilised now, but I can never stray too far from cocoa-based products and I keep a small cracknel-type candy in my brassiere at all times. Fortunately, I wear a 'D' cup so there is plenty of room for sweetmeats.”

Men Years Littles I Can Suffering Turns Rooms Known Conditions Products Type Demand Disease Gains Stones Weight All Time Cups Plenty Appetite Candy Sufferers Anorexics Cocoa

Author:Victoria Wood

“Better to toil blindly, beating every stone in turn for grains of gold, whether they contain any or not, than lie down in apathetic decay.”

Lying Turns Stones Gold Grain Decay Toil Apathetic

Book:STEEP TRAILS: California - Utah - Nevada - Washington - Oregon - The Grand Canyon: Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Essays and Wilderness Studies from the author of The Yosemite, Our National Parks, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf & Picturesque California

Source: STEEP TRAILS: California - Utah - Nevada - Washington - Oregon - The Grand Canyon: Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Essays and Wilderness Studies from the author of The Yosemite, Our National Parks, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf & Picturesque California

“I know death is the fascinating snake under the leaves, sliding and sliding; I know the heart loves him too, can't turn away, can't break the spell. Everything wants to enter the slow thickness, aches to be peaceful finally and at any cost. Wants to be stone.”

Knows Want Heart Death Turns Break Cost Stones Peaceful Fascinating Spells Snakes Ache Heart Love Thickness

Book:Dream Work

Source: Dream Work

“The mind is a mill which can incessant turn, 'til its mere operation focus the stress inward and the stones grind themselves to dust.”

Mind Turns Focus Stones Stress Mere Dust Operations Inward Grind Mills Incessant

Book:Faustus

Source: Faustus

“The greenish sky glows up in misty reds, The purple shadows turn to brick and stone,The dreams wear thin, men turn upon their beds, And hear the milk-cart jangle by alone.”

Men Dream Turns Sky Bed Shadow Stones Milk Bricks Purple Carts Misty Thin Man

Book:Helen of Troy, and Other Poems

Source: Helen of Troy, and Other Poems

“Humans turn the places they live into great crowded piles of mud and stone, like the nests termites build--but what happens when in all the world there are termite hills left but no bush?”

World Humans Happens Turns Left Cities Stones Hills Mud Crowded Nests

Book:Otherland: City of Golden Shadow

Source: Otherland: City of Golden Shadow

“These false answers such as, I am stone, I am bird, I am animal, I am man, I am woman, I am great, I am small are, in turn, received, tested and discarded until the Question arrives at the right and Final Answer, I AM GOD.”

Men Turns Answers Animal Bird Stones Finals Tested Discarded I Am Woman

Book:The Advancing Stream of Life: Its Mystery, Meaning & Purpose

Source: The Advancing Stream of Life: Its Mystery, Meaning & Purpose

“But it's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin And can't stand the company. Every fool's got a reason to feelin' sorry for himself And turn his heart to stone. Tonight this fool's halfway to heaven and just a mile outta hell And I feel like I'm comin' home.”

Men Feels Heart Reason Home Turns Heaven Company Hell Fool My Friends Stones Skins Sorry Miles Tonight Halfway Sad Man

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“Today I have so much to do: I must kill memory once and for all, I must turn my soul to stone, I must learn to live again. Unless ... Summer's ardent rustling is like a festival outside my window.”

Soul Today Turns Memories Summer Stones Window My Soul Festivals Kill Me Ardent

Author:Anna Akhmatova

“Turn the anger of the Almighty against the godless Turks and Barbarians who despise Christ the Lord.....In the royal city of the east, they have slain the successor of Constantine and his people, desecrated the temples of the Lord, defiled the noble church of Justinian with their Mohometan abominations. Each success, will only be a stepping stone until he has mastered all the Western Monarchs, overthrow the Christian Faith, and imposed the law of his false prophet on the whole world”

“Perhaps it is because Venice is both liquid and solid, both air and stone, that it somehow combines all the elements crucial to make our imaginations ignite and turn fantasies into realities.”

Reality Turns Imagination Fantasy Air Elements Stones Crucial Liquid Venice Ignite

Book:Shylock's Daughter: A Novel of Love in Venice

Source: Shylock's Daughter: A Novel of Love in Venice

“Moss is inconceivably strong. Moss eats stone; scarcely anything, in return, eats moss. Moss dines upon boulders, slowly but devastatingly, in a meal that lasts for centuries. Given enough time, a colony of moss can turn a cliff into gravel, and turn that gravel into topsoil.”

Enough Lasts Turns Strong Given Century Return Stones Meals Biology Cliffs Enough Time Colony Moss Dine Boulders Gravel Topsoil

Book:The Signature of All Things

Source: The Signature of All Things

“One of the marks of true genius is a quality of abundance. A rich, rollicking abundance, enough to give indigestion to ordinary people. Great artists turn it out in rolls, in swatches. They cover whole ceilings with paintings, they chip out a mountainside in stone, they write not one novel but a shelf full. It follows that some of their work is better than other. As much as a third of it may be pretty bad. Shall we say this unevenness is the mark of their humanity - of their proud mortality as well as of their immortality?”

Source: The Nature of the Artist: An Address Delivered at the Dedication Ceremonies for Lee Pattison Recital Hall, Wilbur Hall, Mary Kimberly Residence Hall

“For we are all bound in stories, and as the years pile up they turn to stone, layer upon layer, building our lives.”

Years Stories Turns Our Lives Building Stones Bounds Layers

Book:The Crippled God: The Malazan Book of the Fallen 10

Source: The Crippled God: The Malazan Book of the Fallen 10

“I would happily help to turn the stone being thrown at me into a boomerang.”

Helping Turns Stones Thrown Boomerang

Author:Peer Steinbruck

“I couldn't turn down The Rolling Stones. A real man would never turn down the chance of working with legends like them.”

Men Real Turns Chance Stones Legends Rolling Rolling Stones Real Men

Author:Steve Lillywhite

“I am a rock & roll man, and therefore, a denim man. Musicians of any era - whether it be The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Rage Against the Machine, or, of course, Madonna - will inspire fashion. And we in turn will inspire them.”

Men Turns Courses Rocks Fashion Inspire Musician Stones Machines Rage Eras Rolling Rolling Stones Denim Rage Against The Machine

Author:Renzo Rosso

“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

“Let firm, well hammer'd soles protect thy feet Through freezing snows, and rains, and soaking sleet; Should the big last extend the shoe too wide, Each stone will wrench the unwary step aside; The sudden turn may stretch the swelling vein, The cracking joint unhinge, or ankle sprain; And when too short the modish shoes are worn, You'll judge the seasons by your shooting corn.”

Source: Poetry and prose of John Gay

“Could I write all, the world would turn to stone.”

World Writing Turns Stones

Author:Caterina Sforza

“I've had my ups and downs, and I definitely have a sense - in America, especially - that once you've made your mark and gotten your Rolling Stone piece and your Grammy nomination, that they're on to the next piece of meat, and they don't necessarily like to follow the twistsand turns of an artistic career. Throwing an opera at them is something they have to notice. There's nothing subtle about it.”

Made America Turns Next Careers Pieces Stones Mark Artistic Meat Subtle Throwing Opera Rolling Ups & Downs Rolling Stones Nominations One Piece Grammy

Author:Rufus Wainwright

“Particularly fine is the top-heavy comedienne, Loni Anderson, as the receptionist whose movements turn men to stone...she keeps her head while all the men around her are losing theirs.”

Men Turns Movement He Man Fine Losing Stones Heavy Receptionists

Author:James Wolcott

“Get what you can, and what you get hold; 'tis the Stone that will turn all your Lead into Gold.”

Turns Stones Gold Poor Richard

Book:Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818

Source: Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818

“At the end of the playback of the take of "Like A Rolling Stone", or actually during the thing, Bob Dylan said to the producer, turn up the organ. And Tom Wilson said, oh man, that guy's not an organ player. And Dylan said, I don't care, turn the organ up, and that's really how I became an organ player.”

Men Said Ends Care Guy Turns Player Stones Don't Care Producers I Don't Care Bob Organs Toms Rolling Dylan That Guy Rolling Stones Wilson

Author:Al Kooper

“There is no art or science that is too difficult for industry to attain to; it is the gift of tongues, and makes a man understood and valued in all countries, and by all nations; it is the philosopher's stone, that turns all metals, and even stones, into gold, and suffers not want to break into its dwelling; it is the northwest passage, that brings the merchant's ships as soon to him as he can desire: in a word, it conquers all enemies, and makes fortune itself pay contribution.”

“Publication is rather like pushing the boat out; then the boat/book turns into a melting ice floe and you have to conjure a second boat which again turns into a melting floe under your feet. All the stepping stones that you conjure disappear under the water behind you.”

Book Turns Water Behinds Feet Stones Disappear Boat Ice Pushing Melting Publication Behind You Stepping Stones Melting Ice

Author:Seamus Heaney

“In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.”

Knows Men Want Heart Stills Age Turns Stones Murder Aging Commit Irresistible

Author:Earl Warren

“Perhaps all our loves are merely hints and symbols; vagabond-language scrawled on gate-posts and paving-stones along the weary road that others have tramped before us; perhaps you and I are types and this sadness which sometimes falls between us springs from disappointment in our search, each straining through and beyond the other, snatching a glimpse now and then of the shadow which turns the corner always a pace or two ahead of us.”

“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

“Pleasures may turn a heart to stone, riches may make it callous, but sorrows cannot break it. Hearts live by being wounded.”

Heart May Turns Pleasure Break Sorrow Stones Riches Live By Wounded Callous

Book:The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; Salome; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest

Source: The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; Salome; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest

“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.”