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“You see, we're influenced by whatever's going. Even if we're not influenced, we're all going that way at a certain time. If we played a Stones record now - and a Beatles record - and we've been way apart, you'd find a lot of similarities. We're all heavy. Just heavy.”

Ifs Way Certain Records Stones Heavy Similarity

Author:John Lennon

“I was lucky in that I had a mother that was full of this colloquial wisdom and she used to say to me 'You know, failure is not the opposite of success, it's the stepping stone to success. There is nobody who has not failed along the way.' So I think its very important for young women, especially as they are starting in life, to recognize that because otherwise, they only see people's success. So, when I speak, I speak of my failures.”

People Thinking Knows Way Important Young Used Mother Speak Lucky Stones Opposites Starting Young Women Stepping Stones

Author:Arianna Huffington

“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.”

Way Want Writing Trying Looks Said Whole Shows Problem Night Song Wish Sound Audience Too Much Seeing Involved Band Members Stones Repeats Rolling Enjoyable One Night Rolling Stones

Author:Keith Richards

“There is part of a structure in which every species is related to every other species. And they're built up on species, like a pyramid. The simpler cell organisms, and then the more complicated ones, all the way up to the mammals and birds and so forth. We call it 'developing upward'... The whole thing depends on every part of it. And we're taking out the stones from the pyramid.”

Way Whole Depends Bird Built Stones Structure Species Complicated Cells Developing Related Organisms Pyramids Mammals

Author:W. S. Merwin

“The Stone Age gave us arrow heads and eventually knives, and that allowed us to kill animals in ways you couldn't before, and once you had them you were able to remove the skin and bones.”

Way Age Able Animal Stones Skins Bones Remove Knives Arrows Stone Age Skin And Bones

Author:Neal Barnard

“When an English man speaks well, for example now, and this is another way of putting us down, they say he's "eloquent" you see. "Oh, eloquent chap they are!" An Irish person speak well, they say, "Ah, you have the gift of the gab." "Ah, you kissed the blarney stone." You see, all of this putting us down.”

Men Way Wells Persons Speak Example Stones Another Way Eloquent Chaps Blarney

Author:Malachy McCourt

“I go way beyond just the wood and stone but to the process of growth and farming and the tensions between the two.”

Way Two Process Growth Stones Woods Tension Farming

Author:Andy Goldsworthy

“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

“Before M2, I really felt self-conscious about some of my choices, and I was slotted into a category. At Rolling Stone, I was the alternative chick, and that was just the way it was. That did break me open a little bit, and that was maybe its legacy. And it's a nice one.”

Way Littles Self Choices Felt Bits Break Nice Little Bit Conscious Stones Alternatives Legacy Categories Rolling Self Conscious Chicks Rolling Stones

Author:Jancee Dunn

“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

“John Milius and Francis Ford Coppola and Oliver Stone - those guys are consummate filmmakers. They believe that you don't talk it, you show it. So when I find a role now, I try to find a visual way to tell what the character is about rather than trying to speak about it.”

Way Trying Believe Character Shows Guy Speak Roles Stones Filmmaker Visuals

Author:George Hamilton

“I was really not familiar at all with Edward Snowden. I like to get that right out of the way and really learned most of what I know from Oliver's [Stones] script.”

Knows Way Stones Scripts Familiar Snowden

Author:Melissa Leo

“My first ones were The Young Rascals. I made out with Dino Danelli, the drummer, in the alley behind the City Auditorium. Then I met Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels. This is all way, way back in the day. Later I got in the big leagues, like chasing around The Rolling Stones. And I hid in the bus for Paul Revere & The Raiders. And The Zombies.”

“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

“It was stone carvers in ancient Rome, scribes in the Middle Ages, all the way through Gutenberg to the present day. That's a pretty long track record. More likely we may reach a point where each one of us is a typographer with our own custom proprietary typeface.”

Way May Long Age Records Middle Stones Ancient Track Customs Rome Middle Ages Present Day Track Record Ancient Rome Scribes Typefaces Carver Gutenberg

Author:Michael Bierut

“I have gone up in the Pyramids and the stones are so close together you can't force a playing card between them and (they are) in perfect alignment. So those people must have had some hydraulics or something. You take 20 men, put them around a big stone, their legs would get in the way. Even if they could lift it, 20 pairs of legs hitting against each other would throw it off balance. And they would not have it in exact alignment. Not even a fraction of an inch off.”

People Ifs Men Way Bigs Together Force Perfect Gone Balance Stones Legs Cards Lifts Pairs Inches Hitting Pyramids Fractions Alignment Playing Cards

Author:John Henrik Clarke

“The standard is not writ on the stone. The definition of the standard is that it is the best way to do the job for now. It should be regarded as a next step to make further improvement.”

Way Should Jobs Next Steps Standards Stones Definitions Improvement Best Way Next Steps

Author:Masaaki Imai

“When I came to Detroit, if you threw a stone up in the air it would hit an autoworker on its way down. A few years after that, if you threw a stone in the air it'd hit an abandoned house or a vacant lot on its way down. And most people saw those vacant lots as blight. But meanwhile during World War II, blacks had moved from the South to the North. And they saw these vacant lots as places where you could grow food for the community. And so urban agriculture was born.”

“The Rolling Stones are violence. Their music penetrates the raw nerve endings of their listeners and finds its way into the groove marked 'release of frustration.'”

Way Violence Stones Release Frustration Nerves Listeners Rolling Penetrate Rolling Stones Groove

Author:Jon Landau

“At my Rolling Stones' tour, the camera was a protection. I used it in a Zen way.”

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Author:Annie Leibovitz

“Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they even roll a few more upon it.”

People Ifs Way Inspirational Challenges Business Accepting Stones Deeds Apology Good Deeds Propose Transcendentalism Deeds Done

Author:Albert Schweitzer

“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

“Thinking about something is like picking up a stone when taking a walk, either while skipping rocks on the beach, for example, or looking for a way to shatter the glass doors of a museum. When you think about something, it adds a bit of weight to your walk, and as you think about more and more things you are liable to feel heavier and heavier, until you are so burdened you cannot take any further steps, and can only sit and stare at the gentle movements of the ocean waves or security guards, thinking too hard bout too many things to do anything else.”

“The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. If you can change the way people think. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. You can change the way people live their lives. That's the only lasting thing you can create.”

Source: Choke: A Novel

“The light was leaving in the west it was blue The children's laughter sang and skipping just like the stones they threw the voices echoed across the way its getting late It was just another night with the sun set and the moon rise not so far behind to give us just enough light to lay down underneath the stars listen to papas translations of the stories across the sky we drew our own constellations”

Way Giving Children Enough Stories Light Night Stars Voice Behinds Sun Sky Moon Late Laughter Stones Blue Lays West Leaving Translations Constellations Papa Sun Set Moon Rise

Author:Jack Johnson

“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

“Then the Old Man of the Earth stooped over the floor of the cave, raised a huge stone from it, and left it leaning. It disclosed a great hole that went plumb-down. "That is the way," he said. "But there are no stairs." "You must throw yourself in. There is no other way.”

Men Way Said Earth Left Huge Stones Raised Holes Old Man Caves Stairs

Book:The Complete Works of George MacDonald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Theological Writings & Essays (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, England’s Antiphon, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, The Light Princess, The Golden Key and many more

Source: The Complete Works of George MacDonald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Theological Writings & Essays (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, England’s Antiphon, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, The Light Princess, The Golden Key and many more

“The sea's only gifts are harsh blows, and occasionally the chance to feel strong. Now I don't know much about the sea, but I do know that that's the way it is here. And I also know how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong but to feel strong. To measure yourself at least once. To find yourself at least once in the most ancient of human conditions. Facing the blind death stone alone, with nothing to help you but your hands and your own head.”

Knows Way Feels Humans Important Helping Hands Strong Chance Know How Sea Conditions Stones Blind Ancient Blow Finding Yourself Human Condition Harsh

Author:Jon Krakauer

“Andy Dufresne: 'That's the beauty of music. They can't get that from you...haven't you ever felt that way about music?' Red: 'I played a mean harmonica as a younger man. Lost interest in it though. Didn't make much sense in here.' Andy: 'Here's where it makes the most sense. You need it so you don't forget.' Red: 'Forget?' Andy: 'Forget that...there are places in this world that aren't made out of stone. That there's something inside...that they can't get to, that they can't touch. That's yours.' Red: 'What're you talking about?' Andy: 'Hope.'”

Men World Way Needs Mean Made Lost Felt Interest Forget Talking Havens This World Red Stones Redemption Harmonicas

Author:Stephen King

“Lay down these words Before your mind like rocks. placed solid, by hands In choice of place, set Before the body of the mind in space and time: Solidity of bark, leaf, or wall riprap of things: Cobble of milky way. straying planets, These poems, people, lost ponies with Dragging saddles -- and rocky sure-foot trails. The worlds like an endless four-dimensional Game of Go. ants and pebbles In the thin loam, each rock a word a creek-washed stone Granite: ingrained with torment of fire and weight Crystal and sediment linked hot all change, in thoughts, As well as things.”

Source: No nature: new and selected poems

“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

“Logic is a feeble reed, friend. "Logic" proved that airplanes can't fly and that H-bombs won't work and that stones don't fall out of the sky. Logic is a way of saying that anything which didn't happen yesterday won't happen tomorrow.”

Way Happens Fall Sky Tomorrow Stones Logic Yesterday Bombs Airplane Reeds

Book:Glory Road

Source: Glory Road

“Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way of being with the mystery, unique and not to be judged.”

Way Christian Spirituality Secret Meditation Mystery Mountain Diversity Unique Rivers Stones Jew Judged Unity In Diversity Tolerance And Diversity

Author:Rumi

“What is remembered is not a deed in stone but a metaphor. Meta = above. Pheren = to carry. That which is carried above the literalness of life. A way of thinking that avoids the problems of gravity. The word won't let me down. The single word that can release me from all that unuttered weight.”

Thinking Way Problem Stones Weight Let Me Metaphor Deeds Release Remembered Gravity Way Of Thinking Single Word Let Me Down

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“Things shouldn't hinge on so very little. Sneeze and you're highway carnage. Remove one tiny stone and you're an avalanche statistic. But I guess if you can die without ever understanding how it happened then you can also live without a complete understanding of how. And in a way that's kind of relaxing.”

Ifs Way Life Kind Littles Dies Understanding Happened Stones Tiny Remove Highways Hinges Carnage Avalanches

Author:Miriam Toews

“They wanted to carry her, but she jumped to the stones of the plaza and strode away from the building, toward her ranks, which parted to make way for her. The streets of Pudong were filled with hungry and terrified refugees, and through them, in simple peasant clothes streaked with the blood of herself and of others, broken shackles dangling from her wrists, followed by her generals and ministers, walked the barbarian Princess with her book and her sword.”

Way Book Wanted Simple Blood Streets Building Broken Clothes Stones Filled Hungry Ministers Princess Terrified Refugee Peasants Wrists Barbarians Shackles

Book:The Diamond Age

Source: The Diamond Age

“This was something she would keep hidden within herself, maybe in place of the knot of pain and anger she had been carrying under her breastbone...a security blanket, an ace up her sleeve. She might never use it, but she would always feel its presence like a swelling secret stone, and that way when she let go of the rage, she would not feel nearly as empty.”

Way Feels Use Might Pain Secret Security Letting Go Heartbreak Stones Empty Rage Blanket Sleeves Knots Aces Swelling

Author:Jodi Picoult

“Everything we knew condemned us, and our questioning condemned us most of all. Knowledge was the way of our people, and knowledge was dangerous. It was the first thing that freed you and the thing that put you in peril. It was the key to the ten gates. I saw them clearly now, each and every one, the gates that were there for me. Ashes, Bones, Grass, Heart, Stone, Love, Sorrow, Blood, Earth, Sky.”

People Way Firsts Heart Earth Saws Blood Sky Dangerous Keys Sorrow Ten Stones Bones Grass Gates Questioning Ashes Peril Sorrow Love

Author:Alice Hoffman

“Big lots,' I said, seeing the eighty-year-old oaks and shady lawns. The houses were set way back and had iron fences and stone drives. The harder to hear your neighbors scream, my dear,' was David’s answer, and I sent my head up and down in agreement.”

Way Years Said Bigs House Answers Seeing Stones Harder Dear Neighbor Agreement Iron Scream Fence Eighty Up And Down Oaks Lawns Shady Heads Up

Author:Kim Harrison

“How absurd these words are, such as beast and beast of prey. One should not speak of animals in that way. They may be terrible sometimes, but they're much more right than men...They're never in any embarrassment. They always know what to do and how to behave themselves. They don't flatter and they don't intrude. They don't pretend. They are as they are, like stones or flowers or stars in the sky.”

Knows Men Way Life Should May Sometimes Speak Stars Animal Sky Flower Terrible Stones Absurd Behave Beast Prey Embarrassment Stars In The Sky

Author:Hermann Hesse

“We all build internal sea walls to keep at bay the sadnesses of life and the often overwhelming forces within our minds. In whatever way we do this--through love, work, family, faith, friends, denial, alcohol, drugs, or medication, we build these walls, stone by stone, over a lifetime.”

Way Mind Force Sea Sadness Wall Drug Depression Stones Lifetime Alcohol Denial Internals Overwhelming Medication Sadness Of Life Work Family Overwhelming Force

Author:Kay Redfield Jamison

“Picture a tall, dark figure, surrounded by cornfields... NO, YOU CAN'T RIDE A CAT. WHO EVER HEARD OF THE DEATH OF RATS RIDING A CAT? THE DEATH OF RATS WOULD RIDE SOME KIND OF DOG. Picture more fields, a great horizon-spanning network of fields, rolling in gentle waves... DON'T ASK ME I DON'T KNOW. SOME KIND OF TERRIER, MAYBE. ...fields of corn, alive, whispering in the breeze... RIGHT, AND THE DEATH OF FLEAS CAN RIDE IT TOO. THAT WAY YOU KILL TWO BIRDS WITH ONE STONE. ...awaiting the clockwork of the seasons. METAPHORICALLY.”

Knows Way Kind Two Asks Dark Alive Heard Dog Figures Fields Bird Stones Cat Seasons Wave Ask Me Gentle Tall Horizon Riding Rolling Rats Breeze Corn Whispering Fleas Clockwork Terriers Two Birds

Author:Terry Pratchett

“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

“Good-bye -- if you hear of my being stood up against a stone wall and shot to rags please know that I think that a pretty good way to depart this life. It beats old age, disease or falling down the cellar stairs.”

Source: A Much Misunderstood Man: Selected Letters of Ambrose Bierce

“Sarah had a saying: Der gleichster veg iz ful mit shtainer." "What's it mean?" "The smoothest way is sometimes full of stones.”

Way Mean Sometimes Stones Mit

Author:Julie Orringer

“A Note Life is the only way to get covered in leaves, catch your breath on the sand, rise on wings; to be a dog, or stroke its warm fur; to tell pain from everything it's not; to squeeze inside events, dawdle in views, to seek the least of all possible mistakes. An extraordinary chance to remember for a moment a conversation held with the lamp switched off; and if only once to stumble upon a stone, end up soaked in one downpour or another, mislay your keys in the grass; and to follow a spark on the wind with your eyes; and to keep on not knowing something important.”

Source: Monologue of a Dog

“He told me once that there was no better faith than a wounded faith and sometimes I wonder if that is what he was doing all along --trying to wound his faith in order to test it--and I was just another stone in the way of his God.”

Ifs Way Trying Sometimes Order Wonder Stones Tests Wounds Wounded Sometimes I Wonder

Book:Let The Great World Spin

Source: Let The Great World Spin

“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

“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