Best stones & weight 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

“We are nearer neighbours to ourselves than whiteness to snow, or weight to stones.”

Stones Weight Snow Neighbour Whiteness

Book:Annotated Essays of Michel de Montaigne with English Grammar Exercises: by Michel de Montaigne (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)

Source: Annotated Essays of Michel de Montaigne with English Grammar Exercises: by Michel de Montaigne (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)

“Some questions cannot be answered. They become familiar weights in the hand, round stones pulled from the pocket, unyielding and cool.”

Hands Stones Weight Rounds Familiar Pockets Unyielding

Book:Of Gravity & Angels

Source: Of Gravity & Angels

“The larch... is not only preserved from decay and the worm by the great bitterness of its sap, but also it cannot be kindled with fire nor ignite of itself, unless like stone in a limekiln it is burned with other wood... This is because there is a very small proportion of the elements of fire and air in its composition, which is a dense and solid mass of moisture and the earthy, so that it has no open pores through which fire can find its way... Further, its weight will not let it float in water.”

Way Water Fire Air Elements Mass Stones Weight Woods Proportion Bitterness Decay Burned Composition Worms Floats Dense Sap Ignite Moisture

Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“'Yea and I beheld Sisyphus in strong torment, grasping a monstrous stone with both his hands. He was pressing thereat with hands and feet, and trying to roll the stone upward toward the brow of the hill. But oft as he was about to hurl it over the top, the weight would drive him back, so once again to the plain rolled the stone, the shameless thing. And he once more kept heaving and straining, and the sweat the while was pouring down his limbs, and the dust rose upwards from his head.”

Trying Hands Strong Sadness Feet Sad Stones Weight Rose Dust Hills Sweat Torment Limbs Monstrous Brows Pouring Grasping Over The Top Shameless Sisyphus Hands And Feet

Book:The Odyssey of Homer: Several Versions

Source: The Odyssey of Homer: Several Versions

“Kylie Minogue - she's so great. You'd love her if you met her. Everyone would. In a way I wish everyone could, to see what a person she is. She's so sweet and no bull and really funny, man, really funny. The Rolling Stones are like a weight around your neck. All that..'you're not meant to rock after you're 30...you've got to die in a car crash or of a drug overdose.”

Ifs Men Way Persons Dies Wish Rocks Car Sweet Mets Drug Stones Weight Necks Crash Rolling Bulls Rolling Stones Overdose Car Crash Funny Men

Author:Michael Hutchence

“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 reason they invented coffins, to lock the dead in, preserve them, they put makeup on them; they didn't want them spreading or changing into anything else. The stone with the name and date was on them to weight them down.”

Want Reason Names Stones Weight Preserves Makeup Locks Coffins

Book:Surfacing

Source: Surfacing

“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

“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

“You must try, the voice said, to become colder. I understood at once. It's like the bodies of gods: cast in bronze, braced in stone. Only something heartless could bear the full weight.”

Trying Said Body Voice Bears Understood Stones Weight Casts Heartless Bronze

Book:The lives of the heart

Source: The lives of the heart

“The past is nothing but a weight. It will build inside of you like a stone.”

Past Stones Weight Delirium

Book:Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem

Source: Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem

“Words have weight, something once said cannot be unsaid. Meaning is like a stone dropped into a pool; the ripples will spread and you cannot know what back they wash against.”

Knows Said Stones Weight Spread Pool Ripple Unsaid

Book:The Constant Princess

Source: The Constant Princess

“I know the past will drag you backward and down, have you snatching at whispers of wind and the gibberish of trees rubbing together, trying to decipher some code, trying to piece together what was broken. It's hopeless. The past is nothing but a weight. It will build inside you like a stone.”

Knows Trying Together Past Pieces Tree Wind Broken Stones Weight Code Hopeless Drag Decipher

Author:Lauren Oliver

“Perhaps, after all, our best thoughts come when we are alone. It is good to listen, not to voices but to the wind blowing, to the brook running cool over polished stones, to bees drowsy with the weight of pollen. If we attend to the music of the earth, we reach serenity. And then, in some unexplained way, we share it with others.”

Ifs Way Running Earth Voice Share Wind Stones Weight Bees Serenity Brooks Polished Unexplained Drowsy Wind Blowing Pollen

Author:Gladys Taber

“The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.”

Reason Fall Rocks Mountain Labor Stones Weight Punishment Hopeless Rolling Futility Fall Back Sisyphus Myth Of Sisyphus

Book:The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays

Source: The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays

“Great stones they lay upon his chest until he plead aye or nay. They say he give them but two words. "More weight," he says. And died.”

Giving Two Stones Weight Died Lays Chests

Book:Miller Plays: 1: All My Sons; Death of a Salesman; The Crucible; A Memory of Two Mondays; A View from the Bridge

Source: Miller Plays: 1: All My Sons; Death of a Salesman; The Crucible; A Memory of Two Mondays; A View from the Bridge

“My heart is heavy, she thought. It’s not just a saying. It is what is—heavy, a great stone lodged in my breast, pressing down my whole being. How can I even stand straight and look out upon the world? I am doubled over into myself and, for all the weight, find only emptiness.”

World Looks Heart Whole My Heart Stones Weight Heavy Emptiness Breasts

Author:Katherine Paterson

“Natural causes, as we know, are at work, which tend to modify, if they do not at length destroy, all the arrangements and dimensions of the earth and the whole solar system. But though in the course of ages catastrophes have occurred and may yet occur in the heavens, though ancient systems may be dissolved and new systems evolved out of their ruins, the molecules [i.e. atoms] out of which these systems are built-the foundation stones of the material universe-remain unbroken and unworn.‎ They continue to this day as they were created-perfect in number and measure and weight.”

Source: The Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell

“It is not the glorious battlements, the painted windows, the crouching gargoyles that support a building, but the stones that lie unseen in or upon the earth. It is often those who are despised and trampled on that bear up the weight of a whole nation.”

Whole Earth Lying Nations Christianity Support Building Bears Stones Window Weight Glorious Unseen Despised Gargoyles

Author:John Owen

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