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“And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.”

World Love Stories My Own Written Ready Lovers Stones Quarrels Epitaph

Author:Robert Frost

“And when midst fallen London, they survey The stone where Alexander's ashes lay, Shall own with humbled pride the lesson must By Time's slow finger written in the dust.”

Time Written Pride Lessons Stones Lays Fingers London Dust Fallen Midst Ashes Surveys

Author:Anna Letitia Barbauld

“I had two projects that fell apart during preproduction. The first one was this movie that Judd Apatow and I had written about two guys following the Rolling Stones. It was going to be half concert film, half pseudo-documentary. It was Mick Jagger's idea.The other one was Simple Plan, based on a novel by Scott Smith. It's a great book - really stark, not a comedy - about a guy who finds $4 million in a plane crash and decides to keep it.”

“A woman's heart is just like a lithographer's stone; what is once written upon it cannot be rubbed out.”

Heart Written Stones

Author:William Makepeace Thackeray

“When, and how, and at what stage of our development did spirituality and our strange notions of religion arise? the need for worship which is nothing more than our frightened refuge into propitiation of a Creator we do not understand? A detective story, the supreme Who-done-it, written in indecipherable hieroglyphics, no Rosetta stone supplied by the consummate Mystifier to tease us poor fumbling unravellers of his plot.”

Source: No Signposts in the Sea

“When I'm working on a Slipknot song, it's like a switch flips in my head. I can go there easily - it doesn't take a lot of soul searching - and it's a dark, almost sinister place. Stone Sour is more the way I've always written. It's a different tone.”

Way I Can Different Soul Song Dark Written Stones Tone Soul Searching Flip Sour Sinister Stone Sour

Author:Corey Taylor

“I discovered that some things are written for us. It's not that we can't change our ancestral bearings, or that the path or purpose of any of our lives is really written in stone. But what tends to happen sometimes is the path is so deeply inscribed in the birth that it becomes you and every variation away from it brings you back in ways that you are not controlling.”

Way Sometimes Happens Life Is Purpose Path Our Lives Written Birth Stones Variation Can't Change Written In Stone

Author:Maya Tiwari

“... when you make it a moral necessity for the young to dabble in all the subjects that the books on the top shelf are written about, you kill two very large birds with one stone: you satisfy precious curiosities, and you make them believe that they know as much about life as people who really know something. If college boys are solemnly advised to listen to lectures on prostitution, they will listen; and who is to blame if some time, in a less moral moment, they profit by their information?”

“Chiromancy is a stupidity! No man's fate is ever written on nowhere! In this universe, all the roads are our fate; all the stones and all the flowers are waiting for us! All the pages and all the days of the future are empty! On the roads to future, no one has footprints; we create them through walking!”

Men Universe Waiting Fate Written Flower Walking Pages Stones Empty Stupidity Footprint

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“So they pass away: friends, kindred, the dearest-loved, grown people, aged, infants. As we go on the down-hill journey, the mile-stones are grave-stones, and on each more and more names are written; unless haply you live beyond man's common age, when friends have dropped off, and, tottering, and feeble, and unpitied, you reach the terminus alone.”

People Men Age Names Common Written Journey Goes On Stones Miles Graves Hills Infant Passing Away Kindred

Book:Miscellanies: The four Georges. The English humorists. Roundabout papers

Source: Miscellanies: The four Georges. The English humorists. Roundabout papers

“I want to get people to read stone, tree, so forth & so on through the construction of the picture, to lead them to these things exactly as if it were written out on a page. I think it can be done.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Done Written Tree Pages Stones Construction

Author:Ralph Eugene Meatyard

“The Moral Law is summarily contained in the Decalogue or Ten Commandments; written by the finger of God on two tablets of stone, and delivered to Moses on Mount Sinai.”

Two Law Moral Written Ten Stones Fingers Commandments Moses Ten Commandments Tablets Moral Law Sinai

Book:A Dictionary of the English Language: Intended to Exhibi ... : in Two Volumes

Source: A Dictionary of the English Language: Intended to Exhibi ... : in Two Volumes

“I think it's kind of written in stone that men are supposed to have strong feelings about age, but I've never really thought about it.”

Thinking Men Kind Feelings Age Strong Written Stones Strong Feeling Written In Stone

Author:Nico Tortorella

“I am indebted to anyone who has ever written anything. I am indebted to the unknown carver of pictograms on a gallery of stone panels, which I encountered and stood in silence before on top of a distant odd-shaped hill in northern Kenya. For whatever reason the muses have most unexpectedly invited me to join this immense procession. I am humbled and delighted.”

Reason Silence Written Stones Hills Odd Immense Muse Silence Is Invited Delighted Gallery Kenya Indebted Procession Carver

Author:Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

“If I looked at some of these pieces as if this project was not spoken-word but just short anthology, I probably would have fussed with some of the sentences, you know? Syllabication and prosody and such crap. Because the printed word is etched in stone. But for reading purposes I accepted this book of texts in the manner in which I wrote them, no need to fuss. Most of the shorter stuff was written as poetry. Meaning lots of white space on the page.”

Ifs Knows Needs Book Purpose Reading Stuff Space White Pieces Written Projects Pages Stones Sentences Accepted Crap Printed Spoken Word Anthology Printed Word White Space Prosody

Author:Richard Meltzer

“When Rolling Stone handed me this crazy assignment to be in the studio with James Brown, they had the misapprehension that I'd written for them already just because I claimed my character had.”

Character Written Crazy Stones Studios Brown Rolling Assignments Rolling Stones

Author:Jonathan Lethem

“There is no "End" to be written, neither can you, like an architect, engrave in stone the day the garden was finished. A painter can frame his picture, a composer can notate his coda, but a garden is always on the move.”

Ends Moving Written Garden Stones Finished Painter Architect Composer Engrave Garden Design

Book:A Gentle Plea for Chaos

Source: A Gentle Plea for Chaos

“Bob Dylan was really mad with my wife. I had asked by Rolling Stone - the only assignment I ever had for them - to do a story on the Rolling Thunder Review, which was Bob Dylan, Alan Ginsberg, Joan Baez and a host of stars. My wife, some weeks before, had written in The New York Times that The Kid wasn't The Kid anymore and he wasn't all that winning anymore.”

Stories Kids Winning Stars Wife Written Week New York Stones Mad My Wife Reviews Host Bob Rolling Thunder Dylan New York Times Assignments Rolling Stones Ginsberg

Author:Nat Hentoff

“It is innate in our species to be cyborgian in nature. We have been in the self amplifying feedback loop with our tools since stone tools, and since the written word, and what we are seeing now is just a deepening of that. But it has always been the case. We have always done this.”

Has Beens Self Done Cases Written Seeing Tools Stones Species Feedback Innate Loops Written Word

Author:Jason Silva

“For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stonewritten. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.”

“Generally, old media don't die. They just have to grow old gracefully. Guess what, we still have stone masons. They haven't been the primary purveyors of the written word for a while now of course, but they still have a role because you wouldn't want a TV screen on your headstone.”

Want Stills Dies Courses Grows Roles Written Media Havens Tvs Stones Screens Primaries Written Word Masons Headstone Hitchhiking

Author:Douglas Adams

“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.”

Ifs Knows Needs Looks Heart I Can Reason Remember Speak Memories Forget Written Stones Including Sparks Swear Trust Me Need You Gems I Need You Lingering

Author:Jacqueline Carey

“Nothing is written stone, child. Even if it were, the stones can be shattered”

Ifs Children Written Stones Shattered

Book:Dragon Prince

Source: Dragon Prince

“The past is history written in stone that can't be altered. The future is transitory and never guaranteed. Today is the only thing you can alter for certain. Make the most of it.”

Today Past Certain Written Stones Altered Transitory Written In Stone

Book:Born Of Silence: Number 5 in series

Source: Born Of Silence: Number 5 in series

“After all the fears, the warnings, after all, a woman's mistakes are different from a girl's. They are written by fire on stone. They are a trait and not an error.”

Different Girl Mistake Fire Written Stones Errors Warning Traits

Book:White Oleander

Source: White Oleander

“Don't accept the limitations of other people who claim things are 'unchangeable'. If it's written in stone, bring your hammer and chisel.”

People Ifs Accepting Written Stones Claims Limitation Hammers Unchangeable Chisels Written In Stone

Book:Life 101: everything we wish we had learned about life in school -- but didn't

Source: Life 101: everything we wish we had learned about life in school -- but didn't

“Here and there and not just in books we catch glimpses of a world of once upon a time and they lived happily ever after, of a world where there is a wizard to give courage and a heart, an angel with a white stone that has written on it our true and secret name, and it is so easy to dismiss it all that it is hardly worth bothering to do. ... But if the world of the fairy tale and our glimpses of it here and there are only a dream, they are one of the most haunting and powerful dreams that the world has ever dreamed.”

“When the uncultured man sees a stone in the road it tells him no story other than the fact that he sees a stone ... The scientist looking at the same stone perhaps will stop, and with a hammer break it open, when the newly exposed faces of the rock will have written upon them a history that is as real to him as the printed page.”

Men Real Facts Stories Reality Faces Science Culture Break History Written Rocks Pages Stones Scientist Exposed Hammers Printed

Book:Nature's Miracles: Familiar Talks on Science

Source: Nature's Miracles: Familiar Talks on Science

“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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