When I came to Detroit, if you threw a stone up in the air and it came down, it would hit an autoworker because the Chrysler Jefferson plant where my husband worked was very close also to where we lived. – Grace Lee Boggs
Australians are very provincial in many ways. If they feel that you’ve used them as a stepping stone to bigger things, they resent it. – Graham Russell
You can have a wrestling idea, but you need to have these momentum-shifting moves. We had the Hulkamania movement, then it shifted to the beer-drinking, Stone Cold era, we reinvented the business with growing the black beard and becoming the bad guy, what’s that next level. – Hulk Hogan
The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable. – Horace
I’m a fan of Oliver Stone. I like his movies, I like his excess, and I think he has a great capacity for empathy and it comes out more powerfully in this movie than in any of his other films, even the formal ‘I’m identifying with the underdog’ movies like ‘Born on the Fourth of July.’ – Greil Marcus
Indeed, willingness to challenge professional economists and other experts is a foundation stone of democracy. If all we have to do is to listen to the experts, what is the point of having democracy? – Ha-Joon Chang
General McChrystal had to go. Whatever his virtues as a strategist and commander, the ‘Rolling Stone’ interview fatally compromised his ability to represent the United States in dealing with allies and to act within the circle of people who must make decisions in Afghanistan. – Jim Talent
Decades ago, Gerhard Richter found a painterly philosopher’s stone. Like Jackson Pollock before him, he discovered something that had been in painting all along, always overlooked or discounted. – Jerry Saltz
Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral. – John Burroughs
Who am I to pass judgment? Judgment has been passed on me, but I adhere to, ‘Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.’ – James Nesbitt
Native Americans had only stone and wooden weapons and no animals that could be ridden. Those military advantages repeatedly enabled troops of a few dozen mounted Spaniards to defeat Indian armies numbering in the thousands. – Jared Diamond
Two of my favorite bands, Blackberry Smoke and Black Stone Cherry, I just think both of those bands are a good new progressive kind of Southern Rock that’s a little different than us but still has a rootsy thing going on. – Johnny Van Zant
I went on the pill when I was 16, put on four stone… so that proved to be a very effective contraceptive. – Jo Brand
On that Sunday morning the first thing that impressed the people who approached the tomb was the unusual position of the one and a half to two ton stone that had been lodged in front of the doorway. – Josh McDowell
That’s what prison did for me, it isolated me, you know, it polished me up like a stone. – Jayson Williams
Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is ‘The X Factor.’ – Iain Duncan Smith
Labor is the fabled magician’s wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune. – James Weldon Johnson
Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone. – Jorge Luis Borges
I’ve been pretty lucky. Every single thing I’ve done has meant so much to me and has been like a stepping stone to something different. – Alexandra Daddario
The hardened mass of liquid stones had much stronger qualities than those which had simply torn. The skin remained a recognisable part of the molten stone. – Andy Goldsworthy
I’ve always loved War’s Low Rider and Sly Stone’s Thank You, and I just wanted to put my take on them. – Barry White
Maybe Oliver Stone doesn’t lend himself well to remakes or sequels, because he does them so well the first time. – Ben Barnes
If I had married someone wealthy when I was young, I would have sunk like a stone. Being skint makes life quite clear. You’ve got to take that job. – Anna Chancellor
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. – Aisha Tyler
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. – Albert Camus
