#stone

We got touring with the Stones, and people were trying to keep up with Keith. He's like a human machine with a constitution of iron, and they all thought they could do the same. ↗

— Ron Wood

#could #got #human #iron #keep

Natural Selection never made it come to pass, as a habit of nature, that an unsupported stone should move downwards rather than upwards. It applies to no part of inorganic nature, and is very limited even in the phenomena of organic life. ↗

— Chauncey Wright

#come #downwards #even #habit #inorganic

I didn't want to stay in the Stones, and be stuck in a position having to play a music I didn't like anymore and that restricted me from doing all the others things I'm interested in because of time. ↗

— Bill Wyman

#because #doing #having #i #interested

I had a wonderful time with the Stones but after 31 years, I thought it was time to move on. ↗

— Bill Wyman

#had #i #move #move on #stones

Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice? ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#long #make #may #sacrifice #stone

The desire to know the future gnaws at our bones. That is where it started, and might have ended, years ago. I had cast the stones, seeing their faces flicker and fall: Death, Love, Murder, Treachery, Hope. We are a treacherous people - half of our stones show betrayal and violence and death from those close, death from those far away. It is not so with other peoples. I have seen other sets that show only natural disasters: death from sickness, from age, the pain of a broken heart, loss in childbirth. And those stones are more than half full with pleasure and joy and plain, solid warnings like "You reap what you sow" and "Victory is not the same as satisfaction." Of course, we live in a land taken by force, by battle and murder and invasion. It is not so surprising that our stones reflect our history. ↗

— Pamela Freeman

#fortune-telling #murder #runestones #age

I am much more my own man than I was when I was with the Stones. ↗

— Bill Wyman

#i #i am #man #more #much

THE BODY of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Printer like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out, and stripped of its lettering and gilding lies here, food for worms; Yet the work itself shall not be lost, For it will (as he believed) appear once more, in a new, and more beautiful edition, corrected and amended By The AUTHOR ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#headstone #beauty

New York is the great stone desert. ↗

— Israel Zangwill

#great #new #new york #stone #york

Texas is now a cornerstone of the electoral college for Republicans. ↗

— Ed Gillespie

#cornerstone #electoral #electoral college #now #republicans