#tone

Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now. ↗

— P. T. Barnum

#done #early #hour #just #late

...I've marked our sacred place not with stones - I've put it my art to keep it safe... ↗

— John Geddes

#love #sacred #safe #safety #stones

Elijah Snow: 'Who have you pissed off this time, John?' John Stone: 'Sumatran robot death sluts -- Dammit, ONE of these buttons fires the atomic death biter -- ↗

— Warren Ellis

#john-stone #death

Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes. ↗

— Ludwig van Beethoven

#down #i #me #notes #roar

I never wanted to be a model. My modelling career was nothing but a stepping stone to my acting career and that's all I ever saw it as. A pointless rock in the river that has to be stepped on in order to get to the meaningful oasis of acting. ↗

— Halle Berry

#career #ever #get #i #meaningful

The heart hid still in the dark, hard as the Philosopher's Stone. ↗

— Paul Celan

#hard #heart #hid #philosopher #still

Matty,” Jane whispered, “what are you thinking?” He smiled, kissed her navel before glancing up at her. “Barbaric thoughts.” “You’re very pleased with yourself, aren’t you?” He laughed and slid up the length of her body. “I am. It’s such a powerful visual to know that my seed is responsible for the life within you and the incredibly arousing changes in your body. “And, I, of course, have nothing to do with it?” “Jane,” he whispered, “let me have my moment of male glory. ↗

— Charlotte Featherstone

#jane #matthew #sinful-epilogue #change

The Church cannot be content to live in its stained-glass house and throw stones through the picture window of modern culture. ↗

— Robert McAfee Brown

#church #content #culture #house #live

The game Rock Band has been haunting me like a bad ring tone. It gets stuck in my head and momentarily effaces all that I love about music. ↗

— Carrie Brownstein

#bad #band #been #game #gets

It's frightening and unnerving to watch a stone melt. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#melt #stone #unnerving #watch