Freud was a hero. He descended to the Underworld and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa’s head which turned these terrors to stone. – R. D. Laing
No one should be allowed to make music as if he were made of wood. One must reproduce the musical text exactly, but not play like a stone. – Olivier Messiaen
I tend to regard the Coase theorem as a stepping stone on the way to an analysis of an economy with positive transaction costs. – Ronald Coase
We’re chipping away at our capacity for wonder. When hologram TVs eventually go on sale, they’ll cost รด?20,000 and be bought only by those strange, heroic, friendless men who live in flats piled high with giant 80s mobiles and DVD players weighing eight stone. – Peter Baynham
The real sustains the same relation to the ideal that a stone does to a statue – or that paint does to a painting. Realism degrades and impoverishes. – Robert Green Ingersoll
The argument that John F. Kennedy was a closet peacenik, ready to give up on what the Vietnamese call the ‘American War’ upon re-election, received its most farcical treatment in Oliver Stone’s ‘JFK.’ – Rick Perlstein
Because I was always a fat child, I got fatter and fatter, and I ended up 18 stone and with a 40-inch waist. – Rafe Spall
If you make an error, use it as a stepping stone to a new idea you might not have otherwise discovered. – Roger von Oech
Hoods are good parts because they’re always flashy and attract attention. If you’ve got any ability, you can use that as a stepping stone. – Richard Widmark
At one time, I wanted to be a WWE wrestler. I still do. I want to go in the ring once and mess around and jump off the ropes and do a Stone Cold stunt. – Rob Gronkowski
Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
A small species of pinus was much prized, and, when dwarfed in the manner of the Chinese, fetched a very high price; it is generally grafted on a variety of the stone pine. – Robert Fortune
I suppose, in a way, one could say I may be less interested in my career than the audience is. Not to mean that I’m disinterested in my career, but I don’t see it in terms of one stepping stone or, ‘Now I’m going to go into my blue phase,’ or what have you. – Peter Hammill
I carve stone. I’ve got hammers and chisels and I carve from sandstone. I just did a big mural of birds and trees. – Peter Weir
Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
I’ll say that I don’t think you can throw a stone and not come in contact with someone who knows someone or has problems with substance abuse. – Octavia Spencer
It turned out that the buckyball, the soccer ball, was something of a Rosetta stone of an infinite new class of molecules. – Richard Smalley
I always design a landscape with fixed horizons whether it be mountains or a stone wall around a 20-foot-square plot. – Rachel Lambert Mellon
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization. – Sigmund Freud
Having animals in the city is entirely different from having animals out in the country. For one thing, it’s more social. When you live on lots of acres without neighbors within a stone’s throw, your dog-walks are usually solitary rambles over hill and dale. – Susan Orlean
Who do you think made the first stone spears? The Asperger guy. If you were to get rid of all the autism genetics, there would be no more Silicon Valley. – Temple Grandin
In the West there has always been the attempt to try make the religious building, whether it’s a Medieval or Renaissance church, an eternal object for the celebration of God. The material chosen, such as stone, brick, or concrete, is meant to eternally preserve what is inside. – Tadao Ando
