Smooth Stones Quotes

#1. The smooth stones you pick up and examine under the moon's light have been made blue from the sea. Next morning when you pull them from your trouser pocket, they are still blue.

Raymond Carver

#2. A rugged stone growes smooth from hand to hand.

George Herbert

#3. I'm not supposed to communicate something that's completely unrealistic.

Julianne Moore

#4. A purple African violet so lush and fleshy it looked edible ... his fingers as cool and smooth as beach stones.

Wally Lamb

#5. I'm in a very good place to make records. Needing to make money off music is very dangerous.

Ice-T

#6. Freedom of the press is a precious privilege that no country can forego.

Mahatma Gandhi

#7. The frailty of the world was no longer just a thought in the back of everyone's mind, it had pillaged its way to the forefront. The ides of war ebbed the small rough stones of hope from shore and vomited back terror, smooth and refined.

Michael Polaski

#8. He'd seen a lot of bizarre items left at gravesides, like a carton of eggs, a pair of reading glasses, a bag of licorice, smooth stones, a spoon.

Sheri Webber

#9. There's no retirement, there's just a few years of non-work by the fire with someone bringing you some tea and relative peace and playing with the grandchildren.

Henry Rollins

#10. I am like a huge rough stone ... and the only polishing I get is when some corner gets rubbed off by coming in contact with something else, striking with accelerated force ... thus I will become a smooth and polished shaft in the quiver of the Almightly.

Joseph Smith Jr.

#11. If anything could be a book, there was no telling what you could learn, if you knew what to look for. Smooth river stones spelled out across a mossy floor. Lines drawn in the sand. Or inscribed on the side of a fallen log, half-obscured by twigs and mulch: This is a book.

Traci Chee

#12. This quote is not original to me but is
a hard sure way to peace and forgiveness: Stones in a pouch rub each other smooth.

Donna B. Mack

#13. On the 25th March, at 14:57GMT, the world stopped for 27 minutes and 54 seconds. No-one noticed at first. Those that eventually did were ordered to keep quiet.

Anonymous

#14. Being in a different band always brings great musical experiences to be able to draw on.

Graham Nash

#15. A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but on life.

Baruch Spinoza

#16. Sense how
Even the smooth stones ache
With stories of their own
In the shuddering light of day.

Scott Hastie

#17. Some things happen by accident - embrace them.

Mario Testino

#18. I have sat here happy in the gardens, Watching the still pool and the reeds And the dark clouds ... But though I greatly delight In these and the water lilies, That which sets me nighest to weeping Is the rose and white colour of the smooth flag-stones, And the pale yellow grasses Among them.

Richard Aldington