#tone

The drop of rain maketh a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling. ↗

— Hugh Latimer

#falling #hole #maketh #oft #rain

It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good. ↗

— Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

#could #escape #evil #form #good

My solution to the problem would be to tell the North Vietnamese Communists frankly that they've got to drawn in their horns and stop their aggression or we're going to bomb them into the stone age. ↗

— Curtis LeMay

#aggression #bomb #communists #drawn #frankly

I came over here and worked for rock magazines, and I worked for Rolling Stone, which has a very high standard of journalism, a very good research department. ↗

— Kurt Loder

#department #good #here #high #high standard

I refused to beat my head against stone, of course. ↗

— Herbert Lom

#beat #course #head #i #refused

Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage. ↗

— Richard Lovelace

#cage #iron #make #nor #prison

Let them not make me a stone and let them not spill me, otherwise kill me. ↗

— Louis MacNeice

#make #me #otherwise #spill #stone

I didn't feel like going any further in this scene with the boy. He was not a professional actor, and if I had pushed the scene any further it would have destroyed the tone of the movie. ↗

— Louis Malle

#any #boy #destroyed #feel #further

There is a tone of morality throughout the rural districts of England, which is unhappily wanting in the large towns and the centres of particular manufactures. ↗

— Henry Mayhew

#districts #england #large #manufactures #morality

I listen to Radio 4 and put the iPod on shuffle. I like the randomness of, say, the Stones, then something from Nina Simone, Nick Drake or Bob Dylan. ↗

— Catherine McCormack

#bob dylan #drake #dylan #i #ipod