#tone

Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before. ↗

— Jacob August Riis

#before #blow #crack #did #gone

The body is the substance of the stone. ↗

— George Ripley

#stone #substance

If any imagine from the literary tone of the preceding remarks that we are indifferent to the radical movement for the benefit of the masses which is the crowning glory of the nineteenth century, they will soon discover their egregious mistake. ↗

— George Ripley

#benefit #century #crowning #discover #glory

Then hast our the Red Stone perfect with less labour, expense of time and costs, for the which ever thank God. ↗

— George Ripley

#ever #expense #god #hast #labour

I used a baritone guitar with a very unusual tuning that became the body of the composition, while the classical guitar is on top of it with the main rhythm part. ↗

— Lee Ritenour

#became #body #classical #classical guitar #composition

My biggest role as director on the film is keeping a sense of the overview - how to cast the movie and shoot it in such a way that it will cut together. And how to design the style and tone. ↗

— Jay Roach

#cast #cut #design #director #film

When I go, if there's a tombstone it will say, She doesn't give in. She doesn't give up. And she never takes no for an answer. ↗

— Doris Roberts

#give #go #i #never #say

Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows. ↗

— Frances Rodman

#brave #brightness #courage #fail #faith

Many peoples' tombstones should read 'Died at 30, burried at 60.' ↗

— Nicholas M. Butler

#many #read #should #tombstones

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#be yourself #believe #cut #defines #friends