#tone

The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable. ↗

— Horace

#carvings #durable #foolish #like #quickly

I was so unhealthy. I used to go to 'Cold Stone Creamery,' get a tub of Butterfinger ice cream, and eat it all before bedtime. And my fingers were permanently stained orange from Cheetos. ↗

— Vanessa Hudgens

#before #cold #cream #eat #fingers

I heard the Beatles and the Stones, and Mom bought me an electric guitar. I played lead for four years and then switched to bass. One day someone suggested that I should sing, so I sheepishly stepped up to the microphone and the rest is rock history. ↗

— Glenn Hughes

#beatles #bought #day #electric #electric guitar

The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#kings #last #paving #people #resort

The geysers and hot springs of the Yellowstone are another proof of recent volcanic activity. ↗

— Ellsworth Huntington

#another #hot #proof #recent #springs

I wish to say to you that the life of an enlightened people and a vibrant nation cannot be measured by the life of an individual. A successful person is one who manages to lay down a new stone, a brick that would help firm up his nation's existence. ↗

— King Hussein I

#cannot #down #enlightened #existence #firm

It was said that Mr. Gladstone could persuade most people of most things, and himself of anything. ↗

— Dean Inge

#could #gladstone #himself #most #mr

Become dust - and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone - and they will throw thee on glass. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#become #dust #glass #stone #thee

I have never smoked and have always drunk a lot of water, but cleanse, tone and moisturise every day? No way! ↗

— Tori Amos

#cleanse #day #drunk #every #every day

There were also some cruel reviews by women, but the tone of the male reviewers, sometimes hysterical, was different. I have suffered, but I don't want to name names-but there have been men who have seemed to want to destroy me or my writing, men I don't even know. ↗

— Marguerite Young

#been #cruel #destroy #different #even