#tones

As if she had summoned them, a flurry of stones flew out of the darkness, striking his mail, pinging off his helm. One hit his unprotected leg and he yelped and clutched it. That was a mistake. The second barrage was entirely directed at his legs. ↗

— Hilari Bell

#stones #hilarious

From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war. ↗

— Margot Asquith

#could #expression #faces #happy #i

You can't get rid of it with exercise alone. You can do the most vigorous exercise and only burn up 300 calories in an hour. If you've got fat on your body, the exercise firms and tones the muscles. But when you use that tape measure, what makes it bigger? It's the fat! ↗

— Jack LaLanne

#bigger #body #burn #calories #exercise

Tombstones don't talk back. ↗

— Leland Chapman

#talk #tombstones

It's when ordinary people rise above the expectations and seize the opportunity that milestones truly are reached. ↗

— Mike Huckabee

#expectations #milestones #opportunity #ordinary #ordinary people

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours. ↗

— Eric Idle

#break #corner #cry #go #hours

Growing up I used to love bands like Free and ELO and the Rolling Stones. When Robert Plant got in touch it made perfect sense to me. ↗

— Alison Krauss

#free #got #growing #growing up #i

When people talk about the '60s I never think that was me there. It was me and I was in it, but I was never enamoured with all that. It's supposed to be sex and drugs and rock and roll and I'm not really like that. I've never really seen the Rolling Stones as anything. ↗

— Charlie Watts

#anything #enamoured #i #like #me

I remember the evacuee children from towns and cities throwing stones at the farm animals. When we explained that if you did that you wouldn't have any milk, meat or eggs, they soon learned to respect the animals. ↗

— Mary Wesley

#children #cities #did #eggs #explained

I've got an article where my mum says that I used to run home from school to watch the Stones on TV. Right from when I was at college I wanted to be in that band. ↗

— Ron Wood

#band #college #got #home #i