#tones

You've got the sun, you've got the moon, and you've got the Rolling Stones. ↗

— Keith Richards

#moon #rolling #rolling stones #stones #sun

My family stood right in front of me, talking and smiling. I felt like I was viewing one of those cheesy ad shots for camera companies. The ones I looked at and thought, fake, because no one's family ever looked that happy. Yet, the perfect family moment bloomed right before my eyes, and I wasn't a part of it. ↗

— Elizabeth Morgan

#elizabeth-morgan #stepping-stones #sweet-romance #family

Holmes took up the stone and held it against the light. "It's a bonny thing," said he. "Just see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil's pet baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a bloody deed. This stone is not yet twenty years old. It was found in the banks of the Amoy River in soutern China and is remarkable in having every characteristic of the carbuncle, save that it is blue in shade instead of ruby red. In spite of its youth, it has already a sinister history. There have been two murders, a vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallised charcoal. Who would think that so pretty a toy would be a purveyor to the gallows and the prison? ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#gems #greed #jewels #murder #precious-stones

Women can't do everything at the same time, we need to understand milestones in our lives comes in segments. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#everything #lives #milestones #need #our

I know I didn't like that dress 'cause it didn't fit but I thought it was a great picture. We weren't the first band to do a picture in drag; The Rolling Stones were. If it was good enough for them then it had to be good enough for us. ↗

— Jimmy Carl Black

#cause #drag #dress #enough #first

I'm not into that Keith Richard trip of having all those guitars in different tunings. I never liked the Rolling Stones much anyway. ↗

— Ritchie Blackmore

#different #guitars #having #i #into

Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

#colour #less #light #only #relation

Tombstones don't talk back. ↗

— Leland Chapman

#talk #tombstones

Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#drinking #dry #easier #flowing #i

My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire. ↗

— James Joyce

#her #mind #polished #quagmire #sinking