"If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them."

Paglia, Camille on lust   

"Rock and roll doesn't necessarily mean a band. It doesn't mean a singer, and it doesn't mean a lyric, really. It's that question of trying to be immortal."

Mclaren, Malcolm on rock and roll   

"Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read."

Zappa, Frank on journalism and journalists
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"It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone, and can be made as offensive as the brickbat. They at once sought for the journalist, found him, developed him, and made him their industrious and well-paid servant. It is greatly to be regretted, for both their sakes."

Wilde, Oscar on journalism and journalists   

"Sticks and stones are hard on bones aimed with angry art. Words can sting like anything but silence breaks the heart."

Mcginley, Phyllis on silence
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"Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on language
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"The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age."

Churchill, Winston on science
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"Man is harder than iron, stronger than stone and more fragile than a rose."

Proverb, Turkish on humankind
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"He that is without sin among you, let him cast the first stone."

Bible on sin   

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"Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion."

Blake, William on punishment   

"Don't throw stones at your neighbors , if your own windows are glass."

Franklin, Benjamin on neighbors
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"Sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me."

Proverb, English on names   

"Men may rise on stepping-stones of their dead selves to higher things."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on experience   

"One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks."

Penn, Jack on success
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"If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone."

Franklin, Benjamin on money
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"Stone walls do not a prison make nor iron bars a cage; minds innocent and quiet take that for an hermitage."

Lovelace, Richard on prison   

"The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone: the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood."

Shaw, George Bernard on idols   

"Life is mostly froth and bubble. Two things stand like stone: Dodging duty at the double, leaving work alone."

Unknown, Source on idleness   

"Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on."

Frost, Robert on fights and fighting
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"To the illumined man or woman, a clod of dirt, a stone, and gold are the same."

Bhagavad Gita on possessions
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"The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling."

Lucretius on perseverance
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"Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune."

Johnson, James Weldon on work   

"Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O. When may it suffice?"

Yeats, William Butler on sacrifice
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"The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them"

Unknown, Source on adversity
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"A word from the mouth is like a stone from a sling."

Proverb, Spanish on words   

"The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."

Faulkner, William on action
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"Mistakes are stepping stones to success."

Popplestone, Charles E. on mistakes
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"Gifts make their way through stone walls."

Proverb on gifts   

"Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success."

Haliburton, Thomas C. on failure
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"Difficulties are stepping stones to success."

Unknown, Source on difficulties
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"Pay as you go is the philosopher's stone."

Randolf, G. on debt   

"Sticks and stones may break your bones when there's anger to impart. Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest."

Unknown, Source on anger
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"Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it."

Schweitzer, Albert on deeds and good deeds   

"Profits on the exchange are the treasures of goblins. At one time they may be carbuncle stones, then coals, then diamonds, then flint stones, then morning dew, then tears."

Lope de Vega on profits   

"MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments."

Unknown, Source on mistakes   

"Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great."

Motley, John L. on monuments   

"Not an inch of our territory not a stone of our fortress."

Favre, Jules on determination   

"Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest."

Proverb, Malabar on anger
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"I wept not, so to stone within I grew."

Dante Alighieri on cries and crying
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"Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set."

Bacon, Francis on virtue   

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