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It was like a lucky pebble kept in my pocket that got so shined up from rubbing against the denim that no one could tell it had ever been an ordinary stone.
Rocks and minerals: the oldest storytellers.
What turns to stone is inside you.
But fairest of all was the great white gem, which the dwarves had found beneath the roots of the Mountain, the Heart of the Mountain, the Arkenstone of Thrain.
Across the street an addict was mumbling, his words, like Dan Smooth's, reminiscent of the structure of graphite, which is to say comprised of slender hexagonal plates of atoms which slough off at a touch like the multitudinous crusts of a Turkish pastry.
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A rock is a good thing, too, you know. If the Isles of Earthsea were all made of diamond, we'd lead a hard life here. Enjoy the illusions, lad, and let the rocks be rocks.
If I hadn't fought back, I might have been Gidget forever.
Never leave a rhinestone unturned.
I will perform the function of a whetstone, which is about to restore sharpness to iron, though itself unable to cut.
[Lat., Fungar vice cotis, acutum
Reddere quae ferrum valet, exsors ipsi secandi.]
The finest edge is made with the blunt whetstone.
ninety-two-carat raw diamond from South
Moonstones and diamonds," said Griphook, who had sidled into the room without Harry noticing. "Made by goblins, I think?
Why shouldst thou not take even as much pleasure in beholding a counterfeit stone, which thine eye cannot discern from a right stone?
Patronising git.
Just put the stone in your pocket, then leave me in an empty room so I can gaze out at all the Edgleys and laugh. Or maybe I'll pretend to be a ghost and haunt Beryl - Echo-Gordon (Skulduggery Pleasant: Playing With Fire)
Freydolf worried that the stone might have been [stolen], but he finally found it safe and sound in one of the many drawers that were better for losing things than organizing them.
A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
The Stone will transform any metal into pure gold. It also produces the Elixir of Life, which will make the drinker immortal.
It says: "Baltic Amber, fifty million years old and full of fire; warm, and enduring like love". Wonderfully romantic, don't you think? Only I don't know how to differntiate thestuff from plain old yellow stones.
The thing about stone is you don't get to the heart of it. It stares back into you, its secret intact and inviolable.
stones are hard everywhere.
The gitano is the most distinguished, profound and aristocratic element in my country, the one that most represents its Way of being and best preserves the fire, the blood and the alphabet of Andalusian and universal truth ...
Emerald as heavy as a golf course, ruby as dark as an afterbirth, diamond as white as sun on the sea ...
the stone for my month a nice aquamarine
The body is the substance of the stone.
Interesting. Stonecipheco Baby Foods. Not a bad line of products, really. A bit soft and runny for my taste, of course ... "
"Well, it's infant food, really, Norman.
Grobanite makes me think of a type of harmless crustacean.
version of Amber.
I'm fascinated by diamonds. When I put diamonds on, my hands start to shake.
StocktontoMalone
lagophthalmos - a
I build only living stones
men.
Miss stone, I adore you.
Gold and iron at the present day, as in ancient times, are the rulers of the world; and the great events in the world of mineral art are not the discovery of new substances, but of new and rich localities of old ones.
strung a small white stone with a hole in it. 'This is more precious
When life places stones in your path, be the water. A persistent drop of water will wear away even the hardest stone.
My name is Spar. I am neither called Rocky nor made of rock. I am a Guardian, one of those warriors who were summoned to battle against the Seven demons of the Darkness and to prevent their possible return to this human plane of existence. I consider the others of my kind to be my brothers.
How happy is the little stone That rambles in the road alone, And doesn't care about careers, And exigencies never fears; Whose coat of elemental brown A passing universe put on; And independent as the sun, Associates or glows alone, Fulfilling absolute decree In casual simplicity.
Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd.
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
The metal is called Celestial bronze. It's deadly to monsters, like Imperial gold, but even rarer.
Get what you can, and what you get hold; 'tis the Stone that will turn all your Lead into Gold.
For the love of rocks
Shun artificial rocks like the plague.
Its not Wingardium Levio-sa its wingrardium levi-o-sa
The reason why the stone is red is its iron content, which is also why our blood is red.
Well, I see I am not designed to the finding out the Philosophers Stone, I have been so unlucky in my first attempts in chemistry.
Oblong stones sink
slow and sideways. Shaped
by the weight of waves,
dutifully vibrating nature's
lunar-bound graces,
they wash ashore only for
closed palms to forsake them.
The cheerful will
cherish them, place them
on windowsills, or on graves.
Some things are more important than polished stone.
You know, the Stone was really not such a wonderful thing. As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things
If gold ruste, what shall iren do?
Petrichord: the sound of water sliding over smooth stone.
I collect rocks from all over the world. I have a ring of stones that date to 3500 B.C. It's like a little Stonehenge.
Hey, rock dude, are you destroying the house? Causing mayhem? Who's a ferocious gargoyle? Stoney's a ferocious gargoyle.
The stone neither speaks nor gives anything. Therefore its service is fruitless and its worship is of no avail.
The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.
A diamond is a piece of coal that stuck to the job
Where does it lead, this rockrose path?
The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner.
Everything changes, even stone.
Gold
the picklock that never fails.
Constant dropping wears away stones
Cotswold stone framed tiny sash windows gleaming with pale green paint. Wisteria vines twisted about the stone, bunches of purple flowers hanging thick and heavy with pollen. Above it all a tiled roof sagged with sage.
You have to talk to the stone, and it has to talk to you.
Gray stones for Abnegation, water for Erudite, earth for Amity, lit coals for Dauntless, and glass for Candor.
Histories in blazonry and poems in stone.
If the sculptor uses stone and if the road builder also uses stone, the first uses it in a way that it is not used, consumed, negated by usage, but affirmed, revealed in its obscurity, as a road that leads only to itself.
The story of each stone leads back to a mountain.
Stones in the road? I save every single one, and one day I'll build a castle.
Lunar Geology Rocks.
A poet wants only one small stone on which to carve his life.
King Offa's dyke,
Paper Covers Rock is dazzling in its intensity and intelligence, spell-binding in its terrible beauty.
Rocks in my path? I keep them all. With them I shall build my castle.
All that glisters is not gold.
The ultimate in futility is owning important jewelry. Insurers often insist on the wearing of paste replicas because necks with real rocks around 'em risk wringing.
Not so much like drops of water, though water, it is true, can wear holes in the hardest granite; rather, drops of liquid sealing-wax, drops that adhere, incrust, incorporate themselves with what they fall on, till finally the rock is all one scarlet blob. Till
Calumniate, calumniate; there will always be something which sticks.
Great stones they lay upon his chest until he plead aye or nay. They say he give them but two words. "More weight," he says. And died.
A rock was sticking out of the water, jagged and pointed, covered with moss
a remnant of the Ice Age. It had withstood the rains, the snows, the frost, the heat. It was afraid of no one. It did not need redemption, it had already been redeemed.
The future of Yosemite climbing lies not in Yosemite, but in using the new techniques in the great granite ranges of the world.
It was the Arkenstone, the Heart of the Mountain. So Bilbo guessed from Thorin's description; but indeed there could not be two such gems, even in so marvellous a hoard, even in all the world.
Town VIII. Monseigneur in the Country IX. The Gorgon's Head
With sharpen'd sight pale Antiquaries pore, Th' inscription value, but the rust adore. This the blue varnish, that the green endears; The sacred rust of twice ten hundred years.
Wherever a great soul utters its thoughts, there is Golgatha.
I have a beautiful Hellenistic gold and garnet ring - it's more than 2,200 years old, but it looks very modern.
Rock of Ages, cleft for me, let me hide myself in Thee.
At the front of my home, in the garden, is a huge piece of clear quartz.
The last void stone I'd worn was a beautiful black stone caught in vines of copper and silver. It looked like a necklace, a piece of art, really. This thing was spud-ugly.
The Stone is one, the Medicine is one, to which we add nothing, only in the preparation removing superfluities.
Stones are mute teachers; they silence the observer, and the most valuable lesson we learn from them we cannot communicate.
We can call it Isratine.
Time may smooth the stone, but time will never wear it away.
I think human beings matter more than stones. (Signor Richetti)
Said that gems are lingering reminders of where the gods' hands touched the earth during creation.
Palace of Crystal
If stone circle begins to hum - - run!
There is in hell a place stone-built throughout, Called Malebolge, of an iron hue, Like to the wall that circles it about.