Quotes About Evolution

When you start a show, the plans are not set in stone. They're really mutable, cocktail napkin sketches.

I am a rolling stone, never in one place for very long.

When I started working for Rolling Stone, I became very interested in journalism and thought maybe that's what I was doing, but it wasn't.

Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.

As CEO of Cold Stone Creamery, we used a concept called 'search and reapply,' which meant that if we found better ways of doing something, then we would do it.

The rock era, as I clock it, went from '65 to '94, from 'Like a Rolling Stone' to Kurt Cobain's death.

When The Stone Roses first came out, the early reviews called me 'simian.' I had to look that up at the time.

I did two episodes of 'The Walking Dead,' and it was enough to have time to get in there and really get the meat of it, but also then move on and take that experience and bring it into the next one. It was a great stepping stone.

I wasn't rapping and freestyling in high school. I wasn't telling people I was gonna be a rapper when I was a little kid. It wasn't set in stone that it was my dream.

It wasn't stone. It wasn't welded steel. It wasn't traditional sculpture. They thought it was craft, or something else, but not art. They couldn't define it in the early Fifties when I was starting out.

Well, basically Corey and I were in Stone Sour before we joined Slipknot.

It's the best thing, me leaving Stone Sour.

I think, in today's football, you have to have a certain degree of technology. If not, you're living in the stone ages.

When I did 'Restless,' I felt that was a stepping stone.

Human brains - in terms of cognition and emotion and consciousness - are essentially the same as they were at the time of Shakespeare or Jesus or Cleopatra or the Stone Age. They are not evolving with the pace of change.

Marriage has been in a constant state of evolution since the dawn of the Stone Age. In the process, it has become more flexible - but also more optional.

I don't know why, but I never felt I was gonna stay with the Stones forever, even right from the beginning.

Stories are like that. Like cities, they are built on the stones and bones of the past.

I learned to play piano in a rock n' roll context or band context from country records - you know, Floyd Cramer - and from the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and Stax. And none of those are keyboard records.

These days, the Rolling Stones still have an edge, but that fangs-out ferocity has mellowed considerably.

The Rolling Stones are constantly changing, but beneath the changes they remain the most formal of rock bands. Their successive releases have been continuous extensions of their approach, not radical redefinitions, as has so often been the case with the Beatles.

I kind of look at my modeling career and the Hitchcock years as stepping stones to what I'm doing now.

Even though I loved the Fifties doo-wop, you couldn't hold on to it. You had to change, or you was gon' be antique real quick, like the Ink Spots. And then we were at Motown and you had the Rolling Stones, simple rock & roll became the new thing.

Comedians are like pop bands. When you're young, you have ruddy principles and don't do old stuff because you don't want to take away the purity of youth. But then as you get older, you look at The Rolling Stones and see what fun they have.