Rocks Quotes · Page 42

The problem isn’t with rock lyrics, it’s with the fabric of this society itself.

— Jodi Picoult

“the rest of you... keep banging the rocks together”

— Douglas Adams

New York is the dream world, the center of jazz and rock

— Gyorgy Ligeti

I'm allergic to rocks hitting me in the face.

— Mike Rowe

I have never felt in tune with the whole rock industry.

— Robert Wyatt

[Prince] could very well be the Duke Ellington of Rock 'n' Roll.

— Miles Davis

Among the thousand white persons, I am a dark rock surged upon, and overswept.

— Zora Neale Hurston

For a tree to become tall it must grow tough roots among the rocks.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

My dream job is to be a rock drummer and the alternate drummer for the Foo Fighters.

— Rachael Ray

Words are your business, boy. Not just the word. Words are everything. The key to the rock, the answer to the question.

— Ralph Ellison

There is scarce a cave, an isolated rock, a lone pine tree or a pile of stones without supporting folklore.

— John Hillaby

You know, the big Valbowski is a lot like concrete mix. You know? You just get it a little wet, take a…

— Val Venis

Every drunken skipper trusts to Providence. But one of the ways of Providence with drunken skippers is to run them on the…

— George Bernard Shaw

I grew up singing professionally since I was 7 years old and so to get to play a character who's living out…

— Samantha Newark

Rock & roll is like a painting. Can great paintings still be done? It depends on who holds the brush.

— Patti Smith

It's gonna be okay, no matter how hard your rock bottom is, you can rise above it and you can come back.

— Demi Lovato

I tend to gravitate towards the great rock-and-roll front men, the guys that are very "bare bones." I like Bono, I like…

— Matthew Mayfield

That's one of the things that always grabbed me about rock music: There's a song, and you know how it goes, and…

— Greg Saunier

Rock & roll mostly is a very butch thing, and it appeals to one hard side of the masculine character. But I…

— Mick Jagger

There is a limited supply of excellent songs, but I am not the only one. Paul McCartney, one of the best songwriters…

— Noel Gallagher

I thought the idea Jim [Carrey] had, which was to do a comedic version of movies like The Hand That Rocks The…

— Judd Apatow

I was in lots of dodgy bands growing up and I always fancied myself in a band. But, you know, I was…

— Gemma Arterton

There's a passage about 'rivers of molten rock that wound their way... until they cooled and lay like twisted dragon-shapes vomited from…

— Arthur C. Clarke

I would just like to leave this big, floating rock having inspired somebody, having made a difference. It doesn't mean I have…

— Nicholas Brendon

Let me tell you, though - there’s a huge difference between Flanders and Paris–Roubaix. They’re not even close to the same. In…

— Chris Horner

Did the Pilgrims on the Mayflower sit around Plymouth Rock waiting for a return trip? They came here to settle. And that's…

— Buzz Aldrin

I perceived that I was on a little round grain of rock and metal, filmed with water and with air, whirling in…

— Olaf Stapledon

It makes him contemptible to be considered fickle, frivolous, effeminate, mean-spirited, irresolute, from all of which a prince should guard himself as…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“Sometimes I feel like a tree on a hill, at the place where all the wind blows and the hail hits the…

— Nancy E. Turner

I love it [music]. I always have loved it. There's something about playing music that inspires me. When I've had some really…

— Creed Bratton

It is possible I am pushing through solid rock, like the vein of ore encased, alone. I am such a long way…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Surely as a man may say of a rock--nothing more quiet, because it is never stirred; and yet nothing more unquiet, because…

— Edward Reynolds

This week, I'm a gypsy. Maybe next week it'll be glitter rock.

— Jimmy Page

Punk [rock] seemed like rock 'n' roll music utterly without the music.

— Steve Winwood

I encourage you to find your punk-rock, your lucha-libre, your pro-wrestling

— Amy Dumas

Poetry a riprap on the slick rock of metaphysics

— Gary Snyder

The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.

— William Ross Wallace

Rock n' roll is very special to me. It's my lifeblood.

— Joey Ramone

Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.

— Anonymous

You can do some serious subway flirting before you realize the guy is homeless.

— LIZ