Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was,… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I am not a rock star or a movie star; I'm a businessperson. I definitely know who my friends are. I'm much… — Martha Stewart Copy Share Image
The rock is a field of battle between our weakness and our strength. — Royal Robbins Copy Share Image
When alternative music - which is supposed to be the standard-bearer of where white rock is headed - becomes either too cute… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
The elevator doors opened, and Ranger stepped out and spied Tank stretched out on the carpet. "Fainted," I said. Ranger walked to… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
I hate the solo artist aspect of rock-'n'-roll. I don't have enough personality or charisma to be a solo star. — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
People who got on their feet and freaked about were called idiot dancers. and nobody wants to be called an idiot dancer.… — Steve Marriott Copy Share Image
On rolls the stream with a perpetual sigh; The rocks moan wildly as it passes by; Hyssop and wormwood border all the… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
There's nothing you can really do to prepare to rock. Do you prepare to eat a delicious meal? Are you hungry? Then… — Jack Black Copy Share Image
After all, this is a world of rock and water and air. It is elemental. It is not ours. — Janet Kauffman Copy Share Image
The trouble is now, with rock'n'roll and stuff, it gets so big that it loses what once upon a time was a… — Robert Plant Copy Share Image
The Clash were a major influence on my own music. They were the best rock 'n' roll band. Thanks, Joe. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Once I picked up an electric guitar, I lost interest in piano, and I just wanted to rock. I studied piano for… — Juliana Hatfield Copy Share Image
My birthplace was California, but I couldn't forget Armenia, so what is one's country? Is it land of the earth, in a… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
There seems to be an inclination among rock musicians to be very carefree with money, but I negotiate the best flight and… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
They thought we were just basically keeping ourselves underground on purpose. And it was just strange for people to approach music that… — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
We culture. Rap is the new rock 'n roll. We the rockstars. It's been like that for a minute, Hedi Slimane! — Kanye West Copy Share Image
Rock music is rhythmically some of the most impoverished music the world has ever heard, a fact that is hard to square… — Julian Johnson Copy Share Image
Our party remains as firm as this rock and will not be divided by any force in Germany. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
My dad was one of the reasons I got into rock and roll, because I was learning the ropes of his business,… — Billy Idol Copy Share Image
Rocks are records of events that took place at the time they formed. They are books. They have a different vocabulary, a… — John McPhee Copy Share Image
O'er many a frozen, many a fiery Alp, Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death. — John Milton Copy Share Image
I need to take a sacred pause, as if I were a sun warmed rock in the center of a rushing river. — Dawna Markova Copy Share Image
There are all the offsprings of people who are influenced by punk. It sounds completely different - but it's still rock 'n'… — El-P Copy Share Image
I'd been a child during the 1960s when women burned their bras and hundreds of thousands gathered in protests against the Vietnam… — Lynn Hill Copy Share Image
I can see her clearly, standing on the rock beside Peg Gratton, unflinching before Eaton and the rest of the race committee.… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I'm suspicious. — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
And rock being a male-dominated, testosterone-driven place that I've been in the eye of the hurricane now for several years, I realized… — Tim McIlrath Copy Share Image
That whole thing of replicating what others do is a siren call. The sirens lure you to the rocks of unoriginality. — Stewart Copeland Copy Share Image
The risks are 'How country can you go?' rather than 'How rock can you take it?' — Joe Nichols Copy Share Image
Nobody dast blame this man. For a salesman, there is no rock bottom to the life. He don't put a bolt to… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a lead singer in a band. I can't sing. I'm almost tone deaf. I still play. Next life,… — Jorja Fox Copy Share Image
In the long-run I think we lost some of our audience because of noise. I don't think people were ready for it,… — Charlie Benante Copy Share Image
All things reflect the divine energy of nature—every flower, every rock, every sound, every sight. Once we realize that truth, we cannot… — Philip Toshio Sudo Copy Share Image
