Rocks Quotes · Page 71

Everyone cleaves to the doctrine he has happened upon, as to a rock against which he has been thrown by tempest.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Rock bands are a lot like football teams: If a guy is on drugs and messes up, get someone else who's proud…

— Gene Simmons

Inevitably, as much as we loved punk rock, our noise was coming from a slightly different place.

— David First

Style has always been very important to us. We grew up in the '70s. Music was glam rock, punk rock and a…

— Nick Rhodes

If you're going to change things, one of the things we had to change is to get away from that traditional model…

— Stephen Mallinder

Being in a rock n' roll band was like being in a Sherman tank. Nothing got to you. You were surrounded and…

— Grace Slick

In summation, like your beloved pet rock, Twitter is useful only in your imagination.

— David Harsanyi

I was a really crazy kid. I'm still a crazy kid. That's the nice thing about being in a rock band. You…

— Max Weinberg

Rock music pays off. Rock music takes me on a joyride. Rock music keeps me off the hell city bus. Rock music…

— Wesley Willis

Building codes are a good thing. People who throw rocks at inspectors are being naive. It's a lot like police officers; we…

— Dan Phillips

Our own country furnishes antiquities as ancient and durable, and as useful, as any; rocks at least as well covered with lichens,and…

— Henry David Thoreau

When you hear the music ringin' in your soul And you feel it in your heart and it grows and grows And…

— Van Morrison

My favourite road sign is 'Falling Rocks'. What exactly am I supposed to do with that information? They may as well have…

— Jimmy Carr

There is probably nothing finer than to climb free and unencumbered by equipment, reveling in the gymnastic upward movement, like Preuss or…

— Hermann Buhl

It feels like every movie I've ever done, I always expected to have rocks thrown through my windows or have people protesting…

— George Ratliff

I am a firm believer in playing the type of music that compliments the song the best. If it's a folk song…

— William Clark Green

Have you told Eric and the rest of them that—” “That I’m a vampire? No. It isn’t the sort of thing you…

— Cassandra Clare

Elvis Presley's talent brightened millions of lives. He widened the horizons of my world certainly. The first record I ever owned was…

— Stephen King

He smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. He touched the dead corpse of the…

— Daniel Webster

I am reminded, now, of Leonardo's advice to painters: You should fix your eyes, he says, on certain walls stained with damp.…

— Ciaran Carson

This, at last, was where things were as they ought to be. Everything was in its place -- the tree, the earth…

— Jean Liedloff

Dear Complete and Utter Stranger, The first thing that I have to say is that I hate oatmeal. I really hate it.…

— Jaclyn Moriarty

Amongst the learned the lawyers claim first place, the most self-satisfied class of people, as they roll their rock of Sisyphus and…

— Desiderius Erasmus

When you are a young person, you are like a young creek, and you meet many rocks, many obstacles and difficulties on…

— Anonymous

I feel like rock stars feel a sense of entitlement, whereas I just feel a sense of good fortune.

— Neil Strauss

Looking back on the production of 'Nevermind,' I'm embarrassed by it now. It's closer to a Motley Crue record than it is…

— Kurt Cobain

Playing in an independent rock band will eventually make you equal parts truck driver, gladiator and mule. Glamour is for those with…

— Neko Case

Well.. Is that all you've got?.. I hope not..cuz you haven't finished entertaining me yet.. -Gaara to Rock Lee during the Chunin…

— Masashi Kishimoto

To fill the shoes of rock 'n' roll, because of the family I have, is a really hard thing.

— Kelly Osbourne

[E]very time you think the entertainment moguls have hit rock bottom, they reach for the jackhammer and rat-a-tat-tat a little deeper.

— Ellen Goodman

It's absurd for anybody to look around and hear the acts and artists who cite us as an inspiration, and then tell…

— Paul Stanley

I went and got a Lap-Band put in and the weight just started falling off. It was like someone took a backpack…

— Corey Harrison

My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it.

— Neil Young

There are a lot of human beings out there who are very hostile towards anything that rocks their perceptual boat.

— Frederick Lenz

This is funny because I just had a job over the summer for VH1, a project I did called Strange Frequency where…

— Charisma Carpenter

You don't have to be a rock star - if you don't like the situation you're in, you don't have to settle…

— Macy Gray

People want to talk about whether I have rock cred, whether I'm selling out, the theatricality, the gay stuff... Chill out! And…

— Adam Lambert

The cutthroat avenues of rock 'n' roll, I am fed up with. I don't want anything to do with it.

— Neil Young

Butterflies doing strange things in very beautiful ways were in my mind when I sat down, but by the time my pen…

— William Beebe

The church is not built on the rock foundation of geniuses and influencers but of apostles and prophets.

— Russell D. Moore