Rocks Quotes - Page 5

• We're the McDonalds of rock. Were always there to satisfy, and a billion served.

  Paul Stanley

  Mcdonalds, Billions, Music Business

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• A lovely nook of forest scenery, or a grand rock, like a beautiful woman, depends for much of its attractiveness upon the attendance sense of freedom from whatever is low; upon a sense of purity and of romance.

  P. T. Barnum

  Beautiful, Romance, Lovely

  "The Humbugs of the World: An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages". Book by P. T. Barnum, 1865.

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• For all of those who wanna profile and pose
  Rock you in your face, stab your brain with your nose bone.

  Prodigy

  Rap, Brain, Noses

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• O Death, rock me asleep, bring me to quiet rest, let pass my weary guiltless ghost out of my careful breast.

  Anne Boleyn

  Quiet, Ghost, Breasts

  Anne Boleyn, “O Death Rock Me Asleep”

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• Live every week like it's shark week.

  Tracy Morgan

  Sharks, Week

  "Fictional character: Tracy Jordan". "30 Rock/ Jack the Writer", www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• I guess the line between being paranoid and being a rock star is smaller than one would expect.

  Brian Molko

  Stars, Lines, Rock Star

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• I got rid of all my Colin Firth movies in case they consider it erotica.

  LIZ

  Cases

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• I guess I'm used to seeing actors, but rock musicians still hold a special magic for me.

  Hank Azaria

  Magic, Special, Musician

  "The Hilarious Hank Azaria". Interview with Kathryn Hahn, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 28, 2014.

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• You can't make a sculpture until you've got a lump of rock.

  Eran Creevy

  Sculpture, Lumps

  Source: collider.com

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• Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong.

  Laozi

  Inspiring, Spiritual, Strong

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• Most of the people who are given these Rock'n'roll Hall of Fame things sell millions of records, so it's kind of like a trophy for them.

  Tommy Ramone

  People, Trophies, Rock N Roll

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• PEOPLE HAVE WANTED TO narrate since first we banged rocks together & wondered about fire. There’ll be tellings as long as there are any of us here, until the stars disappear one by one like turned-out lights.

  China Mieville

  Stars, Fire, Light

  "Railsea". Book by China Miéville, May 15, 2012.

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• Did you really think I wouldn't recognize my college futon, with its trademark absence of sex stains?

  LIZ

  Sex, Thinking, College

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• In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Thomas Jefferson (2013). “The Jefferson Bible [annotated]: Original Old English Version and Modern Updates to The Jefferson Bible”, p.139, BookBaby

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• To the extreme I rock a mike like a vandal.

  Vanilla Ice

  Controversy, Extremes, Mike

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• A rock star never gets old!

  Anthony Kiedis

  Stars, Rock Star

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• My defenses were so great. The cocky rock and roll hero who knows all the answers was actually a terrified guy who didn't know how to cry. Simple.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Motivational, Hero

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If I have learned anything from my SIMS family: When a child doesn't see his father enough he starts to jump up and down, then his mood level will drop until he pees himself.

  LIZ

  Children, Father, Levels

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• An island can be dreadful for someone from outside. Everything is complete, and everyone has his obstinate, sure and self-sufficient place. Within their shores, everything functions according to rituals that are as hard as rock from repetition, and at the same time they amble through their days as whimsically and casually as if the world ended at the horizon.

  Tove Jansson

  Islands, Self, Horizon

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• Time after time mankind is driven against the rocks of the horrid reality of a fallen creation. And time after time mankind must learn the hard lessons of history-the lessons that for some dangerous and awful reason we can't seem to keep in our collective memory.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Memories, Reality, Collective Memory

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• Basically, this industry is mostly run by men, and I think women have a harder time...I've had enough of the "Women in Rock" issues of magazines and all of that. There's no reason why we should have our own separate little genre; that's just ridiculous. Besides, what is the genre? I certainly don't fit into the whole "Lilith" thing (thank God), but I am a female musician. And there are enough other great females in music that don't have to fit into it, either.

  Princess Superstar

  Running, Men, Thinking

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• Talk of mysteries! — Think of our life in nature, — daily to be shown matter, to come in contact with it, — rocks, trees, wind on our cheeks! The solid earth! The actual world! The common sense! Contact! Contact! Who are we? Where are we?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Thinking, Wind, Common Sense

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Maine Woods”, p.34, Graphic Arts Books

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• Children get smashed for hours on some strictly limited aspect of the Great Big Everything, the Universe, such as water or snow or mud or colors or rocks.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Children, Color, Snow

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• Let it be ours to be self-reliant amidst hosts of the vacillating — real in a generation of triflers — true amongst a multitude of shams; when tempted to swerve from principle, sturdy as an oak in its maintenance; when solicited by the enticement of sinners, firm as a rock in our denial.

  William Morley Punshon

  Real, Self, Principles

  William Morley Punshon (1882). “Lectures”

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• Rock star, flier than an ostrich...

  Juelz Santana

  Stars, Ostriches, Rock Star

  "Song: Black Republicans (Da Drought 3)". April 13, 2007.

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