Rolling Over Quotes

• Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

  Jim Carrey

  Funny, Laughter, Women

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• There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.

  Bill Bryson

  Age, Lightning, Rolling Along

  FaceBook post by Bill Bryson from Apr 07, 2015

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• All political power is primarily an illusion. Illusion. Mirrors and blue smoke, beautiful blue smoke rolling over the surface of highly polished mirrors, first a thin veil of blue smoke, then a thick cloud that suddenly dissolves into wisps of blue smoke, the mirrors catching it all, bouncing it back and forth.

  Jimmy Breslin

  Beautiful, Clouds, Mirrors

  How the Good Guys Finally Won: Notes from an Impeachment Summer (1975). Usually quoted as "smoke and mirrors."

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• The torrent of centuries rolling over the human race, has continually brought new perfections, the cause of which, ever active though unseen, is found in the demands made by our senses, which always in their turns demand to be occupied.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Race, Perfection, Unseen

  Brillat Savarin (2015). “The Physyology of Taste”, p.48, Editorial MAXTOR

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• Men, women and children too, ran hysterically, falling and stumbling, getting up, tripping and falling again, rolling over and over. Most of them managed to regain their feet and made it to the water. But many of them never made it and were left behind, their feet drumming in blinding pain on the overheated pavements amidst the rubble, until there came one last convulsing shudder from the smoking 'thing' on the ground, and then no further movement.

  Martin Caidin

  Children, Pain, Fall

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• The summer lasted a long long time, like verse after verse of a ballad, but when it ended, it ended like a man falling dead in the street of heart trouble. One night, all in one night, severe winter came, a white horse of snow rolling over Bountiful, snorting and rolling in its meadows, its fields.

  Ardyth Kennelly

  Summer, Horse, Fall

  Ardyth Kennelly (1949). “The Peaceable Kingdom”

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• You have to hope that [good things] happen to you. [...] That's the only thing we really, surely have, is hope. You hope that you can be alive, that things will happen to you that you'll actually witness, that you'll participate in. Rather than life just rolling over you, and you wake up and it's Thursday, and what happened to Monday? Whatever the best part of my life has been, has been as a result of that remembering.

  Bill Murray

  Monday, Over You, Rolling

  "With Bill Murray, Just Take the Trip". Interview With Dave Itzkoff, www.nytimes.com. November 28, 2012.

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• A normal fight is thirty seconds of rolling around on the floor, scrapping, that's what it is. It's not rolling over boxes or getting punched through windows.

  Danny Dyer

  Fighting, Rolling, Normal

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• If you're rolling over rocks and stuff and you have a bigger wheel, it's going to stay out of the holes - rough sections become smoother.

  Aaron Gwin

  Rocks, Stuff, Wheels

  Interview with Chris Aung-Thwin, www.askmen.com. October 13, 2013.

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• The Founding Fathers and our fathers are rolling over in their graves as this great country voluntarily abandons its dreams of equal opportunity, achievement and prosperity and sows the seeds of its own destruction.

  David Limbaugh

  Dream, Country, Father

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• World War Z is out today. The big zombie movie. The trailer looks scary. You see hordes of bodies climbing and rolling over each other. It's like Black Friday at the mall.

  Craig Ferguson

  Friday, War, Climbing

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• This whole moment is the groin
  Of a borborygmic giant who even now
  Is rolling over on us in his sleep.

  John Ashbery

  Inspirational, Life, Sleep

  John Ashbery (1986). “Selected Poems”

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• Creation isn't forcing or commanding something into existence. It's more of a rolling over, a good stretch, blissing out, lying on the grass watching the flowers blowing in the breeze or the clouds floating by.

  Esther Hicks

  Lying, Flower, Clouds

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• What is this called, what I am doing, to myself, to my life, this wallowing, this pondering, this rolling over and over in the same places of my memory, wearing them thin, wearing them out? Why don't I ever learn? Why don't I ever do anything different?

  Charles Yu

  Memories, Rolling, Different

  Charles Yu (2010). “How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel”, p.207, Vintage

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• I know the rules. I've been living here longer than you have." He cracks a smile then. He nudges me back. "Hardly." "Born and raised. You're a transplant." I nudge him again, a little harder, and he laughs and tries to catch hold of my arm. I squirm away, giggling, and he stretches out to tickle my stomach. "Country bumpkin!" I squeal, as he grabs out and wrestles me back onto the blanket, laughing. "City slicker," he says, rolling over on top of me, and then kisses me. Everything dissolves: heat, explosions of color, floating.

  Lauren Oliver

  Country, Kissing, Color

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• I see nothing. We may sink and settle on the waves. The sea will drum in my ears. The white petals will be darkened with sea water. They will float for a moment and then sink. Rolling over the waves will shoulder me under. Everything falls in a tremendous shower, dissolving me.

  Virginia Woolf

  Fall, Sea, White

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Waves”, p.152, Virginia Woolf

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• She fell into a deep pool of sticky water, which eventually closed over her head. She saw nothing and heard nothing but a faint booming sound, which was the sound of the sea rolling over her head. While all her tormentors thought that she was dead, she was not dead, but curled up at the bottom of the sea.

  Virginia Woolf

  Sea, Water, Sound

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.299, Delphi Classics

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• I woke up this morning,” Gabriel said, “thinking of nothing more than rolling over and pulling you into my arms and kissing you again. Kissing: only kissing. As if I were a green boy of fourteen. In case you don’t realize it, Kate, kissing is not a man’s usual inclination in the morning.

  Eloisa James

  Morning, Kissing, Boys

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• We have to speak out now on behalf of our community and on behalf of the land and say they're the same thing and say No, we are not rolling over and No, this is not a corporate enterprise. This is democracy in the fullest sense and we must have regard and reverence and those are the cornerstones of a just society.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Speaks Out, Land, Justice

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• If John Wayne were alive, he’d be rolling over in his grave!

  Ernest Borgnine

  Rolling, Alive, Wayne

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The question we Americans need to address, before it is answered for us, is: Does this First World nation wish to become a Third World country? Because that is our destiny if we do not build a sea wall against the waves of immigration rolling over our shores...Who speaks for the Euro-Americans, who founded the USA?...Is it not time to take back America?

  Pat Buchanan

  Country, Wall, Destiny

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• But you know what? There's far more pain involved in rolling over, far more pain in hiding.

  Ted Cruz

  Pain, Integrity, Hiding In The Shadows

  "Darth Vader, Sean Connery, Chinese gooseberries, and other highlights from Cruz's marathon speech". Ted Cruz's speech at the Senate floor, politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com. September 25, 2013.

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• Scott Brown's victory in Massachusetts has got to have Ted Kennedy rolling over in his grave, spilling his drink.

  Ann Coulter

  Victory, Rolling, Massachusetts

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