Rolling Up Quotes

• I'm inspired by people who keep on rolling, no matter their age.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Birthday, People, Age

  Twitter post from Mar 24, 2015

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

  Jim Carrey

  Funny, Laughter, Women

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• It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Sports, Inspiration

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• You can't wring your hands and roll up your sleeves at the same time.

  Patricia Schroeder

  Peace, Stress, Ubuntu

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• You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend a bit, is very exciting. It's very real. It's very strong.

  Bono

  Dream, Strong, Real

  "My wish: Three actions for Africa". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2005.

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• I am absolutely convinced that there are weapons...I saw evidence back in 1998 when we would see the inspectors being barred from gaining entry into a warehouse for three hours with trucks rolling up and then moving those trucks out.

  William Cohen

  Moving, Wmd, Mass Destruction

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• To make a start, out of particulars and make them general, rolling up the sum, by defective means Sniffing the trees, just another dog among a lot of dogs.What else is there? And to do?

  William Carlos Williams

  Dog, Mean, Tree

  1946 Paterson, bk.1, preface.

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• I told my wife when I was rolling up, I felt like the president.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Nba, Wife

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• Sundance [festival] is all your Hollywood buds and buddies and rolling out and high-fiving and "Hell, yeah. Here comes the movie," and in Venice, it's very elegant, and respectful...It's decadence. It's such a fun way to formalize a movie that is for us a down-and-dirty, gritty movie. And to see it with the red carpet, and rolling up in a Maserati.

  David Gordon Green

  Fun, Dirty, Venice

  Source: collider.com

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• Art is love creating the new world and justice is love rolling up its sleeves to heal the old one.

  N. T. Wright

  Art, Creating, Justice

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• The art of concentrating strength at one point, forcing a breakthrough, rolling up and securing the flanks on either side, and then penetrating like lightning deep into his rear, before the enemy has time to react.

  Erwin Rommel

  Art, Military, Enemy

  "Europe Since 1914". Book by Gordon Alexander Craig, 1966.

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• There's no substitute for rolling up your sleeves and working with the people who can make a difference. They get the benefit of your participation and you gain a direct understanding of the real problems and potential solutions, which makes you a more informed giver.

  Michael Milken

  Real, Work, Differences

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• Tailor gang they rolling up those paper planes.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Airplane, Rolling, Paper

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• She navigated away from the Parish Council message board and dropped into her favorite medical website, where she painstakingly entered the words "brain" and "death" in the search box. The suggestions were endless. Shirley scrolled through the possibilities, her mild eyes rolling up and down, wondering to which of these deadly conditions, some of them unpronounceable, she owed her present happiness.

  J. K. Rowling

  Eye, Brain, Suggestions

  J.K. Rowling (2012). “The Casual Vacancy”, p.19, Hachette UK

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• I learned to fly on a broom," he said, rolling up his sleeves. "I can learn to milk a goat, I bet." Though flying on a broom proved to be the easier task, he found.

  Gregory Maguire

  Flying, Rolling, Tasks

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• I saw thousands of pumpkins last night come floating in on the tide, bumping up against the rocks and rolling up on the beaches; it must be Halloween in the sea

  Richard Brautigan

  Beach, Halloween, Night

  Richard Brautigan (1989). “Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America ; The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster ; And, In Watermelon Sugar”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In order to be kind, one must do. There is no point in thinking good thoughts and not acting on them. There is no currency in wishing things were better but not rolling up one's sleeves and helping to change them.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Thinking, Order, Wish

  Ingrid Newkirk (2009). “The PETA Practical Guide to Animal Rights: Simple Acts of Kindness to Help Animals in Trouble”, p.21, Macmillan

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