Rolling Quotes - Page 15

• I love it [music]. I always have loved it. There's something about playing music that inspires me. When I've had some really down periods in my life, debauched beyond belief, not knowing what the hell I'm gonna do with my life, [Rolling Stones'] "Street Fighting Man" or something like that would come on the radio, and I'm pounding the dash and the rock and roll will inspire me to keep going. It inspires me. It's true.

  Creed Bratton

  Fighting, Men, Rocks

  Source: lamusicblog.com

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• The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a game, a wheel rolling on its own, a prime movement, a sacred Yes.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Children, New Beginnings, Games

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• There was also talk of bringing Al Gore to California to help out, but there was concern that Gray Davis and Al Gore in the same state would cause some kind of rolling personality blackout.

  Jay Leno

  California, Personality, Als

  "Hey, did you hear the one about the California recall election? Chads may have been hung in Florida, but the Golden State is keeping the nation's comics in funny business" by James Sullivan, www.sfgate.com. August 28, 2003.

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• People think of science as rolling back the mystery of God. I look at science as slowly creeping toward the mystery of God.

  Allan Hamilton

  Thinking, People, Looks

  "A Soulful Surgeon". Beliefnet Interview, www.beliefnet.com.

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• There’s a fraudulent root element of comedy in that we say things night after night as though they are rolling effortlessly from the brain and off the tongue when in fact they are crafted over weeks and months and years.

  Doug Stanhope

  Night, Years, Roots

  "Doug Stanhope on Alcohol, Politics and Killing Comedy Bootleggers’ Families". Interview with Joel Warner, Peter Mcgraw, www.wired.com. November 6, 2012.

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• I don't mind critics. I mean, I wrote for Rolling Stone for a hot minute. I like criticism. I enjoy criticism. The thing I don't like is cruelty for cruelty's sake. You don't have to be a jerk to say something negative. You can say something in the negative sense and have class.

  Patrick Stump

  Mean, Class, Mind

  Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. August 9, 2011.

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• In an interview with Rolling Stone, Senator John Kerry, who is running for president, said that when he voted for the war in Iraq, he didn't expect President Bush to 'f--- it up as badly as he did.' Here's some breaking news, tomorrow former Vice President Al Gore expected to endorse Howard Dean as the Democratic nominee for president of the United States - and you thought John Kerry was using four letter words before! Actually, to John Kerry, Dean is a four letter word.

  Jay Leno

  Running, War, Iraq

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• You dont need a machine to make pasta: a rolling pin and a fast hand can create a smooth, if thick, sheet.

  Yotam Ottolenghi

  Hands, Needs, Machines

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• I fell in love with Rwanda the moment I saw those verdant, rolling hills rise up beneath the wings of the plane as we descended toward Kigali airport.

  Naomi Benaron

  Airports, Wings, Saws

  "Interview with author Naomi Benaron: Running the Rift". Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. Jenuary 3, 2012.

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• For your popular rumour, unlike the rolling stone of the proverb, is one which gathers a deal of moss in its wanderings up and down.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Humorous, Moss

  Charles Dickens (1868). “The Old Curiosity Shop: And Reprinted Pieces”, p.215

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• If Earth ever suffers a runaway greenhouse effect (like what has happened on Venus), then our atmosphere would trap excess amounts of solar energy, the air temperature would rise, and the oceans would swiftly evaporate into the atmosphere as they sustained a rolling boil. This would be bad.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Ocean, Air, Atmosphere

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• I am a rolling stone, never in one place for very long.

  Roz Savage

  Long, Stones, Rolling Stones

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• I couldn't turn down The Rolling Stones. A real man would never turn down the chance of working with legends like them.

  Steve Lillywhite

  Real, Men, Stones

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I would that I were an old beggar
  Rolling a blind pearl eye,
  For he cannot see my lady
  Go gallivanting by.

  William Butler Yeats

  Eye, Pearls, Lovers

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.242, Wordsworth Editions

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• When the inhabitants of some sequestered island first descry the "big canoe" of the European rolling through the blue waters towards their shores, they rush down to the beach in crowds, and with open arms stand ready to embrace the strangers. Fatal embrace! They fold to their bosoms the vipers whose sting is destined to poison all their joys; and the instinctive feeling of love within their breasts is soon converted into the bitterest hate.

  Herman Melville

  Beach, Betrayal, Hate

  Herman Melville (2017). “The Complete Works of Herman Melville: Adventure Classics, Sea Tales, Philosophical Works, Short Stories, Poetry & Essays: Moby-Dick, Typee, Omoo, Redburn, White-Jacket, Pierre, Israel Potter, The Piazza Tales, John Marr and Other Sailors…”, p.28, e-artnow

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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, Wake Up

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

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• The difference between the Japanese and the American is summed up in their opposite reactions to the proverb (popular in both nations), "A rolling stone gathers no moss." Epidemiologist S. Leonard Syme observes that to the Japanese, moss is exquisite and valued; a stone is enhanced by moss; hence a person who keeps moving and changing never acquires the beauty and benefits of stability. To Americans, the proverb is an admonition to keep rolling, to keep from being covered with clinging attachments.

  Carol Tavris

  Moving, Opposites, Differences

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• I'm such a believer in going to set, even when you're not work because I think the best things to be learned, you don't necessarily get from your own scene or from someone speaking to you and telling you advice. I think it's all about watching and just taking it all in. It's not even when the cameras are rolling, necessarily. You can see how they interact with the rest of the crew, and how they deal with being a character and then being themselves.

  Lily Collins

  Character, Thinking, Advice

  "Lily Collins Talks THE ENGLISH TEACHER, THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS: CITY OF BONES, and LOVE, ROSIE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 18, 2013.

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• It is impossible to be submissive and religiously patient, if ye stay your thoughts down among the confused rollings and wheels of second causes, as, O, the place! O, the time! O, if this had been, this had not followed! O, the linking of this accident with this time and place! Look up to the master motion and the first wheel.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Confused, Firsts, Causes

  Samuel Rutherford (1848). “Letters of ... Samuel Rutherford, whith biogr. notices of his correspondents, by J. Anderson, and a sketch of his life, &c., by A.A. Bonar”, p.617

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• I was very curious, that's why I think my reality TV seems normal. I watch a lot of reality TV because I am so interested in people and observing people. From a very young age I can remember watching a woman with a guy and she's rolling her eyes and he's pleading with her and I would think, she doesn't want to be with him, he's in love with her, she likes this other guy and I would make up these stories in my head about these people. That helps me sort of profile people and that is a key to being able to read people.

  Daniel Negreanu

  Eye, Reality, Thinking

  Source: pokerworks.com

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• You don't know if the actors are going to have chemistry until you actually start filming. They can get along, they can be friends for years, they can be hilarious as people, but you don't know if it'll actually work until the cameras start rolling.

  Anne Fletcher

  Years, People, Cameras

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I guess it really didn't even dawn on me that you could be a rock critic as a job until I was maybe almost out of college. I knew criticism existed. I read Rolling Stone and Spin. Siskel and Ebert were on television. But I had absolutely no idea how to get that kind of life. And moreover, it didn't interest me that much. I just sort of read normal books growing up. I wasn't that media-conscious. I felt like the one thing I was able to do was to listen to a record and decide whether I liked it.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Jobs, Growing Up, Book

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. November 15, 2006.

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• You can see the clouds rolling in and thunder is imminent.

  Don King

  Clouds, Thunder

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• With the groups who asked me to join them - like the Rolling Stones, Spirit, David Bowie, and Blood, Sweat & Tears - I said no right away because I was way too much into my own thing.

  Shuggie Otis

  Blood, Sweat, Tears

  "1970s R&B Man Shuggie Otis Is Ready for His 'Sneak Back'". Interview with Jacob Blickenstaff, www.motherjones.com. January 21, 2013.

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• Gas grills are a no-no. Gas is a petroleum product. Rather than a smokey flavor, it will add a a petroleum-based weird taste into your meat. However, if you already have a gas grill, you can bring in some smoke flavor by tightly rolling wood chips in tin foil really tight and placing them on the top of your burners.

  Johnny Trigg

  Meat, Tin, Add

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