Rolling Quotes - Page 17

• It's not set in stone. I like to keep it rolling and changing, and so I am like, "Great, I get to remake my song."

  Andrew Bird

  Song, Stones, Remakes

  Interview with Genevieve Koski, music.avclub.com. January 20, 2009.

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• When I came into the industry I started with acting and I did drama during junior high and high school. I fell into dancing as a hobby, but whenever you need work, you try out different things. So I booked a lot of jobs for dancing and it kept rolling and rolling.

  Harry Shum, Jr.

  Jobs, Drama, School

  "Harry Shum Jr: I Love That People See Dancers as Artists Now". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. May 11, 2010.

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• That's where I'm comfortable - playing a jackass on the scene, rolling in with my pocket watch and my buffoon hairdo, with my shoes.

  Alan Tudyk

  Shoes, Pockets, Watches

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'd rather do manual labor than sit behind a desk. And as my grandparents got older, I'd fly out there and help out around the farm. We'd tear barns down; we'd build barns. I'd rather be outside rolling hay or driving the tractors.

  Kellan Lutz

  Grandparent, Tears, Barns

  Interview with Mark Jacobs, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 19, 2010.

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• I think my favorite Rolling Stones song is "No Expectations." I always think and talk through songs.

  Ragnar Kjartansson

  Song, Thinking, Expectations

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When punk came along, I found my generation's music. I grew up listening to the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd, 'cause that was what got played in the house. But when I first saw the Stranglers, I thought, 'This is it.'

  Robert Smith

  House, Listening, Generations

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• If I hurt someone, if I were to accidentally poke someone's eye out, I would laugh. And then I'd say, 'I'm sorry, I really do feel bad,' but then I'm on the floor rolling.

  Rachel McAdams

  Hurt, Sorry, Eye

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. June 23, 2004.

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• Tailor gang they rolling up those paper planes.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Airplane, Paper, Tailors

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• When he utilizes combined energy, his fighting men become, as it were, like rolling logs or stones... The energy developed by good fighting men is as the momentum of a round stone rolled down a mountain thousands of feet in height.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Fighting

  Sun Tzu “The Art of War”, Lulu.com

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• When he utilizes combined energy, his fighting men become as it were like unto rolling logs or stones. For it is the nature of a log or stone to remain motionless on level ground, and to move when on a slope; if four-cornered, to come to a standstill, but if round-shaped to go rolling down.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Moving

  Sun Tzu, Julius Caesar, Einhard, Niccolò Machiavelli, Carl von Clausewitz (2016). “Strategy Six Pack”, p.15, Lulu.com

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• Oh, it's home again and home again, America for me! I want a ship that's westward bound to plough the rolling sea To the blessed land of Room Enough beyond the ocean bars, Where the air is full of sunlight and the flag is full of stars.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Stars, Ocean, Blessed

  Henry Van Dyke (1920). “The Poems of Henry Van Dyke”

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• Autumn is the eternal corrective. It is ripeness and color and a time of maturity; but it is also breadth, and depth, and distance. What man can stand with autumn on a hilltop and fail to see the span of his world and the meaning of the rolling hills that reach to the far horizon?

  Hal Borland

  Distance, Fall, Autumn

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• In the space of one delivery so much had changed. My confidence was sky-high. I was pumped up and rock'n'rolling.

  Shane Warne

  Change, Rocks, Sky

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• If all the Churches of Europe closed their doors until the drums ceased rolling they would act as a most powerful reminder that though the glory of war is a famous and ancient glory, it is not the final glory of God.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Peace, Powerful, War

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.772, e-artnow

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• We have two lives;
  The soul of man is like the rolling world,
  One half in day, the other dipt in night;
  The one has music and the flying cloud,
  The other, silence and the wakeful stars.

  Alexander Smith

  Life, Stars, Night

  ALEXANDER SMITH (1857). “CITY POEMS”, p.7

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• A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track-an inch between wreck and smooth-rolling prosperity.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Forgiveness, Hope, Helping Others

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• To adore the conqueror, who now beholds Cherub and seraph rolling in the flood.

  John Milton

  Inspirational, Cherubs, Adore

  John Milton (1758). “Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained...”, p.14

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• The flood of time is rolling on;
  We stand upon its brink, whilst they are gone
  To glide in peace down death's mysterious stream.
  Have ye done well?

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Time, Gone, Done

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1874). “The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.94

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• That great mystery of TIME, were there no other; the illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing ocean tide, on which we and all the Universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are, and then are not: this is forever very literally a miracle; a thing to strike us dumb,-for we have no word to speak about it.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Time, Ocean, Rushing

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.96, Lulu.com

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• He's hit it fat.... It will probably be short.... It just hit the front edge of the green.... It's got no chance.... It's rolling toward the cup.... Well I'll be damned!

  Jimmy Demaret

  Golf, Green, Cups

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• I don't sleep much. I'm on the go. My mind is racing. My wife says my mind is like the rolling dials on a slot machine. So, yeah, I think about everything.

  Bill Walton

  Motivational, Basketball, Sleep

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• I like the light that comes off metal shutters at siesta time in the summer, having a break from driving in the shops at motorway services, the odour of petrol at petrol stations, rolling down little slopes. I hate it when you tread in a puddle and the water soaks your socks.

  Audrey Tautou

  Summer, Hate, Light

  "Here's looking at you, kid" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. October 2, 2001.

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• Bob Dylan did the first really long record - Like A Rolling Stone - I think it was four minutes.

  Pete Townshend

  Thinking, Long, Records

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• I bought a Dutch barge and turned it into a recording studio. My plan was to go to Paris and record rolling down the Seine.

  Pete Townshend

  Paris, Records, Dutch

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• The way to catch a knuckleball is to wait until it stops rolling and then pick it up.

  Bob Uecker

  Sports, Waiting, Funny Baseball

  Bill Schroeder, Drew Olson, Craig Counsell, Bob Uecker (2016). “If These Walls Could Talk: Milwaukee Brewers: Stories from the Milwaukee Brewers Dugout, Locker Room, and Press Box”, p.45, Triumph Books

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