Rolling Quotes - Page 6

• As for man, there is little reason to think that he can in the long run escape the fate of other creatures, and if there is a biological law of flux and reflux, his situation is now a highly perilous one. During ten thousand years his numbers have been on the upgrade in spite of wars, pestilences, and famines. This increase in population has become more and more rapid. Biologically, man has for too long a time been rolling an uninterrupted run of sevens.

  George R. Stewart

  Running, War, Fate

  George R. Stewart (1993). “Earth Abides”, p.8, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Steve Forman is a brutally funny writer. His no-nonsense, unadorned style begs comparison to Dashiell Hammett, but Hammett's humor at its darkest never hit home this hard. Reading of Eddie Perlmutter's exploits is like rolling in an aisle paved with broken glass and wanting to do it all over again two minutes later.

  Loren D. Estleman

  Reading, Home, Two

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• The earth is a machine which yields almost gratuitous service to every application of intellect. Every plant is a manufacturer of soil. In the stomach of the plant development begins. The tree can draw on the whole air, the whole earth, on all the rolling main. The plant is all suction-pipe,--imbibing from the ground by its root, from the air by its leaves, with all its might.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Roots, Yield, Air

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.144, Рипол Классик

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• Because I'm a young black man driving a really nice, expensive car, I sometimes get harassed when I'm rolling through a ghetto neighborhood.

  Coolio

  Nice, Ghetto, Men

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

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• I know Mick Jagger wouldn’t tour without Keith Richards and call it the Rolling Stones.

  Richie Sambora

  Keith, Stones, Jagger

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• Blessed be they whose lives do not taste of evilbut if some god shakes your houseruin arrivesruin does not leaveit comes tolling over the generationsit comes rolling the black night salt up from the ocean floorand all your thrashed coasts groan

  Anne Carson

  Ocean, Blessed, Night

  Anne Carson (2015). “Antigonick”, p.16, New Directions Publishing

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• General McChrystal wanted to be on the cover of Rolling Stone.

  Michael Hastings

  Stones, Rolling Stones, Wanted

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• The truly still mind, with which you were born, is the mind that moves freely. Without ignoring anything, it reacts wholeheartedly to everything it encounters, to everything on which it reflects. And yet, for all that, it is the mind that is never seized by anything, but is always ready to react on the spot to whatever it encounters next. The mind that is still is the mind that never forfeits its freedom and is able to constantly keep rolling androlling and rolling.

  Soko Morinaga

  Moving, Mind, Encounters

  Soko Morinaga, Belenda Attaway Yamakawa (2002). “Novice to Master: An Ongoing Lesson in the Extent of My Own Stupidity”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

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• I looked upon a clock to find the truth. The hours were passing like ivory chess figures, striking piano notes, and the minutes raced on wires mounted like tin soldiers. Hours like tall ebony women with gongs between their legs, tolling continuously so that I could not count them. I heard the rolling of my heart-beats; I heard the footsteps of my dreams, and the beat of time was lost among them like the face of truth.

  Anais Nin

  Dream, Heart, Ivory

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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 is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills. These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.

  Alan Paton

  Running, Lovely, Singing

  Alan Paton (2003). “Cry, the Beloved Country”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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• Winfield goes back to the wall. He hits his head on the wall and it rolls off! It's rolling all the way back to second base! This is a terrible thing for the Padres!

  Jerry Coleman

  Wall, Stupidity, Way

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• Servant-leader ship is all about making the goals clear and then rolling your sleeves up and doing whatever it takes to help people win. In that situation, they don't work for you, you work for them.

  Ken Blanchard

  Winning, Goal, People

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• I just want to thank people who take big risks in their daily lives when there aren't cameras rolling. I want to dedicate this award to people who stand up for peace and against injustice and intolerance.

  Paul Haggis

  Awards, People, Risk

  "The Oscars, minute by minute" by Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. March 5, 2006.

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• When a politician says, concerning an issue involving science, that the debate is over, you may be sure the debate is rolling on and not going swimmingly for his side.

  George Will

  Issues, Over You, May

  "The Liberal Agenda: Being Good to Liberals". www.washingtonpost.com. February 26, 2014.

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• Flat fields produce mediocre grapes, but rolling hills produce the greatest grapes. Why? Because the vines must struggle for survival.

  Billy Cannon

  Struggle, Survival, Vines

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• The only band that we have never played with but have always wanted to is the Rolling Stones.

  Lars Ulrich

  Band, Stones, Wanted

  "Metallica Opening For Rolling Stones In San Francisco" by Gil Kaufman, www.mtv.com. August 03, 2005.

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• With useless endeavour Forever, forever, Is Sisyphus rolling His stone up the mountain!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Forever, Mountain, Useless

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Masque Of Pandora”

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• The stone that is rolling can gather no moss;For master and servant oft changing is loss.

  Thomas Tusser

  Loss, Innovation, Moss

  Thomas Tusser (1848). “Some of the Five hundred points of good husbandry, newly corrected and ed. by H.M.W. [2 issues].”

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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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• A rolling stone gathers no moss and therefore will not be derided as a moss-back. Roll as much as possible.

  George Ade

  Moss, Stones, Rolling Stones

  George Ade (1960). “The America of George Ade, 1866-1944: Fables, Short Stories, Essays”, New York, Putnam [1960]

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• The very first concert I ever went to on my own was actually Rory Gallagher. In a one-month period in 1973 or '74, I saw him, Thin Lizzy and the Rolling Stones. I wasn't really a big Rory Gallagher fan, but I thought his guitar playing was fabulous. But Thin Lizzy, they were fabulous.

  Robert Smith

  Guitar, Fans, Stones

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• I've built my whole life around loving music. I'm a writer for 'Rolling Stone,' so I am constantly searching for new bands and soaking up new sounds.

  Rob Sheffield

  Sound, Band, Stones

  Rob Sheffield (2010). “Talking to Girls About Duran Duran: One Young Man's Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut”, p.11, Penguin

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• I've grown up with my parents' music tastes, listening to Fleetwood Mac and the Rolling Stones.

  Saoirse Ronan

  Parent, Listening, Stones

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• I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.

  Keith Richards

  Records, Stones, Achieve

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