Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I love idleness. I love to busy myself about trifles, to begin a hundred things and not finish one of them, to come and go as my fancy bids me, to change my plan every moment, to follow a fly in all its circlings, to try and uproot a rock to see what is underneath, eagerly to begin a ten-years' task to give it up after ten minutes: in short, to fritter away the whole day inconsequentially and incoherently, and to follow nothing but the whim of the moment.

Jessica Lange

For me, acting was always a way to explore emotions - to dip into the well and really try to reach rock bottom down there. That was the most exciting part of it. I hadn't found anything that really allowed me to do that until I came upon acting.

Jerry Hall

I love good rock'n'roll, blues and jazz, gospel, and a little reggae.

Jeremy Grantham

Everyone asks about gold. This is the irony: just as Jim Grant tells us (correctly) that we all have faith-based paper currencies backed by nothing, it is equally fair to say that gold is a faith-based metal. It pays no dividend, cannot be eaten, and is mostly used for nothing more useful than jewelry. I would say that anything of which 75% sits idly and expensively in bank vaults is, as a measure of value, only one step up from the Polynesian islands that attached value to certain well-known large rocks that were traded.

Jeffrey Eugenides

All of a sudden America wasn't about hamburgers and hot rods anymore. It was about the Mayflower and Plymouth Rock. It was about something that had happened for two minutes four hundred years ago, instead of everything that had happened since. Instead of everything that was happening now!

George Harrison

Some got rabies, some got fleas, some got incurable diseases from this cockamamie business.

Gary Snyder

Will be but corpses dressed in frocks, who cannot speak to birds or rocks.

Gary Snyder

Poetry a riprap on the slick rock of metaphysics

Gary Burton

There are a few things that I will hopefully be credited for as a pioneer. One is my four-mallet playing. Another one is the starting what was first called jazz rock in 1967 when I started my first band, later became jazz fusion by the 1970s.

Gary Carter

I like mellow music. I like some jazz. But I'm not a big hard rock guy.

Jennifer Weiner

They say - "they" being the great philosophers, or possibly the cast of Seinfeld - that breaking up is like pushing over a Coke machine. You can't just do it, you have to set the thing in motion, rock it back and forth a few times.

Jello Biafra

The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics.

Jello Biafra

If I go without rock for too long, I feel depressed.

Jello Biafra

Punk rock will never die, until something more dangerous replaces it.

Jeff Beck

I've never stuck around long enough to know if anyone would miss me. That's rock 'n' roll, though. Here today, gone tomorrow.

Jeaniene Frost

Yes, but you are still only human.” I laughed, the sound of it drowned out by the crunch of rocks as the mountain continued to shudder as though in the throes of birth pangs. “So was Van Helsing, yet in every movie, he beat the vampire in the end. Never underestimate the power of humanity.

Jerry Lee Lewis

Don't Be Cruel is the greatest rock 'n' roll record ever made.

Jeff Buckley

I want to be ripped apart by music. I want it to be something that feeds and replenishes, or that totally sucks the life out of you. I want to be dashed against the rocks.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Jeff Probst

Survivor is like rock 'n' roll - you can do what you want.

Jason Sudeikis

Once I walked out of my house into to the Puerto Rican Day parade. It was usually a five-minute walk to work, but that day it took me a half-hour to get to 30 Rock.

Jason Momoa

I grew up rock climbing.

Evan Dando

I have to make rock records occasionally.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

The classical music industry, has been an industry of covers. So we do covers, and if I compare this with the rock and pop side, what is the most exciting event?

Grimes

You don't just have to be influenced by rock, or goth, anymore. It's okay to say, 'My influences are Tin Pan music from Bali and Rihanna.' There are still so many combinations that haven't been done yet.

Graham Greene

People change,' she said 'Oh, no they don't. Look at me. I've never changed. It's like those sticks of rock: bite it all the way down, you'll still read Brighton. That's human nature.

Goran Ivanisevic

Lately, my mind is like an orchestra. If you don't have the conductor, you don't know what to do. One guy is playing jazz, one guy is playing rock and roll, another classical. It's a big mess.

Haley Reinhart

I love classic rock, rock and roll, that's the top notch. I love soul - bluesy music as well.

Iggy Pop

The future of rock n roll is Justin Bieber.

Gotye

When I started covering The Beatles and The Rolling Stones in a rock 'n' roll band, it helped me realize that my natural voice is actually really high. It helped me find my voice.

Gillian Flynn

My brain goes very easily into the darkness. It always has. There are people who like to see what's under the rock and people who don't, and for some reason I've always been one of those to say, 'Hey, let's flip over that rock.'

Gillian Jacobs

I would love it if 'Community' could have a trajectory like '30 Rock' and choose when to go out.

George Best

People say you have to hit rock bottom, and, I can tell you, almost dying is as rock bottom as it gets.