Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steven Tyler

I have to get inspired by something that touches my soul, or rocks my soul.

Stevie Nicks

Rock and menopause do not mix.

Robert Burns

Burns' Hog-Weighing Method: (1) Get a perfectly symmetrical plank and balance it across a sawhorse. (2) Put the hog on one end of the plank. (3) Pile rocks on the other end until the plank is again perfectly balanced. (4) Carefully guess the weight of the rocks.

Robert Browning

Oh the wild joys of living! The leaping from rock to rock ... the cool silver shock of the plunge in a pool's living waters.

Robbie Williams

I did the rock 'n roll-pop cliche of getting burnt out. I'm not the first person that happened to, and I'm sure I won't be the last.

T. S. Eliot

Paint me the bold anfractuous rocks Faced by the snarled and yelping seas.

T. S. Eliot

The True Church can never fail. For it is based upon a rock.

Suzy Bogguss

You can drink out of Lincoln's nose. They got the Hard Rock t-shirts. They got Elvis, too.

Suzi Quatro

Rock and roll mainly but I can play passable jazz also.

Taylor Hackford

It was the era of Tab Hunter and Rock Hudson; they all had a certain look.

Kevin Hart

At the end of the day, I want to be part of the same conversation as Chris Rock, Eddie Murphy, Dave Chappelle, Bill Cosby and Richard Pryor.

Kevin Hart

Chris Rock does the political thing really well, but that never worked for me.

Rachel Miner

I have truly eclectic taste in music, and I seem to cycle through phases in terms of to what's inspiring me. I'll go from Beethoven to Sigur Ros; world music, Brit-pop, classic rock, blues/jazz, even the odd bit of heavy metal.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.

Stephen Jay Gould

Few intellectual tyrannies can be more recalcitrant than the truths that everybody knows and nearly no one can defend with any decent data (for who needs proof of anything so obvious). And few intellectual activities can be more salutary than attempts to find out whether these rocks of ages might crumble at the slightest tap of an informational hammer.

The rocket motors worked well and the nominal trajectory was executed as planned.

Marc Warren

I've never thought of acting as rocket science - you put on the costume, get your hair cut, and that's it, really.

The single solid rocket booster does look like a unique configuration and a little off balance.

Richelle Mead

You used your power to toss one rock at me?" he exclaimed, an almost comic note of incredulity in his voice. "On the contrary," I heard Dorian say pleasantly. "I didn't use magic for that. I just threw it.

Richard Baxter

'Tis hard preaching a stone into tears, or making a rock to tremble.

Russell Brand

Thus another friendship was dashed on the cruel rocks amid the storm of my self-destruction.

Ruben Blades

Rock is young music, it is youth oriented. It just speaks for a generation.

Tre Cool

I'm the greatest rock and roll drummer on the planet and you suck.

Travis Barker

In 1996, I was in was in an acoustic kind of rock band, we were called Feeble. We were just playing locally.

Rick Riordan

To business."Tux Dude extended his hand. "I am Prometheus." I was too surprised to shake."The fire-stealer guy?The chained-to-the-rock-with-the-vultures guy?" Prometheus winced. He touched the scratches on his face."Please, don't mention the vultures. But yes, I stole fire from the gods and gave it to your ancestors. In return, the ever merciful Zeus had me chained to a rock and tortured for all eternity.

Rick Derringer

I know some people will be surprised to hear it, but I've found that my music, whether its blues or rock, or whatever you want to call it, can be channeled into a positive direction that actually helps people.

Rick Derringer

I was almost kind of trapped by my own success into only doing rock.

Rick Derringer

Rock and roll hoochie koo, lawdy mama, light my fuse.

Rhett Miller

I love to rock, but it's liberating not to always have to keep up with the freight train that is the Old 97's

Rick Wakeman

But I'd play on everything from pop records to a lot of the glam stuff to rock stuff to classical stuff. I used to get called to do all those things, it was great.

Paul McCartney

Be cool and you'll be alright. That's rock & roll religion.

Patty Duke

I can't tell you what I had for breakfast, but I can sing every single word of rock and roll

Paul Westerberg

We [The Replacements] formed as a rock and roll band, and that was the path we chose to take. Whenever we deviated from it we felt, unless everybody was into it, there was tension.