Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Best

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

Frederick William Faber

The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder.

Nothing is wasted, nothing is in vain: / The seas roll over but the rocks remain.

No throwing rocks at other boats. I think that's the only one.

Buzz Aldrin

Did the Pilgrims on the Mayflower sit around Plymouth Rock waiting for a return trip? They came here to settle. And that's what we should be doing on Mars. When you go to Mars, you need to have made the decision that you're there permanently. The more people we have there, the more it can become a sustaining environment. Except for very rare exceptions, the people who go to Mars shouldn't be coming back. Once you get on the surface, you're there.

Buzz Aldrin

We'll get to the details of what's around here, but it looks like a collection of just about every variety of shape - angularity, granularity, about every variety of rock.... The colors - well.... There doesn't appear to be too much of a general color at all; however, it looks as though some of the rocks and boulders are going to have some interesting colors to them. Over.

Bruno Mars

I wish I could tell you me and my rock band were traveling around, strung out. No, we were a family band. Straight Partridge Family.

James Ellroy

Rock and rollers can get you the youth buzz, and younger people are fanatical readers.

Jarvis Cocker

You get to a certain age and you just want to prove that you can still rock - that you've still got it.

Janet Fitch

Don't turn over the rocks if you don't want to see the pale creatures who live under them.

Janet Fitch

Her fingers moved among barnacles and mussels, blue-black, sharp-edged. Neon red starfish were limp Dalis on the rocks, surrounded by bouquets of stinging anemones and purple bursts of spiny sea urchins.

Janet Fitch

That kind of tenderness couldn't be permitted to last. You only got a taste, enough to know what perfection meant, and then you paid for it the rest of your life. Like the guy chained to a rock, who stole fire. The gods made an eagle eat his liver for all eternity. You paid for every second of beauty you managed to steal.

Janet Evanovich

The elevator doors opened, and Ranger stepped out and spied Tank stretched out on the carpet. "Fainted," I said. Ranger walked to Tank and stood hands on hips, staring down at him. "Tank doesn't faint. I've been in firefights with him. He's a rock." "Well, the rock fainted.

Carly Simon

The models for me were more the folk-rock singers of the '60s and '70s.

Evan Harris

Disaster beats stasis. Better a rolling stone than a moss-covered rock...

Hannah Kearney

I watch my favorite shows-The Walking Dead, The Office, 30 Rock and Parks and Recreation-on Netflix to unwind. Actually, I eat most of my meals while watching Netflix. It's like my companion.

Hank Azaria

I guess I'm used to seeing actors, but rock musicians still hold a special magic for me.

Frank Zappa

Classical musicians go to the conservatories, rock´n roll musicians go to the garages.

Frank Zappa

Rock music was never written for or performed for conservative tastes.

Jim Butcher

I would hit you on the head with a rock and drag you away from this. But it would only shatter the rock.

Jay-Z

Used to rock a throwback ballin on the corner, now I rock tailored suit lookin' like a owner.

Jay-Z

All these ways we classify things as R&B and hip-hop and rock... It's bullshit. It's all music. If you put yourself in that box, then you won't be able to hear that it's all music at its soul.

Jay-Z

When people say stuff like, "Oh, that's soft rock. I don't listen to that," I find that elitist. It's music-racist.

Muriel Rukeyser

The heavy sensual shoulders, the thighs, the blood-born flesh and earth turning into color, rocks into their crystals, water to sound, fire to form: life flickers uncounted into the supple arms of love.

Moby

I've been making electronic music for twenty some odd years but, because I grew up playing in punk rock bands, when I started touring, I thought in order to be a viable touring musician I had to do it with a band. I would DJ or tour with a full rock band.

Moby

When I was very young, I played in a punk-rock band, but I also studied music theory and classical music.

Moby

People have always been resistant to change. If you go back to the 17th, 18th century, playing guitar was frowned upon. When rock n' roll first started, no one took it seriously.

Moby

When I was nine years old, I started playing guitar, and I took classical guitar lessons and studied music theory. And played jazz for a while. And then when I was around fourteen years old, I discovered punk rock. And so I then tried to unlearn everything I had learned in classical music and jazz so I could play in punk rock bands.

Moby

If Nirvana had remained a small, underground punk rock band, Kurt Cobain would still be alive. And he'd probably be living in Seattle, getting kind of fat and balding, be relatively happy and producing records for other people.

Mike Rowe

I'm allergic to rocks hitting me in the face.

Miguel

A lot of people forget that R&B put hip-hop on, R&B put rock on.

Kurt Loder

I came over here and worked for rock magazines, and I worked for Rolling Stone, which has a very high standard of journalism, a very good research department.

Kirk Franklin

God may allow us at times to hit rock bottom, to show us He's the rock-at the bottom.