Famous Quotes & Sayings

Felipe Alou

Those who feel they are clean, go ahead and throw the first rock. If you're clean, if you have not done anything wrong or been accused of anything wrong, go ahead and start the show.

Felicity Jones

I would describe my look as 'ladylike rock chick.

Fay Wray

Sometimes I worked with just a background of a rock or a tree or black velvet, and just had to imagine the whole thing.

Federico Garcia Lorca

Adam & Eve. The serpent cracked the mirror in a thousand pieces, & the apple was his rock.

Fats Domino

Well, I wouldn't want to say that I started it (rock 'n' roll), but I don't remember anyone else before me playing that kind of stuff.

Fats Domino

Everybody started calling my music rock and roll, but it wasn't anything but the same rhythm and blues I'd been playing down in New Orleans.

Ezra Taft Benson

A missionary should never permit himself to see a movie or (read) cheap literature, or hear music that tends to interfere with or which dampens the spirit of missionary work. There is ample evidence that rock music is offensive to the Spirit and affects adversely the spirituality of the missionaries and thus the success of the proselyting work.

Frances McDormand

I like hard rock, and classic rock, and even metal.

Fisher Ames

A monarchy is a merchantman which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock, and go to the bottom; a republic is a raft which will never sink, but then your feet are always in the water.

Henry Louis Gates

I thought, "why don't we be innovative and create something nobody had ever done before?" It was a huge hit and we immediately did a sequel with Chris Rock, Morgan Freeman, Tina Turner and Maya Angelou.

Cat Power

Hip-hop and R&B is mostly what I listen to. I don't have a connection with punk rock - I just never had that experience.

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...

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.

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.