Famous Quotes & Sayings

Walter Savage Landor

The spirit of Greece, passing through and ascending above the world, hath so animated universal nature, that the very rocks and woods, the very torrents and wilds burst forth with it.

Winston Churchill

First, Poland has been again overrun by two of the great powers which held her in bondage for 150 years but were unable to quench the spirit of the Polish nation. The heroic defense of Warsaw shows that the soul of Poland is indestructible, and that she will rise again like a rock which may for a spell be submerged by a tidal wave but which remains a rock.

William Manchester

The colors of the underwater rock [are] as pale and delicate as those in the wardrobe of an 18th-century marchioness.

William Jennings Bryan

The Rock of Ages is more important than the age of rocks.

Zubin Mehta

Rock music is predictable, unless theres great talent involved.

Yul Vazquez

When you're onstage with Chris Rock, anything can happen. He is one of the greatest comic geniuses we've ever seen.

Warren Cuccurullo

You know, there have been a lot of casualties in rock-n-roll.

Warren Buffett

You have to turn over a lot of rocks to find those little anomalies. You have to find the companies that are off the map - way off the map.

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.

Lenny Kravitz

I come in with this rock 'n' roll-oriented music, and it's not black enough . . . I've always had to deal with this black-white thing.

Temple Grandin

In an ideal world the scientist should find a method to prevent the most severe forms of autism but allow the milder forms to survive. After all, the really social people did not invent the first stone spear. It was probably invented by an Aspie who chipped away at rocks while the other people socialized around the campfire. Without autism traits we might still be living in caves.

Scott Ian

Frank Zappa... was Beethoven for insane rock guys.

Sibel Edmonds

We need to stop saying we can't rock this boat when it needs to be rocked.

Samantha Barks

I began with dance, doing ballet at 3, then tap, jazz, modern. Then I sang in church choirs, learned how to play clarinet and drums, sang with rock bands and only then did I get into musical theatre.

Rodney Atkins

I see the crowd singing 'Rock 'N Roll' or 'Back Road' at my concerts... they are anthems and they lift up your life.

Walt Whitman

Do you guess I have some intricate purpose? Well I have, for the Fourth-month showers have, and the mica on the side of a rock has.

Tina Turner

I grew up in the south, poor - on rock, dirt roads.

Thurston Moore

I never go back and listen to the recorded document. The thrill comes when the balance can be attained. Everyone in the room can have a shared, communal rock experience.

Thurston Moore

Rock'n'roll saved my soul.

Thurston Moore

DEVO was like the punk band that non Punk America saw as Punk and so when people who were really into Punk rock would be walking around on the streets the jocks who learned about Punk through Devo would roll down their windows and yell at the Punks: 'HEY, DEVO!!'

Russell Simmons

Hip-hop took some lessons from rock 'n' roll, and rock 'n' roll took some lessons from hip-hop.

Sam Kinison

It was great to be the rock comic, the shock comic. But after you've played Giants Stadium with Bon Jovi in front of 82,000 people, after you've done the 'Wild Thing' video with Jessica Hahn and every rock band from hell, you're not gonna top that.

Rumi

Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wildflowers will come up where you are.

Rosa Luxemburg

The masses are the decisive element, they are the rock on which the final victory of the revolution will be built.

Susan Powter

The more people I meet, the farther out of my own little world I go, the more I see that we are all alike. And there isn't one of us who can afford to pick up the rock in the glass house.

Susan Beth Pfeffer

I feel myself shriveling along with my world, getting smaller and harder. I'm turning into a rock, and in some ways that's good, because rocks last forever. But if this is how I'm going to last forever, then I don't want to.

Taylor Swift

People throw rocks at things that shine.

Tara Reid

I make Jessica Simpson look like a rock scientist.

Tony Blair

Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I'm more likely to listen to rock music.

Simone de Beauvoir

the Sahara was a spectacle as alive as the sea. The tints of the dunes changed according to the time of day and the angle of the light: golden as apricots from far off, when we drove close to them they turned to freshly made butter; behind us they grew pink; from sand to rock, the materials of which the desert was made varied as much as its tints ...