Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kesha

I grew up in the Bible Belt and I made my own clothes and dyed my hair purple. Nobody ever knew what to do with me.

Ogden Nash

But that wasn't fancy enough for Lord Byron, oh dear me no, he had to invent a lot of figures of speech and then interpolate them, With the result that whenever you mention Old Testament soldiers to people they say Oh yes, they're the ones that a lot of wolves dressed up in gold and purple ate them.

Epictetus

Seek to be the purple thread in the long white gown.

Ozzy Osbourne

We were always told we were one step behind Deep Purple, one step behind Led Zeppelin, one step behind everybody. Our manager didn't want to let us know how popular we were. It's only after we did Ozzfest that people started telling me stuff. I thought they were taking the piss. People would come up to me and go, "Respect.

Kobe Bryant

I like playing for the purple and gold. This is where I want to finish up.

L. Ron Hubbard

Now we notice that Mars doesn't have any atmosphere either and won't support life. In spite of the fact that it turns green and red and purple with the seasons, it doesn't support life.

Lewis Black

Ninety percent of a shirt that not only was bright purple and green but with a design on it that, if you moved too quickly, might cause a seizure in an unsuspecting onlooker.

Patrick Wilson

I did have Skidz overalls. Remember Skidz, those baggy plaid pants that look like pajamas? So I did rock overalls, but not in purple velvet. I couldn't find those.

Paul Verlaine

I like this word decadent; all shimmering and purple and gold.

Rob Sheffield

The sax solo as we know it today would not exist without Gerry Rafferty. His 1978 soft-rock classic 'Baker Street' has to be the 'Ulysses' of rock & roll saxophone, giving the entire chorus over to Raphael Ravenscroft's sax solo, creating one of the Seventies' most enduringly creepy sounds.

Richard Paul Evans

The first casualty of hitting rock bottom is vanity.

Richard Baxter

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

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 Derringer

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

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

William Jennings Bryan

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

William Wordsworth

Monastic brotherhood, upon rock Aerial.

William Shatner

I've got rock 'n' roll in my blood.

Samuel Rutherford

Christ has no velvet crosses.

Jonathan Richman

If there was no Velvet Underground there would have been no such record. Does that tell you what you need to know?

Al Yankovic

Velvet Elvis never puts on weight.

Brian Eno

The first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band

David F. Houston

For the Gulf States, perhaps no forage crop of which the available seed supply is relatively abundant exceeds the velvet bean in potential value. This legume possesses also the ability to make a crop when planted relatively late.