Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Stewart Copeland

That whole thing of replicating what others do is a siren call. The sirens lure you to the rocks of unoriginality.

Ringo Starr

I am the best rock drummer on the planet.

Stevie Nicks

What has Rock and Roll ever done for us? Everything.

Steven Sater

I started buying records in the 80s. I listened to everything new wave, disco, funk synth-pop, rock, but in my house we were listening to bossa nova, tango, and folk.

Reggie Watts

I was in punk rock bands, heavy metal bands, world music bands, jazz groups, any type of music that would take me. I just love music.

Tom Jones

I couldn't do the heavy rock thing anymore. Noddy Holder was around kicking every singer in the ***. I never wanted to be a pop singer. Christ, how I hated Noddy!

Tom Verlaine

Places like Belgium and the south of France, Sweden and Copenhagen are really alive. They really love rock 'n' roll, they really respond.

Tom Stoppard

I like pop music. I consider rock 'n' roll to be a branch of pop music.

Tina Turner

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

Tia Carrere

I'm not really this rock'n'roll chick.

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.

Stephenie Meyer

So when he touched me, it was deeper and slower than the wildfire, like the flow of molten rock far beneath the surface of the earth. Too deep to feel the heat of it, but it moved inexorably, changing the very foundations of the world with its advance.

Stephen Colbert

(Rush are) like the JD Salinger of Canadian Prog Rock

Victor Hugo

So your desire is to do nothing? Well, you shall not have a week, a day, an hour, free from oppression. You shall not be able to lift anything without agony. Every passing minute will make your muscles crack. What is feather to others will be a rock to you. The simplest things will become difficult. Life will become monstrous about you. To come, to go, to breathe, will be so many terrible tasks for you. Your lungs will feel like a hundred-pound weight.

Vanilla Ice

To the extreme I rock a mike like a vandal.

Suzanne Collins

It's as if I'm Finnick, watching images of my life flash by. The mast of a boat, a silver parachute, Mags laughing, a pink sky, Beetee's trident, Annie in her wedding dress, waves breaking over rocks. Then its over.

Taryn Manning

I'm more like an animalistic rock chick.

Steve Tisch

Any foundation you build, if trust is part of that foundation, whatever you're building, whatever you're creating is gonna have a rock-solid foundation.

Steve Squyres

We have concluded that the rocks here were once soaked in liquid water. It changed their texture, and it changed their chemistry. We've been able to read the tell-tale clues the water left behind, giving us confidence in that conclusion.

Steve Squyres

The rocks, to a great extent, look swept clean. It's a much cleaner surface than what we had a right to hope for.

Stephen King

Drive away and try to keep smiling. Get a little rock and roll on the radio and go toward life with all the courage you can find and all the belief you can muster. Be true, be brave, stand.

Stephen Wolfram

Rocks are computationally equivalent to humans.

Todd Haynes

In my research, all roads led back to Oscar. It's definitely in a way trying to understand the truly English element to glam-rock. It really does not come from American culture.

Toby Keith

My deal will always be one solo performance-nominated or not. Not some thrown together rock tribute.

Tommy Wiseau

I like rock music. I also like classical, if you ask me. I'm very adaptable, they say that. But I have certain preference too, be honest.

Steve Marriott

People who got on their feet and freaked about were called idiot dancers. and nobody wants to be called an idiot dancer. But the whole idea of rock and roll is to get people off their arses - that's what it's about.

Steve Forbert

Folk-rock hasn't changed much over the decades since the Byrds started it.