Quotes of Rolling - somelinesforyou

“ I was born in Rolling Fork and raised up in a little town called Clarksdale. When I went back to play some music in Rolling Fork, I had records out then. I wasn't raised in Rolling Fork. I was born there, and came away from there when I was 2 years old… ”

- Muddy Waters

“ I have been a gigantic Rolling Stones fan since approximately the Spanish-American War. ”

- Dave Barry

“ We wanted Nike to be the world's best sports and fitness company. Once you say that, you have a focus. You don't end up making wing tips or sponsoring the next Rolling Stones world tour. ”

- Philip Knight

“ Ultimately, we wanted Nike to be the world's best sports and fitness company. Once you say that, you have a focus. You don't end up making wing tips or sponsoring the next Rolling Stones world tour. ”

- Phil Knight

“ The way to catch a knuckleball is to wait until it stops rolling and then pick it up. ”

- Bob Uecker

“ I don't sleep much. I'm on the go. My mind is racing. My wife says my mind is like the rolling dials on a slot machine. So, yeah, I think about everything. ”

- Bill Walton

“ It's a whole different kind of anxiety. But the great thing about doing a theatre job is that once the ball starts rolling you just have to go with it, it's inexorable. ”

- Emily Watson

“ You have to be like the pebble in the stream, keeping the grain and rolling along without being dissolved or dissolving anything else. ”

- Joseph Joubert

“ Winfield goes back to the wall. He hits his head on the wall and it rolls off! It's rolling all the way back to second base! This is a terrible thing for the Padres! ”

- Jerry Coleman

“ As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever. ”

- Clarence Darrow

“ As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes. ”

- Mel Brooks

“ This lady is not for turning. ”

- Margaret Thatcher

“ Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it. ”

- Helen Rowland

“ A rolling stone gathers no moss. ”

- Publilius Syrus

“ A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track an inch between wreck and smooth, rolling prosperity. ”

- Henry Ward Beecher

“ A rolling stone can gather no moss. ”

- Publilius Syrus

“ As soon as we attract enough attention in the world to play a part in it, we are set rolling like a ball which will never again be at rest. ”

- Charles Joseph

“ Corruption is like a ball of snow; once it's set a-rolling it must increase. ”

- Charles Caleb Colton

“ He who holds back rising anger like a rolling chariot, him I call a real driver; other people are but holding the reins. ”

- The Dhammapada

“ The lightning flashes through my skull; mine eyeballs ache and ache; my whole beaten brain seems as beheaded, and rolling on some stunning ground. ”

- Herman Melville

“ There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age. ”

- Bill Bryson

“ Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man. ”

- John Burroughs

“ We look wishfully to emergencies, to eventful, revolutionary times… and think how easy to have taken our part when the drum was rolling and the house was burning over our heads. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ There is something elegantly sinister about the Rolling Stones. They sit before you at a press conference like five unfolding switchblades; their faces set in rehearsed snarls; their hair studiously unkempt and matted; their clothes part of some private conceit; and the way they walk and talk and the songs they sing all become part of some long mean reach for the jugular. ”

- Pete Hamill

“ Being around great musicians always gives me this energy. I've had it my whole career. I look at some of the newer artists onstage that are performing with the tape rolling and they're good performers, but they're looking tired and sweating after a few songs… ”

- Prince

“ You can take on the problems of the makeup and use them to your advantage. I was always working against the costume, it was compressing me all the time, so I used it to make my movements a little more liquid. The process became depressing and exhausting… ”

- Tim Roth

“ The idea of the band is becoming more of a foldable, interchangable, and disposable idea. It was a big deal when Ron Wood joined the rolling stones, but I don't think anyone would notice if Pearl Jam got a new guitarist. ”

- Ian Williams

“ There is nothing in nature as perfect or as powerful as the human nervous system — not the seamless folding of the seasons one into the other; not the rolling biogenetic mass of the oceans; not the great silent spin of the planets around the sun. ”

- David Noonan

“ It is only when we are very happy that we can bear to gaze merrily upon the vast and limitless expanse of water, rolling on and on with such persistent, irritating monotony, to the accompaniment of our thoughts, whether grave or gay. When they are gay, the waves echo their gaiety; but when they are sad, then every breaker, as it rolls, seems to bring additional sadness, and to speak to us of hopelessness and of the pettiness of all our joys. ”

- Baroness Orczy

“ I go into ecstasies every time I see the naked figure of a woman, such as Venus, for example. It strikes me as so wonderful and exquisite that I have difficulty in stopping the tears rolling down my cheeks. ”

- Anne Frank
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