Rolling Along Quotes

• I'm inspired by people who keep on rolling, no matter their age.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Birthday, People, Age

  Twitter post from Mar 24, 2015

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• Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

  Jim Carrey

  Funny, Laughter, Women

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

  Bill Bryson

  Age, Lightning, Three

  FaceBook post by Bill Bryson from Apr 07, 2015

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• I'm not happy not doing anything. When positive things are rolling in, you've got to take them when you can get them.

  Tori Spelling

  Positive, Not Happy, Rolling

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• It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Sports, Inspiration

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• Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Snow, Moral Corruption, Balls

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• Things changed, people changed, and the world went rolling along right outside the window.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Change, People, World

  "Message in a Bottle". Book by Nicholas Sparks, April 1, 1998.

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• When creative people do their best work, they're hardly ever in charge, they're just sort of rolling along with their eyes shut yelling wheee.

  Stephen King

  Eye, Yelling, People

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• Humor keeps the elderly rolling along, singing a song. When you laugh, its an involuntary explosion of the lungs. The lungs need to replenish themselves with oxygen. So you laugh, you breathe, the blood runs, and everything is circulating. If you dont laugh, youll die.

  Mel Brooks

  Running, Song, Elderly

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• 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

  Pebbles, Grain, Streams

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• The Beatles were just the beginning of everything music could be, just like the Stones I was Rolling along like a ship lost out on the sea.

  David Allan Coe

  Sea, Stones, Ships

  Song: Willie, Waylon And Me

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• We're well past the end of the century when time, for the first time, curved, bent, slipped, flash forwarded, and flashed back yet still kept rolling along. We know it all now, with our thoughts traveling at the speed of a tweet, our 140 characters in search of a paragraph. We're post-history. We're post-mystery.

  Ali Smith

  Character, Past, Firsts

  "Do we still need Doctor Who? Time travel in the internet age" by James Gleick, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2017.

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• Texas is a great state. It's the 'Old Man River' of states. No matter who runs it or what happens to it politically, it just keeps rolling along!

  Will Rogers

  Running, Men, Rivers

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.43, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Perhaps more than anything else, failure to recognize the precariousness and fickleness of confidence - especially in cases in which large short-term debts need to be rolled over continuously - is the key factor that gives rise to the this-time-is-different syndrome. Highly indebted governments, banks, or corporations can seem to be merrily rolling along for an extended period, when bang! - confidence collapses, lenders disappear, and a crisis hits.

  Carmen Reinhart

  Keys, Government, Giving

  "This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly". Book by Carmen M. Reinhart, Kenneth S. Rogoff, 2009.

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