Rolling Quotes

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

  Jim Carrey

  Funny, Laughter, Women

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• A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gains a certain polish.

  Oliver Herford

  Deep Thought, Moss, Stones

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

  Jimmy Buffett

  Birthday, People, Age

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• Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Break Up, Revenge, Men

  Jeremy Taylor (1834). “The Beauties of J. Taylor: Selected from His Works with an Essay on His Life and Writings”, p.45

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• Time is a river rolling into nowhere. We must live while we can, and we'll drink our cup of laughter.

  Steve Winwood

  Inspirational, Laughter, Rivers

  Song: The Finer Things, Album: Back in the High Life

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• One day the good times had to keep on rolling, and all of life's horseshit would turn to circuses.

  Christopher Moore

  One Day, Circus, Good Times

  Christopher Moore (2009). “Practical Demonkeeping”, p.79, Zondervan

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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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• Changes before your eyes, things you can do and things you can't. My attitude is always let it keep rolling.

  Terrence Malick

  Attitude, Eye, Can Do

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Travel, Men, Moss

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• Just because I look sexy on the cover of Rolling Stone doesn't mean I'm naughty.

  Britney Spears

  Sexy, Mean, Naughty

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

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Snow, Rolling Along, Moral Corruption

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• And so the seasons went rolling on into summer, as one rambles into higher and higher grass.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Summer, Grass, Higher

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.185, Simon and Schuster

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• We idolized the Beatles, except for those of us who idolized the Rolling Stones, who in those days still had many of their original teeth.

  Dave Barry

  Teeth, Literature, Stones

  Dave Barry (2013). “My Teenage Son's Goal in Life Is to Make Me Feel 3,500 Years Old: and Other Thoughts on Parenting from Dave Barry”, p.59, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.

  Aldous Huxley

  Life, Forgiveness, Time

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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• Every now and then, I have blissful moments of thanking God for all the amazing things that are happening. When I leave the White House after just meeting Obama or when I see my face on the cover of 'Rolling Stone' or when I meet someone who tells me that their daughter is inspired by me, those are moments that are incredibly joyful.

  Lea Michele

  Daughter, Mother, White

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

  Nicholas Sparks

  Change, People, Rolling Along

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

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• I couldn't take pictures of green rolling hills.

  David Byrne

  Green, Hills, Rolling Hills

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• If I had a staff of even one person, or could tolerate a small amphetamine habit, or entertain the possibility of weekly blood transfusions, or had been married to Vera Nabokov, or had a housespouse of even minimal abilities, a literary life would be easier to bring about. (In my mind I see all your male readers rolling their eyes. But your female ones - what is that? Are they nodding in agreement? Are their fists in the air?)

  Lorrie Moore

  Writing, Eye, Air

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• With acting, you wanna see if you can get into trouble without knowing how you're gonna get out of it. It's like the exact opposite of war, where you need an exit strategy. When you're acting, you should get all the way into trouble with no exit strategy, and have the cameras rolling.

  John Cusack

  War, Knowing, Opposites

  "John Cusack: 'I like to take risks'". Interview with Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. October 30, 2009.

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• Life ain't no rehearsal, the cameras always rolling.

  Drake

  Cameras, Rehearsal

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• Long and long has the grass been growing,
  Long and long has the rain been falling,
  Long has the globe been rolling round.

  Walt Whitman

  Life, Rain, Fall

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Leaves of Grass”, p.315, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm washing lettuce. Soon, I'll be on fries. In a few years, I'll make assistant manager, and that's when the big bucks start rolling in.

  Louie Anderson

  Money, Years, Bucks

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• I have a healthy lifestyle, but there's nothing you can really do to prevent from rolling an ankle or something like that.

  Shawn Johnson

  Healthy, Ankles, Lifestyle

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• As the rolling stone gathers no moss, so the roving heart gathers no affections.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Change, Heart, Moss

  Anna Brownell Jameson (2009). “Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada”, p.200, New Canadian Library

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• You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend a bit, is very exciting. It's very real. It's very strong.

  Bono

  Dream, Strong, Real

  "My wish: Three actions for Africa". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2005.

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