Rolling Quotes - Page 21

• When I'm 80 and sitting in a rocking chair listening to the Rolling Stones, there is absolutely no way I'm going to feel old or forget my younger days.

  Patty Duke

  Listening, Sitting, Stones

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• The torrent of centuries rolling over the human race, has continually brought new perfections, the cause of which, ever active though unseen, is found in the demands made by our senses, which always in their turns demand to be occupied.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Race, Perfection, Unseen

  Brillat Savarin (2015). “The Physyology of Taste”, p.48, Editorial MAXTOR

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• My first years were spent living just as my forefathers had lived - roaming the green, rolling hills of what are now the states of South Dakota and Nebraska.

  Standing Bear

  Years, Nebraska, Roaming

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• Worlds on worlds are rolling ever From creation to decay, Like the bubbles on a river Sparkling, bursting, borne away.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Rivers, Decay, World

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1853). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Complete in One Volume”, p.317

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• I'd rather be remembered as a famous painter than a famous model, so I'll have to start the ball rolling now.

  Kirsty Hume

  Balls, Painter, Remembered

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• While the Beatles always had George Martin around to clean up their act, the Rolling Stones had Andrew Loog Oldham to coarsen theirs.

  Jon Landau

  Stones, Clean, Andrew

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• Education is a vast sea of lies, waste, corruption, crackpot theorizing, and careerist log-rolling.

  John Derbyshire

  Lying, Sea, Waste

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• For me, the '60s in the automotive industry was awesome. The cars are heavy, huge, rolling works of art.

  Apolo Ohno

  Art, Car, Heavy

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• I'm absolutely terrified that people can get into cars. It's like the car is a face, and the headlight is eyes, and when you open the car door it's like you're climbing into the ears. (I cannot) be inside a giant rolling robot head.

  Thom Yorke

  Eye, Climbing, Doors

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• [joking about the length of the Rolling Stones' career] You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe - and you have the Rolling Stones!

  Keith Richards

  Moon, Air, Stones

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

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• Why should the wealth of the country be stored in banks and elevators while the idle workman wanders homeless about the streets and the idle loafers who hoard the gold only to spend it on riotous living are rolling about in fine carriages from which they look out on peaceful meetings and call them riots?

  Samuel Gompers

  Country, Peaceful, Gold

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• 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

  Skulls, Light, Brain

  Herman Melville (2016). “Moby Dick (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.346, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• If you're an American kid, you can't help but be influenced by Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and the Rolling Stones because they're always on the radio.

  Chris Cornell

  Kids, Black, Zeppelins

  "Chris Cornell: 'As a performer, I'm able to do what I want'" by Dave Simpson, www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2009.

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• In the editing room, 20 percent of the time you're using stuff from before the actor knew the camera was rolling or you're taking a line from somewhere else and putting it in his mouth.

  Campbell Scott

  Editing, Somewhere Else, Actors

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• You've got the sun, you've got the moon, and you've got the Rolling Stones.

  Keith Richards

  Moon, Stones, Sun

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• I am also the product of a place called Paint Creek. Doesn't have a zip code. It's too small to be called a town along the rolling plains of Texas. We grew dryland cotton and wheat, and when I wasn't farming or attending Paint Creek Rural School, I was generally over at Troop 48 working on my Eagle Scout award.

  Rick Perry

  School, Awards, Texas

  Presidential Candidacy Announcement, delivered 13 August 2011, Charleston, South Carolina

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• Doug Ford was one of the first of the old pros I saw during my first full year on tour, in 1963. To this day he's the best chipper I've ever seen. One thing Doug did was get the ball onto the green and rolling right away, keeping it as low as possible. He never hit his chips higher than was absolutely necessary.

  Ray Floyd

  Years, Balls, Green

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• With my sister perched on my arm, I walked to the elevator. A business man with a rolling suitcase was waiting by the doors. His eyes widened as he saw me. I must’ve looked pretty strange—a tall black kid in dirty, ragged Egyptian clothes, with a weird box tucked under one arm and a bird of prey perched on the other. “How’s it going?” I said. “I’ll take the stairs.” He hurried off.

  Rick Riordan

  Dirty, Kids, Eye

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• Her beauty climbed the rolling slope, it came into the room, rustling ghost-like through the curtains.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Her Beauty, Rooms, Ghost

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.431, e-artnow

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• I don't like answering to other people's philosophies. I don't have any philosophy, I just believe in stuff. Either I believe in something or I don't. Like, I believe in the Rolling Stones but not in the Dave Clark Five. There's nothing philosophic about it. Whenever I'm linked with a movement, it pisses me off.

  Patti Smith

  Philosophy, Believe, People

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• In her mind's eye she saw it, saw it all at last: the rolling armies and the flames of battle; the graves and pits and dying cries of a hundred million souls; the spreading darkness, like a black wing stretching over the earth; the last, bitter hours of cruelty and sorrow, and the terrible, final flights; death's great dominion over all, and, at the last, empty cities, becalmed by the silence of a hundred years. Already these things were coming to pass.

  Justin Cronin

  Eye, Army, Flames

  Justin Cronin (2010). “The Passage: A Novel (Book One of The Passage Trilogy)”, p.105, Ballantine Books

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• The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, doth glance from heaven to Earth, from Earth to heaven; and as imagination bodies forth the forms of things unknown, the poet's pen turns them to shape, and gives to airy nothing a local habitation and a name; such tricks hath strong imagination.

  William Shakespeare

  Strong, Eye, Science

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 5, sc. 1, l. 7

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• I learned to fly on a broom," he said, rolling up his sleeves. "I can learn to milk a goat, I bet." Though flying on a broom proved to be the easier task, he found.

  Gregory Maguire

  Flying, Tasks, Goats

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• Picture a tall, dark figure, surrounded by cornfields... NO, YOU CAN'T RIDE A CAT. WHO EVER HEARD OF THE DEATH OF RATS RIDING A CAT? THE DEATH OF RATS WOULD RIDE SOME KIND OF DOG. Picture more fields, a great horizon-spanning network of fields, rolling in gentle waves... DON'T ASK ME I DON'T KNOW. SOME KIND OF TERRIER, MAYBE. ...fields of corn, alive, whispering in the breeze... RIGHT, AND THE DEATH OF FLEAS CAN RIDE IT TOO. THAT WAY YOU KILL TWO BIRDS WITH ONE STONE. ...awaiting the clockwork of the seasons. METAPHORICALLY.

  Terry Pratchett

  Dog, Cat, Dark

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• When I left Merle was wearing a bungalow apron and rolling pie crust. She came to the door wiping her hands on the apron and kissed me on the mouth and began to cry and ran back into the house, leaving the doorway empty [...] I had a funny feeling as I saw the house disappear, as though I had written a poem and it was very good and I had lost it and would never remember it again. (p. 262)

  Raymond Chandler

  Doors, Hands, Pie

  Raymond Chandler (1995). “Stories and Early Novels”

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