Rolling Quotes - Page 7

• Evolution is like walking on a rolling barrel. The walker isn't so much interested in where the barrel is going as he is in keeping on top of it.

  Robert Frost

  Evolution, Barrels, Walkers

  Robert Frost, Louis Untermeyer (1963). “The Letters of Robert Frost to Louis Untermeyer. (1. Ed.)”

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• As I write, Johnny Rotten's first moments in "Anarchy in the U.K." - a rolling earthquake of a laugh, a buried shout, then hoary words somehow stripped of all claptrap and set down in the city streets - I AM AN ANTICHRIST - Remain as powerful as anything I know. Listening to the record today - listening to the way Johnny Rotten tears at his lines, and then hurls the pieces at the world; recalling the all-consuming smile he produced as he sang - my back stiffens; I pull away even as my scalp begins to sweat.

  Greil Marcus

  Powerful, Writing, Earthquakes

  "Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20th Century". Book by Greil Marcus, 1989.

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• I was a dweller amid shadows grim: Till FREEDOM touched my yearning eyes, and lo! Life in a shining circle, rounding rose, As heaven on heaven goes up the jewell'd night. New floods of passionate life swirl'd at my heart, Like Ocean-surges rolling round the world: And FREEDOM was my glittering Bride.

  Gerald Massey

  Freedom, Ocean, Heart

  Gerald MASSEY (Poet.) (1854). “Poems and ballads ... Containing the Ballad of babe Christabel ... Revised and corrected by the author”, p.26

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• The Rolling Stones are truly the greatest rock and roll band in the world and always will be. The last too. Everything that came after them, metal, rap, punk, new wave, pop-rock, you name it... you can trace it all back to the Rolling Stones. They were the first and the last and no one's ever done it better.

  Bob Dylan

  Rap, Rocks, Rock And Roll

  Interview with Bill Flanagan, www.telegraph.co.uk. April 13, 2009.

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• It's nice to not feel like you're just re-enacting a preconceived moment, but there's room for an organic feeling to develop while the camera is rolling. Even amidst these enormous technical productions, Chris [ Nolan] always prioritized making sure that sort of spontaneous and organic feeling could happen at the moment.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Nice, Feelings, Cameras

  "INCEPTION Press Conference Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page, Marion Cotillard, Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy, Ken Watanabe, Christopher Nolan, Hans Zimmer and Emma Thomas". collider.com. July 12, 2010.

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• the things that people are typically afraid of are what I find most exciting and unpredictable, and I guess that's part of the problem is people don't want something unpredictable wasting their time while the cameras are rolling, where to me that's by far the most interesting part.

  David Gordon Green

  Want Something, People, Interesting

  Source: collider.com

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• There are two kinds of second class men in business. There is the man who puts money first and service second. There is the man who puts service first and money second, who never has any money. The first class man in business is the man who is made up out of rolling the other two kinds into one man and working them together.

  Gerald Stanley Lee

  Business, Men, Class

  Gerald Stanley Lee (1919). “The House of Twenty Seven Gardens”

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• It's my greatest success. Women did not vote in Italy until 1946. A good friend and I put together a group of women to protest this. I was very young, just a girl. We went to the Viminale [home of the Ministry of the Interior] and spoke to the chair of the ministry board. Thanks to our initiative, we got the bureaucracy rolling on giving women the right to vote. I have to thank my father for this. He was in Geneva at the League of Nations, and women voted there. He thought it was absurd that women didn't vote in his country yet.

  Giovanna Cau

  Girl, Country, Father

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I told Bernie Taupin that his best lyrics were for Song For Guy just because it doesn't have any words in it. But there you go... I'm a wind up! But a good Elton song for karaoke is I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues... "laughing like children, living like lovers, rolling like thunder under the covers..." Everyone can join in!

  Matt Lucas

  Song, Children, Wind

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Even somebody like Bill Clinton, who I happen to admire very much, the second he was out of office, I remember, he was interview in Rolling Stone and he said he thought we should have legalized marijuana. And I thought, gosh, if only you were in some sort of position to affect change in the last eight years where you could have done something about that.

  Bill Maher

  Marijuana, Should Have, Years

  "Comedian Bill Maher Plays Not My Job". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. December 16, 2011.

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• My father hated rock and roll - hated it. My first real argument with my father was over the Rolling Stones. And he never, ever liked rock and roll. He just liked me.

  Patti Smith

  Father, Real, Rocks

  "Rocker Patti Smith, 'Dream Of Life'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. December 30, 2009.

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• When I started covering The Beatles and The Rolling Stones in a rock 'n' roll band, it helped me realize that my natural voice is actually really high. It helped me find my voice.

  Gotye

  Voice, Rocks, Stones

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I wanted a real band. I wanted the Rolling Stones, the Beatles.

  Christopher Owens

  Real, Band, Stones

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. December 5, 2012.

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• One felt that the mountains are not completed. The builders are still at work. Stones come rolling and jumping from the upper scaffolding and often from the chasms one hears the thundering as the gods of the mountains change their minds.

  J. E. H. MacDonald

  Nature, Jumping, Mind

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• I'm like a cartoon! I'll look this way when I'm eighty. I can see it now, people will be rolling me around in a wheelchair and I'll still have my big hair, nails, my high heels and my boobs stuck out!

  Dolly Parton

  Hair, High Heels, People

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

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• There's Carol like a rolling car, And Martin like a flying bird, And Adam like the Lord's First Word, And Raymond like the Harvest Moon, And Peter like a piper's tune, And Alan like the flowing on Of water. And there's John, like John.

  Eleanor Farjeon

  Moon, Car, Water

  1958 Then There Were Three,'Boys' Names'.

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• Speech is a rolling press that always amplifies one's emotions.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Speech, Amplify, Emotion

  Gustave Flaubert (2010). “Madame Bovary: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.200, Penguin

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• The storm is ended! The impartial sunLaughs down upon the battle lost and won,And crowns the triumph of the cloudy hostIn rolling lines retreating to the coast.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Storm, Battle, Triumph

  Henry Van Dyke (1920). “The Poems of Henry Van Dyke”

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• The rolling stone never gathereth mosse.

  John Heywood

  Stones, Rolling Stones

  John Heywood (1562). “The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...”, p.431

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• My first real writing job was at 'Rolling Stone,' so I wrote about rock-and-roll and politics and the like. At the time, I really didn't know what I wanted to write, and I did a bunch of investigative journalism.

  Tim Cahill

  Jobs, Real, Writing

  "Wild Life: An Interview With Tim Cahill". Interview with Erik Kancler, www.motherjones.com. March 25, 2005.

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• You can really bring so much more to rock'n'roll. Rock'n'roll is the most accepting, is the most fertile ground for creating hybrid forms of music and hybrid forms of show, if you draw from many, many different wells. It's just unfortunate so many rock'n'roll stars only bother to learn how to play like Led Zeppelin and/or the Rolling Stones and that's what you get, disc after disc and show after show.

  David Lee Roth

  Stars, Rocks, Play

  "David Lee Roth: Outrageous or normal?". Patrick McDonald, The Advertiser, October 13, 1988.

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• What actually happened was that Rolling Stone paid me fifteen hundred dollars for the use of all the drawings - about twenty four of them - and then offered to buy the originals from me, which my agent urged 'was a good move!'. He sold the whole damn treasure trove to Jann Wenner for the princely sum of sixty dollars per drawing. I rue the day I let him convince me.

  Ralph Steadman

  Moving, Drawing, Twenties

  "The Joke's Over". Book by Ralph Steadman, 2006.

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• I think about a storm rolling in with black clouds and I visualize the lightning and try to draw energy from that, and I think: all I have to do is beat this man until he stops moving, then I can go home to my son.

  Carlos Condit

  Moving, Home, Son

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• It's like this - these five members have been influenced of course by other groups, because that's where this generation's groups came from - an environment like the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Yardbirds, and The Who. People like that.

  Alice Cooper

  People, Groups, This Generation

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• Whether it's a blatant homage or unconscious mimicry, the Rolling Stones have permanently, indelibly influenced how rock stars look and behave.

  Diablo Cody

  Stars, Rocks, Looks

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