Quotes of Rock - somelinesforyou

“ Sweet are the uses of adversity, which, like a toad, though ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in its head. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ The block of granite which is an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong. - Unknown. ”

- Unknown

“ Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Love doesn't sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread: remade all the time, made new. ”

- Og Mandino

“ Ragtime was my lullaby. ”

- Hoagy Carmichael

“ In the end this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin. ”

- Elizabeth I

“ It would have been the equivalent of Jackson Pollock's attempts to copy the Sistine Chapel. ”

- Malcolm Cowley

“ No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to. ”

- Frank Zappa

“ No motion has she now, no force; she neither hears nor sees; rolled around in earth's diurnal course, with rocks, and stones, and trees. ”

- William Wordsworth

“ That time does not run backward, that is its wrath; "That which was" — that is the name of the stone it cannot roll. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ Rock and Roll doesn't necessarily mean a band. It doesn't mean a singer, and it doesn't mean a lyric, really. It's that question of trying to be immortal. ”

- Malcolm McLaren

“ Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards. ”

- Keith Richards

“ Rock music should be gross: that's the fun of it. It gets up and drops its trousers. ”

- Bruce Dickinson

“ Words are not pebbles in alien juxtaposition. ”

- Learned Hand

“ The Pumpkins love rock-and-roll, we absolutely love it, but we also think it's a flatulent, ego-serving kiddie playground. You can have your cake and eat it too. ”

- Billy Corgan

“ The reason kids like rock 'n roll is their parents don't. ”

- Mitch Miller

“ There are two kinds of stones, as everyone knows, one of which rolls. ”

- Amelia Earhart

“ Love melts the rigor which the rocks have bred; a flint will break upon a feather bed. ”

- John Cleveland

“ MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments. ”

- Unknown

“ Words come reluctantly to me, they clatter in my mouth and tumble out heavily like stones. ”

- J. M. Coetzee

“ I cannot conceive man without the thinking principle; that would be a stone or a brute. ”

- Blaise Pascal

“ There are things that we don't want to happen but have to accept, things we don't want to know but have to learn, and people we can't live without but have to let go. ”

- Unknown

“ All us Youngs could throw. I used to kill squirrels with a stone when I was a kid, and my granddad once killed a turkey buzzard on the fly with a rock. ”

- Cy Young

“ The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. ”

- Confucius

“ Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it. ”

- Albert Schweitzer

“ If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down. ”

- Bible

“ I see no reason why I should tickle stones or waste time on polishing bronze. ”

- Louise Nevelson

“ As cold as any stone. - King Henry V. Act ii. Sc. 3. ”

- William Shakespeare
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7
  • 8
  • 9