British Rock Quotes

#1. I grew up with British rock.

Bryan Adams

#2. I was sixteen and my mother was about to throw me out of the house forever, for breaking a very big rule, even bigger than the forbidden books. The rule was not just No Sex, but definitely No Sex With Your Own Sex.

Jeanette Winterson

#3. What's amazing is that I'm recognized all over the world through 'Red Dwarf.' British fans are exceptional, but the American fans are something else. Some of them fly 500 miles to stand in line for three hours, just to meet me, then when they do they collapse. It makes you feel like a rock star!

Craig Charles

#4. To put an arrogant 'famous' singer in her place: pretend to be deaf.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#5. You can't fake anything. If you're honest and true and you love something, and you put that energy into it, people can usually feel it on the other side.

Tom Ford

#6. The real threat, as seen by the ACLU, is that religious behavior might give secular behavior a bad name, and that is, surely, unconstitutional.

William F. Buckley Jr.

#7. If I can make an impact, I want to help some kids and bridge the gap between soccer and celebrity in America.

Ethan Zohn

#8. The word bollocks seems strong, punk rock, and imposing, but in reality, bollocks is always too tame to make much of an impact.

Jennifer Harrison

#9. The Beatles' story is all of our stories. It is about how the youth culture emerged, the drug culture emerged, how politics rose to the fore as a universal debate. It's about rebellion, it's about the growth of the British entertainment system, the growth of the rock n' roll entertainment system.

Bob Spitz

#10. Each day is a special gift from God, and while life may not always be fair, you must never allow the pains, hurdles, and handicaps of the moment to poison your attitude and plans for yourself and your future.

Og Mandino

#11. No man rides harder than my Lord Scamperdale - always goes as if he had a spare neck in his pocket.

Robert Smith Surtees

#12. When I was in high school, there were these British blues-rock-type bands with really good guitar players that would jam on one song for half an hour. And as much as I was amazed by some of those guitar players, seeing them prompted me to make a note that that's not something I could do.

David Byrne

#13. Memories are what you no longer want to remember.

Joan Didion

#14. Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Paul Gauguin

#15. Who am I?" She whispered. Alex opened his mouth as if to correct her, but then he said, "You are my love.

Deirdre Riordan Hall

#16. Human experience depends on everything that can influence states of the human brain, ranging from changes in our genome to changes in the global economy.

Sam Harris

#17. Nirvana is not really a physical place, although sometimes I talk about it as if it were. It is not really an experience, although sometimes I mention it as if it was.

Frederick Lenz

#18. 'Hot Fuss' was all based on fantasy. The English influences, the makeup - they were what I imagined rock was. I'm a dreamer, you know? So I dug into that dream and made 'Hot Fuss.' But hearing people call us 'the best British band from America' made me wonder about my family and who I was.

Brandon Flowers

#19. I know there are some people in British Columbia who are still holding a vigil for '3rd Rock'.

Wayne Knight