Top 100 Quotes About A Rock
#1. I don't see myself as a rock star. I don't see myself in that way. I'm interested in work that offers some sort of critical dialogue.
Kim Gordon
#3. Then he bestows the final commandment onto me: Thou shalt remake the world. This is something I would very much like to do, though no clue how carving a rock will achieve it.
- Jude Sweetwine
Jandy Nelson
#5. Of course, no rocks in Los Angeles. You had to buy fucking rocks. Sick place, this, where you couldn't find a rock to break a window.
C.D. Reiss
#6. Where there's life, there's learning, and the truth is always calling us out of our pride. If we don't harken, it will call louder, and throw a situation at us. A pebble at first. If we still don't listen, we'll get a stone. Then a rock. Then a great crashing boulder. We must learn, or die.
Orna Ross
#7. The joke was thinking you were ever really in charge of your life. You pressed your oar down into the water to direct the canoe, but it was the current that shot you through the rapids. You just hung on and hoped not to hit a rock or a whirlpool.
Scott Turow
#8. You might be a rock and roll addict prancing on the stage. You might have drugs at your command, women in a cage.
Bob Dylan
#9. I always liked playing music and I always wanted to be good at playing guitar. I always saw myself as an old man living in the mountains playing a guitar, but I didn't really turn that into a desire to be a professional musician or a singer or a rock star or anything like that.
Brett Dennen
#10. She was so desperate to love and be loved, she could sprout tender feelings toward a rock. And rocks didn't call her "bewitching" or "temptress." Rocks didn't have touchable golden brown hair.
But rocks and Ransom did have something in common.
Tessa Dare
#11. But rock, of course, is many colors. The distinction is subtle, but it is not just one plain grey, that I can promise ... I spent five hours one afternoon just staring at a rock trying to see into its color scheme.
Aimee Bender
#12. Okay. Let's go to the pool. I'll drop a rock in it and we'll see which one of you sinks faster "
"I can rip your heart out of your chest, human"
[...] "You already have, My Lady.
Joey W. Hill
#13. The human spirit, you know what they say about the human spirit? Is is harder than a rock and more delicate than a flower petal.
Nadia Hashimi
#14. What's more likely? That the writer of the tale we read last night was inspired by a rock that just happened to be shaped like a giant head, or that this head-shaped rock was really a giant?
Ransom Riggs
#15. When I was a vocalist, a lead singer in a rock band, I was a law student at the time. It wasn't a professional rock band, it was for fun. I was already way out of that by the time Phantom came along. Having to learn to sing, it was such duress, having to really try and get to such a quality.
Gerard Butler
#16. He was a living example of the truth that a man may be large-minded and yet strong; that he may hate error, yet love the erring - stand like a rock against heresy, yet be full of compassion for heretics.
F.A. Forbes
#17. I've wrestled with alligators,
I've tussled with a whale.
I done handcuffed lightning
And throw thunder in jail.
You know I'm bad.
just last week, I murdered a rock,
Injured a stone, Hospitalized a brick.
I'm so mean, I make medicine sick.
Muhammad Ali
#18. A woman who will be like a rock in a riverbed, enduring without complaint, her grace not sullied but shaped by the turbulence that washes over her.
Khaled Hosseini
#19. Even so we need the superstructure of spiritual life if we would have comfort in the day of doubt. But seek not a holy life without faith, for that would be to erect a house which can afford no permanent shelter, because it has no foundation on a rock.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#20. I think music is so diverse today, and bands are so diverse. If you were a rock band in the Eighties, you kind of had to stick to one thing. Now, in this age of Coachella and European festivals and stuff, it's kind of anything goes, so that allowed us to try different things.
Dexter Holland
#21. If she had not been alone, she would never have seen the panther or felt the hope it spread into the world like rings around the splash of a rock thrown into a still lake.
Charles Frazier
#22. You have an hour and a half or two hours - maybe two and a half hours - in a movie, and it has to be a self-contained three-act structure. It's like a rock and roll song. Certain things have to happen for it to be a toe-tapper and get people excited, leaving the theater.
Jon Favreau
#23. My lovely shining fragile broken house is filled with flowers and founded on a rock.
Madeleine L'Engle
#24. If we were fossils of two snails
caught in a rock for millions of years.
Would we know we were together?
Natasha Tsakos
#25. I'm a rock and roll singer.
Adam Ant
#26. Even when nothing is happening, nothing stands still ... I am not a rock, but a river; people deceive themselves by seeing me as a rock. Or is it I who deceive them and pretend that I am a rock when I am a river?
Nina Berberova
#27. I'm not gonna be a slave. I'm a rock n' roller.
Steven Adler
#28. Though the sex to which I belong is considered weak you will nevertheless find me a rock that bends to no wind.
Elizabeth I
#29. Stand as a rock; you are indestructible. You are the Self (atman), the God of the universe.
Swami Vivekananda
#30. Unless you're Shannon Hoon (of Blind Melon), dying is the only thing that guarantees a rock star will have a legacy that stretches beyond temporary relevance.
Chuck Klosterman
#31. You come to me three, four months ago, knowing it, and I might have said you're right. God meant me to not love anyone. Be a rock. Don't be touched by no one. But now I've been touched, in here." I tapped my chest. "There is no fear in love, but love casteth out fear.
James Buchanan
#32. A rock musician's career is short-lived. To extend it, you need to do other things to keep yourself fresh.
Nick Cave
#33. I wrenched open the windows. I stood while the cold air poured around my face like dark water, as if I was a rock and it was chiselling me into a new shape.
Sue Woolfe
#34. The easiest thing to do is throw a rock. It's a lot harder to create a stained glass window. I used to get upset at the people who threw rocks but now I'd rather spend my time building the stained glass windows.
Jon Foreman
#35. And even then, it might not have been too awful, but his head snapped back and he hit a rock, breaking like a blunt molar from the ground.
Sanjida Kay
#36. What, for instance, does it mean to be insulted? [29] Stand by a rock and insult it, and what have you accomplished? If someone responds to insult like a rock, what has the abuser gained with his invective? If, however, he has his victim's weakness to exploit, then his efforts are worth his while.
Epictetus
#37. I think that the blues is in everything, so it's not possible to neglect it. You hear somebody go 'Ooh ooh oooh,' and that's the blues. You hear a rock n' roll song. That's the blues. Somebody playing a guitar solo? They're playing the blues.
Wynton Marsalis
#38. I never really thought in terms of the concept of being a rock star - being around people like that just seemed like normal day-in-the-life stuff to me. Those were just the surroundings I grew up in.
Anthony Kiedis
#39. Back in the day I used to drive with a rock just in case.
Gonjasufi
#40. I knew I was destined to be a rock star. I just knew it, like I've always had the power of foresight. I feel right now exactly the way I felt after I finished mixing my first solo album 'New York Groove'.
Ace Frehley
#42. Twas when the seas were roaring With hollow blasts of wind, A damsel lay deploring, All on a rock reclined.
John Gay
#43. I always figure hey, look, I'm not a rock star, I'm an actor. I'm somebody who's meant to be other people and I'm not meant to be here representing myself. I'm happier when I'm presenting myself as other characters.
Christian Bale
#44. I'm a rock god? I'm five foot seven. I had me jaw broken, and so my chin stuck way out. That's how I became tough - I learned to pick up anything and fight back ... A rock god!
Roger Daltrey
#45. Any foundation you build, if trust is part of that foundation, whatever you're building, whatever you're creating is gonna have a rock-solid foundation.
Steve Tisch
#46. If a rock band throws a TV set out of a hotel window, it's seen as anti-Establishment.
Douglas Booth
#47. I would rather sail and hit a rock
than sit and rot in dry dock.
Lester Roloff
#48. Or maybe it was just Winter, who could make a rock fall in love with her if she smiled at it the right way.
Marissa Meyer
#49. A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.
George Herbert
#50. On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Thomas Jefferson
#52. I just want to be an inspiration. I'm a rock star, I'm Future Hendrix.
Nayvadius Cash
#53. You know, you're setting a pretty damn high bar for my future husband to live up to. He's going to have to be a rock star in the sack to even come close to this.
Katee Robert
#54. We are just fans of music, we are not fans of a specific kind of music. We just happen to be a rock band. Until we explain ourselves, sometimes people don't understand why we limit ourselves to just being a rock band. It's because that is what we like doing.
Joe Elliott
#56. We're a rock group. we're noisy, rowdy, sensational and weird.
Angus Young
#57. There's no half-singing in the shower, you're either a rock star or an opera diva
Josh Groban
#58. My priorities now a a musician are so different now than they were as a kid. Everyone wants to be a rock star, and I wanted that too; I wanted to be on magazines and be running around the world and having all the fun.
Blake Judd
#59. I'm not a rock star. Sure I am, to a certain extent because of the situation, but when kids ask me how it feels to be a rock star, I say leave me alone, I'm not a rock star. I'm not in it for the fame, I'm in it because I like to play.
Eddie Van Halen
#60. I probably lived more of a rock-star life when I was 15. I got in trouble a fair amount. I cared more about hanging out and skipping school than studying.
Kristen Wiig
#62. That was our first major tour and we got a chance to play in front of like 5000 people every day so it was like a Rock and Roll boot camp for us really, we learned a lot and made a lot of good friends.
Adam Rich
#63. Being a rock star isn't all it's cracked up to be, let me tell you.
Flea
#64. When I was a kid I got busted for throwing a rock through a car window and egging a house on halloween.
Gavin DeGraw
#65. No one wants to die or even plans to die, at least not when you are young and living life on top of everything, stepping on gold, running the miles with hot chicks on tow, but even if I wasn't a rock star, and just a normal civilian, I still wouldn't plan to die young. Death is so boring.
Sofea Shah
#66. It would be great to do a rock opera, but using more low-fi technology. I love shitty-sounding records.
Billie Joe Armstrong
#67. 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
#68. Remind me to show you the latest e-mail from Courtney," he said now, kicking at a rock on the sidewalk. "You won't believe how many different incorrect ways she spelled hors d'oeuvres within the span of a single paragraph.
Aimee Agresti
#69. I just want the days of my life to add up to something. The way every day of your life, the way it can just disappear in front of the television, Denny says he wants a rock to show for each day. Something tangible. Just one thing. A little monument to mark the end of each day.
Chuck Palahniuk
#70. Unless the clients want, I don't like to have dancers for my shows. I prefer a rock show look and like performing with a live band.
Shaan
#71. And on bad days when you feel like you're stuck on a rock in the middle of nowhere, with no earth beneath you to sink your roots in, and no breeze to push your life forward, reach out to all those who ever gave you love, and believe with the faith of a child.
Sandra Kring
#72. Ray called out, "Weapons ready. Sound off."
"Walking stick and shields against animals attacks."
"Clean underwear and a rock-salt shotgun," said Winn...
Scott Rhine
#73. I really don't spend any time on the Internet, so I guess I live a little under a rock in that respect.
Christina Aguilera
#74. If you asked me to write a rock song or a rap song, I couldn't do it because they're not in my fingers.
Tom Lehrer
#75. But I don't believe in heroes anymore. I just believe in people coping with their lives as best they can. You do what you have to do, and in some ways you have no more choice about it than a rock has about falling from a high place.
John Varley
#76. I have had twenty years of perfect companionship with a man among men. He is a rock and a protection. I have never regretted it.
Katharine Hepburn
#78. You don't have to have long hair to be a Rock star, but it helps." - Jonathan Fox
Elizabeth Corva
#79. I did not want to get involved with a rock star. No way. It is not a sane thing to do.
Iman
#80. Emery gives me a rock that she's colored on. She whispers in my ear. You can smash people's fingers with it when they're mean.
Jillian Dodd
#81. Someone's boyfriend died in a rock-climbing accident in Switzerland: everyone gathered around her, on fire with tragedy. Their dramatic shows up support underpinned with jealousy- bad luck was rare enough to be glamorous.
Emma Cline
#82. It is easy to trip over a rock when you are watching everyone else's footsteps.
The Silver Elves
#83. I love comedy and drama equally and music too. I just sort of follow my nose to whatever seems really exciting at the time. Eventually, I might want to do a rock opera.
Jack Black
#84. I'm sorry if I have the emotional stability of a teeter-totter right now, but that's better than you, who has the emotional maturity of a rock.
Chanda Hahn
#85. Life is a rock, but the radio rolled me over.
Neil Gaiman
#86. I think that instead of feminism being a political thing, it should be an act of creativity. It's more of a rock n' roll thing.
Caitlin Moran
#87. I really had little interest in becoming famous. When I write my book, it will be my guide to avoid becoming a rock star.
Edgar Winter
#88. I wasn't a rock 'n' roll girl. I said, Neil Young, Neil Young, where do I know that name from?
Carrie Snodgress
#89. Be Grateful you are not like a rock that has no Choice. The Sun Shines on it, the Waves Splash at it. You have a Choice to move and to make your Dreams come true. -RVM
R.v.m.
#90. I'm a rock-and-roll drummer, so my job is to create chaos.
Greg Saunier
#91. For how would you like to be shut up for a whole month at a time, and possibly more in stormy weather, upon a rock the size of a tennis lawn?
Virginia Woolf
#92. I wanted to be a rock 'n' roll star. It defines life for me. It's all I've ever imagined for myself.
Shelby Lynne
#93. Scientifically speaking, the flesh was melted off the world. His body was macerated until only the nerve fibers were left. It was spread like a veil upon a rock.
Virginia Woolf
#94. He held on to me like I was a rock, the only thing keeping him from drifting out with the tide of dark memories.
It was the first time I realized he need me too.
Jodi Meadows
#95. Personally, I've never really wanted to be a rock star. That wasn't my motivation in life. It kind of happened.
John Oates
#96. You said something slightly off-color about her shoes and she brought up the fact that you had a slow eye and danced like a goat with a rock stuck in its ass. Ouch. You would just be playing and homegirl would be coming down on you off the top rope.
Junot Diaz
#97. I just think if the song's good, sing it. I don't care who's doing it. I don't care if it's a country act. I don't care if it's a rock act. If the song's good, sing it.
John Mellencamp
#98. The whole framework of the presidency is getting out of hand. It's come to the point where you almost can't run unless you can cause people to salivate and whip on each other with big sticks. You almost have to be a rock star to get the kind of fever you need to survive in American politics.
Hunter S. Thompson
#99. I began life as a thought, a concept, words on a page. That was another thing I stole. Myself. Another time, I was named for a rock.
Brandon Sanderson
#100. I love what Joe Eszterhas written about Bill Clinton. It's hilarious, Clinton as a rock star, which is the way we should remember him.
Chris Matthews
