Quotes About Roll

#1. I'm a huge fan of Canadian rock-and-roll. When I was growing up, Rush came out with a record called Hemispheres, and I must have listened to that record for two years straight. Even when I was asleep I had it on. So, yeah, whenever I hear a Rush tune, the first thing I think of is Toronto. - Author: Kiefer Sutherland

#2. The Republicans, with their crazed Reagan fixation, are a last-gasp party, living posthumously, fighting battles on sex, race, immigration and public education long ago won by the other side. They're trying to roll back the clock, but time is passing them by. - Author: Maureen Dowd

#3. The Mekons are the most revolutionary group in the history of rock 'n' roll. - Author: Lester Bangs

#4. People called rock & roll 'African music.' They called it 'voodoo music.' They said that it would drive the kids insane. They said that it was just a flash in the pan - the same thing that they always used to say about hip-hop. - Author: Little Richard

#5. Jesus Christ was the original rock'n'roll star. He gave people reasons to live in the rut they were living in. He was the first man to say, "You don't have to have human sacrifices, 'cause human sacrifices hurt somebody, you know?" Just believe in the spirit that is within you. - Author: Ozzy Osbourne

#6. We all have very different musical DNA, and we all follow different musical paths. Yet there is a unifying quality about rock'n'roll that helps instill confidence and hope in millions of fans at times in their lives when little else makes sense. - Author: Robert Hilburn

#7. In little towns, lives roll along so close to one another; loves and hates beat about, their wings almost touching. - Author: Willa Cather

#8. Mother is the rock, I am the ocean. I have to pout and roll my eyes for hours until she finally wears down and crumbles into a thousand grains of beach sand. It takes a lot of energy. I don't think I have it in me. - Author: Laurie Halse Anderson

#9. Poppy: Um, can we cross running water?
James: Sure. And we can walk into people's homes without being invited, and roll in garlic if we don't mind losing friends. - Author: L.J.Smith

#10. The great thing about rock-n-roll is you realize the top of the mountain is big enough for more than one band. - Author: Paul Stanley

#11. I am absolutely not a roll-on-stage kind of girl! I would be totally freaked out if I didn't warm up, and I don't know how other singers do it. - Author: Marina And The Diamonds

#12. I shall die, but that is all that I shall do for Death; I am not on his pay-roll. - Author: Edna St. Vincent Millay

#13. I grew up listening to everything. And rock and roll has always been a big, big part of it - as big a part of what I do as any other type of music. - Author: Jason Aldean

#14. All any girl really wants is just love and a man. But what man can put up with a rock-n-roll star? - Author: Janis Joplin

#15. We are now in the Me Decade - seeing the upward roll of the third great religious wave in American history. - Author: Tom Wolfe

#16. Rock n' roll is poison put to sound. - Author: Pablo Casals

#17. There's an edge to real rock 'n' roll. It's all that matters. - Author: Neil Young

#18. I did such a gigantic eye roll I almost fell over. - Author: Janet Evanovich

#19. Senator [George] Mitchell is a man of many talents and he's swift on his feet, but one would not think of him as 'dancing with the stars.' And we had this great rock 'n' roll fund raiser. - Author: Barbara Mikulski

#20. I look back on my life, comin' out of Macon, Georgia - I never thought I'd be a superstar, a living legend. I never heard of no rock and roll in my life. - Author: Little Richard

#21. He snorts more cocaine, I could pull over and roll him out the door, but he's on so much blow right now that he would probably just turn into a roadrunner, catch up to me, and jump back in. - Author: Caroline Kepnes

#22. Jane reminds us that God is in his heaven, the monarch on his throne and the pelvis firmly beneath the ribcage. Apparently rock and roll liberated the pelvis and it hasn't been the same since. - Author: Emma Thompson

#23. The thing of it is though that's the only way people know you, they see you in that roll and they see you in person and they only know the perception of what you are. - Author: David Selby

#24. In Jamaica, you learn as a child how to roll a joint. Everyone here has tried it. I did too - Author: Usain Bolt

#25. The years roll on and life seems like this more and more, that choices don't really exit in the way I thought they would when I was a child and expected the regal power of adulthood to provide clarity and insight. - Author: Scott Turow

#26. Levin tried to drink a little coffee, and put a piece of roll into his mouth, but his mouth could do nothing with it. He took the piece out of his mouth, put on his overcoat and went out to walk about again. - Author: Leo Tolstoy

#27. Anyone who thinks they're happy should really see a doctor, because there is no reason to be happy. - Author: Marilyn Manson

#28. Our Father in Heaven does not wish us to cower. He does not want us to wallow in our misery. He expects us to square our shoulders, roll up our sleeves, and overcome our challenges. - Author: Joseph B. Wirthlin

#29. People roll their eyes and say, "Oh god, he's not rich or famous." I say it's relative. I mean, look at me: I'm 115 pounds and I grew up without money. To me, I'm rich because I don't have to worry about paying rent. I don't think about money now. - Author: Bradford Cox

#30. Like, I'm a big fan of films from the '70s, like Cassavetes and things, where they just keep the dialogue really loose and just kind of roll, you know what I mean? - Author: Jody Hill

#31. How had I lost so much in such a short period of time? It would seem like leaving your family, living in some foreign place, and being separated from the person you love should be events that take years to roll into place, not just a day. - Author: Kiera Cass

#32. Most people get into bands for three very simple rock and roll reasons: to get laid, to get fame, and to get rich. - Author: Bob Geldof

#33. I roll out of bed, walk into the garage, work out, and go about my day. I'll bring my daughter out there in her ExerSaucer. I don't know if I'll ever go back to a gym. - Author: Mike Vogel

#34. I believe I am a work horse. I believe that that is what our country needs. We need a president who will roll up our sleeves collectively as a nation and tackle the problems that we confront. - Author: Hillary Clinton

#35. I drop down the tower and roll on the roof, breaking into a run, the cold night air blowing me faster, the darkness and gleaming stars taking me somewhere I don't have to feel. - Author: Sara Raasch

#36. Nay; It's nought but an' owd fossil cheese, that somebody's roll't away - Author: Randolph Caldecott

#37. A more important reason is that the bands will intuitively trust someone they think is a peer, and who speaks fondly of the same formative rock and roll experiences. - Author: Steve Albini

#38. I have been robbed of three million dollars all told. Everyone today is playing my stuff and I don't even get credit. Kansas City style, Chicago style, New Orleans style hell, they're all Jelly Roll style. - Author: Jelly Roll Morton

#39. I've never believed in so much as I do the BVB Army. Rock and Roll is my religion. And Rock and Roll is back. I love all of you outcast. - Author: Jinxx

#40. I first met Jelly Roll in Chicago. He was livin' high then. You know, Jelly was a travelin' cat, sharp and good lookin' and always about he wrote this and that and the other thing - in fact, everything! - Author: Zutty Singleton

#41. I'm no less rock 'n' roll than anyone else, I'm pretty normal. - Author: Konnie Huq

#42. One personal tip that my trainer gave me was, "Don't take things personally. People are calling on the worst days of their lives and you're their first point of contact. Be like a duck and let the water roll off your back." I live by those words when I'm at work. - Author: Cameron West

#43. It is entirely possible to create something totally artificial within the realms of rock and roll. - Author: David Bowie

#44. Today it feels as if rock'n'roll has sort of turned in on its self, kids are 'rockin' to the same groups their parents do/did. We've seen it recently with The Stone Roses reunion shows, quite unique but is it healthy. Wasn't the 60's about rebelling against the tastes of your parents? - Author: Andrew Loog Oldham

#45. I have always kept a stack of library books next to my bed as a lifeline. If I ever woke in the middle of the night too scared to move or too sad to roll over, the books were my saviors. - Author: Julie Halpern

#46. After I saw Kiss on stage, I wanted my show to look like the fourth of July. The persona of Rick James was wild and crazy, sex, drugs and rock and roll. - Author: Rick James

#47. Like a ghostly roll of drums remorselessly beat the measure of life. - Author: Virginia Woolf

#48. If I'm boxing, I'll probably have rap on, or something a little more angry. If I'm lifting, maybe some rock 'n' roll. If I'm doing some cardio, something fast paced. - Author: Steven R. McQueen

#49. As a kid at the World's Fair in 1965, I missed seeing the big global population clock roll over from 2,999,999,999 to 3 billion - I was really disappointed. - Author: Bill Nye

#50. Whatever you do, stay focused. Because any stuff is not going to last forever. Once you get a show at something, you gotta roll with it. You can't sit on your ass. You better keep working. You better stay motivated. - Author: Juicy J

#51. Holmes is so ugly, his grandmother said when he started to cry the tears would stop and roll down the back of his head. - Author: Muhammad Ali

#52. I play Rock 'n' Roll, that's what I do. - Author: Kid Rock

#53. The roll of honor consists of the names of meant who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty. - Author: Woodrow Wilson

#54. She doesn't speak, and I say nothing more. We just stare at each other, letting the tears roll down our cheeks. That's what tears are for, after all. A way for the soul to bleed. - Author: Cody McFadyen

#55. Power has not corrupted me. I have not become jaded. I wake up every day well aware of my good fortune, loving the work I do, loving my life, realizing that life is a crapshoot and I'm on a roll second to none. - Author: Hugh Hefner

#56. Hip hop is the new rock n' roll, you know what I mean? And anybody who doesn't think that is just sort of living in the past. It's all just American music, really, when you get right down to it. - Author: Dan Auerbach

#57. Every musician, their goal in life is to play music that people love, and I've accomplished my goal. I was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and left that chapter of my life and those people in the past. Good and bad, I've loved and am thankful for that chapter. - Author: Steven Adler

#58. A good example of a lyric that makes me laugh but might not hit anybody right away is, "Sit behind the guitar and play the chords," just because it's such a lame image. It's not rock'n'roll at all to be sitting behind a guitar. - Author: Tim Heidecker

#59. The waves of love roll throughout the Universe, and overflow in our hearts..
Everything is ONE! - Author: Dave Zebian

#60. You start out playing rock 'n' roll so you can have sex and do drugs, but you end up doing drugs so you can still play rock 'n' roll and have sex. - Author: Mick Jagger

#61. No matter what happens to you in life, you just roll with it. And then, when we went back to shoot Eclipse, I went to Quileute and taught some acting to the kids, and just got to spend some time in the community, which was great because it gave me an idea of where Emily came from. - Author: Tinsel Korey

#62. See, to me, rock'n'roll doesn't have any point. It's just fun. It has a million different angles and they're all valid. But I think rock might be a world issue. - Author: Evan Dando

#63. The world is full of bands and bullshit, and if I'm doing a stupid art project like rock 'n' roll then I want to spare my audience as much as possible. - Author: Ariel Pink

#64. I'm more than happy to say that I am a part of the return of Rock n' Roll.And that what we have to say means so much to these amazing people. - Author: Jinxx

#65. A dog's idea of personal grooming is to roll on a dead fish. - Author: James P. Gorman

#66. 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. - Author: Tim Cahill

#67. I love rock and roll. Sometimes I feel like I was born in the wrong decade because I love Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix and ... those are my bands. - Author: Marisa Miller

#68. He seemed to be a pure racing animal, which explained two of his other peculiar habits: at the start of every race, he'd let out a bloodcurdling shriek, and after he won, he'd roll in the - Author: Christopher McDougall

#69. NUTHIN' more fun than Rock n' Roll! - Author: Elvis Presley

#70. Life is never going to be smooth sailing, but I've learned to roll with the punches. - Author: Marie Hall

#71. Rock & roll is a type of sensuous music unfit for impressionable minds. - Author: Tip O'Neill

#72. My defenses were so great. The cocky rock and roll hero who knows all the answers was actually a terrified guy who didn't know how to cry. Simple. - Author: John Lennon

#73. Affordable Care Act roll out isn't Obama's fault. It's what happens when you elect a President without any real-world business experience. - Author: Ziad K. Abdelnour

#74. Spread your ear pollution far and wide. - Author: Billy Squier

#75. America is tough for rock music. Rock n' roll used to be the main music for the youth, and it's not so much anymore. It's hip-hop and stuff. - Author: Taylor Hawkins

#76. That dog'll roll in the snow, run in the snow, eat the damn snow, but he wont throught it to shit. I dont clear the path, he shits right by the door. Why is that?
Ryder asked.
Owen replied, "Hence the name."
The name of Ryder's dog ... Dumbass ... - Author: Nora Roberts

#77. For another thing, we're under martial law, so I can do very nearly whatever the fuck I want. Including march through your precious little ship there towing you along behind in a ball gag and lacy underwear. So your warrant bullshit? You can roll that up and fuck it. Now tell me why I'm here. - Author: James S.A. Corey

#78. Compromise, hell! That's what has happened to us all down the line
and that's the very cause of our woes. If freedom is right and tyranny is wrong, why should those who believe in freedom treat it as if it were a roll of bologna to be bartered a slice at a time? - Author: Jesse Helms

#79. Don't you have something teenagery to do -- rage against authority, roll your eyes, mooch off your parents? - Author: Kay Honeyman

#80. The difference between blues, jazz, rock n' roll and rap is that rap stayed poor. Even the white rappers are poor. It's scarier to look at poor people; it makes everyone uncomfortable. Their pain is something that people would like to see swept under the rug. - Author: Russell Simmons

#81. Rock n' roll is a pretty fun job. - Author: Jenny Lewis

#82. It's hard to say goodbye to the streets. It's all how you do it. You can pass by and say, 'What's happening?' and keep it moving, but it's a certain element that'll never be able to roll with you once you get to this level, because that's the separation of it all. - Author: Snoop Dogg

#83. Our songs did not transcend being R&B hits. They were R&B hits that white kids were attracted to. And if people bought it, it became rock & roll. That's marketing. Why couldn't it still be R&B? The bass pattern didn't change. The song didn't change. It was still 'Yakety Yak' and 'Searchin'.' - Author: Jerry Leiber

#84. You didn't mind me being sweet a few hours ago," he reminds me. I roll my eyes as I pull my hand back. "That's because you were giving me my third orgasm. I would've let you recite sonnets as long as you kept doing that thing with your tongue. - Author: Corinne Michaels

#85. I think a lot of people came into rock n' roll to try to change the world. I came into rock n' roll to make music. - Author: Steve Winwood

#86. America's two great specialties are demagogues and rock and roll, and we've all heard plenty of both in our time. - Author: Stephen King

#87. With a larger wheel, you have more contact with the ground, so you have better traction whether you're braking or cornering or any of that stuff. Also, with bigger wheels, once you get them up to speed, they roll faster. - Author: Aaron Gwin

#88. I wanted to be a rich, famous rock-and-roll star in that order. - Author: Dee Snider

#89. I realized there was racism because people thought, 'Oh, if you like roll 'n' roll, that makes you like a white kid.' - Author: Queen Latifah

#90. We may be finished with the past but the past is not finished with us. - Author: Donald Riggio

#91. Life is full of confusion. Confusion of love, passion, and romance. Confusion of family and friends. Confusion with life itself. What path we take, what turns we make. How we roll our dice. - Author: Matthew Underwood

#92. My dad supports me. He said, "I wished when I was at your age I started doing rock and roll music. Then I wouldn't have to be a fashion designer." And I just laugh and keep it moving and appreciate his support. - Author: Richard Hilfiger

#93. The true Church is born from above. In it there are no sinners, and outside of it no saints. No man can put another's name on its member's roll; and no man can cross another's name off that roll. - Author: Leonard Ravenhill

#94. For my part I have no joy in tears after dinnertime. There will always be a new dawn tomorrow. Yet I can have no objection to tears for any mortal who dies and goes to his destiny. And this is the only consolation we wretched mortals can give, to cut our hair and let the tears roll down our faces. - Author: Homer

#95. Songwriting is an emotional medium, and rock and roll is an emotional medium. - Author: Will Sheff

#96. We put all these things together into a tangible product that is The Rock N' Roll Mystery Tour. - Author: Nina Blackwood

#97. I sense that I am dawdling in this narrative, having already reached my eighth roll of Hieratica, and need to speed it up a little, else either I shall die on the job, or you will be worn out reading. - Author: Robert Harris

#98. My dad is a huge rock and roll lead guitar fan. I didn't even really know that until recently. Everything has to have a guitar solo in it. - Author: Slash

#99. My timing is perfect, and I wind up in a traffic jam. The cars around me are driven by fat cows and bellowing bulls. We roll along, six mph. I can run faster than this. We brake. They chew their cud and moo into their phones until the herd shifts gears and rolls forward again. - Author: Laurie Halse Anderson

#100. I think in some ways - only in some ways - but in some ways, rock and roll has let me down. It really doesn't leave you a way to grow old gracefully and continue to work. - Author: Neil Young