Rocky Road Sayings

#1. In a new interview, Herman Cain said that if Rick Perry were an ice cream flavor, he'd be 'Rocky Road.' I don't know, Perry's not really any flavor of ice cream. He's just the brain freeze part.

Jimmy Fallon

#2. If Mitt Romney is vanilla, Chris Christie is three hefty scoops of Rocky Road topped with whipped cream, Red Bull, and gravel.

Ron Fournier

#3. I like the man who takes the stones Upon his rocky road With smiling lips instead of groans, Whate'er his heavy load Who seizes each as on he goes, And neatly crumbles it, And turns his share of pebbly woes To stores of inner grit.

John Kendrick Bangs

#4. My weaknesses, my choices, and my decisions - the ones I made and the ones I didn't - all took me down a rocky road filled with regret, heartbreak, and pain. And eventually, they nearly killed me. Would I change things if I could? Would I turn back time and do things differently? Never.

Madeline Sheehan

#5. I am not plain, or average or - God forbid - vanilla. I am peanut butter rocky road with multicolored sprinkles, hot fudge and a cherry on top.

Wendy Mass

#6. ... but now, along this high, rocky road, it was the leaves of cherry trees that predominated. From the bridge on, these lay like fallen red flowers. Some wet leaves, already decaying, had faded to a pink that was the color of the dawn. Why should decay take the color of the dawn?

Yukio Mishima

#7. I hope your only rocky road is chocolate.

Amanda Mosher

#8. There is no such thing as a vanilla term sheet. If term sheets are ice cream, the most common flavor is Rocky Road.

Guy Kawasaki

#9. The studies indicate that focusing our attention on someone else, takes our mind off of our own problems. We stay healthier and thereby live longer.

Allen Klein

#10. Anything which makes you feel tiny also motivates you to be big!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#11. I lay on the side of the dirt road next to a rocky trench, looked up to the gray morning sky, thankful for air, thankful for light, thankful to be alive.

Khaled Hosseini

#12. I have to express sympathy from the bottom of my heart to those people who were taken as wartime comfort women. As a human being, I would like to express my sympathies, and also as prime minister of Japan I need to apologize to them.

Shinzo Abe

#13. The road through grief is a rocky one. Traveling along it requires courage, patience, wisdom, and hope.

Candy Lightner

#14. From the base of the South Pass, a twisty road leads up the Rocky Mountains. It's a well-earned name, because the steep slopes are covered in giant rocks split open and turned on edge every which way, like God started a quarry and got distracted

Rae Carson

#15. talking about their belief in Bitcoin's eventual success (and perhaps with a bit of angst over their skewering in The Social Network): "First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then you win.

Kashmir Hill

#16. I kept giving up runs. It was, for sure, a rough road and a very rocky one. I enjoyed my time there, but not as much as I could have if I would have pitched well.

Billy Koch

#17. I began the second half of my life by making coffee.

Graeme Simsion

#18. Wasn't faith believing in something even when you didn't have irrefutable proof? What

Denise Grover Swank

#19. We all have our own road to walk. Whether rocky, curving, straight or smooth, what good is a lonely road? It's when we run and intersect with other roads that defines our road. When road meets road do we get direction, and choices to cross into another life.

Anthony Liccione

#20. The road to happiness has never been a straight one, and yet, it is the only road worth travelling, no matter how curvy or rocky it is!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#21. My path is my path and no matter how rocky the road is I refuse to go off course.

Coleen Innis

#22. The road to life is rocky, and you may stumble too. So while you point your fingers, someone else is judging you.

Bob Marley

#23. With Liv, there is always something unexpected, but not the way she makes me feel.

Veronica Rossi

#24. We just wanted to have fun. Mia wanted us to change the world.

Melina Marchetta

#25. I mean it. Like, people always talk about how God doesn't ever give you more than you can handle, but I'm telling you right now, I cannot handle this. This is just too much!

Meg Cabot

#26. The road can get rocky, but you have to find ways to work through it.

La La

#27. Though the road's been rocky it sure feels good to me.

Bob Marley

#28. I walked into the wrong examination room. I'm bad enough at facial recognition ... I saw more that day than I cared to. Fortunately, I didn't recognize her from that angle, whoever it was, and I didn't ask. I'm off to a rocky start on the road to fatherhood, but I got a free view.

Simon Helberg

#29. Friendship is like a carriage. It does not drive itself. Particularly when the road gets rocky.

M.A. Larson

#30. Women are the holders of all knowledge, everything a man knows he stole from a woman.

Bill Mollison

#31. Why do my beheld beauties vanish and deform themselves as soon as I look twice.

Sylvia Plath

#32. Ever notice the word 'rough' in through? There is truth to that, though the way may be rough, we are still able to get through it.

Anthony Liccione

#33. It really helps you to go through difficult situations by just thinking about it as being a big amount of work which you have to solve how to do. For example, I don't feel very inspired when I act, I just act. That's it.

Isabelle Huppert

#34. Daydreaming had started me on the way; but story writing once I was truly in its grip, took me and shook me awake.

Eudora Welty

#35. Two kinds of gratitude: The sudden kind we feel for what we take; the larger kind we feel for what we give.

Edwin Arlington Robinson

#36. If you are going to describe the history of animation, you'd look at the early Disney work, then 'Bugs Bunny,' 'Road Runner' and other Warner Brothers theatrical productions. But when you got to 'Rocky and Bullwinkle,' you'd see they were unique: They assumed you had a brain in your head.

Ray Bradbury