Western Rock Quotes

#1. He'd had to fold his long legs into his desk. His boots had seen better days, and his jeans unraveled in a curiously irresistible way at the bottom. He didn't look like anyone I'd ever seen before. He reminded me of an actor in an old Western - Rock Hudson in Giant - all dark intensity.

Laura Anderson Kurk

#2. I've always been a T-shirt, Levi's, leather jacket, and combat boots kind of girl.

Robin Wright

#3. Only two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics; most of the rest of it is about image or the beat or the sound, or else it's a tribal thing - country & western, rap, heavy metal, with historical folk rock off in some kind of cult.

Al Stewart

#4. The cross has become a symbol in much of the Western world, misused by many rock stars and others who do not comprehend its significance.

Billy Graham

#5. I think our Western society is very much about, 'Tuck your head in; make sure you're safe. Don't rock the boat.'

Cate Blanchett

#6. Do not fear me because I am dark and shadowed

Deborah Harkness

#7. Most people are living lives of sort of survival. And constantly posing an existential crisis, either through fantasy or oblivion, really has been pretty much explored in rock and roll. At least in the western version of rock n' roll.

Billy Corgan

#8. At a time when efforts are being made to eradicate discrimination between the sexes in the search for social equality and justice, the differences between the sexes are being rediscovered.

Carol Gilligan

#9. It ain't happened yet
And that's what intuition is

Kanye West

#10. We're the first people of the Western Hemisphere. American history doesn't start with Plymouth Rock; it starts with our ancestors. Others might call us "wetbacks," but we've had 40,000 years to dry out.

Mario T. Garcia

#11. The universe as a giant harpstring, oscillating in and out of existence! What note does it play, by the way? Passages from the Numerical Harmonies, I supposed?

Ursula K. Le Guin

#12. Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.

Chanakya

#13. Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.

Louisa May Alcott

#14. As I said many times, the fashion world, its system, can be disturbing.

Azzedine Alaia

#15. I'm a big fan of gospel music, and you cannot be a fan of rock and roll, you cannot be a fan of country western music, and you can't really be a fan of jazz without listening to a lot of music that's religious.

Penn Jillette

#16. As the work proceeded we found that the western end of the cutting receded under the slope of the rock, and thus was partly roofed over by the overhanging rock.

Howard Carter

#17. Careful listening to current country and western and rock music with the help of an interpreter for coded phrases shows that young people are hearing a constant stream of messages about getting high, feeling good, going on trips, and using drugs of all kinds with all methods.

Virgil Miller Newton

#18. Elvis Presley is the main founding father of rock music. He was an unheralded genius behind a new music that changed western civilization for all time.

Peter Noone

#19. I thought if Oasis could get away with sounding like The Beatles, I could get away with sounding like Abba.

Pete Waterman

#20. Down the dank mouldering paths and past the Ocean's streams they went
and past the White Rock and the Sun's Western Gates and past
the Land of Dreams, and soon they reached the fields of asphodel
where the dead, the burnt-out wraiths of mortals make their home

Homer

#21. You don't, Kestrel, even though the god of lies loves you.

Marie Rutkoski

#22. Western Australia is covered by granite, the largest single piece of Achaean rock that still lies on the surface of the, of, of the Earth, that's 2.5 to 2.9 billion years old. It's one of the most ancient and intact bits of the Earth's crust.

Antony Gormley

#23. Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock'd in the cradle of the western breeze.

William Cowper

#24. They're always telling folk how much better it's going to be when they're dead. We tell them it could be pretty good right here if only they'd put their minds to it.' Mort

Terry Pratchett

#25. I'm not a playwright; I'm a writer who loves theater.

Rodman Philbrick