Rocks Quotes - Page 79

For me, Jesus is my cleft in the rock. He is my safest friend, my safe totally loving accepting big brother.

In fact, the early demographer Thomas Malthus believes that the only way the human population would ever check itself was by running headlong into a disaster, like a pandemic or famine. Sometimes we get so frustrated with the slowness of human political processes that we wish a giant flaming rock would solve the problem for us.

I'm a big fan of '30 Rock,' which I think is the most genius show on television.

Good fashion for me is like rock ‘n’ roll – there’s always a little rebellion in it.

Rock 'n' roll but I also like sporting events a lot. I love Mike Piazza.

There are beautiful sounds in rock. Very lazy, dreamlike noises. You can forget about the lyrics in most songs. Just dig the noise, and you've got your sound...We're musical primitives.

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?

I feel like you know what you're going to be good at when you're older based on what you like when you're younger. When I was younger my best friend was Tony, this kid Tony, and he loved rocks. He was always playing with rocks, counting them, and now he's a crack head.

Every time I conjure up a rock, I throw it.

A pasty costly-made, Where quail and pigeon, lark and leveret lay, Like fossils of the rock, with golden yolks Imbedded and injellied.

I think that for the highest achievements nowadays... need to have the stable as a rock scientific base. And also need to own modesty.

I look at Van Halen as social workers. What we're really doing is creating jobs for rock critics.

Every comic is really a frustrated rock star.

Success begets success. I've been offered a lot of movies now that '30 Rock' has been successful.

Folk rock was my real roots. I did a few gigs as a folk artist, in the style of Fairport Convention.

Rock n roll is for the young idiots, not an old fart like me.

House, rap, R&B, disco rock, they are all part of hip-hop culture. Why you ain't playing Kraftwerk along with Jay-Z? That's hip-hop.

Hopefully people can look at our band and see that we're a heavy rock band. We're definitely not a metal band, but we're a band that focuses on meaningful lyrics and melody.

I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars.

The love she left behind will be the reason dreams are reached. She was the rock in a world that was crumbling. Her strength will remain. It’s in our hearts.

If you're rolling over rocks and stuff and you have a bigger wheel, it's going to stay out of the holes - rough sections become smoother.

In the '60s, people were still very protective of each field that they belonged to. Avant-garde artists didn't know about rock or pop or jazz. And the jazz people of course didn't want to know about any other music. They were all just kind of protecting their territory.

Prince Charming can go suck rocks. I've met my true love and he's a contractor

I think of hip hop as a mass media, radio, MTV thing. It’s been extremely relevant over the last 10 years and rock music is just not anymore—-a tear rolls down my cheek as I say that.

I look at ordinary people in their suits, them with no scars, and I'm different. I don't fit with them. I'm where everybody's got scar tissue on their eyes and got noses like saddles. I go to conventions of old fighters like me and I see the scar tissue and all them flat noses and it's beautiful. ... They talk like me, like they got rocks in their throats. Beautiful!