Roll Quotes - page 18

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent. (Martin Luther King Jr.)
Let the gossip roll! What to me are Hamlet's garters, or the whirlwind of Salome's dance, or the tread of the Man in the Iron Mask? I am more iron than they. View quote
Anna Akhmatova
Pensive they sit, and roll their languid eyes. View quote
John Keats
God gives us the ability, but rock 'n' roll was created by men. View quote
Little Richard
Rock 'n' roll offered me a platform to speak what I felt. It also offered me a platform to support my mama and my brothers and sisters - twelve children. View quote
Little Richard
To me, true rock 'n' roll has a lot of bottom in it. View quote
Little Richard
When you sit down and think about what rock 'n' roll music really is, then you have to change that question. Played up-tempo, you call it rock 'n' roll; at a regular tempo, you call it rhythm and blues. View quote
Little Richard
But I'm a rock 'n' roll singer; that's my livelihood, my occupation. View quote
Little Richard
Rock n roll stops the traffic. View quote
Bono
It's sad to think what the state of rock and roll will be twenty years from now. It just seems like when rock and roll is dead the whole world's gonna explode. It's already so rehashed and so plagariazed that it's barely alive now. It's disgusting. I mean, kids don't even really care about rock and roll as much as they used to, as the other generations have. It's already turned into nothing but a fashion statement and an identity for kids to use as a tool for them to fuck and have a social life. And at that point I really can't see music being of any importance to a teenager, really. View quote
Kurt Cobain
I don't know how they do it but those two love each other so much. They're this husband and wife duo that work together all the time and yet I've never seen them have an argument. I've never seen them kind'of roll their eyes at each other. I've never seen anything like that. They are the perfect example of a fabulous marriage. (Cat Deeley)
What is the chance that one can roll up the sky like a hide? View quote
Subhash Kak
Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction. View quote
Rudy Rucker
For the artist, fulfillment of self consists not in marching in the ranks of the liberators but in being entered in the roll of the Masters. The artist tends to find himself in the position of a deserter from his social group or, at best, one who collaborates, with secret reservations. View quote
Harold Rosenberg
I knew the bride when she used to rock and roll. View quote
Nick Lowe
These days, rock 'n' roll is much more about rock than about roll. I don't do rock. But I'm interested in that roll part, because that's the funny little bit that makes it hip. View quote
Nick Lowe
On a fair morning the mountain invited you to get down and roll in its new grass and flowers (your less inhibited horse did just this if you failed to keep a tight rein). Every living thing sang, chirped, and burgeoned. Massive pines and firs, storm-tossed these many months, soaked up the sun in towering dignity. Tassel-eared squirrels, poker-faced but exuding emotion with voice and tail, told you insistently what your already knew full well: that never had there been so rare a day, or so rich a solitude to spend it in. View quote
Aldo Leopold
Societies either roll on blindly to disaster or they find the inner strength to stop themselves long enough to find ways for reform from within. View quote
John Ralston Saul
Rock and roll doesn't necessarily mean a band. It doesn't mean a singer, and it doesn't mean a lyric, really. It's that question of trying to be immortal. View quote
Malcolm Mclaren
People still think I led a rock and roll lifestyle. I was in my kitchen 100 hours a week; I didn't have time to do that. View quote
Marco Pierre White
People have nervous tics they don't know about, and I would advise asking around. Ask the casting director, 'Is there something I'm doing?' I would see people unconsciously rocking back and forth. I roll my lips. I bite my lips and roll them. (Olivia Wilde)
I mean, so what if some fifty-eight-year-old butt-head gets a load on and starts playing Death Race 2000 in the rush-hour traffic jam? What kind of chance is he taking? He's just waiting around to see what kind of cancer he gets anyway. But if young, talented you, with all of life's possibilities at your fingertips, you and the future Cheryl Tiegs there, so fresh, so beautiful - if the two of you stake your handsome heads on a single roll of the dice in life's game of stop-the-semi - now that's taking chances! Which is why old people rarely risk their lives. It's not because they're chicken - they just have too much dignity to play for small stakes. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
I am one of the biggest Laura Nyro fans. I still listen to that stuff incessantly. Laura Nyro does not belong in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Songwriter Hall of Fame? Absolutely. View quote
Paul Stanley
The whole idea of rock and roll lifestyle is a cartoon. It's a caricature. And at times, it's made up of people emulating others; a few who actually live that lifestyle and many who claim to live that lifestyle. View quote
Paul Stanley
It's absurd for anybody to look around and hear the acts and artists who cite us as an inspiration, and then tell me that we're not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. View quote
Paul Stanley