Rolling famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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You know, when cameras are rolling, improvisation doesn't feel natural. The pressure is too great. You're on a time schedule. You've got 60 crewmen.
-- Albert Brooks -
On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Rolling torture wagons for nature's most dignified creature.
-- Alec Baldwin -
We're well past the end of the century when time, for the first time, curved, bent, slipped, flash forwarded, and flashed back yet still kept rolling along. We know it all now, with our thoughts traveling at the speed of a tweet, our 140 characters in search of a paragraph. We're post-history. We're post-mystery.
-- Ali Smith -
Adam Levine and I remade the Rolling Stones' classic Wild Horses, and it is right up my alley, that whole style. It has a style of its own but still stays very true to the classic arrangement, and I love it.
-- Alicia Keys -
Growing up I used to love bands like Free and ELO and the Rolling Stones. When Robert Plant got in touch it made perfect sense to me.
-- Alison Krauss -
I want to live in a world where Miley (or any female musician) can twerk wildly at 20, wear a full-cover floral hippie mumu at 37, show up at 47 in see-through latex, and pose semi-naked, like Keith & co, on the cover of Rolling Stone at 57 and be APPLAUDED for being so comfortable with her body.
-- Amanda Palmer -
When I started out, Jiu-Jitsu was really an elite thing in Brazil, and there was some prejudice towards poorer kids, so I had to learn things on my own. Some of my neighbours started doing Jiu-Jitsu, so I started watching it, and then started rolling with them. It wasn’t organized training, but it was better than nothing.
-- Anderson Silva -
I've been saying the Occupy Movement has got the ball rolling, and now we need to take the fight to the great indoors!
-- Ani DiFranco -
The fact that a Republican is in the late Senator Kennedy's old seat probably must have him rolling in his grave, probably spilling his drink.
-- Ann Coulter -
When I started working for Rolling Stone, I became very interested in journalism and thought maybe that's what I was doing, but it wasn't.
-- Annie Leibovitz -
At my Rolling Stones' tour, the camera was a protection. I used it in a Zen way.
-- Annie Leibovitz -
For me, the '60s in the automotive industry was awesome. The cars are heavy, huge, rolling works of art.
-- Apolo Ohno -
They started something here, and the kids are keeping the ball rolling.
-- Babe Ruth -
There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.
-- Bill Bryson -
I always say that I am very proud of the work that I did with the Rolling Stones and that I am also proud of what I have done with the Rhythm Kings.
-- Bill Wyman -
Flat fields produce mediocre grapes, but rolling hills produce the greatest grapes. Why? Because the vines must struggle for survival.
-- Billy Cannon -
How does it feel, how does it feel to be without a home, like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone.
-- Bob Dylan -
Youll never see a good performance out of me, in terms of a character, when the camera isnt rolling.
-- Brendan Fehr -
The Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Phil Spector. Those were my idols.
-- Brian Wilson -
In the editing room, 20 percent of the time you're using stuff from before the actor knew the camera was rolling or you're taking a line from somewhere else and putting it in his mouth.
-- Campbell Scott -
While other girls swooned over The Beatles and the Rolling Stones, I worshipped Rudolf Nureyev and Isadora Duncan.
-- Celia Imrie -
What is this called, what I am doing, to myself, to my life, this wallowing, this pondering, this rolling over and over in the same places of my memory, wearing them thin, wearing them out? Why don't I ever learn? Why don't I ever do anything different?
-- Charles Yu -
My first album was me finding myself and my voice, finding how I sing. I was rolling with the punches because everything was new to me.
-- Chris Brown -
If you're an American kid, you can't help but be influenced by Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and the Rolling Stones because they're always on the radio,
-- Chris Cornell -
Oh, we are but soft and squishy bags of mortality rolling in a bin of sharp circumstance, leaking life until we collapse, flaccid, into our own despair..
-- Christopher Moore -
One day the good times had to keep on rolling, and all of life's horseshit would turn to circuses.
-- Christopher Moore -
I wanted a real band. I wanted the Rolling Stones, the Beatles.
-- Christopher Owens -
When you kill someone by chopping off their head, rolling 'em up in a carpet and burning it, you'd better make sure they're dead!
-- Colin Mochrie -
I was trying to cheat death. I was only trying to surmount for a little while the darkness that all my life I surely knew was going to come rolling in on me some day and obliterate me. I was only to stay alive a little brief while longer, after I was already gone.
-- Cornell Woolrich -
I am really into '70s music, like The Rolling Stones, The Doors and what not.
-- Danny Masterson -
The Beatles were just the beginning of everything music could be, just like the Stones I was Rolling along like a ship lost out on the sea.
-- David Allan Coe -
I couldn't take pictures of green rolling hills.
-- David Byrne -
The rolling contract was designed to specifically take away some of that retirement talk and retirement issue.
-- David Gill -
These days, the Rolling Stones still have an edge, but that fangs-out ferocity has mellowed considerably.
-- Diablo Cody -
The Rolling Stones are so versatile, they're like the band version of that Infinite Dress they sell on QVC.
-- Diablo Cody -
This is the national equivalent of having no savings, your credit card maxed out, you didn't renew your insurance, and now your house has burned down. The only way we can start to solve this is rolling back the tax cuts for the rich, which would save about $70 billion.
-- Diana DeGette -
I was lucky enough to get a very good agent at the age of 15, and got my first film when I was 16, so it's been rolling on since then.
-- Douglas Booth -
Life ain't no rehearsal, the cameras always rolling.
-- Drake -
It has been said that a rolling stone gathers no moss. I would add that sometimes a rolling stone also gathers no verifiable facts or even the tiniest morsels of journalistic integrity.
-- Ed Helms -
There's a lot of bands that get to a certain level, and it just stops. They scrap it. Compare this to, say, The Rolling Stones or The Who, where they just continued on forever and are still playing, or they quit after 20 years.
-- Eddie Vedder -
A strange thing happens to me that I'm sure happens to a lot of actors when the camera starts rolling. I'm not 'me' any more.
-- Emily Browning -
If John Wayne were alive, he’d be rolling over in his grave!
-- Ernest Borgnine -
I do not know what 'moss' stands for in the proverb , but if it stood for useful knowledge... I gathered more moss by rolling than I ever did at school.
-- Ernest Shackleton -
Disaster beats stasis. Better a rolling stone than a moss-covered rock...
-- Evan Harris -
A rolling stone gathers no moss and therefore will not be derided as a moss-back. Roll as much as possible.
-- George Ade -
The difference between a calculated risk and rolling the dice can be expressed in one word: homework.
-- Georgette Mosbacher -
Words are like butter Rolling off my lips Cut like a knife And now I'm sinking battleships
-- Geri Halliwell -
They crested a rise, and there it was, in the hollow between rolling hills—a low, square building, ghostly gray in the moonlight. "Is that it?" asked Hamilton. "It probably isn't the local opera house," groaned Ian.
-- Gordon Korman -
It's meant to be seen rolling so it should be big and readable. Wildstyles on trains didn't make much sense to me when I first started and they still don't today.
-- Ichabod -
Little world, full of little people shouting for recognition, screaming for love, Rolling world, teeming with millions, carousel of the hungry, Is there food enough? Wheat and corn will not do. The fat are the hungriest of all, the skinny the most silent.
-- James Kavanaugh -
When I started Rolling Stone in November 1967, the magazine's initial chapter was to cover rock & roll music with intelligence and respect. Even then, we knew that the fervor sweeping our generation encompassed more than just music.
-- Jann Wenner -
Winfield goes back to the wall. He hits his head on the wall and it rolls off! It's rolling all the way back to second base! This is a terrible thing for the Padres!
-- Jerry Coleman -
A thong. God bless the thong. He hooked his fingers in the silk sides and tugged, rolling the silk down her legs until it hit the floor, his favorite place for panties.
-- Jill Shalvis -
I'll hit you so hard you'll starve to death rolling!
-- Jim Cornette -
He's hit it fat.... It will probably be short.... It just hit the front edge of the green.... It's got no chance.... It's rolling toward the cup.... Well I'll be damned!
-- Jimmy Demaret -
They got love bigger than the Beatles, wild and free like the Rolling Stones.
-- Joe Diffie -
Education is a vast sea of lies, waste, corruption, crackpot theorizing, and careerist log-rolling.
-- John Derbyshire -
Men are polished, through act and speech, Each by each, As pebbles are smoothed on the rolling beach.
-- John Townsend Trowbridge -
While the Beatles always had George Martin around to clean up their act, the Rolling Stones had Andrew Loog Oldham to coarsen theirs.
-- Jon Landau -
Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them.
-- Jose Marti -
You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe - and you have the Rolling Stones!
-- Keith Richards -
I'd rather be remembered as a famous painter than a famous model, so I'll have to start the ball rolling now.
-- Kirsty Hume -
I came over here and worked for rock magazines, and I worked for Rolling Stone, which has a very high standard of journalism, a very good research department.
-- Kurt Loder -
The only band that we have never played with but have always wanted to is the Rolling Stones.
-- Lars Ulrich -
Life is like a dice, so watch the ones you're rolling with.
-- LeCrae -
successful parenting was like log rolling, and she'd often landed in the drink.
-- Lisa Alther -
Rolling down the windows, yeah I got an air conditiona, but I got a sound I want the whole world to listenta.
-- Masta Ace -
My idea of life, it's what happens when they're rolling the credits.
-- Matthew Tobin Anderson -
General McChrystal wanted to be on the cover of Rolling Stone.
-- Michael Hastings -
Things changed, people changed, and the world went rolling along right outside the window.
-- Nicholas Sparks -
I like to listen to different kinds of music - it just depends on my mood. I love Madonna, Russian singers... I like the Rolling Stones a lot!
-- Oksana Baiul -
Either you pursue or push, O Sisyphus, the stone destined to keep rolling. [Lat., Aut petis aut urgues ruiturum, Sisyphe, saxum.]
-- Ovid -
Contrary to slanderous Eastern opinion, much of Iowa is not flat, but rolling hills country with a lot of timber, a handsome and imaginative landscape, crowded with constant small changes of scene and full of little creeks winding with pools where shiners, crappies and catfish hover.
-- Paul Engle -
I know Mick Jagger wouldn’t tour without Keith Richards and call it the Rolling Stones.
-- Richie Sambora -
I'm not into that Keith Richard trip of having all those guitars in different tunings. I never liked the Rolling Stones much anyway.
-- Ritchie Blackmore -
I am a rolling stone, never in one place for very long.
-- Roz Savage -
Yeah, yeah, I've been Beatled, I've been Rolling Stoned.
-- Sammy Hagar -
I've grown up with my parents' music tastes, listening to Fleetwood Mac and the Rolling Stones.
-- Saoirse Ronan -
I have a healthy lifestyle, but there's nothing you can really do to prevent from rolling an ankle or something like that.
-- Shawn Johnson -
The truly still mind, with which you were born, is the mind that moves freely. Without ignoring anything, it reacts wholeheartedly to everything it encounters, to everything on which it reflects. And yet, for all that, it is the mind that is never seized by anything, but is always ready to react on the spot to whatever it encounters next. The mind that is still is the mind that never forfeits its freedom and is able to constantly keep rolling androlling and rolling.
-- Soko Morinaga -
I remember that first week at the Whisky and the gigs we (The Buffalo Springfield) did with the Byrds, We could really smoke ! That band never got on record as bad, and as hard as we were. Live we sounded like the Rolling Stones...
-- Stephen Stills -
I couldn't turn down The Rolling Stones. A real man would never turn down the chance of working with legends like them.
-- Steve Lillywhite -
Changes before your eyes, things you can do and things you can't. My attitude is always let it keep rolling.
-- Terrence Malick -
My attitude is always let it keep rolling
-- Terrence Malick -
At the beginning God said: "Let there be light," and light was, and light is, and light shall be. So Christianity is rolling on, and it is going to warm all nations, and all nations are to bask in its light. Men may shut the window-blinds so they cannot see it, or they may smoke the pipe of speculation until they are shadowed under their own vaporing; but the Lord God is a sun!
-- Thomas De Witt Talmage -
I'm not happy not doing anything. When positive things are rolling in, you've got to take them when you can get them.
-- Tori Spelling -
In the fields with which we are concerned, knowledge comes only in flashes. The text is the thunder rolling long afterward.
-- Walter Benjamin -
I would that I were an old beggar Rolling a blind pearl eye, For he cannot see my lady Go gallivanting by.
-- William Butler Yeats -
I am absolutely convinced that there are weapons...I saw evidence back in 1998 when we would see the inspectors being barred from gaining entry into a warehouse for three hours with trucks rolling up and then moving those trucks out.
-- William Cohen -
I think it was Columbia politics, Columbia Records politics that, that, Tom Wilson left [Bob Dylan] after "Like A Rolling Stone".
-- Al Kooper -
The [Bob] Dylan sessions were very disorganized, to say the least. I mean, the "Like A Rolling Stone" session I was invited by the producer to watch.
-- Al Kooper -
I've always loved, as an Aussie, comedy is part of my life. My friends and I are always ribbing each other and that's how we get through the days. When it comes to cameras rolling and getting that timing right, the only way to do it and do it well is to throw yourself into it.
-- Alex O'Loughlin -
People think of science as rolling back the mystery of God. I look at science as slowly creeping toward the mystery of God.
-- Allan Hamilton -
The Beatles looked like they were in show business, and that was the important thing. And the important thing for the Rolling Stones was to look as if they were not.
-- Andrew Loog Oldham -
When you've been at it for as long as we have, you go through fallow periods and blooming ones, and you know when you're on a roll and you learn how to keep it rolling for as long as you can.
-- Bent Saether -
And there is such a thing as a decathlon high. It's like a rock rolling down hill, picking up momentum. You get better and better.
-- Dan O'Brien