Quotes of: Rocks Keyword

Once I walked out of my house into to the Puerto Rican Day parade. It was usually a five-minute walk to work, but that day it took me a half-hour to get to 30 Rock.

Jason Sudeikis

Growing up, I fantasized about being a rock musician and that somehow it would be really easy. I didn't realize that it's so much work.

Sean Lennon

So in this Hemisphere when the moon goes down, I sit in one of those all-night-into-mornings cafes, watching short short skies below the skyscrapers and low-rises and sense the big turntables turning and the roadies setting up from stadium to stadium...

Critics Who Know Jack: Urban Myths, Media and Rock & Roll

Swear to God, for someone so obsessed with music, she’s borderline tone deaf. But trying to describe how I felt watching her dance around and sing would be like trying to build a skyscraper with my bare hands. It made me want to marry her. Made me ...

How to Kill a Rock Star

Left alone, I am overtaken by the northern void-no wind, no cloud, no track, no bird, only the crystal crescents between peaks, the ringing monuments of rock that, freed from the talons of ice and snow, thrust an implacable being into the blue. In th...

The Snow Leopard

A loud boom exploded the air, making Thomas jump. It was followed by a horrible crunching, grinding sound. He stumbled backward, fell to the ground. He wouldn't have believed it if he hadn't seen it for himself. The enormous stone wall to the right o...

The Maze Runner

Mom: [Driving Mason Jr. home from school] Your teacher said you're behind on your homework assignments. Mason: No, I did them, they were just sitting in my backpack. Mom: So, why didn't you turn them in? Mason: She never asked for them. Mom: Well, ho...

Boyhood

Sloth: Mama! Mama Fratelli: Come to mama Slothy, come on hmm? Sloth: Mama, you've been bad. Mama Fratelli: Oh, Slothy. I may have been bad. I may have kept you chained up in that room but it was for your own good. Sloth: Yeah! Mama Fratelli: You reme...

The Goonies

These are the people who will encourage you to go after your dreams and will inspire you to succeed. Stick to them like a barnacle to a rock.

The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success

The little flowers grew everywhere around the rocks, and no one had asked them to grow, or me to grow.

The Dharma Bums

Without imagination, writing is a stack of lumber, a sack of nails, and a locked tool shed.

The Daddy Rock

A pet rock is a serious commitment and too much responsibility for a ten year old to handle on his own

Dirty Zero

Let me not anchor you to a bed of weary rocks, but let me be the kite’s string that guides you in your flight.

Exit Eleonora

Her metaphors for her children included barnacles encrusting a ship and limpets clinging to a rock.

The Edible Woman

The gods do make playthings of us. But it is we mortals who provide them with tools.

Finnikin of the Rock

If we're to be judged by our parents and grandparents, then we all may as well impale ourselves upon bits of rock.

Fire

Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to a mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on a rock." - Frankenstein p115

Frankenstein

Because without our language, we have lost ourselves. Who are we without our words?

Finnikin of the Rock

One of Sir Topher's rules was to never indulge in sentimentality, never return for what was left behind.

Finnikin of the Rock

This was hell then; it wasn't anything to worry about: it was just his own familiar room.

Brighton Rock

Probably having fallen in love with music and movies at a young age and then first learning about writing by kind of following the path of writers like Dave Marsh and Lester Bangs and being a rock journalist.

Cameron Crowe