rock quotes

So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing theagonies of the damned, but give hima littlemetal, a fewchemicals,somewireand twenty or thirty billion dollars and vroom! there he is, up on a rock a quarter of a million miles up in the sky.

- Russell Wayne Baker
  Editoral pages, the NewYork Times, 21  Jul.

I emerged at last, stumbled a few steps in the mud and then I saw it: an ethereal mountain emerging from a tossing sea of clouds framed between two dark barracksa massive, blue-black tooth of sheer rock inlaid with azure glaciers, austere yet floating fairy-like on the near horizon. It was the first17,000-foot peak I had ever seen. I stood gazing until the vision disappeared among the shifting cloud banks. For hours afterwards I remained spell-bound. I had definitely fallen in love.

- Felice Benuzzi
  No Picnic on Mount Kenya.

I waited patiently for the L, and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDPsalms 40:1^2.

Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms 61:2.

Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him cometh my salvation. He only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defence; I shall not be greatly moved.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms 62:1^2.

And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and fora rockof offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Isaiah 8:14.

And a manshall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Isaiah 32:2.

We can do worse than remember the principle which both gives us a firm Rock and leaves us the maximum elasticity for our mindsHold to Christ, and for the rest be totally uncommitted.

- Sir Herbert Butterfield
  Christianity and History.

In a world where it is so easy to neglect, deny, pervert and suppress the truth, the scientist may find his discipline severe. For him, truth is so seldom the sudden lightthat showsneworderand beauty; more often, truth is the uncharted rock that sinks his ship in the dark.

- SirJohnWarcup Cornforth
  Nobel prize speech.

   Rhyme is the rock on which thou art to wreck.

-John Dryden
Absalom and  Achitophel, pt.2, l.486.

Sex 'n'drugs 'n'rock 'n'roll.

- Ian Dury
  Title of song.

Most people get into bands for three very simple rock and roll reasons: to get laid, to get fame, and to get rich.

- Bob Geldof
  In Melody Maker, 27  Aug.

There would be more women in the rock scene if they were any good.But there are so few who are.

- P(olly) J(ean) Harvey
  In Scotland on Sunday, 30 May.

It's Only Rock and Roll.

- Mick and Richards, Keith Jagger
   Title of song.

Milton, Madam, was a genius that could cut a Colossus from a rock; but could not carve heads upon cherry- stones.

- Samuel known as Dr Johnson Johnson
  Remark to Hannah More,13  Jun, who hadcommentedwith surprise that Milton's sonnets failed to compare with his epic Paradise Lost. Quoted in  James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.4.

We're more popular than Jesus Christ now. I don't know which will go first, rock and roll or Christianity.

-JohnWinston Lennon
  In the Evening Standard.

So then he said that he used to be a member of the choir himself, so who was heto cast the first rock at a girl like I.

- Anita Loos
  Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, ch.5.

   I don't have a rock voice. I have to force it. I am like an opera singer.

-Meat Loaf
  In the Observer,7 Dec.

I have been a rock of order.

- Prince Clemens Lothar Wenzel Metternich
   Attributed, shortly before his death. Quoted in  Andrew Milne Metternich (1975).

Safe upon solid rock the ugly houses stand: Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand.

- Edna St Vincent Millay
  A Few Figs From Thistles,'Second Fig'.

[He] made himself the rock against which crashed the successive waves of dissent.

-ThomasJ Schoenbaum
  Of Secretary of State Dean Rusk during theVietnamWar. Waging Peace andWar.

Everybody's got to reclaim these thingspoetry, rock'n'roll, political activismand it's got to be done over and over again. It's like eating: you can't say,'Oh, I ate yesterday'.You have to eat again.

- Patti Smith
  In Rolling Stone , 27 May.

The poem in the rock and The poem in the mind Are not one. It was in dying I tried to make them so.

- R(onald) S(tuart) Thomas
  'The Epitaph'.

We are beginning to see now it is matter is the scaffolding of spirit; that the poet emerges from morphemes and phonemes; that as form in sculpture is the prisoner of the hard rock, so in everyday life it is the plain facts and natural happenings that conceal God and reveal him to us little by little under the mind's tooling.

- R(onald) S(tuart) Thomas
  Frequencies,'Emerging'.

Rock of Ages, cleft for me, Let me hide myself inThee, Let the water and the blood, From thy riven side which flowed, Be of sin the double cure, Cleanse me from its guilt and power.

- Augustus Montague Toplady
  Hymn.

[Alexander Hamilton] smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. He touched the dead corpse of the public credit, and it sprang upon its feet.

- Daniel Webster
  Speech, NewYork,10

Givea manthesecure possessionof a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him a nine years' lease on a garden, and he will convert it into a desert† The magic ofturns sand to gold.

- Arthur Young
PROPERTY1787  Journal entries, 30 Jul and 7 Nov, published in Travels in France and Italy (1794).