R Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with R. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Rock'n'roll starts between the legs and goes through the heart, then to the head. As long as it does those three things, it's a great rock song.”
“Rock'n'roll to me is a rebellion against the sterile pedestal culture of movies.”
“Rock'n'roll will never go away completely
because it's so fundamentally attractive.”
“Rock's always been the devil's music.”
“Rock, meet stubborn place.”
Source: Magic on the Storm: An Allie Beckstrom Novel
“Rock-and-roll was an example of change in the body of the culture. I think it's really what helped bring the anti-war movement to its peak and moved people into the streets to seize the day - the movement was the embodiment of what was happening in the music. This is what taught me that it was possible to bring art and activism together. Without that piece, that energetic embodiment piece, the rest is just intellectual construct.”
“Rock... is the expression of elemental passions... In the ecstasy of having all their defenses torn down, the participants sink, as it were, beneath the elemental force of the universe.”
“Rockabilly, the punk music of the 1950s, shared similarities with the punk music that emerged in 1976: primal energy, rebellion, basic instrumentation, and (often) basic musicianship.”
Source: Go Cat Go!: Rockabilly Music and Its Makers
“Rockabye Baby, in the treetop Dont you know a treetop is no safe place to rock? And who put you up there, and your cradle too? Baby, I think someone down here has got it in for you!”
“Rockaway? That's my special place with Gage - was anyway. Now it'll 'forever' be marked with gluttony and vomit - sounds about right.”
Source: Toxic Part One
“Rockbottom yields rockstars”
Source: The Secret Sauce is YOU!: Being Your Ownmate
“Rockefeller and his associates did not build the Standard Oil Co. in the board rooms of Wall Street banks. They fought their way to control by rebate and drawback, bribe and blackmail, espionage and price cutting, by ruthless efficiency of organization.”
“Rockefeller made his money in oil, which he discovered at the bottom of wells. Oil was considered crude in those days, but so was Rockefeller. Now both are considered quite refined.”
“Rockefeller once explained the secret of success. 'Get up early, work late - and strike oil.'”
“Rocker dudes don't have a lot of swagger.”
“Rocker dudes dont have swagger”
“Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions.”
“Rocket had that mean look on, every game we played. He was 100 percent hockey. He could hate with the best of them.”
“Rocket into Heaven.”
“Rocket Man, burning out his fuse up here alone.”
“Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty.”
“Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.”
“Rocket science only needed when we build rocket.”
“Rocket scientists agree that we have about reached the limit of our ability to travel in space using chemical rockets. To achieve anything near the speed of light we will need a new energy source and a new propellant. Nuclear fission is not an option.”
Source: The Making of the Pacemaker: Celebrating a Lifesaving Invention
“Rocket ships are exciting but so are roses on a birthday.”
“Rocket to Russia' is, I think, my favorite Ramones record. We reached our peak at that point.”
“Rocket," I said, straightening in the chair. "Donovan was just helping me with my contacts." Donovan raised his brows humorously. Rocket furrowed his. "Did you swallow them?”
Source: Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet
“Rocketing fears for Grandfather aside, the whole music puzzle starts to make sense. “It’s more than a flash mob,” I insist. “Ask Professor Walker, this is Grandfather’s exit song. It’s like his portal of departure.” But Mom’s not listening. She’s preoccupied, apparently puzzled by Dad’s astonishment. Why isn’t anyone listening to me?”
Source: Zonked Out: The Teen Psychologist of San Marcos Who Killed Her Santa Claus and Found the Blue-Black Edge of the Love Universe
“Rockets are bad technology. iPhones are good technology”
“Rockets are the most dangerous form of transportation.”
“Rockets have remained fundamentally unchanged, except for a few exceptions for the last almost 50 years. So, for there to be a fundamental shift in rocketry and getting into space, there almost has to be a breakthrough in propulsion. Either in how to bring the price down, or how to more efficiently get people up into space and the key barrier is the expense of a rocket.”
“Rockets now evoke a slightly old-fashioned kind of wonder, because they stand for an obsolete version of technological prowess. In the scheme of history which has become the most popular version of the recent past, the Space Age counts as the final phase of the Age of Industry – its culmination, just before the paradigm changed and the Age of Information replaced steel with digits.”
Source: Backroom Boys: The Secret Return of the British Boffin
“Rockets should not burn when they are not supposed to. As rules at NASA went, this was pretty high up there.”
Source: When the Moon Hits Your Eye
“Rocking back on his haunches, he ran the pad of his thumb down her sex and swirled it through her moisture. "You're so wet for me."
"Tis a good thing?" she asked with a tremor in her voice.
His deep chuckle rolled though her chest. "Aye, a very good thing.”
Source: Highland Knight of Rapture
“Rocking Chair
Sad is.
Scared is.
That is all.
The rocking chair I live in rocks like a paper boat. Sometimes I am all words, and no boot.
No muster. No yes. All lag and tired pray,
all miss my hometown. Miss the woods
and the quiet porch and the talking slow.
I caught the snow on my tongue.
Snow angel, I.
My heart a blue lamp.
My mother calling me home.
We cannot be called home enough times in our lives.
Dear lonely,
what is your name?
I will open my front door
and ring it through the streets.”
“Rocking her gently in his arms, Wulf wondered which of them had it worse. The mother who wouldn’t live to see the baby grow, or the father who was damned to watch the baby and all those after him die.’ (Wulf)”
“Rocking on a lazy billow
With roaming eyes,
Cushioned on a dreamy pillow,
Thou art now wise.
Wake the power within thee slumbering,
Trim the plot that's in thy keeping,
Thou wilt bless the task when reaping
Sweet labour's prize.”
“Rocking the boat is the most un/anti-American trait one could bring to the table! Disturbing or challenging the status quo is disloyal. In this sense, ironically, success in most American workplaces often results in (or is at the expense of) human and intellectual failure.”
“Rocks and minerals: the oldest storytellers.”
“Rocks are like wreck magnets and ships run aground today in pretty much the same locations and for the same reasons they did thousands of years ago.”
“Rocks are more co-operative than people.”
“Rocks are records of events that took place at the time they formed. They are books. They have a different vocabulary, a different alphabet, but you learn how to read them.”
Source: Annals of the Former World
“Rocks are space, and space is illusion.”
“Rocks crumble, make new forms,
oceans move the continents,
mountains rise up and down like ghosts
yet all is natural, all is change.”
Source: The Awful Rowing Toward God
“Rocks do not have dreams and that's why they are condemned to stay in the same place! To move, you must have dreams!”
“Rocks in my path? I keep them all. With them I shall build my castle.”
“Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd.”
Source: The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office
“Rocks, like louseworts and snail darters and pupfish and 3rdworld black, lesbian, feminist, militant poets, have rights, too. Especially the right to exist.”
“Rockwell once said, 'The commonplaces of America are to me the richest subjects in art.' His paintings depict the dignity of everyday people, like the books of Charles Dickens, who in many ways was like Rockwell, appreciated by the masses in his lifetime, but not until after death by critics, and they were both the most fabulous storytellers....”
Source: The Summer Kitchen
“Rocky!'
A crackle. My ears perk up.
'Rocky?!'
'Grace, question?'
'Yes!' I've never been so happy to hear a few musical notes! 'Yeah, buddy! It's me!'
'You are here, question?!' his voice is so high-pitched I can barely understand him. But I understand Eridian pretty well now.
'Yes! I'm here!'
'You are...' he squeaks. 'You...' he squeaks again. 'You are here!'
'Yes! Set up the airlock tunnel!'
'Warning! Taumoeba-82.5 is-'
'I know! I know. It can get through xeonite. That's why I'm here. I knew you'd be in trouble.'
'You save me!'
'Yes. I caught the Taumoeba in time. I still have fuel. Set up the tunnel. I'm taking you to Erid.'
'You save me and you save Erid!' he squeaks.
'Set up the damn tunnel!'
'Get back in you ship! Unless you want to look at tunnel from outside!'
'Oh, right!”
Source: Project Hail Mary