“I’ve been making electronic music for twenty some odd years but, because I grew up playing in punk rock bands, when I started touring, I thought in order to be a viable touring musician I had to do it with a band. I would DJ or tour with a full rock band.” YearsOrderRocksGrewBandGrew UpMusicianTwentiesOddPunkTouringPunk RockDjsRock BandsElectronic Music Author:Moby
“I'm afraid I am a bit of a technophobe - a nineteenth-century man caught in the twenty-first century. But there is one piece of technology that I would especially welcome: a device to automatically balance restaurant tables on all four legs so that they don't rock back and forth.” MenFirstsBitsTechnologyPiecesFourRocksCenturyBalanceTwentiesTablesCaughtLegsWelcomeRestaurantsDevicesBack And ForthNineteenth CenturyOne Piece Author:Leonard Susskind
“Rock 'n' roll is a young form. People over twenty- five ruin it. This whole censorship thing has come about because old people are playing with a form that is essentially young and rebellious. Do you know how brilliant it was for The Beatles to break up when they did?.” PeopleKnowsWholeFormYoungBreakKnow HowFiveRocksTwentiesBrilliantRuinsDo You KnowCensorshipRock N RollOld PeopleRebelliousTwenty Five Author:John Hughes
“I think most people start rock bands in their early twenties or teens, but I was almost thirty at the time when the band started really doing anything and it took another several years before people started caring about us.” PeopleThinkingYearsRocksBandTwentiesCaringThirtyTeensRock Bands Author:Matt Berninger
“Every good story needs a complication. We learn this fiction-writing fundamental in courses and workshops, by reading a lot or, most painfully, through our own abandoned story drafts. After writing twenty pages about a harmonious family picnic, say, or a well-received rock concert, we discover that a story without a complication flounders, no matter how lovely the prose. A story needs a point of departure, a place from which the character can discover something, transform himself, realize a truth, reject a truth, right a wrong, make a mistake, come to terms.” NeedsWritingWellsMatterCharacterStoriesCoursesReadingTermRealizingMistakeFictionRocksPagesTwentiesFundamentalsVery GoodLovelyProseRejectsConcertsAbandonedHarmoniousGood StoryDepartureWorkshopsFiction WritingComplicationPicnicsRock Concerts Author:Monica Wood
“Thus the white men and Native Americans were able, through the spirit of goodwill and compromise, to reach the first in what would become a long series of mutually beneficial, breached agreements that enabled the two cultures to coexist peacefully for stretches of twenty and sometimes even thirty days, after which it was usually necessary to negotiate new agreements that would be even more mutual and beneficial, until eventually the Native Americans were able to perceive the vast mutual benefits of living in rock-strewn sectors of South Dakota.” MenFirstsLongTwoSometimesWould BeAbleSpiritCultureWhiteRocksBenefitsTwentiesSeriesSouthCompromisePerceiveThirtyNativeAgreementMutualNative AmericanWhite ManBeneficialGoodwillCoexistDakotaSouth DakotaTwo CulturesMutual Benefit Book:Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States Source: Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States
“Think of a rock polisher, one of those drums, goes round and round, rolls twenty-four/seven, full of water and rocks and gravel. Grinding it all up. Round and round. Polishing those ugly rocks into gemstones. That’s the earth. Why it goes around. We’re the rocks. And what happens to us—the drama and pain and joy and war and sickness and victory and abuse—why, that’s just the water and sand to erode us. Grind us down. To polish us up, nice and bright.” ThinkingWarHappensEarthPainJoyWaterFourNiceRocksVictoryDramaAbuseTwentiesSevenRoundsUglySicknessSandPolishGrindErodeGravel Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“When the climbers in 1953 planted their flags on the highest mountain, they set them in snow over the skeletons of creatures that had lived in the warm clear ocean that India, moving north, blanked out. Possibly as much as twenty thousand feet below the seafloor, the skeletal remains had turned into rock. This one fact is a treatise in itself on the movements of the surface of the earth. If by some fiat I had to restrict all this writing to one sentence, this is the one I would choose: The summit of Mt. Everest is marine limestone.” IfsWritingFactsEarthMovingClearFeetRocksMovementThousandMountainCreaturesOceanHighestIndiaTwentiesRemainsWarmSentencesSurfaceSnowFlagsMarineSummitSkeletonsEverestClimbersOne SentenceMt EverestLimestone Author:John McPhee
“Answers to Frequently Asked Questions: Yes. Yes. No. One time in high school. Three times in my twenties. Rocks no salt. Yes. Four. Never. And how dare you! I will take no further questions.” SchoolThreeAnswersFourRocksHigh SchoolTwentiesDareOne TimeSaltThree Times Author:Ellen DeGeneres
“When Christian pushes into the brick wall of the building catty-corner to the rear of BB&B—first left on the Dark Zone side—and disappears, I melt down in a fit of the giggles. I toss a rock at the spot where he vanished. It bounces off the brick and clatters to the cobblestone. I'm feeling twenty shades of Harry Potter's train station, especially when he pokes his head out of the wall and says impatiently, "Come on, lass. This is hardly my favorite place to be.” FirstsFeelingsChristianLeftSidesDarkRocksBuildingWallFitTwentiesTrainMy FavoriteCornersDisappearSpotsZoneStationsShadeHarry PotterBricksPottersBounceTossPokeGiggleBrick WallFavorite PlacesTrain StationsCobblestone Author:Karen Marie Moning
“I am above the forest region, amongst grand rocks & such a torrent as you see in Salvator Rosa's paintings vegetation all a scrub of rhodods. with Pines below me as thick & bad to get through as our Fuegian Fagi on the hill tops, & except the towering peaks of P. S. that, here shoot up on all hands there is little difference in the mt sceneryhere however the blaze of Rhod. flowers and various colored jungle proclaims a differently constituted region in a naturalists eye & twenty species here, to one there, always are asking me the vexed question, where do we come from?” LittlesHandsEyeDifferencesRocksPaintingFlowerEvolutionTwentiesAskingSpeciesVariousForestsHillsRegionsThickJungleSceneryNaturalistRosaVegetation Author:Joseph Dalton Hooker
“She is mine own, And I as rich in having such a jewel As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl, The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold.” IfsWaterRichSeaRocksMinesPureGoldTwentiesSandPearlsJewelsJewelryNectar Book:The plays and poems of William Shakspeare Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agonies of the damned, but give him a little metal, a few chemicals, some wire and twenty or thirty billion dollars and vroom! there he is, up on a rock a quarter of a million miles up in the sky.” MenGivingLittlesLastsSciencePoorMillionsSkyMankindRocksMoonOfficeTwentiesDollarsBillionsMilesFlightThirtyAviationChemicalsQuartersMetalsAgonyMagnificentWire Author:Russell Baker
“I have had twenty years of perfect companionship with a man among men. He is a rock and a protection. I have never regretted it.” MenYearsPerfectRocksTwentiesProtectionCompanionshipNever Regret Author:Katharine Hepburn