I am pleased enough with the surfaces - in fact they alone seem to me to be of much importance. Such things for example as the grasp of a child's hand in your own, the flavor of an apple, the embrace of a friend or lover, the silk of a girl's thigh, the sunlight on the rock and leaves, the feel of music, the bark of a tree, the abrasion of granite and sand, the plunge of clear water into a pool, the face of the wind - what else is there? What else do we need? - Edward Abbey Late in August the lure of the mountains becomes irresistible. Seared by the everlasting sunfire, I want to see running water again, embrace a pine tree, cut my initials in the bark of an aspen, get bit by a mosquito, see a mountain bluebird, find a big blue columbine, get lost in the firs, hike above timberline, sunbathe on snow and eat some ice, climb the rocks and stand in the wind at the top of the world on the peak of Tukuhnikivats. - Edward Abbey Straining and straining, getting nowhere, but unable ...

The bands that wrote the big, heroic rock songs - I really wanted to make a record like that. - Sheryl Crow Honest, I listen to classical mostly. It keeps my mind fresh to write rock songs. - Don Dokken There were incredibly few rock songs making it out to the airwaves until the '80s came along. - Joe Elliott Led Zeppelin! I clapped my hand over my mouth. This big, strong man, wearing a muscle shirt and cargo pants, sang rock songs to a toddler in the middle of the night. I was so toast. Game over. And it was doubly terrifying, considering I had no idea how to make him stick around. He would leave and take his sweetness and his Pepto and our hearts. - Amber Lin I knew the words to 25 rock songs, so I got in the group. Long Tall Sally and Tutti-Frutti, that got me in. That was my audition. - Paul Mccartney A moment comes when you cash in whatever credibility a guy can have who plays and sings rock songs for a living, and you put your chips where you think they might do some go...

Come here," she says. "No, you come here." "I said it first." "Rock paper scissors." "No. Because you'll do nerdy calculations and work out what I chose the last six times and then you'll win." Will pushes away from the table and his hand snakes out and he pulls her toward him and Tom figures that Will was always going to go to her first. - Melina Marchetta We were playing Rock, Paper, Scissors," she told him once. "I was paper and she was rock so I lived and she died. - Melina Marchetta Instead of Rock, Paper, Scissors, you could play Brick, Blanket, Action Fingers, in which brick cripples action fingers, blanket smothers brick and action fingers beats blanket. - Nicole Mckay I know - I'll play you for it," Alice suggested. "Rock, paper, scissors." Jasper chuckled and Edward sighed. "Why don't you just tell me who wins?" Edward said wryly. Alice beamed. "I do. Excellent." Step...

I need to be able to rock out. - Bryan Adams I can rock out anything. I mean, I can rock out a little 'Time After Time'. I can do a little 'Grease Lightning'. It depends on the mood, but we do go karaoke, my friends and I in Los Angeles, and it's a lot of fun. - Kristen Bell The largest one laughed. Until Natalya's glass shard plugged his jugular. Regin aimed and pulled the trigger. The gun kicked as bullets sprayed. It was shredding their torsos like cheese, halving their bodies. Let's do this! Rock out with your cocks out! - Kresley Cole Let's do this! Rock out with your cocks out! - Kresley Cole If we could sell 100,000 units every album, that would rock. We'd have a big cult following, we'd have a built-in fanbase so we could pretty much play anywhere, people would show up and rock out. - Dustin Diamond Turn on, tune up, rock out. - Billy Gibbons I felt someone should personally thank every rock out there for the human misery it had a...

Rhyme is the rock on which thou art to wreck. - John Dryden The Bible is the rock on which this Republic rests. - Andrew Jackson The cloud that descended on Black Rock on Monday was not for the past but the future. How much will this debacle chill the pursuit of other risky investigations? - Tina Brown It's a terrible thing to go through life thinking that you have a rock on your side when you haven't. - Maria Callas The way to rock oneself back into writing is this. First gentle exercise in the air. Second the reading of good literature. It is a mistake to think that literature can be produced from the raw. One must get out of life...one must become externalised; very, very concentrated, all at one point, not having to draw upon the scattered parts of one's character, living in the brain. - Virginia Woolf Amongst the rock one cannot stop or think - T S Eliot The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder. - Frederick William Faber And t...

We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity. - John Lennon I don't know which will go first - rock 'n' roll or Christianity. - John Lennon I'm not gonna be a slave. I'm a rock n' roller. - Steven Adler The blues is the foundation, and it's got to carry the top. The other part of the scene, the rock 'n' roll and the jazz, are the walls of the blues. - Luther Allison My older sister was at the cusp of new wave, and I had older brothers from my father's first marriage who were rock 'n' roll guys, so I was exposed to a lot of popular culture. - Paul Thomas Anderson Rock 'n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear. - Frank Sinatra I've got rock 'n' roll in my blood. - William Shatner Tex (wearing a tux, and not happy about it) boomed from across the room, Roxanne Giselle Lo... I mean, Nighti...

Many rock musicians are excellent cooks, I've found, and those that are prefer to eat their own cooking in the studio. I encourage this behavior as I also enjoy the benefits of fresh food. - Steve Albini All those happy, pretty, successful people- he hated them because he knew they didn't really exist, and he hated even more the magazine that glorified them and in a way that made them exist, actors, rock musicians, famous writers, politicians. Those aren't people, he fumed, they're photographs. - Russell Banks A lot of people think that punk rock musicians don't know what they're doing. - Travis Barker All rock musicians are deaf... Or insensitive to mellow sounds. - Marc Bolan The best rock musicians are the most exciting people in the world. - James Daly Rock musicians, and a vast array of popular-music musicians, due to their wealth, acquired through the mass of their notoriety, are able to be listened to and heard and thus are able to effect change on...

Many rock musicians are excellent cooks, I've found, and those that are prefer to eat their own cooking in the studio. I encourage this behavior as I also enjoy the benefits of fresh food. - Steve Albini All those happy, pretty, successful people- he hated them because he knew they didn't really exist, and he hated even more the magazine that glorified them and in a way that made them exist, actors, rock musicians, famous writers, politicians. Those aren't people, he fumed, they're photographs. - Russell Banks A lot of people think that punk rock musicians don't know what they're doing. - Travis Barker All rock musicians are deaf... Or insensitive to mellow sounds. - Marc Bolan Every generation of rock musician will understand that we wouldn't be anywhere without the support of teenagers buying the records. - Roger Daltrey The best rock musicians are the most exciting people in the world. - James Daly Rock musicians, and a vast array of popular-music...

Rock Hudson wasn't my type. He's a great guy and had a great sense of humor. - Tab Hunter It was the era of Tab Hunter and Rock Hudson; they all had a certain look. - Taylor Hackford I acted three times with Fred MacMurray, three times with Martin and Lewis, four times with Rock Hudson. Three times with Glenn Ford. - Dorothy Malone Rock Hudson let his gay agent marry him off to his secretary because he didn't want people to get the right idea. - Anthony Perkins I like the trail that the Internet created. For example, I was watching one of those Douglas Sirk movies, and I noticed that Rock Hudson towered over everyone, and I typed in "How tall was" and I saw "How tall was Jesus," and I'm like, "Sure," and half an hour later you're somewhere you didn't expect to be. It doesn't work that same way in books, does it? Even if you have an encyclopedia, the trail isn't that crazy. I like that aspect of it. - David Sedaris Rock...

His talking voice was amazing, but his singing was like honey ands smoke had hooked up in the back of a van at a rock concert and had a love child. Smooth and rough at the same time. - Chelsea M Cameron I have very eclectic taste in music, but when it comes to going to concerts, I like going to rock concerts. - Fran Drescher You know, kids come to see me in the same way that their parents would go to see a rock concert. - David Guetta Bill was-there was no other word for it- cool. He was tall, with long hair that he tied back in a ponytail. He was wearing an earring with what looked like a fang dangling from it. Bill's clothes would not have looked out of place at a rock concert, except that Harry recognized his boots to be made, not of leather, but of dragon hide. - J K Rowling Yeah, I was just curious. I concentrated on my footsteps. Yeah, well, next time you think about stepping into rock concerts you might want to bring a bodyguard. I stopped and turned around. I brought m...

You are going to love the sports here. Snow skiing and water-skiing and rock climbing and all kinds of extreme sports. I give you full permission to hurl yourself off stuff. - Cynthia Hand I've done archery for about six weeks, and rock climbing, tree climbing - and combat, running and vaulting. But also yoga and things like that, to stay catlike! - Jennifer Lawrence I have some close friends I keep in touch with. I knit. I watch a little too much TV. I ski, if the weather's right for that. If I can find a group of buddies, I go rock climbing. - Melissa Leo

You can't truly appreciate the top if you've never hit rock bottom. - Vanna B People ask me, what was your rock bottom? I say, pick. - Danny Bonaduce I'm always on the go. I love doing things until I hit rock bottom. Then I need my 12 hours of sleep, and I'm on the go again. - Maria Sharapova The first casualty of hitting rock bottom is vanity. - Richard Paul Evans I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life. - J K Rowling Rock bottom is good solid ground, and a dead end street is just a place to turn around. - Wynonna Judd The people of New Orleans have gotten to rock bottom. And the only way out in my mind is for them to really understand it, and then to really choose to get better. - Mitch Landrieu I think I've definitely had my rock bottom and I think that was probably right before I w...

By now all rock bands are wise enough to be suspicious of music industry scum. - Steve Albini Maybe if they start playing new rock bands videos, then maybe but there is no point in a guy like me spending 250 grand for a video that no one is ever going to see. - Sebastian Bach Whitesnake more than most rock bands would get a very significant percentage of women in the audience and those were the ones I'd hear the voices because from where I am on stage is a pretty good spot. - David Coverdale I have had success throughout the years. Some of the hard rock bands today don't have the history that I have. - Gary Cherone My roots and Victor's are jazz, basically, but these two young fellows that we have with us come out of rock bands. And they're tremendously exciting players. - Chico Hamilton The nose can't help catchin' what the ears get sick with. Yessir, rock bands just sweat evil. Evil's been around for a long time, ever since rocks started getting real...

My favorite type of music to sing to would be rock and roll, Tenacious D, Led Zeppelin, some Queen - I love all of them. I love singing to them because they're all just great voices. I love listening to very obscure jazz. - Casey Abrams Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity. - John Lennon My defenses were so great. The cocky rock and roll hero who knows all the answers was actually a terrified guy who didn't know how to cry. Simple. - John Lennon If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'. - John Lennon If the Police could do a reunion... One of the biggest jerks I ever met was Sting. If he can do it, then anyone can do it. It's not that big a deal. And the Eagles! They did it! They severely hated each other. It's just rock and rol...