#roll

Once the Republicans get rolling, they assume they're going to win everything. They are zealots, and zealots assume the last five percent of whatever their plan is will be taken care of by their own greatness or momentum or divinity. ↗

— Keith Olbermann

#care #divinity #everything #five #get

We can use techniques in modifying things, in controlling things, but the first impulse has to be something that you simply cannot make just out of technique, or else it becomes perfectly evident that it is nothing but technique that you're exercising. ↗

— Leo Ornstein

#cannot #controlling #else #evident #exercising

In recent times, European nations, with the use of gunpowder and other technical improvements in warfare, controlled practically the whole world. One, the British Empire, brought under one government a quarter of the earth and its inhabitants. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#british empire #brought #controlled #earth #empire

A very difficult year is ahead of us. We must continue our efforts with decisiveness, to stay in the euro, to make sure we do not waste the sacrifices and do not turn the crisis into an uncontrolled and disastrous bankruptcy. ↗

— Lucas Papademos

#bankruptcy #continue #crisis #decisiveness #difficult

In a still hot morning, the tide went out and didn't come back in. This was not a spectacular event. The sea did not roll up like a scroll, like the sky in Revelations. It quietly withdrew. ↗

— Ruth Park

#come #did #event #hot #like

It was a source of shame for my family that I was in rock and roll, which is so blue-collar. It just isn't done. And I felt it, too. ↗

— Liz Phair

#done #family #felt #i #just

Teenagers did not have, before rock 'n' roll and rhythm-and-blues - they did not have any type of music they could call their own once they got over 4 or 5 years old until they were well into their 20's and considered adults. ↗

— Sam Phillips

#before #call #considered #could #did

The trouble is now, with rock'n'roll and stuff, it gets so big that it loses what once upon a time was a magnificent thing, where it was special and quite elusive and occasionally a little sinister and it had its own world nobody could get in. ↗

— Robert Plant

#could #elusive #get #gets #had

It's not some great work of beauty and love to be a rock-and-roll singer. ↗

— Robert Plant

#great #great work #love #rock-and-roll #singer

Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happens to me. I can't help it.' ↗

— Elvis Presley

#happens #help #i #like #me