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Quotes About Rocking

I like things all shined up and rocking with hooky pop choruses.
~ Carlene Carter
I was trying to be this person who is cool, eternally rocking.
~ Billy Corgan
I wanted to play rocking country music, and when I started out in the late Seventies, it took me a couple of albums to figure out how to do that.
~ Carlene Carter
Who is getting more pleasure from this rocking, the baby or me?
~ Nancy Thayer
Rhett was watching the race through field glasses. Even ten feet away she could smell the whiskey on him. He was rocking on his feet. Drunk? Not Rhett. He could always hold his liquor. Had Bart's disaster upset him that much?
~ Alexandra Ripley
I really enjoyed performing there. Dubai is a very rocking place.
~ Atif Aslam
Shuttles in the rocking loom of history, the dark ships move, the dark ships move, their bright ironical names like jests of kindness on a murderer's mouth
~ Robert Hayden
We feel more comfortable rocking a comedy room as opposed to laughing it up with a rock crowd.
~ Kyle Gass
For a moment you are asleep in my heart. What more can I ask for? I am rocking inside your breaths. I have turned into the words you whisper. When I speak to you, I clothe my heart with your heart. When you tighten and tremble into love, these dreams wander into distant fields and leave no tracks, I have never been so lost, I have never been so certain of where I am. from "The Story
~ Richard Jackson
I could hear the hiss of various gases escaping the engine and the tires still spinning outside, above, and there was the creak of metal settling as the car stopped rocking, a pathetic turtle on its back.
~ Andrew Davidson
Maybe this was what the media was calling "desperate euphoria"—the we're-all-doomed-but-anything-can-happen feeling that had begun to peak around the time Wun went public. The end of the world, plus Martians: given that, what was impossible? What was even unlikely? And where did that leave the standard arguments in favor of propriety, patience, virtue, and not rocking the boat?
~ Robert Charles Wilson
They had been unable to move that vast placid mass of citizens, the ones who were satisfied with the government, whatever sort of government it might happen to be, the ones who feared rocking the boat more than they feared being devoured by the boat.
~ Robert Silverberg
I longed to be a flowering branch, the sea in its rocking, an unguessed world. Even now it seems so much as if the body was only the desire of the planet, as if it could turn itself into the universe both together, the same
~ Linda Hogan
And she began to weep, dropping her head onto her forearms and rocking backwards and forwards in that curious motion that is perhaps a subconscious attempt to mimic the movement that brings comfort to a tiny baby. That we should in moments of sorrow seek to return to a time when the harshness of the world could be forfended by the simple reassurances of our parents; that we should do that …
~ Alexander McCall Smith
Viola settled into the rocker, situated Goldie in the crook of her left arm and gave her the bottle. The chair quietly creaked out its ageless message of calm and comfort as she set it in motion. But it didn't reach the empty spot inside her.
~ Dorothy Clark
leaned back in the rocker and set it in motion gently, still smiling at him. "She
~ Anne McAllister
KeyArena was rocking, loud. The Finals in '96, I thought that was loud.
~ Dwane Casey
The early Shakin' Stevens and the Sunsets gigs were wild.
~ Shakin' Stevens
Steven Adler and I played football in the street when we were 12. I remember rehearsing in my bedroom with my first band, and some kid climbed over the fence of my backyard and peeked his head in the window to see who was rocking. It was Slash.
~ Flea
The Tinted Windows shows were very fun but it's very different for me as a performer. I'm not playing music - I'm just singing and I missed that. I miss rocking out on keys, drums, guitar... whatever it is.
~ Taylor Hanson
She took me into the living room. She dropped onto a huge white sofa. She locked her hands around her knees. She drew them up to her chest. She rocked back and forth slowly. That was all by God. I sat down. I had to. Candi said do you like my white blouse? I shrugged. I said it's fine as far as it goes.
~ Ross H. Spencer
George, we're the Red Hot Chili Peppers, we're from Hollywood, California, we're really hard-rocking motherfuckers, and we think you should produce our record.
~ Anthony Kiedis
There is no life in thee, now, except that rocking life imparted by a gently rolling ship; by her, borrowed from the sea; by the sea, from the inscrutable tides of God.
~ Herman Melville
When the windowpanes start to turn from black to gray, my sisters cradle themselves around me, rocking me like the sea until I can taste the salt of our tears
~ Sarah Miller