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Quotes About Rod

As an actor you become that lighting rod between the person who made the play and the audience.
~ Christopher Walken
Jason Rafiel: It's up to her now. Thousand of years ago she had a measuring rod, a sword, and a whip. Yes, it was called a scourge. She rode about in a chariot drawn by griffins. Nemesis. Last time I saw her, she was wearing a pink, woolly shawl.
~ Agatha Christie
Because of my tremendous respect for Bob Barker and for the show's high standards of professionalism I consider this a tremendous honor that few announcers have ever been treated to. Both Rod's and Johnny's shoes are huge I can't think about filling them.
~ Randy West
When we announced that we were going to support Bitcoin companies, we became a great lightning rod for activity and fun.
~ Adam Draper
Here Jove with Hermes came; but in disguise Of mortal men conceal'd their deities; One laid aside his thunder, one his rod
~ Ovid
Come forward, some great marshal, and organize equality in society, and your rod shall swallow up all the juggling old court gold-sticks
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
Spare the child and spoil the rod, I am not sellin' myself to god.
~ Patti Smith
A wit's a feather, and a chief a rod;An honest man's the noblest work of God.
~ Alexander Pope
First irate Russian thugs, now irate federal cops. Maybe Rod Serling was next.
~ Robert Crais
My most precious possession is a 13.5-feet-long fishing rod, made by an American firm called Loomis.
~ John Rocha
No man, by the mere force of his own genius, could effect revolutions of this description in society, if society did not place the divining rod in his hands, and voluntarily prostrate itself before the sorcery by which it is first dazzled and then duped.
~ ROBERT BELL
After I'd picked up the bell and rod, he'd "sold" me three more items that he considered essential —
~ Andrew Rowe
We don't discuss race, so just the discussion of race has become racist. We've been trained that it's such a lightning rod that we don't even want to say the word.
~ Rick Famuyiwa
Come forward, some great marshal, and organize equality in society, and your rod shall swallow up all the juggling old court gold-sticks
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
When you speak the gospel, you share "the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes." Sharing the gospel is like walking around in a thunderstorm and handing out lightning rods. You don't know when the lightning will strike or who it will strike, but you know what it will strike—the lightning rod of the gospel. And when it does, that person's lightning rod will be charged with the power of God and he or she will believe.
~ Donald S. Whitney
I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
~ Doug McLeod
I didn't ever think of it as a social thing at the time. I took it as a good story. Maybe because I've always been kind of progressive so I never thought of it, you know.
~ Rod Steiger
I'm not romantic; I'm very practical. There are lots of fish in the sea; so whoever gets struck with your rod, one is as good as another.
~ Twinkle Khanna
Do you intend to go fishing, Oscar?" "No idea. But I can't travel to Scotland without my rod. It would be almost sacrilegious.
~ Rosamunde Pilcher
short and long whitish sticks and thinner white sticks and something like a long, curved rod with ridges all along its length.
~ Ruth Rendell
Her whisper was, Lyman thought, like a Marlin ripping all the line out of a fishing rod.
~ Joe Coomer
But Jonathan heard not when his father charged the people with the oath: wherefore he put forth the end of the rod that was in his hand, and dipped it in an honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes were enlightened.
~ Anonymous
Thou shalt say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and cast it before Pharaoh, and it shall become a serpent.
~ Anonymous
Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly.
~ Anonymous