Mick Ralphs (Michael Geoffrey Ralphs) Quotes

I'm ready for some rock 'n' roll action.

Mick Ralphs

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• If you ask me, rockabilly has had a raw deal for far too long. People never shunned the blues or jazz the way they do rockabilly. But it's the original punk-rock, and it changed the way people looked at music for ever.

  

  Imelda May
  • People
  • Music
  • Long

• It's fun to look at people that are so good at acting that aren't actors, like David Bowie creating a mystique about rock n' roll.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • People
  • Good
  • Fun

• But in action, one defies one's character.

  

  Daniel Bell
  • Character
  • Action

• You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • You
  • Action
  • Idea

• The Rock will always come back to us.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Rock
  • Always
  • Back

• I had never done TV. I think it's a foolish medium for, most rock 'n roll music. Nobody ever comes off well on TV.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Music
  • Done
  • Think

• The president is being denounced for not taking the kind of pre-emptive action in Afghanistan that he has been so passionately denounced for taking in Iraq. Damned if he does and damned if he doesn't.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • Action
  • Kind
  • President

• In a lot of action films, a lot of guys are driving muscle cars or vintage cars, whereas in reality, a lot of getaway drivers would actually choose, like, commuter cars and find a way to blend into freeway traffic as quickly as possible.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Reality
  • Action
  • Driving

• I love the action that I'm able to do. I grew up in Maine, outdoors and playing with the boys and shooting skeet. I have my girly side, too. But, I do like playing the strong female roles, especially now with something as simple as Twitter, where you've got young women following you.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Love
  • Action
  • Playing

• Later, I even appeared in a Rock Opera with Richard Gere.

  

  Barry Bostwick
  • Rock
  • Even
  • Later

• By sincerity, a man gains physical, mental and linguistic straightforwardness, and harmonious tendency; that is, congruence of speech and action.

  

  Mahavira
  • Man
  • Action
  • Speech

• Whenever I am acting, it's everything, you know. If I'm researching a role, I'm completely consumed in that and, between action and cut, I live in this suspended time.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Time
  • Live
  • Action

• I started listening to gospel when I was a little boy and my grandmother used to rock me on her lap.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Rock
  • Listening
  • Boy

• And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Life
  • Rock

• During the feminist seventies men were caught between a rock and a hard-on; in the fathering eighties they are caught between good hugs and bad hugs.

  

  Florence King
  • Good
  • Men
  • Bad

• If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action.

  

  Ludwig von Mises
  • Action
  • Moral

• I don't know if it's because I grew up in Beverly or my friends, but I listened to a lot of alternative rock music. I loved Incubus, Weezer and Jimmy Eat World. It almost felt segregated because I loved all of those acts over here, but then I also loved R&B and soul music I grew up with.

  

  Jamila Woods
  • Up
  • World
  • Music

• I love dancing, but I'm not that good of a singer. I sang in punk rock bands in high school and college and stuff, but that mostly involved lots of screaming.

  

  Brian Dietzen
  • Good
  • School
  • High

• I base my roots and history in old blues, old country and old bluegrass, and I like rock 'n' roll, and somehow it all came together, and that is what I am playing now.

  

  Tyler Hilton
  • Country
  • Together
  • History

• I don't think anything has changed about me but my priorities have changed. At one point I was living my life and I didn't see a direct correlation between who I was affecting with my actions. I'm not as reckless, I'm probably not as fun or funny. I've turned to my dad's sense of humor. I think that having a family has put a lot more focus on what I do.

  

  Anthony Green Circa Survive
  • Thinking
  • Fun
  • Action

• I find myself just in the same situation of mind you describe as your own, heartily wishing the good, that is the quiet of my country, and hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Good
  • Country
  • Mind

• The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
  • Work
  • Business
  • Worst

• Scientific discovery requires sustained funding for decades, and politicians can destroy it in a single budget cycle.

  

  Bill Foster
  • Single

• I'm ready for some rock 'n' roll action.

  

  Mick Ralphs
  • Action
  • Rock
  • Ready