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Paul Rudd is a huge 'Hot Rod' fan. -- Bill Hader
I feel a little like Rod Tidwell from Jerry Maguire -- Kendrick Meek
Dennis Kucinich's politics are more scrambled than Rod Steiger's dream journal. -- Dennis Miller
I'm in a class by myself, along with people like Rod Stewart. -- Engelbert Humperdinck
Rod has such a wicked sense of humour. I loved him very much. -- Rachel Hunter
Meredith Baxter Birney gets beaten by a rod, in the Lifetime Original, Rod. -- Jim Gaffigan
I can imagine that Rod Stewart likes giving autographs because he's pure showbusiness. -- Ritchie Blackmore
I'm younger than Rod Stewart and Bruce Springsteen, but I'm still getting up there in age. -- Eddie Money
My goal one day is to be in the same sentence as Rod Laver and Ken Rosewall. -- Pete Sampras
You'd have to think that if he'd been around today, Rod Laver would have been Rod Laver. -- Jim Courier
Before birds get sucked into jet engines, do they ever think, Is that Rod Stewart in first class? -- Eddie Izzard
A Rod: An attractively painted length of fiberglass that keeps an angler from ever getting too close to a fish. -- Robbie Keane
Simon Cowell and I are great friends, and we wind each other up. Rod Stewart and I do the same thing. -- Elton John
My teenage years were spent trying to look like Rod Stewart - I ended up looking like Dave Hill from Slade. -- Tony Parsons
I'm a huge fan of the Rod Serling sci-fi, where they could take the most odd and enormous ideas but ground them in something very human. -- Mark Millar
Even Rod Woodson will tell you his best year he had as a professional was when he was 36 years old. If you think about why, you're much wiser. -- Ray Lewis
When you get into rock 'n' roll myths, like that Rod Stewart blew his whole band and had to get his stomach pumped, it's ridiculous, but everyone's heard it. -- Craig Finn
People say footballers have terrible taste in music but I would dispute that. In the car at the moment I've got The Corrs, Cher, Phil Collins, Shania Twain and Rod Stewart. -- Andy Gray
Rod Cockshutt, Professor Emeritus at N.C. State University called my book, Evidence of Insanity, "an extraordinary achievement" and told me to not change the last 10-15 pages no matter what. -- carol piner
I discovered that it was a lonely world being a solo artist. Then I started working with another solo artist, Rod Stewart, and he used to tell me how lonely he was! -- Andrew Taylor
I discovered that it was a lonely world being a solo artist. Then I started working with another solo artist, Rod Stewart, and he used to tell me how lonely he was! -- Andrew Taylor
Lifetime is television for women. Yet for some reason, there's always a woman getting beaten on that channel. "In a Lifetime original, Meredith Baxter-Berney gets beaten with a rod. In a Lifetime original, Rod." -- Jim Gaffigan
Rod Clark has one of the most unique voices I have ever encountered. I still quote some of his political insights years later. To have him write political science fiction is both appropriate and intriguing. -- Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Federer said something interesting once. He said that he was watching Rod Laver, and me, and he said he was trying to copy us and to be like us. And that's a great compliment for us. -- Ilie Nastase
I remember working with Rod, though, on Chrysler Hour. I was too young and dumb to know that I was supposed to be scared of anybody or anything - like getting fired or anything like that. -- Sally Kellerman
What four realms? (Amanda) Time, space, earth, and dreams. (Talon) Okay, now that is scary. Some of you guys walk through time? (Amanda) And space and dreams. (Talon) Ah. So Rod Sterling was a Were-Hunter? (Amanda) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Rod Stewart, Elton John and I were going to form a band called Hair, Nose & Teeth after the three of us. But it hasn't happened because none of us can agree on the order of the words! -- Freddie Mercury
You told me there wouldn't be any Rod Serling voice-overs, yet here I am in the middle of a Twilight Zone episode. Oh, and let me guess the title of it, Night of the Terminally Stupid! (Channon) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
I became very close with Charles Bronson and his wife, Kim. We did 'Sea Wolf' together along with Christopher Reeve. I've been lucky enough to work with some amazing, legendary actors. I worked with Rod Steiger twice, for instance. -- Catherine Mary Stewart
Paul McCartney had a baby when he was 61; Rod Stewart was 66; Rupert Murdoch was a stunning 72. Not only does that mean they'll have less stamina than the average dad, that means they'll, well, check out a lot sooner too. -- Jeffrey Kluger
I became very close with Charles Bronson and his wife, Kim. We did Sea Wolf together along with Christopher Reeve. Ive been lucky enough to work with some amazing, legendary actors. I worked with Rod Steiger twice, for instance. -- Catherine Mary Stewart
The story of Rod Stewart, the story of Carlos Santana is so inspiring to young musicians because it shows in this trendy business how long a career can last. It shows how you can soar back, regardless of age. -- Clive Davis
My goal one day is to be in the same sentence as Rod Laver and Ken Rosewall. If I can match them for 10 years, I'd be in their company. They were class acts. That's what I'd like to be. -- Pete Sampras
'Sing It Again Rod' touches all the solo bases since Stewart's departure from the Jeff Beck Band, wherein he cut his teeth on American audiences for $75 a week plus expenses, and wisely ignores his generally inferior work with the Faces. -- Jon Landau
Sing It Again Rod' touches all the solo bases since Stewart's departure from the Jeff Beck Band, wherein he cut his teeth on American audiences for $75 a week plus expenses, and wisely ignores his generally inferior work with the Faces. -- Jon Landau
Greaseball, greaseball, greaseball, that's all I throw him (Rod Carew), and he still hits them. He's the only player in baseball who consistently hits my grease. He sees the ball so well, I guess he can pick out the dry side. -- Gaylord Perry
There are some who might say that somebody named Barack Obama can't be elected senator in the state of Illinois. They're probably the same folks who said that a guy named Rod Blagojevich couldn't be elected governor of the state of Illinois. -- Barack Obama
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
Then, all of a sudden, he stopped and nobody heard from him or got a response to orders. At this point Rod Walker looked him up and found he was living in a commune and seemed to be dropping out of the hobby. -- Fred Davis
The great champions were always vicious competitors. You never lose respect for a man who is a vicious competitor, and you never hate a man you respect. I don't like Rod Laver because he's such a vicious competitor, but I don't dislike him. -- Pancho Gonzales
A-Rod wants to be like Babe Ruth. And people don't realize this, he's a lot like Babe Ruth. Before the playoffs a couple of years ago, A-Rod went to the hospital and promised a dying kid he'd ground out to second for him. -- Artie Lange
That's the reality, and you can't overlook it. Rod can be a free agent, but we don't want get ahead of ourselves. Rod is the starter now and at some point we'll address that. Rod's got the job and the experience and you hope Gerald learns from him. -- Jon Daniels
The big post-election story if Obama wins the presidency will be in the hands of the ethically embattled Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich. He's not very popular, and has a chance to use his power to appoint an Obama replacement as a step in the direction of political rehabilitation. -- Chuck Todd
I'm a piano player. I never thought of myself as a singer, at all. I was always trying to sound like somebody else. I don't like my own voice, I like Ray Charles, Robert Plant, I like Joe Cocker, Rod Stewart, people that have an edge in their voice. -- Billy Joel
When I think of character actors, I think of Spencer Tracy; I think of Gene Hackman, Robert Duvall. When I was a young lad watching films, my eyes were on them - watching 'On the Waterfront,' my eyes are on Rod Steiger and Karl Malden, not on Brando. -- Eddie Marsan
I got invited to the Playboy Mansion with the Lonely Island guys after their first season on 'SNL,' and I sat in the corner drinking coffee and talking to Akiva Schaffer about what aspect ratio he was going to shoot 'Hot Rod' in. Like, that's what we talk about. -- Bill Hader
I don't think people expect Bruce Springsteen to come out in a pink satin jacket, but Rod Stewart, they do. And I like doing it; I don't wear it just because I think I have to. I'm a very flamboyant person. -- Rod Stewart
I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph. -- Ken Kesey
Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave. -- James Russell Lowell
Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path. -- George Herbert
Because of my political views, I've been targeted as a lightning rod, someone who's too far out there. -- John Turner
As an actor you become that lighting rod between the person who made the play and the audience. -- Christopher Walken
I seem to be some sort of lightning rod. I just really irritate people, you know? I really do. -- Howard Stern
Under Thatcher, who ruled us with an iron rod, great art was made. Amazing designers and musicians. Acid house was born. Very colourful and progressive. -- Noel Gallagher
Me, I'm spiritually retarded, I need to be knee deep in water with a fly rod in my hands, that's about as close to God as I get. -- Steve Earle
There is a difference between a convert who is built on the rock of Christ through the Book of Mormon and stays hold of that iron rod, and one who is not. -- Ezra Taft Benson
We also own a little boat and I'm like a kid with it. I take off early in the morning, fishing rod in tow, and just drift about the ocean all day. -- Perry Como
Some people have a tendency to get knocked down in this business and sulk and whine, and they just create a rod for their back, really. You have to have broad shoulders and get through it. -- Pierce Brosnan
We always expect tremendous criticism. It is my role to be the lightning rod ... to attract the attacks against the organization for our work, and that is a difficult role. On the other hand, I get undue credit. -- Julian Assange
Monofilament is what you use to go fishing. The line on your fishing rod is probably going to be black. You get to the end of the line and you tie on this clear plastic, thin thread called monofilament. -- John Badham
A band like Depeche Mode would go out and record them hitting a trash can with a steel rod or something and recording it. And that would be one of their sounds of the drums. I love the creativeness of that kind of really raw sampling. -- Chino Moreno
When you think about rock at its origin, and you think of the Beatles and millions of kids screaming as loud as they can and running as fast as they can towards the Beatles, there's no one who is that kind of lightning rod, who commands that kind of power and has that kind of creative magma. -- Jack Black
He bats like a lightning rod. -- W. P. Kinsella
Let tyrants shake their iron rod. -- William Billings
Spare the rod and spoil the child. -- Samuel Butler
Martin O'Neill rules with a rod of fear. -- Stan Collymore
His rod revers'd, And backward mutters of dissevering power. -- John Milton
God Himself chasteneth not with a rod but with time. -- Baltasar Gracian
Laughter is the lightning rod of play, the eroticism of conversation. -- Eva Hoffman
The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You okay in there?" "No, I'm hanging from a closet rod. -- Jodi Picoult
I was now officially Beckstrom the storm rod. And I hated it. -- Devon Monk
Let language be the divining rod that finds the sources of thought. -- Karl Kraus
A light to guide, a rod To check the erring, and reprove. -- William Wordsworth
It lightens the stroke to draw near to Him who handles the rod. -- Washington Irving
Spare the child and spoil the rod, I am not sellin' myself to god. -- Patti Smith
And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God? -- Alexander Pope
You know, a dame with a rod is like a guy with a knitting needle. -- Daniel Mainwaring
I don't want problems solved for me. I want the fishing rod, not the fish. -- Yanni
A heroin-thin boy with enough rings in his eyebrows to resemble a shower curtain rod... -- Jodi Picoult
Society may be likened to a rod, which only a just government can balance properly. -- Ameen Rihani
A fly rod extends a fly fisher's being as surely as do imagination, empathy or prayer. -- David James
The notion that I had become a political lightning rod was painful for me to experience. -- Susan Rice
Hands that the rod of empire might have sway'd, Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre. -- Thomas Gray
My Aunt Marsha ruled the family with a rod of iron. She was one wicked, mean woman. -- Karolyn Grimes
Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod. -- Alexander Pope
A fixed idea is like the iron rod which sculptors put in their statues. It impales and sustains. -- Hippolyte Taine
A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other. -- Samuel Johnson
I saw the lightnings gleaming rod. Reach forth and write upon the sky The awful autograph of God. -- Joaquin Miller
We ought as much to pray for a blessing upon our daily rod as upon our daily bread. -- John Owen
Railroad iron is a magician's rod, in its power to evoke the sleeping energies of land and water. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no divining-rod whose dip shall tell us at twenty what we shall most relish at thirty. -- Nathaniel Parker Willis
My father beat me with a curtain rod when I was nine, (That was) the inspiration for Creep -- Thom Yorke
We often learn more of God under the rod that strikes us than under the staff that comforts us. -- Stephen Charnock
We begin to make the plan known to our children when we hold tight to the iron rod ourselves. -- Rosemary M. Wixom
I don't consider myself a divining rod whom God is speaking through or any kind of crap like that. -- Kathleen Hanna
When we sit down to work, we become like a magnetized rod that attracts iron filings. Ideas come. Insights accrete. -- Steven Pressfield
Leave the fishing-rod, Great General, to us sovereigns of Pharos and Canopus. Your game is cities and kings and continents. -- Cleopatra
You don't like hot rod racing or driving late at night, you just want to park where it's nice and dark. -- Elvis Presley
Whenever faith seems an entitlement, or a measuring rod, we cast our lots with the Pharisees and grace softly slips away. -- Philip Yancey
...all my clear-eyed fish, Golden, or rainbow-sided, or purplish, Vermilion-tail'd, or finn'd with silvery gauze... My charming rod, my potent river spells... -- John Keats
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
Chastisement is designed for our good, to promote our highest interests. Look beyond the rod to the All-wise hand that wields it! -- Arthur W. Pink
How wayward is this foolish love that, like a testy babe, will scratch the nurse and presently, all humble, kiss the rod. -- William Shakespeare
Here Jove with Hermes came; but in disguise Of mortal men conceal'd their deities; One laid aside his thunder, one his rod -- Ovid
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You have to get a great headline to attract attention in your blog - it's about the lure - not the rod. -- Michael Hyatt
Because we allow handguns. When you know someone in the crowd might be packing a rod, it can't help but rush your timing. -- Emo Philips
The lands are lit with all the autumn blaze of golden-rod, and everywhere the purple asters nod and bend and wave and flit. -- Helen Hunt
Along the river's summer walk, The withered tufts of asters nod; And trembles on its arid stalk the hoar plum of the golden-rod. -- John Greenleaf Whittier
We have no excuse to deviate from the paths of righteousness. If we hold fast to the iron rod, we cannot be deceived. -- William Grant Bangerter
Criticism is properly the rod of divination: a hazel switch for the discovery of buried treasure, not a birch twig for the castigation of offenders. -- Arthur Symons
We can hold to the iron rod even if others slip away and a few end up mocking us from "the great and spacious building." -- Neal A. Maxwell
The cross is the lightning rod of grace that short-circuits God's wrath to Christ so that only the light of His love remains for believers. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
Spare the rod and spoil the child - that is true. But, beside the rod, keep an apple to give him when he has done well. -- Martin Luther
In a world of war, pain and suffering, all I want for Christmas is an underwater watch and a silver clutch rod for my dirt bike. -- Dana Gould
Last time you called me late at night you were naked and chained to your shower curtain rod. I hope this isn't going to be disappointing. -- Janet Evanovich
I wish Europe would let Russia annihilate Turkey a little--not much, but enough to make it difficult to find the place again without a divining-rod or a diving-bell. -- Mark Twain
What will help you to press forward and continually hold fast to the iron rod? Center your life on the Savior and develop daily habits of righteous living. -- Mary N. Cook
There is a kind of strength that is almost frightening in Black women. It's as if a steel rod runs right through the head down to the feet. -- Maya Angelou

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