Top 313 Rod Quotes & Sayings

Rod Stewart helped me to realize what I didn't want in a boyfriend.

I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.

We’re looking for anything to do with the Rod of Time. (Sin) Rod of Time, Forsaken Moon, Tablet of Destiny…you Sumerians really liked your hokey terms, huh? (Kat) They didn’t exactly ask my opinion before they named them. (Sin) Good, ‘cause my estimation of your intellect would be seriously scarred if they had. (Kat)

You know, a dame with a rod is like a guy with a knitting needle.

Martin O'Neill rules with a rod of fear.

Meredith Baxter Birney gets beaten by a rod, in the Lifetime Original, Rod.

His rod revers'd, And backward mutters of dissevering power.

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."

And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God?

When the fish relaxes, that's when I bring the rod down and reel in. But you don't rush it. If it runs, you let it run.

I'm in a class by myself, along with people like Rod Stewart.

The History of our Revolution will be one continued Lye from one End to the other. The Essence of the whole will be that Dr Franklins electrical Rod, Smote the Earth and out Spring General Washington. That Franklin electrified him with his Rod - and thence forward these two conducted all the Policy Negotiations Legislation and War.

Rod and I are living a very charmed and fortunate life, and I wouldn't change it for the world.

Dennis Kucinich's politics are more scrambled than Rod Steiger's dream journal.

As an actor you become that lighting rod between the person who made the play and the audience.

You okay in there?" "No, I'm hanging from a closet rod.

I fell in love with having my feet in the water and a fly rod in my hands.

Rod has such a wicked sense of humour. I loved him very much.

Railroad iron is a magician's rod, in its power to evoke the sleeping energies of land and water.

From Lehi's vision we learn that we must take hold of this safety railing-this iron rod, found alongside our individual straight and narrow path-and hold tight until we reach our ultimate goal of eternal life with our Heavenly Father. Nephi promises that those who hold fast to the iron rod"would never perish; neither could the temptations and the fiery darts of the adversary overpower them unto blindness, to lead them away to destruction"

It lightens the stroke to draw near to Him who handles the rod.

A heroin-thin boy with enough rings in his eyebrows to resemble a shower curtain rod.

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.

Rod's a great singer. He's got a great voice, but there's no point to put a 30-piece orchestra behind him. I'm not going to knock anybody's right to make a living but you can always tell if somebody's heart and soul is into something, and I didn't think Rod was into it in that way.

You'd have to think that if he'd been around today, Rod Laver would have been Rod Laver.

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.

Kubrick has a divining rod for the concealed, alienating secrets of characters.

He bats like a lightning rod.

Spare the rod and spoil the child.

We have no excuse to deviate from the paths of righteousness. If we hold fast to the iron rod, we cannot be deceived.

God Himself chasteneth not with a rod but with time.

Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.

My father beat me with a curtain rod when I was nine, (That was) the inspiration for Creep

Laughter is the lightning rod of play, the eroticism of conversation.

Paul Rudd is a huge 'Hot Rod' fan.

If being the lightning rod that started the Tea Party is what's written on my tombstone, I'll be very happy.

A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other.

I fell in love with '50s hot-rod, pinup-girl culture.

The notion that I had become a political lightning rod was painful for me to experience.

My goal one day is to be in the same sentence as Rod Laver and Ken Rosewall.

You have to get a great headline to attract attention in your blog - it's about the lure - not the rod.

Society may be likened to a rod, which only a just government can balance properly.

I'm younger than Rod Stewart and Bruce Springsteen, but I'm still getting up there in age.

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.

What can only be taught by the rod and with blows will not lead to much good; they will not remain pious any longer than the rod is behind them.

I was asked why I did not give a rod with which to fish, in the hands of the poor, rather than give the fish itself as this makes them remain poor. So I told them: The people whom we pick up are not able to stand with a rod. So today I will give them fish and when they are able to stand, then I shall send them to you and you can give them the rod. That is your job. Let me do my work today.

A light to guide, a rod To check the erring, and reprove.

The fact is, I view part of what I do is, if necessary, on difficult issues, be the lightning rod.

I used to play football, and then my wife bought me a fishing rod.

Let tyrants shake their iron rod.

I can imagine that Rod Stewart likes giving autographs because he's pure showbusiness.

Spare the child and spoil the rod, I am not sellin' myself to god.

I feel a little like Rod Tidwell from Jerry Maguire

Let language be the divining rod that finds the sources of thought.

My Aunt Marsha ruled the family with a rod of iron. She was one wicked, mean woman.

I must have been a really tough kid to corral. I got disciplined quite frequently. I guess that would be the best way to say it. The rod, I wore out the rod. You know, Spare the rod and spoil the child? Well, I wore out the rod.

The indications which tell your dry fly angler when to strike are clear and unmistakable, but those which bid a wet fly man raise his rod-point and draw in the steel are frequently so subtle, so evanescent and impalpable to the senses, that, when the bending rod assures him that he has divined aright, he feels an ecstacy as though he had performed a miracle each time.

Rod's always been a keen sportsman, so he didn't live as excessive a life as some musicians.

I'm a lightning rod for the anti-Brexit brigade.

Hands that the rod of empire might have sway'd, Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre.