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Quote:We're all on the same roller coaster, just in different seats.[Jason Mechalek]

Quote:When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'[Theodore Roosevelt]

Quote:The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly on what should be said on the vital issues of the day.[Theodore Roosevelt]

Quote:Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue about that; I'm right, and I will be proved right. We are more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first -- rock'n'roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.[John Lennon]

Quote:Government consists in nothing else but so controlling subjects that they shall neither be able to, nor have cause to do it harm.[Nicolo Machiavelli]

Quote:I heard guys say they got into rock and roll to pick up women. I didn't get into rock to pick up women, but I sure adapted.[Ted Nugent]

Quote:A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.[Friedrich Nietzsche]

Quote:A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.[Friedrich Nietzsche]

Quote:Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider]



Definitions of: roll

Definition: To cause to revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on an axis; to impel forward by causing to turn over and over on a supporting surface; as, to roll a wheel, a ball, or a barrel.

Definition: To wrap round on itself; to form into a spherical or cylindrical body by causing to turn over and over; as, to roll a sheet of paper; to roll parchment; to roll clay or putty into a ball.

Definition: To bind or involve by winding, as in a bandage; to inwrap; -- often with up; as, to roll up a parcel.

Definition: To drive or impel forward with an easy motion, as of rolling; as, a river rolls its waters to the ocean.

Definition: To utter copiously, esp. with sounding words; to utter with a deep sound; -- often with forth, or out; as, to roll forth some one's praises; to roll out sentences.

Definition: To press or level with a roller; to spread or form with a roll, roller, or rollers; as, to roll a field; to roll paste; to roll steel rails, etc.

Definition: To move, or cause to be moved, upon, or by means of, rollers or small wheels.

Definition: To beat with rapid, continuous strokes, as a drum; to sound a roll upon.

Definition: To apply (one line or surface) to another without slipping; to bring all the parts of (one line or surface) into successive contact with another, in suck manner that at every instant the parts that have been in contact are equal.

Definition: To turn over in one's mind; to revolve.

Definition: The act of rolling, or state of being rolled; as, the roll of a ball; the roll of waves.

Definition: That which rolls; a roller.

Definition: A heavy cylinder used to break clods.

Definition: One of a set of revolving cylinders, or rollers, between which metal is pressed, formed, or smoothed, as in a rolling mill; as, to pass rails through the rolls.

Definition: That which is rolled up; as, a roll of fat, of wool, paper, cloth, etc.

Definition: A document written on a piece of parchment, paper, or other materials which may be rolled up; a scroll.

Definition: Hence, an official or public document; a register; a record; also, a catalogue; a list.

Definition: A quantity of cloth wound into a cylindrical form; as, a roll of carpeting; a roll of ribbon.

Definition: A cylindrical twist of tobacco.

Definition: A kind of shortened raised biscuit or bread, often rolled or doubled upon itself.

Definition: The oscillating movement of a vessel from side to side, in sea way, as distinguished from the alternate rise and fall of bow and stern called pitching.

Definition: A heavy, reverberatory sound; as, the roll of cannon, or of thunder.

Definition: The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear.

Definition: Part; office; duty; rôle.

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