T Rex Quotes

“BALLROOMS OF MARS"

"You gonna look fine
Be primed for dancing
You're gonna trip and glide
All on the trembling plane
Your diamond hands
Will be stacked with roses
And wind and cars
And people of the past

I'll call you thing
Just when the moon sings
And place your face in stone
Upon the hill of stars
And gripped in the arms
Of the changeless madman
We'll dance our lives away
In the Ballrooms of Mars

You talk about day
I'm talking 'bout night time
When the monsters call out
The names of men
Bob Dylan knows
And I bet Alan Freed did
There are things in night
That are better not to behold

You dance
With your lizard leather boots on
And pull the strings
That change the faces of men
You diamond browed hag
You're a gutter-gaunt gangster
John Lennon knows your name
And I've seen his”
― Marc Bolan, The Slider Song Album

“SPACEBALL RICOCHET"

"I'm just a man
I understand the wind
And all the things that make the children cry

With my Les Paul
I know I'm small
But I enjoy living anyway

Book after book
I get hooked everytime
The writer talks to me like a friend

What can I do
We just live in a zoo
All I do is play the spaceball ricochet

Deep in my heart
There's a house
That can hold just about all of you

I bought a car
It was old but kind
I gave it my mind and it disappeared

I love a girl
She is a changeless angel
She's a city it's a pity that I'm like me

I said how can I lay
When all I do is play
The spaceball ricochet

I'm just a man
I understand the wind
And all the things that make the children cry

With my Les Paul
I know I'm small
But I enjoy living anyway, yes too

Deep in my heart
There's a house
That can hold just about all of you

How can I lay
When all I do is play
The spaceball ricochet

Oh Baby, the spaceball ricochet
Oh Mama, the spaceball
Oh, do the spaceball ...”
― Marc Bolan, The Slider Song Album

“THERE WAS A TIME"

"There was a time, everything was fine.
You got drunk on the day like it was wine.

And all the children,
They put flowers in their hair.

And all the grown-ups,
They put daggers there instead.”
― Marc Bolan, Marc Bolan Lyric Book

“RIDE A WHITE SWAN"

"Ride it on out like a bird in the skyway,
Ride it on out like you were a bird,
Fly it all out like an eagle in a sunbeam,
Ride it all out like you were a bird.


Wear a tall hat like the druid in the old days
Wear a tall hat and a Tattooed gown
Ride a white swan like the people of the Beltane,
Wear your hair long,babe,you can't go wrong.

Catch a bright star and place it on your forehead,
Say a few spells and baby,there you go,
Take a black cat and sit it on your shoulder,
And in the morning you'll know all you know.

Wear a tall hat like the druid in the old days
Wear a tall hat and a Tattooed gown
Ride a white swan like the people of the Beltane,
Wear your hair long, babe ,you can't go wrong.

Da di di da, da di di da”
― Marc Bolan, Marc Bolan Lyric Book

“MAMBO SUN"

"Beneath the bebop moon
I want to croon with you
Beneath the Mambo Sun
I got to be the one with you

My life's a shadowless horse
If I can't get across to you
In the alligator rain
My heart's all pain for you

Girl you're good
And I've got wild knees for you
On a mountain range
I'm Dr. Strange for you

Upon a savage lake
Make no mistake I love you
I got a powder-keg leg
And my wig's all pooped for you

With my hat in my hand
I'm a hungry man for you
I got stars in my beard
And I feel real weird for you

Beneath the bebop moon
I'm howling like a loon for you
Beneath the mumbo sun
I've got to be the one for you”
― Marc Bolan, Marc Bolan Lyric Book

“SUMMER DEEP"

"Summer deep is in the hills again
His lady is a lioness
Winds of birds blow through the fields again
Invaders from the true worlds

A coat of grapes is on my back again
I ride upon my zebra
Pterodactyl beak hat on my brow
The truth is like a stranger
Be like you could
All my friends say.”
― Marc Bolan

“LIFE IS STRANGE"

"Strange, life is strange, life is strange,
Oh life is strange.

O god, life is strange,
People come and people go,
Some move fast and some move slow,
No, no, no, no, no.

O god, life is good,
Some are fat and some are thin,
Some don't even ask you how you've been,
No, no, no, no, no.

Strange, life is strange, life is strange.
Oh life is strange.

O god, life is strange,
Some are fast and some are slow,
Some believe, me don't even know,
No, no, no, no, no.

Strange life is strange, life is strange.
Oh my life is strange”
― Marc Bolan, T.Rex Tanx

“I check every can of Barbasol I buy for dinosaur embryos. I haven't found any yet, as evidenced by the lack of T-Rex screams in my apartment.”
― Ryan Lilly

“NOTE: In the rare situation a megatsunami washes a T. rex into your path, you won't be carrying a weapon large enough to hurt it. If it's intent on eating you, it will eat you. However, you will be killed by the coolest dinosaur ever. Most people go their whole lives without ever seeing a T. rex in person. Do you know how lucky you are?”
― Andrew Shaffer, How to Survive a Sharknado and Other Unnatural Disasters: Fight Back When Monsters and Mother Nature Attack

“Well you're slim and you're weak
You've got the teeth of a hydra upon you.
You're dirty sweet and you're my girl.”
― Marc Bolan

“Blah blah blah run from the raptors some more, and then OH SHIT, T. REX COMES IN AND SAVES THE DAY AND EATS THE RAPTORS AND IT IS RIGHTEOUS AS HELL. Keep this metaphor with you always—it is very useful when you have more than one problem at once. Sometimes you have to let the T. rex fight the raptors.

RATING: 10/10 DVDs of The Fugitive.”
― Lindy West, Shit, Actually: The Definitive, 100% Objective Guide to Modern Cinema

“If God were to appear in my room, obviously I would be in awe, but I don't think I would be humble. I might cry, but I think he would dig me like crazy.”
― Marc Bolan

“During the final 20 million years of the Cretaceous, tyrannosaurs flourished, ruling the river valleys, lakeshores, floodplains, forests, and deserts of North America and Asia. There is no mistaking their signature look: huge head, athletic body, sad arms, muscular legs, long tail. They bit so hard that they crunched through the bones of their prey; they grew so fast that they put on about five pounds every day during their teenage years; and they lived so hard that we have yet to find an individual that was more than thirty years old when it died. And they were impressively diverse: we have found nearly twenty species of these big-boned tyrannosaurs from the latest Cretaceous, and there are surely many more out there waiting to be discovered. The Pinocchio-nosed Qianzhousaurus, so fortuitously discovered by that still-anonymous backhoe operator at the Chinese construction site, is one of the latest examples. Just as Brown and Osborn grasped over a hundred years ago, when they were the first humans to set eyes on a tyrannosaur, T. rex and its brethren really were the kings of the dinosaur world.”
― Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World

“It goes without saying, but T. rex was huge: adults were about forty-two feet (thirteen meters) long and weighed in the ballpark of seven or eight tons, based on those equations from a few chapters ago, which calculate body weight from the thickness of the thighbone. These proportions are off the charts for carnivorous dinosaurs. The rulers of the Jurassic—the Butcher Allosaurus, Torvosaurus, and their kin—got up to about thirty-three feet (ten meters) long and a few tons—monsters to be sure, but they had nothing on Rex. After temperature and sea-level changes ushered in the Cretaceous, some of the carcharodontosaurs from Africa and South America got even bigger than their Jurassic predecessors. Giganotosaurus, for example, was about as long as T. rex and may have reached about six tons. But that’s still a good ton or two lighter than Rex, so the King stands alone as the biggest purely meat-eating animal that lived on land during the time of dinosaurs, or indeed at any time in the history of our planet.”
― Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World