Henry Rollins Quotes

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• If there is any way you can get colder than you do when you sleep in a bedding roll on the ground in a tent in southern Tunisia two hours before dawn, I don't know about it.

  

  A. J. Liebling
  • Know
  • Sleep
  • Dawn

• I have a constitutional weakness in which I am very easily distracted by flashing lights. If there is a TV on in the room, I can't have a conversation with you. I won't eat, I won't sleep, I'll just meld with my couch.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • Sleep
  • Conversation
  • Weakness

• I don't sleep at night at all. Making movies is a marathon. I'm a good 100-yard-dash guy.

  

  Gary David Goldberg
  • Good
  • Guy
  • Night

• Nobody ever worked as hard as my father. My father averaged maybe four hours of sleep at night, and when you're a kid, you don't realize that. The man was tired. He was tired.

  

  Larry Elder
  • Father
  • Night
  • Man

• I think I'm a narcoleptic. I could sleep on a railway track with a train running over me, in-between the rails.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Think
  • Running
  • Sleep

• When I go home, all I wanna do is just sleep and eat.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Home
  • Sleep
  • Eat

• I respect people who can do both careers, like Will Smith and a couple of other people who have done it, but I just don't know when they sleep.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • People
  • Done
  • Respect

• There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Mother
  • Mom
  • Sleep

• I can't sleep in the evenings. Most of the pictures people see of me are me going to work events: a Fendi dinner one night, a Prada dinner the next, and working all day.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • People
  • Work
  • Night

• I'm not very good at going to sleep, and that's probably my worst problem. I don't need much more than seven and a half hours, but I probably get six. I take all my problems to bed with me and fret. I can't switch off.

  

  Harriet Walter
  • Good
  • Problem
  • Sleep

• I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Sleep
  • Awake

• I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.

  

  Harold Kushner
  • World
  • Death
  • Fear

• If we're on long-haul flights I've been known to sleep on the floor so I hear the engine.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Long
  • Sleep
  • Hear

• My parents used to play me this album when I couldn't go to sleep. It was called 'Deep Forest.' I think it was a self-titled record. It's actually still one of my favorite albums of all time.

  

  Flume
  • Time
  • Parents
  • Sleep

• Sleep - the most beautiful experience in life - except drink.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Beautiful

• Time and space always change, but there is something which is eternal and changeless. For example, the world and time, past or future, nothing exists for us in sleep. But we exist. Let us try to find out that which is changeless and which always exists.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Time
  • World
  • Future

• At night numbers must sleep; it is their duty, just as it is their duty to work in the daytime. Not sleeping at night is a criminal offense.

  

  Yevgeny Zamyatin
  • Work
  • Night
  • Sleep

• I sleep and I unsleep. On the other side of me, beyond where I lie down, the silence of the house touches infinity. I hear time falling, drop by drop, and no falling drop is heard falling.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Time
  • House
  • Sleep

• Sleep is the Swiss army knife of health. When sleep is deficient, there is sickness and disease. And when sleep is abundant, there is vitality and health.

  

  Matthew Walker
  • Health
  • Sleep
  • Army

• We pay some price when necessary to bring down inflation but that price is temporary and is not large relative to the permanent gain from reduced inflation.

  

  Martin Feldstein

• You make sure you cover all the things we did poorly. Sometimes in a win like that, you have a tendency to say we played great, but you miss a lot of things that we did poorly. Penalties were definitely a problem. We turned the ball over. ... We've been riding a ragged edge. That's not good football. We've got to fix it. We've got to look at it as a great win, but there's things we need to improve upon.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Good
  • Great
  • Football

• We're lucky enough, especially in these 'Madagascar' films, to be working with some of the best people in the industry, who are not only great actors, but great comedians and improvisers and filmmakers. And they then become a part of creating their characters.

  

  Eric Darnell
  • People
  • Great

• The darkest period of my life, so far, arrived the summer I was pregnant with my eldest son. The future was growing in me with all of its terrifying unpredictability, and I found myself anxious, unable to work and woefully at sea.

  

  Lauren Groff
  • Life
  • Work
  • Future

• Sleep is for squares.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Sleep
  • Squares