Henry Rollins Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze.
Rachel Cusk -
You should never do anything too much. If you only eat healthy food, that is too much. Success is balance - a banker with no time with his kids, he's not successful. If he doesn't have time to walk his kids to school, that is not success - that is a mistake.
Magnus Scheving -
Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
Paavo Nurmi -
The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
Felipe VI of Spain -
Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
J. G. Ballard -
The thing that's good about music-making software like the DAW-kinda systems is that they're all generally the same; the kind of interface is normally laid out in a similar way. Depending on the program, the sounds might be quite different, but they tend to all have a drum machine or synthesizer or a sampler.
Washed Out
-
The Soviet Union was a very useful ally in the defeat of Nazi Germany.
Oliver Tambo -
When I had worked on my first book, I had readily shown bits and pieces to everyone - for encouragement, to force myself to write.
Karan Mahajan -
If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.
T. C. Boyle -
It is a sore point, because you do have advantages if you have access to more than one language. You also have problems, because on bad days you don't trust yourself, either in your first or your second language, and so you feel like a complete halfwit.
W. G. Sebald -
The CARFA Act is about accountability in the federal government: making sure that taxpayers are getting their money's worth and not being defrauded. This is a bipartisan concept, and it is worthy of broad support across the Congress.
Sam Brownback -
What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist.
Pablo Picasso
-
If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
Jackie Kennedy -
They're sheep. They like Bush enough to credit him with saving the nation after 9/11. Three thousand people get killed, and everybody thinks they're next on the list. The president comes along, and he's got his six-guns strapped on, and people think he's going to save them.
Ed Asner -
It's joyful to give. But for people who want to take advantage of you, you're kind of an easy mark.
Larry King -
I was born in Bangkok in 1968 and grew up in Southeast Asia with my Thai mom and my American father, who first came to the region to fight in Vietnam and stayed to work assisting refugees.
Tammy Duckworth -
But the exposure we got by doing the stint with Nine Inch Nails brought us a lot of attention.
Daisy Berkowitz -
I'm someone who sits at a computer eight hours a day, and I look in that pinhole camera at the top of my screen and think, 'Someone could be watching me.'
Hallie Ephron
-
How can a country like Korea, which was not fully prepared for the upcoming era, be as rich as Germany now?
Park Chung-hee -
I started doing community theatre as a way to make friends, and that was when I caught the acting bug.
Christina Hendricks -
Next time you're at a wishing well. Doesn't happen often. Next time you're at a wishing well ask to see the manager! Tell him you've been coming there for 10 years and none of your wishes have come true. Either you gimme my money back-or I'm shittin' in the well!
George Carlin -
Telling my grandchildren stories of my growing up is some of our favorite times spent together. They want to know what it was like and what I did as a child. They seem to be especially interested in the organic and simplistic setting I grew up in.
Lidia Bastianich -
South Sudan is one of the most hard-put places in the world.
Henry Rollins Black Flag