Henry Rollins Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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When the Internet publicity began, I remember being struck by how much the world was not the way we thought it was, that there was infinite variation in how people viewed the world.
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I knew Queen Elizabeth didn't do any laundry! I knew I wasn't going to be doing laundry. I was going to be singing.
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Hindsight is illuminating but not always what we want to see.
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From the first time someone says, Who do you think you are? we learn how to repress.
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I don't have anything to say in any picture. My only interest in photography is to see what something looks like as a photograph. I have no preconceptions.
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Los Angeles is not a town full of airheads. There's a great deal of wonderful energy there.
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Gilbert White discovered the formula for complete happiness, but he died before making the announcement, leaving it for me to do so. It is to be very busy with the unimportant.
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Larry Geller’s Leaves of Elvis’ Garden is by far the best book I have ever read about Elvis. It is emotional, revealing and spiritual, and offers the most amazing insight into the king. I highly recommend this dynamic book.
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My first book was rejected nine times. It turned out to be a best seller, Battle Cry? in 1953.
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Joan Crawford is doubtless the best example of the flapper, the girl you see in smart night clubs, gowned to the apex of sophistication, toying iced glasses with a remote, faintly bitter expression, dancing deliciously, laughing a great deal, with wide, hurt eyes. Young things with a talent for living.
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The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man.
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All women love semi-rape. They love to be taken.It was his sweet brutality against my bruised body that made his act of love so piercingly wonderful.
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Let all children come unto me.
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Why not? That's a good reason for almost anything - a bit used perhaps, but still quite serviceable.
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I take away something from every role. I'm still learning and that's what life is about.
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Unsurprisingly, Nelson Mandela had and still has many detractors.
