Henry Rollins Quotes

Early spring is the time for vigorous change, a preparation for the heat-driven oppression that is to come.

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• I like to stay home. I don't want to be away shooting in Europe for six or eight months at a stretch.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Home
  • Want
  • Europe

• They might in the future more than ever before engage in hunting beavers.

  

  Samuel de Champlain
  • Future
  • Hunting
  • Engage

• What surprised me about the Oscars was how familiar it was - because you're in the room with all these people that have inspired you from your childhood to adulthood in the film industry. It feels like you've known them all of your life.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • People
  • Life
  • Childhood

• Growing up, I was always in normal public school which is very important in my eyes.

  

  Tahj Mowry
  • Up
  • Important
  • School

• I grew up in Brooklyn, New York. I grew up in a very Jewish neighbourhood and thought the whole world was like that. My parents were secular, but I went to a very Orthodox Jewish school, and I really got into it. I found it all fascinating, and I was just kind of really attracted to the metaphysical questions.

  

  Larry Charles
  • Up
  • World
  • School

• Everyone talks about the big three-oh with dread - but it's exciting. It feels like life is much more put together. Everyone's like, 'Wouldn't you like to be 20 again?' But no way.

  

  Ophelia Lovibond
  • Life
  • Together
  • Everyone

• Jason Momoa became a really good friend of ours when he played Khal Drogo. We loved hanging out with Momoa, and suddenly we couldn't bring him to Belfast anymore.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Good
  • Friend
  • Loved

• I had to be reminded that the guitar is infinite. It never stops teaching you, it never stops being difficult; there's an unlimited amount of things to learn, and you'll never master it.

  

  Kaki King
  • You
  • Learn
  • Guitar

• My parents moved around Stockton and Lodi. I had a lot of anxiety about jumping into another classroom. They were always putting me in special ed. But I was smart; I wasn't like these kids in the special-ed classes. But it would make me feel a little bit stupid.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • Kids
  • Parents
  • Stupid

• You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • You
  • Learn
  • Alive

• The kids growing up in the apartheid era were so restricted and angry - if they spoke out against it, they were thrown in jail.

  

  Malik Bendjelloul
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Growing

• I love reference books, especially collections of memorable quotations, world almanacs, and atlases. Facts to me are like candy or popcorn, small, tasty delights, and I like to gorge on them now and then.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • World
  • Like
  • Facts

• My fans are my family, because they understand me and I understand them.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Family
  • Me
  • Understand

• It is a very great mistake, common to counsel, and especially to young counsel, to consider that a decision of any court must necessarily command the respect of another.

  

  Samuel Freeman Miller
  • Great
  • Respect
  • Decision

• When I write 'paradise' I mean not only apple trees and golden women but also scorpions and tarantulas and flies, rattlesnakes and Gila monsters, sandstorms, volcanoes and earthquakes, bacteria and bear, cactus, yucca, bladderweed, ocotillo and mesquite, flash floods and quicksand, and yes - disease and death and the rotting of flesh.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Women
  • Death
  • Paradise

• The longest journey begins with a single step, not with the turn of an ignition key. That’s the best thing about walking, the journey itself. It doesn’t much matter whether you get where you’re going or not. You’ll get there anyway. Every good hike brings you eventually back home. Right where you started.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Good
  • Home
  • Single

• Fortune favors the audacious.

  

  Desiderius Erasmus

• I made a deliberate choice to write something people would enjoy, not knock people out with 'Boy, he can really put a clause together!'

  

  Jeff Lindsay
  • People
  • Together
  • Boy

• This obedience to the voice of the Earth is more important for our future happiness... than the desires of the moment.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
  • Important
  • Future
  • Earth

• When I was growing up as a child, a magazine, to me, was like a finger beckoning me to the future.

  

  Joanna Coles
  • Up
  • Future
  • Growing

• For me, my criteria for making films is all about trying to do something different from the last time. So if I catch myself doing too much of one thing, I'm always trying to move away from that, because it's not going to be challenging enough to keep my attention and focus.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Time
  • Different
  • Trying

• What's really interesting about that is that a lot of these words that were incendiary in their time now seem almost harmless and laughable, because they have this archaic quality.

  

  Philip Kaufman
  • Time
  • Words
  • Interesting

• Early spring is the time for vigorous change, a preparation for the heat-driven oppression that is to come.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Spring
  • Preparation
  • Driven