Henry Rollins Quotes

I am afforded a bit of easy wonderment in relative comfort as to how humans have lasted so long. Climate- and geography-wise, the planet seems to have little use for us.

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• I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Work
  • Long
  • Nature

• Ah, sweet Content, where doth thine harbour hold.

  

  Barnabe Barnes
  • Sweet
  • Where
  • Content

• Allowing homosexuality means allowing satanic rights.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • Rights
  • Means
  • Homosexuality

• I'm not saying I'm a paragon of virtue, but it's hard for me not to be honorable.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Me
  • Virtue
  • Hard

• The Olympics have their own unique atmosphere and energy. People might say it's just the same as any other competition, but don't kid yourself. There's a hunger for victory.

  

  Ilya Ilyin
  • People
  • Energy
  • Unique

• My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Life
  • Writing
  • America

• All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Love
  • Happiness
  • For Her

• I'm a huge Nirvana fan.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Fan
  • Huge
  • Nirvana

• For makeup, a bit of blusher - what you call bronzer - a bit of an eye, and an eyelash curler.

  

  Kate Moss
  • You
  • Eye
  • Makeup

• I've found all of my apartments on Craigslist. I've got good Craigslist luck. I just sit on my couch and really focus on it, and I've gotten really lucky that way.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Good
  • Focus
  • Luck

• There are actors who spend 20 years working and still don't achieve what I've achieved so quickly. So I think my only course of action is to work as hard as I can, not just for the sake of the film, but also to prove to these people that I do have talent.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • People
  • Work
  • Action

• I got into cars through my father. He used to work on cars. My job was to hold the light, which pretty much was the limit of my mechanical abilities.

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • Work
  • Job
  • Father

• I said I didn't want to spend most of my life in Holidays Inns, but I've checked and they've all been redecorated. They're marvelous places to stay and I've thought it over and that's where I'd like to be.

  

  Walter F. Mondale
  • Life
  • Thought
  • Holidays

• I'm not particularly fond of Shoah jokes, yet there is one I cannot forget: Why was Auschwitz an optimistic place? Because all the pessimists were already in New York by then.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Why
  • Forget
  • Place

• I love that quiet time when nobody's up and the animals are all happy to see me.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Up
  • Time
  • Love

• My brain is - essentially, you take any college football player in the country, because I have had multiple, multiple concussions. I had 10 documented concussions, four post-concussion seizures and so, but, with that said, my brain is no worse than your average college football player's brain, right?

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Country
  • College
  • Football

• Our memories are convenient lies we create, cribbing images from others' experiences. We discard the personal specifics which don't conform to the ideal conventional beauty created by art directors and cinematographers.

  

  Damian Loeb
  • Art
  • Memories
  • Lies

• As an artist, all I want is to be a part of good films.

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
  • Good
  • Want
  • Artist

• When Dick Avedon died, I was so upset that I just started painting.

  

  China Machado
  • Painting

• And the pain is too much it's too much it's too much and my hands are on my head and I'm rearing back and my mouth is open in a never-ending wordless wail of all the blackness that's inside me. And i fall back into it.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Fall
  • Pain
  • Never

• True courage is the willingness to fully experience whatever you are feeling at the moment. You can attempt to run from your emotions, but eventually they will catch up with you. They will chase you, haunt you, until finally you give up the chase.

  

  Brandon Bays
  • Experience
  • Emotions
  • Give Up

• I hope that five years and ten years from now, I'll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity.

  

  Louis Farrakhan
  • People
  • Good
  • Hope

• I realised at a certain point that if I was going to have the kind of life that I fantasised about, I needed to get my act together.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Life
  • Together
  • Kind

• I am afforded a bit of easy wonderment in relative comfort as to how humans have lasted so long. Climate- and geography-wise, the planet seems to have little use for us.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Long
  • Wise
  • Easy