Henry Rollins Quotes

I'm 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her, I'd also be marrying her former life, her past. It might be OK for some people - I don't want to judge it or anything - but it's not for me. It would destroy my creativity.

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• When I started out in the early 1930s, there were a great many magazines that published short stories. Unfortunately, the short-story market has dwindled to almost nothing.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Great
  • Short
  • Early

• In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • People
  • Opinion
  • Violence

• We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.

  

  Zoltan Kodaly
  • Music
  • Book
  • Silence

• Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Thing
  • Moderation
  • Excess

• When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.

  

  Oliver North
  • You
  • Trust
  • Information

• I don't find anything upsetting or gross or degrading about fighting with a mental illness: Bipolar or Schizophrenia.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Fighting
  • Mental Illness

• I accidentally entered a youth pageant when I was 14. That's like a beauty pageant, but without the beauty. It was terrible.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Like
  • Beauty
  • Youth

• I'd known that the visit would be highly scripted and that genuine interactions with citizens wouldn't be possible, since it's illegal for them to speak with foreigners. Still, I'd thought I'd had a unique look at North Korea, only to discover I was wrong.

  

  Adam Johnson
  • Thought
  • Unique
  • Speak

• Reverence is fatal to literature.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Literature
  • Reverence
  • Fatal

• The two championship contenders, Dario Franchitti and Will Power, are starting right next to each other in the middle of the grid. Honestly, if I can be fast enough early in the race to be able to get up there and latch onto those two, it will be pure entertainment. It's going to be a pack race, and you never know how that's going to turn out.

  

  Dan Wheldon
  • Up
  • Power
  • Know

• If my wife was to say, 'Honey, I'd like you to go to PSG', I would have to take it into account.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • You
  • Wife
  • Honey

• Every minute I'm on the set, it's play time for me. I feel like I'm on the beach!

  

  Rachel G. Fox
  • Time
  • Me
  • Beach

• In 13 years of doing my day job, I've learned a few things about motivating people. It's about setting a vision and, as long as everyone knows why they're doing what they're doing, you achieve that vision.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • People
  • Long
  • Why

• I did model for a little while part-time, but I wasn't a bloody model, and I am definitely not that horrible thing 'model-turned-actress.'

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Time
  • Model
  • Actress

• Everybody in America who didn't come over the Bering Strait ice bridge stole his land from somebody else.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • America
  • Bridge
  • Ice

• All the best stories are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.

  

  A. C. Benson
  • Reality
  • Best
  • Escape

• If you try to go beyond your interests just for the sake of pretensions or wealth, your art becomes less legitimate.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Art
  • Try
  • Wealth

• Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • She
  • Best
  • Beauty

• Why should we build very large spaces when they are not necessary? We can design halls spanning several kilometres and covering a whole city, but we have to ask, what does it really make? What does society really need?

  

  Frei Otto
  • Why
  • Society
  • City

• We may smile and the dog may wag the tail, but in essence, we have a set program and those programs are similar across individuals in the species.

  

  Antonio Damasio
  • May
  • Dog
  • Smile

• Very, very often in movie sex you see this fiction about unity. A union. That somehow these two thinking beings become one, and there's one action and they're sort of perfectly in sync, and the lighting's perfect, and they've got their eyes closed, and they're gone, you know? And then you cut to someone having a cigarette. And it's all so much Novocain. Meanwhile, those of us us watching it are going "I'm never going to tell anybody, but I never have sex like that".

  

  Tilda Swinton
  • Thinking
  • Perfect
  • Eye

• The right quote can inspire people to change their ways.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • Change
  • Inspire

• In the end, I'm really interested in people and what we do with our short time here on earth. I'm interested in the human soul.

  

  Luis Alberto Urrea
  • People
  • Time
  • Soul

• I'm 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her, I'd also be marrying her former life, her past. It might be OK for some people - I don't want to judge it or anything - but it's not for me. It would destroy my creativity.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
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  • Creativity