Henry Rollins Quotes

I have no artistic sensibilities. I wish I did. It is probably really cool. I have work habits and work ethic. For me, all the things I do are jobs.

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• During workouts, I listen to Pandora, and I like the '90s pop stations. 'The Backstreet Boys' is fun!

  

  Kacy Catanzaro
  • Fun
  • Like
  • Listen

• In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.

  

  B. H. Liddell Hart
  • Man
  • Reality
  • Lies

• When you start writing songs on your own, there's no Bible, there's no one around you, so you're just writing, and you're left with, like, the dead space in your head to know if it's a good song or an interesting concept.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Song

• We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Feelings
  • Emotional
  • See

• Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Great
  • Artist
  • Poetry

• Wealth is the ultimate panacea to poverty.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Poverty
  • Wealth
  • Ultimate

• I don't think anything I've written has been done in under six or eight drafts. Usually it takes me a few years to write a book. 'World's Fair' was an exception. It seemed to be a particularly fluent book as it came. I did it in seven months. I think what happened in that case is that God gave me a bonus book.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • World
  • God
  • Done

• I still find it hard to believe that the whole era of jazz is over.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Believe
  • Find
  • Jazz

• We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Poetry
  • Guidance
  • Professor

• We say that the ICC is targeting Africans, but all of the victims in our cases in Africa are African victims.

  

  Fatou Bensouda
  • Say
  • Africa
  • African

• Coming from the Midwest, I didn't know about stand-up as an art. I just thought stand-up comedians were old men in suits talking about their wives.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Up
  • Men
  • Art

• I began modeling in N.Y. and doing commercials. That led to regional theatre and then Broadway and then movies.

  

  Ian Ziering
  • Theatre
  • Movies
  • Modeling

• Unless you're a big movie star, regular television work is going to bring you more exposure than anything. Everybody has a television; not everybody goes to the movies.

  

  G. W. Bailey
  • Work
  • Movie
  • Star

• First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions solitude of the body, modesty of bearing, a modulated tone of voice, and a well-ordered manner of speech. He should be without anxiety as to his food and drink, and should eat in silence.

  

  Saint Basil
  • World
  • Food
  • Silence

• People would tell us, 'I love your company, but I want to go to Chicago or Boston or New York.'

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • People
  • Love
  • Chicago

• Overall, we had about 50 meetings where the brothers would say that I couldn't do any solo records, I couldn't write for other people, I couldn't do this and I couldn't do that. These guys were trying to nail my feet to the ground.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • People
  • Trying
  • Feet

• The Pledge of Allegiance reflects the truth that faith in God has played a significant role in America since the days of the founding of our country.

  

  Randy Neugebauer
  • God
  • Country
  • Truth

• In peace-armies discipline meant the hunt, not of an average but of an absolute; the hundred per cent standard in which the ninety-nine were played down to the level of the weakest man on parade.... The deeper the discipline, the lower was the individual excellence; also the more sure the performance.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Men
  • Peace
  • Military

• I left school at 16 but I wish I'd gone to university - I think I would have studied English literature. I had a knack for that. But I don't think you have the kind of wisdom at 16 to make that decision.

  

  Brendan Coyle
  • School
  • Wish
  • Wisdom

• Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all.

  

  Aristotle
  • Law
  • Justice
  • Animals

• Cable boxes are, almost without exception, awful. They're under-powered computers running very badly designed software. Their channel guides are slow, poorly laid out, and usually riddled with ads.

  

  Alex Pareene
  • Running

• Common sense invents and constructs no less than its own field than science does in its domain. It is, however, in the nature of common sense not to be aware of this situation.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Science
  • Common Sense
  • Constructs

• I have no artistic sensibilities. I wish I did. It is probably really cool. I have work habits and work ethic. For me, all the things I do are jobs.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Wish
  • Habit
  • Ethics