Henry Rollins Quotes

What I've found is that a lot of soldiers are surprisingly apolitical. Their reality is, "Today I'm going to leave the gate for twelve hours, and I'm going to make it back to the dining facility by sundown with the arms and legs of me and my buddies intact."

Henry Rollins Black Flag

• Today
• Reality
• Soldier
• Hours
• Gates
• Buddy

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• There is no must in art because art is free.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Art
  • Free
  • Because

• I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Children
  • Small
  • Dad

• I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Writing
  • Way
  • Like

• It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • You
  • Know
  • Sometimes

• I think I became a Catholic to annoy my father.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Think
  • Father
  • Catholic

• It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Animal
  • More
  • Really

• But at the beginning it was clear to me that concrete poetry was peculiarly suited for using in public settings. This was my idea, but of course I never really much got the chance to do it.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
  • Beginning
  • Poetry
  • Chance

• I adore Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, but more because they were good actresses. That's what makes me interested in them, that they didn't present themselves as idols; they were just doing their jobs.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Good
  • Me
  • Present

• I cannot abide being bored.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Being
  • Bored
  • Cannot

• The more I push myself to really live and really experience things and step outside of my comfort zone, the more the songs are allowed to flow.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Live
  • Experience
  • Myself

• I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Guy

• The inventory goes down the elevator every night.

  

  Fairfax Cone
  • Night
  • Down
  • Inventory

• I like to say it's an attitude of not just thinking outside the box, but not even seeing the box.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Thinking
  • Attitude
  • Box

• I see these guys, they throw a guy into the ropes and they do a back flip and then clothesline the guy and it looks stupid. Why don't you just clothesline the guy?

  

  Owen Hart
  • Why
  • Guy
  • Stupid

• I don't care what people do. I don't care how people remember my albums. I do them for my own reasons.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • People
  • Remember
  • Care

• People don't want to embrace culture shifts because it's not going to happen in the next 20 minutes.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • People
  • Want
  • Culture

• When I think about filmmakers and actresses that I have admired my whole life, I've admired their entire body of work.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Life
  • Work
  • Body

• If you live in a place that you perceive to be a crowded place, you appreciate government; you see it as this thing that protects you against crime, that keeps order, that makes sure that nobody puts a massage parlor next to your house, that keeps other people's dogs from pooping on the sidewalk.

  

  Gail Collins
  • People
  • Live
  • House

• I have no deep-seated desire to be famous; that's not what's driving me, so if it's something I don't want to do, I don't do it. Maybe it's stubborn, but any choices, if you don't like them, yell at me, because it for sure was my bad.

  

  Cam
  • Bad
  • Want
  • Desire

• This is the central illusion in life: that randomness is a risk, that it is a bad thing ...

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Risk

• Apparently, if you live until 75, you'll have spent 25 years in bed, so it makes sense to have a decent mattress.

  

  Marc Warren
  • Live

• I'm not so great at keeping secrets; maybe that's why no one ever tells me things.

  

  Emily Osment
  • Great
  • Why

• To ensure we are meeting the demands of existing customers while also attracting new users, we remain focused on building cutting-edge technology and introducing new and innovative product offerings.

  

  Jon Oringer
  • Technology
  • Cutting

• What I've found is that a lot of soldiers are surprisingly apolitical. Their reality is, "Today I'm going to leave the gate for twelve hours, and I'm going to make it back to the dining facility by sundown with the arms and legs of me and my buddies intact."

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Today
  • Reality
  • Soldier