Henry Rollins Quotes

Hopefully, one enhances [when growing older] his sense of humor. As he approaches 50, he'll need all the humor he can get.

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• I've got Asperger's syndrome and I'm not a very good people person, so I've always been more comfortable around machinery. Not in a weird way - I don't want to marry my car or anything stupid like that!

  

  Gary Numan
  • People
  • Good
  • Car

• When you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the telephone bell rings, you remember Alexander Graham Bell. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. When you see the blue sky, you think of Sir C.V. Raman.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Remember
  • Light
  • Win

• In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.

  

  B. Carroll Reece
  • Live
  • Grow
  • Old-fashioned

• I almost took a job in Italy. It was really a great opportunity, but they didn't think I had enough international experience.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Great
  • Experience
  • Job

• I am suspicious of writers who go looking for issues to address. Writers are neither preachers nor journalists. Journalists know much more than most writers about what's going on in the world. And if you want to change things, you do journalism.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • World
  • Change
  • Journalism

• Make it absolutely clear to yourself what you want from other people. That is really half the secret for drawing your desire to you in the shortest possible time and with the least amount of effort.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • People
  • Time
  • Desire

• I can remember loving to recruit. I knew I was going to do my best. But traveling and recruiting doesn't appeal to me any more. It's not as much fun as it used to be.

  

  Bear Bryant
  • Remember
  • Fun
  • Best

• I'll tell you something: my dad was a nuclear engineer and he was really bright, and I've always said that because of negotiating at such a young age with my dad, it was really such a gift because I could then negotiate with very difficult personalities - and not end up being the scapegoat. I learned to really pick and choose my battles.

  

  Faith Prince
  • Up
  • Age
  • Dad

• I really don't like to take the easy way out, if I can help it, on anything I do, I like to really make it a challenge. I don't know how to create by taking the easy routes. I've tried, you know, I've tried to let myself, but I always struggle to compensate.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Help
  • Myself
  • Challenge

• People will see me at Chelsea the way I am and judge me the way they want to.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Judge
  • Chelsea

• Small paintings can be fantastic. But you can't often get a narrative out of a small painting. In any case, museums are huge places, and you want to take up some space.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Up
  • Small
  • Space

• The best fiction stays with you and changes you.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • You
  • Best
  • Changes

• I wouldn't mind an original letter from Napoleon to Josephine - in the early days, his letters arrived torn to pieces because he was overwhelmed by his passion for her.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Mind
  • Passion
  • Early

• It's hard to be funny when you have to be clean.

  

  Mae West
  • You
  • Funny
  • Clean

• The facts are always less than what really happened.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Always
  • Facts
  • Less

• People call me a hermit. But I'm happy.

  

  Sage Stallone
  • People
  • Happy
  • Me

• I am very superstitious. I trod on a wet towel before winning the Junior World Championships, and now I have to do that every time.

  

  Laura Trott
  • Time
  • World
  • Winning

• This is going to sound a bit weird because she's a lot older than I am, but I've got a thing for Meryl Streep.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Weird
  • Older
  • Meryl Streep

• I choose to fill my days with what I'm passionate about, and live with purpose.

  

  Ann Curry
  • Live
  • Purpose

• I said, I don't want to paint things like Picasso's women and Matisse's odalisques lying on couches with pillows. I don't want to paint people. I want to paint something I have never seen before. I don't want to make what I'm looking at. I want the fragments.

  

  Ellsworth Kelly
  • People
  • Women

• I don't think about Yauch in the form of his death. I think about him in the form of his life. He was like my closest older brother. There's just so much that we lived through together.

  

  Mike D The Beastie Boys
  • Life
  • Together
  • Death

• Ive never taken a vacation. Ive never been to Europe. Every time I planned to do something big, I got a job, and I could never pass that up.

  

  Dan Lauria
  • Never
  • Something
  • Europe

• It's nice to be recognized, but it's not great to have it too conspicuously recognized, if you see what I mean. Gold records on the wall, or titles after your name, it's just not something... I don't feel that great about it.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Great
  • Nice
  • Wall

• Hopefully, one enhances [when growing older] his sense of humor. As he approaches 50, he'll need all the humor he can get.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Growing
  • Needs
  • Approach