Henry Rollins Quotes

We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.

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• Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Art
  • Eyes
  • Design

• I play Nitin Sawhney's 'Letting Go' repeatedly, nonstop. I find it transformative. I'm so glad iPods were invented so I didn't have to drive everyone around me mad with the repetition.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Me
  • Find
  • Mad

• I usually sleep just a few hours a night.

  

  Jackson Rathbone
  • Night
  • Sleep
  • Hours

• It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Air
  • Down
  • Windows

• I decided to write 'True Refuge' during a major dive in my own health. Diagnosed with a genetic disease that affected my mobility, I faced tremendous fear and grief about losing the fitness and physical freedom I loved.

  

  Tara Brach
  • True
  • Freedom
  • Fear

• I love finding new creative partnerships but then continuing the partnerships I'm already in.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Love
  • Creative
  • Partnerships

• There's a consequence for everything, and that goes back to the Bible for me.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Me
  • Bible
  • Everything

• I look at other people my age in this industry, other famous people my age, and they've just got famous friends. Which is cool, but I love being normal and just chilling at mine.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Friends
  • Cool
  • Famous

• I'm a character actress. I'm the girl next door, the aunt, the quirky cousin. You have to innately know who you are and be happy with that.

  

  Faith Prince
  • Character
  • Happy
  • Girl

• I have always been a fixer. I am a fixer. I like problems, and I like puzzles, and I like to help people, so I have been a fixer, and I have always been an educator.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • People
  • Help
  • Problems

• Privatization is more efficient and effective in some cases, but not in intelligence.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • More
  • Intelligence
  • Some

• More than 10,000 ballots in Miami-Dade County have been rejected by some machine without any opportunity for a human being to take a look. That is just not right.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Opportunity
  • Look
  • Just

• A little reflection will enable any person to detect in himself that setness in trifles which is the result of the unwatched instinct of self-will and to establish over himself a jealous guardianship.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Reflection

• It's not as simple as that. Knowledge is necessary, too. An intuitive child couldn't accomplish anything without some knowledge. There will come a point in everyone's life, however, where only intuition can make the leap ahead, without ever knowing precisely how. One can never know why, but one must accept intuition as a fact.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Life
  • Knowledge
  • Simple

• The guy who enters pro sports hasn't run scared from the 7th grade on. Until he enters the pros, it's been nothing but roses.

  

  Jim Finks
  • Guy
  • Sports

• Without sounding overly sentimental about the process, I'd say trying to describe how you tend to conceive of a book is like describing how you tend to fall in love.

  

  Jess Walter
  • Trying
  • Book
  • Fall

• I wash my face with glycolic acid, and then I put on coconut oil. I love coconut oil - coconut oil for everything. That's my pre-makeup routine. And then as far as makeup goes, I can't live without my bold brows and some eyeliner.

  

  Carlson Young
  • Live
  • Makeup
  • Bold

• When you are in someone's home, in their bed, you see the world from their eyes. You understand 'the other' is not so other.

  

  Brian Chesky
  • World
  • Home
  • Eyes

• And when the day arrives I'll become the sky and I'll become the sea and the sea will come to kiss me for I am going home. Nothing can stop me now.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
  • Home
  • Stop
  • Sea

• People pretend to be nice; people pretend to be smooth and polite and everything, but this is only an appearance because the way we're built as human beings is only in paradox and contradictions.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • People
  • Nice
  • Appearance

• When he said he was going to stop the march and called it a hate march, I think that was very provocative. The Mayor's statements have created a climate that could possibly lead to some kind of confrontation.

  

  Al Sharpton
  • Hate
  • Stop
  • March

• I believe that all marijuana is medical.

  

  Tommy Chong
  • Medical
  • Marijuana

• We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Acceptance
  • Rejection
  • Life Lesson