Henry Rollins Quotes

Girls aren't beautiful, they're pretty. Beautiful is too heavy a word to assign to a girl. Women are beautiful because their faces show that they know they have lost something and picked up something else.

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• I stayed in the astronaut program until 1993. People ask me why I left. I thought I had a lot of things to contribute that would be difficult to do if I stayed. I thought I could have a stronger voice as an advocate for space exploration. So I ended up starting my own technology consulting company.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • People
  • Up
  • Why

• My style of singing is very much Latin jazz meets Latin and a little bit of rhythm and blues. When I do ballads, my fans love it. They want to listen to my classics. They want to party.

  

  La India
  • Love
  • Party
  • Style

• A big reason why I'm not a big TV watcher is that in my formative years as a viewer, there wasn't that much great television on, or at least, television that appealed to me.

  

  Jack Falahee
  • Great
  • Why
  • Me

• Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Road
  • Language
  • Creator

• I don't meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Talking
  • Meet

• I passed the Bar on the first shot, But I have never practiced law.

  

  Walter Wager
  • Law
  • Never
  • First

• Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • World
  • Work
  • Great

• I usually speak with all my drummers so that I write my songs with them in mind, and we'll have bass sounds, choir sounds, and then you can multi-task with all these orchestral sounds. Through the magic medium of technology, I can play all kinds of sounds - double bass and stuff.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Mind
  • Technology
  • Magic

• Whatever requires an undue amount of thought or trouble or involves a large expenditure of effort and causes our whole life to revolve, as it were, around solicitude for the flesh must be avoided by Christians.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Life
  • Effort
  • Thought

• Both spiritual companionship and spiritual motherliness are not limited to the physical wife and mother relationship, but they extend to all people with whom woman comes into contact.

  

  Edith Stein
  • People
  • Mother
  • Relationship

• Find something that you love to do, and find a place that you really like to do it in. I found something I loved to do. I'm a mechanical engineer by training, and I loved it. I still do. My son is a nuclear engineer at MIT, a junior, and I get the same vibe from him. Your work has to be compelling. You spend a lot of time doing it.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • Time
  • Work
  • Like

• I think of myself as a plain human being who happens to be an American.

  

  Laura Z. Hobson
  • American
  • Think
  • Myself

• Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.

  

  Ovid
  • High
  • Lovers
  • Smiles

• The primary difference that I have found between the system of education in India and other countries, particularly the U.S., is that they focus on problem solving and relating theories to reality around them. These two things are lacking in the education system in India.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Reality
  • Education
  • Focus

• I date, but the person I date most is myself, unfortunately.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Myself
  • Person
  • Date

• I wrote large chunks of 'The Impostor' and 'The Good Doctor' on a beach in Goa.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Good
  • Beach
  • Doctor

• The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Future
  • Past
  • Difference

• If I wasn't Eddie Albert's son, I'd be someone else's. It gave me a chance to do a lot of traveling, but mostly I'm glad I'm his son because he's such a good man.

  

  Eddie Albert
  • Good
  • Man
  • Son

• Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Music
  • Education
  • Granted

• A glimpse is not a vision. But to a man on a mountain road by night, a glimpse of the next three feet of road may matter more than a vision of the horizon.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Men
  • May
  • Night

• There are two births: the one when light, First strikes the new awakened sense; The other when two souls unite, And we must count our life from thence, When you loved me and I loved you, Then both of us were born anew.

  

  William Cartwright
  • Soul
  • Light
  • Born

• I do feel I'm responsible to carrying on the music. That's what I was charged with as a kid. When I was a little girl, I was told, 'When we are gone' - when you're a kid, you never think they'll ever be gone - 'you have to keep the music alive, the Carter Family songs, and add your own songs.'

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Music
  • Family
  • Girl

• If you happen to be in the right place at the right time, the capitalist system is a beautiful thing.

  

  Richard Rainwater
  • Beautiful
  • Place
  • Happen

• Girls aren't beautiful, they're pretty. Beautiful is too heavy a word to assign to a girl. Women are beautiful because their faces show that they know they have lost something and picked up something else.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Beautiful
  • Girl
  • Faces