Henry Rollins Quotes

Sometimes it's not catastrophic. Sometimes you only come to the bottom of your coffee cup. Sometimes you have a good day. No one wants to know. No one wants to tell you about theirs either. You might somehow take it. Turn it against them. See the flaw. You always tell them the whole thing sucks. It keeps you alive. They figure if you're out there having a rotten time, everything's fine and you're doing your part. No one will ever try to take your bad times away from you but they'll come swarming for your happiness.

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• I found that not having a public profile was not hurting the work, and it freed me up to be the satirist I wanted to be.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Work
  • Me
  • Public

• My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I was nine and a half, but if she had lived, I probably wouldn't be trying to play guitar. She wanted me to be known, but as something else. Not a guitar player.

  

  B. B. King
  • Good
  • Trying
  • She

• I'm a rabid Steelers fan: I'm originally from Pittsburgh. So if the Giants or Pittsburgh are playing, the rest of Sunday is all about food and football.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Food
  • Rest
  • Football

• Mr. Trump, you were elected mainly because you found a way to connect with the average blue-collar worker who's sick of the games politicians have been playing for years. Those same blue-collar folks, who go to church, want to feed their families, have to pay their taxes.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Want
  • Church
  • Trump

• Writing has been as difficult for me as for people who don't like to write and as little fun.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Writing
  • Fun

• I've had to be tough my whole life.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Life
  • Tough
  • Had

• The one snack I really love is YoCrunch yogurt. It's like an apple pie in a cup! You have your apples on the bottom, your yogurt in the middle, and piecrust crumbs on top.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Love
  • Love Is
  • Apple

• I have never written a line of commercial code in my life. Nor should I.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Life
  • Never
  • My Life

• 'Independents' - the industry term for companies that have more capital and know-how than the typical 'wildcatter' - can grow either by exploring and finding reserves or by buying a company that already has them.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Grow
  • Finding
  • Exploring

• I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections, I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Life
  • School
  • Remember

• For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have done better. For myself, I have won every race I've been in.

  

  Ian Thorpe
  • Done
  • Water
  • Myself

• I have come to the conclusion that while a candidate's faith matters, what's most important is how he or she applies that faith.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Important
  • Faith
  • Candidate

• I get so nervous before I go on stage that I can never eat very much, so I'm always completely starving afterwards and dying for a bowl of pasta.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Never
  • Dying
  • Pasta

• I always try to be nice to the paparazzi because finally, maybe one day, they won't ask for me, and I will regret it.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Nice
  • Day
  • Regret

• At 140, 150, that's when the car starts floating. At 160, that's when you start seeing dead relatives. At 180, it's, like, terrifying and exciting.

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • Car
  • Start
  • Seeing

• I have a coach but there's nobody at my level in Gaza. I have to do most of my training sessions on my own.

  

  Nader al-Masri
  • Training
  • Nobody
  • Coach

• The average Englishman has no idea of the dynamism in the music scene here.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • Music
  • Idea
  • Scene

• I always wanted to be a snake. Every time I saw a snake on TV. I'd always say 'Why not me?'

  

  Dane Cook
  • Time
  • Why
  • Me

• I feel that everyone who wants to say anything, do anything, should be able to say anything or do anything, within the limits of not hurting another person.

  

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair
  • Feel
  • Everyone
  • Limits

• You're blinded by lights and you see all these people who come out, and it's exciting. It's scary and it's exciting all rolled into one.

  

  Vanessa Kerry
  • People
  • See
  • Scary

• Endurance in ministry is rooted in the eternal perspective. The absence of an eternal perspective makes you vulnerable to losing heart.

  

  C. J. Mahaney
  • Heart
  • Perspective
  • Losing

• Sometimes it's not catastrophic. Sometimes you only come to the bottom of your coffee cup. Sometimes you have a good day. No one wants to know. No one wants to tell you about theirs either. You might somehow take it. Turn it against them. See the flaw. You always tell them the whole thing sucks. It keeps you alive. They figure if you're out there having a rotten time, everything's fine and you're doing your part. No one will ever try to take your bad times away from you but they'll come swarming for your happiness.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Sometimes
  • Coffee
  • Alive