Henry Rollins Quotes

The Internet, the camera cellphone and the like have not only sped up the world's information uptake, but they have cheapened that which they capture.

Henry Rollins Black Flag

• World
• Internet
• Cameras
• Cellphone

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Great
  • Home
  • Doubt

• Virtually every major technology has an initial spike of interest, then a dip, and then a long-term rise to success. The dot-com bubble is the canonical example, but there are many more.

  

  Balaji Srinivasan
  • Long
  • Success
  • Technology

• When I had no money, I would find out which friend had work and money at that point in time and would go and stay with him for a week. All of us theatre guys did that.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Time
  • Work
  • Money

• I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.

  

  L. J. Smith
  • Want
  • Know
  • Me

• Initially, it would bother me when filmmakers, script writers, dialogue writers and choreographers tried to recreate a bit of my dad though me.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Me
  • Dad
  • Writers

• Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.

  

  Ed Smith
  • Business
  • Black
  • Small

• Boning is a pain, but it makes such a majestic chicken.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Pain
  • Makes
  • Chicken

• You see what happens in college and high school games today - a three-point shot or a dunk. I think that's the reason that you see a lot of that in the pros today.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • School
  • High
  • Today

• I could battle rap forever, but it's a joke to me.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Me
  • Forever
  • Rap

• If you get lazy when you're onstage, it shows.

  

  Usher
  • You
  • Lazy
  • Get

• If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • May
  • Style
  • Failure

• I always tell young athletes the same thing, 'Wherever you go, whatever you do, what must your top priority be? Running.'

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • You
  • Running
  • Young

• The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Athlete
  • Race
  • Seen

• Having grown up on a family farm, I am all too familiar with the effects a drought can have on a crop.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Family
  • Farm
  • Crop

• I have little routines in the theater. Once I've established something, like the order of putting on makeup and a costume, I have to invariably do it in the same order every time, even if I only did it by chance the first time round.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Time
  • Chance
  • Makeup

• In a minimal interior, what you don't do is as important as what you do.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Important
  • You
  • Interior

• We live in a world where people think that finding a passion is so rare that if you find one you're the luckiest person on the planet, and the possibility of finding two is just bizarre. It isn't. We have multiple passions.

  

  Larry Smith
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• We are all tasked to balance and optimize ourselves.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Balance
  • Ourselves
  • Optimize

• I have a lightsaber at my front door for home protection. I have an 800-watt electric skateboard that I use to run errands in my neighborhood. It can go about six, seven miles, so depending on how much time I have, and how much I have to carry home, I'll take it really far. I love that thing.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Time
  • Home
  • Protection

• I once said the Queen of England could use some fashion advice.

  

  Kathie Lee Gifford
  • Fashion
  • Advice

• Even if I tried to be my dad, it would be a mediocre, slightly embarrassing version.

  

  Jason Ritter
  • Dad

• It's all about risk-taking when you're making an album. Don't be scared to do weird things sometimes.

  

  Vic Fuentes
  • You
  • Sometimes
  • Risk

• It's easy to lose a civilization. The values of Western civilization have brought so much good to the world: the notions of equality, democracy, tolerance, abolition of slavery... Tolkien knew that civilization is worth fighting for. There are times when a generation is challenged and must fight to defend their civilization from annihilation.

  

  John Rhys-Davies
  • World
  • Good
  • Fighting

• The Internet, the camera cellphone and the like have not only sped up the world's information uptake, but they have cheapened that which they capture.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • World
  • Internet
  • Cameras