Henry Rollins Quotes

Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communicating ideas with impact.

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• I think it is a mistake to judge science by Nobel Prizes.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Think
  • Science
  • Mistake

• You win some, lose some, and wreck some.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Sports
  • Win
  • Lose

• There are staples to my show. I have to be conscious about switching things up because I know people who saw me last year will say, 'He did that last time.' But if certain things work, they work.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Shakespeare is a wonderful language to speak, but it's also a world to get your mind into thematically.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • World
  • Mind
  • Language

• To my child's eyes, which had seen nothing else, Shanghai was a waking dream where everything I could imagine had already been taken to its extreme.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Dream
  • Eyes
  • Taken

• An eating disorder epidemic suggests that love and disgust are being jointly marketed, as it were; that wherever the proposition might first have come from, the unacceptability of the female body has been disseminated culturally.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Love
  • Body
  • Female

• There always have been funny women.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Women
  • Funny
  • Always

• Any one game in baseball doesn't tell you that much, just as any one poll doesn't tell you that much.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Game
  • You
  • Baseball

• I'm filming the next two installments of the 'Fifty Shades' movies back-to-back.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Movies
  • Two
  • Shades

• I'm big into not drawing conclusions for people. I think that's what makes for the most exciting, compelling films. I get bored when the politics of the filmmaker are the subject of the film that I see.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • People
  • Politics
  • Drawing

• History is weirdly dismissed as not having anything to do with the present moment.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • History
  • Present
  • Moment

• When I was 17, I decided I was going to leave home.

  

  Zach Roerig
  • Home
  • Going
  • Leave

• My senior year of high school, I was voted 'Wittiest.' So, several years later, I decided to try my hand at writing humor to see if I could be witty enough to make some money.

  

  Barbara Park
  • Writing
  • School
  • Money

• I mean it's funny, playing music, how of course you want it to do well, you want them to like it, but it's not competitive like an election, it's the Olympics, it's not a Formula 1 race. The Billboard charts are just to show you what people like.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • People
  • Music
  • Funny

• I am a very musical person. I love music, and I don't just love Cape Breton fiddling, although it's my favorite.

  

  Natalie MacMaster
  • Music
  • Person
  • Favorite

• Who'd ever have thought that I'd be the face or the body of any kind of exercise at all.

  

  Kathy Najimy
  • Exercise

• There's a saying, 'It's easy to write songs, but very difficult to write great songs.' I'm going through that right now.

  

  Bryan Adams
  • Great
  • Write
  • Difficult

• Rather I fear on the contrary that while we banish painful thoughts we may banish memory as well.

  

  Plutarch
  • Fear
  • Memory
  • Painful Thoughts

• A time will come, and soon, when, from mere habit, you will echo the scream of every delirious wretch that harbors near you; then you will pause, clasp your hands on your throbbing head, and listen with horrible anxiety whether the scream proceeded from you or them.

  

  Charles Robert Maturin
  • Head
  • Scream
  • Wretch

• We need to revisit that planning decision because in many cases across our capital [London], greenbelt land doesn't deserve the name. Car parks, quarries and wastelands are being protected and we are saying there isn't enough land to build the houses we need.

  

  David Lammy
  • House
  • Decision
  • Planning

• We moved up here to St.Paul with my wife and started to teach, we very quickly found out we were not equipped either to teach or to run our own pottery, and so we decided that we had to have further training.

  

  Warren MacKenzie
  • Running
  • Wife
  • Training

• Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communicating ideas with impact.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
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