Henry Rollins Quotes
My love is a thousand French poets puking black blood on your Cure CD collection.
Quotes to Explore
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My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something, I guess I can't stand the idea of any bar going unloved.
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I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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I am not an angry guy. It's just the roles I do that impact my personality.
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We are wedded to freedom of expression and shall do nothing to diminish that freedom.
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I haven't done as many films as I would have liked.
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I don't have a goal but I just want to work on movies that I really like.
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There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.
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Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
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People are incredible creatures of habit.
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Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
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When you get to 15 and most of your teachers are priests, there's bound to be a conflict.
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I had one of the best days of my life. I spent the afternoon with my two kids and my ex-wife at Serendipity. Then I came to the theater, and you know, I think I did the play the best I've ever done it.
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It wasn't easy getting 'GoodFellas' started.
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At first the English were very surprised by our disregarding the Hague Convention. But from 1916 onward they used at least as much poison as we did.
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I'm just the biggest klutz. That's the problem. I don't get hurt doing cool things.
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Now, in music, it seems more like the popular crowd suppresses anyone who is different.
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The number of people who will not go to a show they do not want to see is unlimited.
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I went onto reality TV as a business decision.
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So I still seized the power, but I felt that if I officially made myself the boss, in black and white, it would be too intimidating for the other producers and the other men who worked on the show. In other words, I had the power, but I gave them the title.
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My love is a thousand French poets puking black blood on your Cure CD collection.
