Henry Rollins Quotes

I have no pride about anything I have done. It's just not the way I think about things. I do the work, always, as hard as I can, to the point of pain, injury, exhaustion, if that is what it takes. Once I am done, I move on.

Henry Rollins Black Flag

• Thinking
• Done
• Pain
• Moving
• Pride
• Injury

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I would convert to Judaism if the operation didn't hurt so much.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Hurt
  • Operation
  • Judaism

• I went to Floridita on Wardour Street when I was 18. All I could afford was pumpkin soup and a glass of champagne, but it was worth it.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • Street
  • Champagne
  • Soup

• I don't think there's a perfect time to have kids. I think first you have to find the perfect person.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Think

• You really get the most out of sweet corn if you pick the corn off the stalk and rush it to a pot of boiling water. The longer you wait, the more sugar you lose. But if you get it in the first half hour, that is the sweetest corn ever.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Water
  • Sweet
  • Lose

• You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • You
  • Know
  • Boy

• Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Great
  • Different
  • Guitar

• I'm from New York. My grandparents were settlers of Long Island City. When they came here, there was no bridge, and they had to hire a boat across the river. They had a farm, and my grandmother had to go once a week to Manhattan to buy provisions - very primitive.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Long
  • City
  • Grandmother

• I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • Up
  • Wish
  • Morning

• The systematic dismantling of reproductive rights, much like the takedown of collective bargaining, has been taking place in full view.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Place
  • Rights
  • View

• In the calculus of western interests, there is no suffering, whatever its scale, which cannot be justified. Chechens, Palestinians, Iraqis, Afghans, Pakistanis are of little importance.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Suffering
  • Importance
  • Scale

• Egyptian comedy has a very, very old tradition. Our theater and our movies are just, like, amazing. And Egypt is kind of like the Hollywood of the Middle East. I mean, we had cinema maybe decades before the other Arab countries ever got independence.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • Comedy
  • Amazing
  • Movies

• I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Like
  • Film
  • Happens

• The things I wanted to do from a very early age - ie. get married and have children - precluded a lot of guys my own age from wanting to have anything to do with me.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Children
  • Age
  • Me

• Modeling is a job. Even my mum doesn't believe that I do work hard.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Job

• I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Better
  • Ground
  • Holding

• If you lined up 10 writers and asked them to write a movie about Steve Jobs, you'd get 10 very different movies.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Up
  • Different
  • Movie

• Not just cricket, we are doing clothing for football, hockey etc. It's basic stuff, but good designing is what I am looking to do.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Football
  • Hockey
  • Cricket

• I was 30 years old and this girl I knew found out I had never gotten high. Nobody had ever told me about marijuana.

  

  Jack Herer
  • High
  • Girl
  • Me

• I love working and writing new songs. But sometimes you need to wait, to have something in your mind, and then you can let yourself play music.

  

  Yann Tiersen
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Mind

• Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

  

  William Tecumseh Sherman
  • Courage
  • Perfection
  • Willingness

• Bill Clinton has done more to help the middle class than any leader in decades.

  

  Mario Cuomo
  • Done
  • Help

• I really enjoy picking up the physical rhythm of somebody else, speaking with their voice. I've never done in anything in my own voice, and I can't imagine what that would be like. It would be weird, I guess.

  

  Andrea Riseborough
  • Up
  • Done
  • Weird

• Asana done from the brain makes one heavy and done from the heart makes one light.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Heart
  • Done
  • Light

• I have no pride about anything I have done. It's just not the way I think about things. I do the work, always, as hard as I can, to the point of pain, injury, exhaustion, if that is what it takes. Once I am done, I move on.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Thinking
  • Done
  • Pain