Henry Rollins Quotes
I'm not a young man, and I can find intensity in a lot of different ways, sometimes without even raising my voice. When I was younger, it was all about how I need three extra sets of lungs to get enough wind to get out the thing at the screaming level I need to, because that's the way it needs to be. Now, I see that there's a whole lot of other colors on the palette.
Quotes to Explore
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I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.
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I learned that despite having years and years of experience in math and computer science and so on, I didn't really know how to code until I formed a company.
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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The Stonewall riots were a key moment for gay people. Throughout modern history, gays had thought of themselves as something like a mental illness or maybe a sin or a crime. Gay liberation allowed us to make the leap to being a 'minority group,' which made life much easier.
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Somehow I got the feeling at an early age that I had to do something important with my life.
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You could argue that 'Sweeney Todd' was romantic, if you looked closely at it, but it didn't impart that to its audiences. But it's large, and it's melodramatic, and it's a style I like to work in periodically.
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I love all the attention, people noticing me. 'There's the gymnast. There she is!'
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It seems to me that more and more we've come to expect less and less from each other, and I think that should change.
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Usually, when inspiration strikes late, the light of day reveals that I haven't gotten an idea for a book so much as a psychiatric case study.
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I fell in love with Rwanda the moment I saw those verdant, rolling hills rise up beneath the wings of the plane as we descended toward Kigali airport.
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The Breton peasant is said to have a hard head. He is obstinate and resists outside pressure to alter his creed or his customs.
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I have a couture body.
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We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.
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My father died the year I was elected to Congress: 1987.
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Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.
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I charged into something which might have been a tree, but was not-being, in point of fact, Jeeves.
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I spent seven years in France. Then, I went to Asia for five years. I came to London in 1984 and then America in 1985. In 1991, I opened my first restaurant in New York City.
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I went and looked at one of these great cathedrals one day, and I was blown away by it. From there I became interested in how cathedrals were built, and from there I became interested in the society that built the medieval cathedral. It occurred to me at some point that the story of the building of a cathedral could be a great popular novel.
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I'm not the type to call people out.
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With relationships, I've been through a lot of different situations with different people, and I write about it.
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Men lie, and they lie to theirselves worst of all.
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I'm not a young man, and I can find intensity in a lot of different ways, sometimes without even raising my voice. When I was younger, it was all about how I need three extra sets of lungs to get enough wind to get out the thing at the screaming level I need to, because that's the way it needs to be. Now, I see that there's a whole lot of other colors on the palette.
